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@changelingart

My name is Hoshea, and I make art, talk about Reanimator, Daredevil, and occasionally Malevolent. (He/they/xe)
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seek--rest

I for one hope that the strike ends press tours for good. We as a society have moved on from generic and basic press tours where actors are made to perform beyond the function of their jobs, fans are given the impression that they are owed personal anecdotes from their lives, and actors are being asked to market themselves as a product rather than their craft, thus furthering the parasocial relationship that has rotted people's brains.

support the strike or fuck off

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heresylog
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tgirlsaintlawrence

Talking to the other Christian guy at work today and he started giving me shit about praying to the Saints. “Let the dead rest!” He said. I was not ready to tell him that the Kingdom of Heaven exists outside of earthly time and space and therefore the Saints are not dead but living with us because I thought he’d look at me weird

#christianity#communion of saints
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poikaboo

“Public libraries are such important, lovely places!” Yes but do you GO there. Do you STUDY there. Do you meet friends and get coffee there. Do you borrow the FREE, ZERO SUBSCRIPTION, ZERO TRACKING books, audiobooks, ebooks, and films. Have you checked out their events and schemes. Do you sign up for the low cost courses in ASL or knitting or programming or writing your CV that they probably run. Do you know they probably have myriad of schemes to help low income families. Do you hire their low cost rooms if you need them. Have you joined their social groups. Do you use the FREE COMPUTERS. Do you even know what your library is trying to offer you. Listen, the library shouldn’t just exist for you as a nice idea. That’s why more libraries shut every year

If this post persuades even one person to get a free library account and use it, my time on this hellsite will not have been spent in vain

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blessedarethequeer
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unbidden-yidden

In general, I think it's currently really important for progressive Christians to be very loud about being both progressive and deeply religious Christians, and for everyone else fighting for progressive values to be supportive of them doing just that. I know that's like, idk, counter-intuitive or cringe or whatever, but seriously folks, the alternative is that progressive Christians have to be quiet about their faith to be accepted within broader secular and interfaith progressive advocacy, which means that the regressive asshole Christians (a) sound that much louder and (b) dominate the USian religious landscape all the more. That's a problem, for all of us.

We need people pushing back within the faith as well as outside of it, because that destroys any edifice that this is about Christianity and religious freedom.

You can be a devout Christian and also:

  • Openly, proudly, and without being forced to remain celibate or otherwise limit your full expression of self, identify as LGBTQ+ or be a supportive ally.
  • Advocate for full reproductive autonomy and comprehensive sex education.
  • Love and support people of other religious groups, non-religious people and/or atheists, by choosing to believe that a truly loving God would not pursue anything less than universal salvation.
  • Stand against evangelism and proselytizing as they have thus far been interpreted and used, because there are ways to interpret the Great Commission that don't promote colonialism and cultural genocide.
  • A steward of the earth, protecting God's beautiful creation and lovingly tending to it as the unique and incredible gift that it is.
  • A believer in science, rationalism, and human progress as part of God's divine plan for humanity.
  • A believer in history and someone who understands that the Bible can be both divinely given and open to interpretation (no really)(if you're confused, please talk to a knowledgeable traditional Jew)
  • An ally to Jews, who stands against supercessionism and antisemitism in the church.

And in before regressive Christians come shouting at me that (1) what do I know, I'm a Jew and (2) no lol you can't because of ___ reason:

My source is that I've personally met and talked to Christians of great faith and integrity - people who embody the closest forms of kindness I've seen to what Jesus himself advocated - who are each of these things.

It is 100% possible; you just choose to believe otherwise.