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being attracted to someone is like a worse punishment than anything jesus ever went through. girl what do u mean i like how they smell just give me the stigmata and lay me out to dry already
girl we are mammals. revel in your god given senses or live forever at arms reach from yourself
Can angels be incarnate on earth?
There was the one that wrestled with Jacob so probably? I figure the different abrahamic religions will have different takes on how "incarnate" the angel was. Like, idk way the Druze position on angelic physicality is lol
As always, Maimonides delivers:
but of course, note that:
You're trans? Like jesus?
yeah just like jesus
non-proselytory religion obviously makes sense from a sociological perspective, religion isnt *for* being truth-claims, its *for* its social effects, but its so weird from the perspective (which surely its believers must inhabit?) that it *is* truth-claims. like...if your religion is true, and all other religions are false, it seems weird to be uninterested in spreading that truth! except insofar as you think it efforts to spread it will be unsuccessful, i guess. or if you think it doesnt...matter? thats a strange thing to think. "god is real, but it's not a big deal". maybe, "god is real, and its important for my people, but not important for your people"
so i’m a christian convert and my short answer is: if any part of christianity is true in any meaningful way, it doesn’t need my help to be true. like if God is real (and we could have a long, fun conversation about what that even means!), walking around shouting that would be like walking around shouting that the universe is real or reality itself is real. what help would the universe need from me, exactly? what use could it possibly have for a promo guy lol.
now i obviously can’t claim to speak for all christians here, but i don’t believe that for christianity to be true all other religions have to be false. i also just think it’s hard to reconcile the idea of a deity who is endlessly powerful and mysterious limiting themselves to just one permanently established way of being understood by the entirety of the human species. i’m confident that this religion is what works for me, and whatever else about it that could be claimed as “true” is well above my pay grade and not worth me bothering anyone about. so i’m much more interested in engaging in the social teachings around mutual care and the practice of communal rituals than i am in evangelism of the kind christianity has unfortunately become notorious for. frankly, to me it reeks of faithless insecurity and the idolatry of empire, and i would personally like to see it excised from this religion entirely.
t-shirt that says “my relationship with god is too complex to explain”
Universalism is the belief that all people will eventually be reconciled with God. Universalism is rooted in the original texts of scriptures, and it was believed by “very many” early Christians (according to Augustine), including a number of saints and church fathers. However, it became less prevalent with Bible translations that changed words/phrases that referred to indefinite periods of time, to “eternal”/”forever”. (See interlinear of Rev 20:10 for one example.) Resources below.
Websites
Total Victory of Christ (see also his YouTube channel)
Books
100 Scriptural Proofs That Jesus Christ Will Save All Mankind by Thomas Whittemore
Love Wins by Rob Bell
That All Shall Be Saved by David Bentley Hart
Every Knee Shall Bow By Mark T. Chamberlain and Thomas Allin
God is Love By William Sutherland
Blogs
Examples of universalists in early Christianity
I hope this doesn’t come across as in any way offensive but seeing you post the album Deathless which purports to be a “judgement” of “purveyors of systemic transphobia” made me curious about how you reconcile your faith and support of the trans lifestyle? It seems a large amount of religious people find the trans movement to be against God as a rejection of His creation or will, and the centralisation of identity on being trans is also one that makes a faith secondary thereby breaking the first commandment. Again, I’m sincerely curious for your perspective and opinion on how these things may work harmoniously. All the best to you.
As a Quaker, I believe that there is that of God in everyone, that there is the presence of the Light in everyone, that we are all children of God, and that this summons us especially to loving solidarity with those who suffer from oppression. It summons us to rejoice in God’s creation. The God in whom I place my faith is a God of love and freedom who became incarnate in the vulnerable body of a peasant, lived in solidarity with the oppressed, and died on a cross. Far from feeling like something that needs to be reconciled or harmonised with my faith, then, solidarity with trans people and an affirmation of transness is an expression of my faith, of my love of God’s creation. I want to be very clear, however: if God were against trans people, then I would be against God, for such a God would be a tyrant, a God of power, and not a God of gentleness and love. And yet, I know in my heart that this is not true—that there is a God of gentleness and peace and love. My prayer is that purveyors of systemic transphobia experience the Light within as a judgment and that trans people experience it as a balm.
I worship a god in the sense that a deep sea mollusc worships the whale corpse it's eating
There is reverence, love even! But I am the winner here.
Catholics in the notes: "oh my god I have a great joke for this have you ever heard of a thing called communion?"
Yeah except we’re the ones who are unworthy
huh
>that commenter can't even hear the voice of god
rip joseph, you would've loved one-time-i-dreamt
judas was probably like "jesus has pulled off so many wacky things, he'll get out of this one lickity split, and i get three shiny coins out of it, too"
you know what dad? maybe i don't wanna be the saviour of the broken, the beaten and the damned. it's a lot of pressure to put on me and honestly i've been feeling stressed recently because of it
hold on lemme google something
ok yeah this is funny
Happy Easter
i will take a hammer and FIX the papacy
fuck all of you this punchline is genius and my "reference the hammer that literally exists to kill the pope" post would be doing numbers if all of you weren't goddamn heretics and blasphemers
It does NOT exist to kill the pope it exists to see if he's dead
What part of "hammer that exists to make sure the pope is dead" doesn't track with you?
I want to be very clear: I did not schedule this to post on Easter weekend.
I want to be very clear: I did schedule this to post on Easter weekend
The lord giveth and the lord taketh it back now y’all. Two hops this time.
In fifth grade a boy tried to impress me by swallowing a whole tadpole live and I punched him so hard that he puked and the tadpole was fine.
I kept it in a terrarium and it became a normal 🐸 despite everything. About a year afterward (I thought) it died, so I sadly put it in a shoebox in the shed until the ground thawed enough for a proper funeral but when that day came I opened the box and the frog was fine.
This is funnier than anything I have ever said.
This post is to Easter what a Geiger counter is to radiation.
TIL what a Geiger counter is
Bless.
