godshousecat

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Would anyone like to start a bible study with me?

I am currently going through and slowly reading the bible and asking a lot of questions and really trying to grasp the text.

I don't have any friends who are Christian unfortunately. This is difficult as I am a very social person and I find it a lot easier to learn through communication with others.

I would want it to be a really safe and healthy environment to ask questions and really better our faith.

We could create a discord server maybe? I'm not too sure. Is anyone interested?

About me: Nineteen, Australian, queer, pro lgbtq, pro choice, pro Palestine. I am trying to explore a lot more about my Christian faith.

Edit: I have quite a few people interested!

Here is a discord link: https://discord.gg/8ePdPPRx

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the sexiest trait a man can have is obedience

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The Holy Spirit.

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While praying the rosary by a deathbed today I could feel Mary praying with me. Praying for the body and soul of the dying person in front of me. Praying for her salvation. Her release from pain. Her comfort in these final days. Mary was praying alongside me.

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reminder to all my other queer Christian siblings out there

you are not alone 🩵 God loves you. you are fearfully and wonderfully made. God made you with a lot of care and consideration. you are a work of art, and He is the artist. He loves you so much!!!! you are not alone!!!!

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I don’t think that you’d find Christ in the home of a mega pastor or in the home of men like Donald Trump but instead you’d find Him in the queer community center. You’d find Him in the homes of people who are struggling to take care of themselves and their community. You’d find Him where there is genuine love and community instead of greed and hatred for the other.

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Far-right Christians really do the Bible a disservice by treating it as a book God dictated and had wrote down for him. It's a living document, ever evolving just as Christianity has. It's an imperfect work written by imperfect people talking about the perfect God within the context of their time and culture. I really want to make a project out of rereading my Bible and reading it that way.

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"Why should the gods care about us?" Why is there a video of a water buffalo rescuing a turtle stuck on it's back. Things love each other, next question.

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There is something so beautiful about queer Catholics and even queer people in any religion who are so devout despite people telling us we are a sin and damned. And yet, we still worship. And yet. And yet. And yet.

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how do I even explain to people that yes I do believe in the truth of God and the truth of Christ but at the same time I really do not care whether it's all true or not, because less than a month ago things were getting bad again and then I converted and now for the first time in my life it's January (and the sun has only come out from behind the clouds three times in the past 4 weeks) and yet I am not afraid to live another year and I truly genuinely love living and feel hopeful and grateful and glad

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"Jesus did not so much love people once they changed, but he loved people so that they could change."

~Richard Rohr

(Art: Christ Divine, by Jorge Cocco)

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i was born to be a monk because my favorite activities are sitting at a desk, rearranging bookshelves and having existential crises

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sorry, if your veneration and love of Mary comes ONLY because of her virginity and because of her womb, and not because of her loving nature, not because her charity and humility and devotion and strength of faith, not because she was so good in her humanity that she was singled out by God, not because she dedicated herself to her Son despite knowing her heart would be pierced— not because she was a good person, but because you see her as a walking untainted vagina and incubator— you don’t love the mother of God for herself, just for her body parts.