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"you need protection as a pagan !!!!!!" "spirits can impersonate the Gods and block Them out when you worship !!!" "negative spirits are common so be careful your Deity isn't an Imposter !!!"

listen dude idk if you've felt a Deity before but I'm fairly sure that Dionysos blinking has enough power to incinerate a negative entity so why fear monger beginners when you could just Not

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Blue Mosque - Istanbul, Turkey.

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I hope this picture of a quetzal makes your day at least a little bit better :)

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A quick guide to who's who in The Coming Age / early Madrian writing.

Sister Angelina, Lady Alethea FiaMoura - Priscilla Langridge, later known as the Mushroom Princess or Cure Dolly. Sister Chrysothemis - Maureen Evans, one of the earliest Madrians, who lived in the same flat as Priscilla when the early volumes of The Coming Age were published, under the same address. The BBC Podcast about St. Bride's believes that she was the programmer of the mid 1980s video games. Sister Julia - Uncertain, but presumably she would be either Miss Langridge or Miss Evans. But this is based entirely on my own personal feelings and could be entirely wrong. She is the Maidrian being interviewed in the Filianism Origins blog post. Madria Moura, Phoebe - The only annointed Madrian priestess at the time, Priscilla would have been her understudy, given the last name "FiaMoura". Mary Scarlett - Later used the much more well-known name "Miss Martindale". Sources for identifying these individuals is the Madrian Deanic Resources blog and associated Facebook page, which was penned by a woman who lived with the Madrians in the mid to late 1980s and appears to be personally familiar with the people she was speaking of, as well as the Filianism Origins interview. Other associated names can be found in this blog post, however, not all of them were used for The Coming Age.

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Good news, everypette! Filianic Studies appears to be back online for the time being! This doesn't appear to be just a reupload of the archived Wayback Machine either, because I see pages that never got archived are available again. This is an incredible resource to have available again, and I encourage everyone to save copies of whatever they're interested in for themselves, as well as manually save these pages to the Wayback Machine, just incase.

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Temple of Athena (Attica)

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Glennon Doyle, Untamed

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Different anon here. How do they slander her character? I haven't heard much of that so I'm curious (in a bad way, I love Magdalene).

In the West, Magdalene is actually the combination of two women. She is both Mary Magdalene and the “sinner” (or sex worker) as per described in Luke 7. While by themselves, these women held their own value and truth, but when they were combined, it became quite a messy business.

The story of the sex worker, by itself, was originally about showing how God’s grace and mercy reach even those who are on the margins of society. However, this story was then used to degrade and delegitimize Magdalene’s authority and power. Thus consequently, the story of the sex worker became about degradation and delegitimization.

Jane Schaberg, The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene:

“Inclusion of the element of prostitution in the later Magdalene legends responds to the desire to downgrade her and deny her authority, as well as the desire to attach female sexuality the notions of evil, repentance, and male mercy. It also serves to divide and conquer women, alienating those who are prostitutes from those who are not or say they are not.”

Magdalene’s slandered image (through Western art, legend, and culture) is dehumanized and forced into this sexualized role, making her a much entertaining and obedient character for the patriarchy. She ultimately became a tool to control women and their “lustful tendencies.”

James Carroll, Who Was Mary Magdalene?:

“Eventually, Magdalene, as a denuded object of renaissance and baroque painterly preoccupation, became a figure of nothing less than holy pornography, Guaranteeing the ever-lustful harlot—if lustful now for the ecstasy of holiness—a permanent place in the catholic imagination.

Thus Mary of Magdala, who began as a powerful woman at Jesus’ side, “became,” in Haskins’ summary, “the redeemed wh*re and Christianity’s model of repentance, a manageable, controllable figure, and effective weapon and instrument of propaganda against her own sex.”

Magdalene, in the East, is actually celebrated. She is given great titles (“The Apostle to the Apostles”), is recognized as a strong leader and preacher, and her legends describes how she advocates for justice through shameless preaching.

I pray that the West will someday completely recognize her as such too. It is far better than the image of the nude woman, hiding away, begging for forgiveness of a male God because of her “evil” sexual nature.

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also working with religious themes 🙏🏼

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All religions lead to the same One Supreme Being, the one Goddess within all. Goddess is one; sages call Her by various names.

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This one is a remake of an older painting I made back in 2009! The original is so ancient that only the elders amongst you will remember it 👵

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Creator Spirit all Divine,

Come, visit every soul of Thine,

And fill with Thy celestial flame

The hearts which Thou Thyself didst frame.

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I think I am doing something I should've be doing, which returning to Catholic Church after years, mostly because of aesthetics. You know what I mean? You see the beautiful icons and chanting and the old churches and the touching prayers and everything feels like home, because it once was.

Then you start reading the catechism and you realize you either don't really believe most things, you are LGBT+ which means you'll basically have to submit your whole identity to a set of heteronormative norms and you're a commie lol.

it's like returning to an abusive relationship out of your own free will, wtf am I doing

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Do you have any advice for dealing with antisemitism within the scriptures?

1. Contextualize the text.

2. Recognize the ways these verses have been used to hurt our Jewish siblings in the past.

3. Use the Double Rule of Love.

It's important to realize that the Bible was written, edited, and redacted by Jewish people. What we are reading is an interfamilial fight that us Gentiles are not a part of and should not contribute to. Every time the text says something about "the Jews" we have to remember that the people writing those words were themselves Jewish people, so don't mean "every Jewish person," but rather "the specific group of people with whom I disagree."

When we interpret the text, we also have to recognize that these words have been used by Gentiles out of context to (literally) demonize Jewish people and justify their persecution, oppression, and genocide. That impact should influence how we interpret the text and cause us to come to very different conclusions that our forebears did.

And our best method to do that is to use the Double Rule of Love. St. Augustine explained that in order to interpret the text properly, your interpretation has to help you love God and love your neighbors better. If your interpretation leads you to hate others, it's wrong. Simple as that. So when we read these texts that have historically been read to hate and to hurt our Jewish siblings, we know that is a bad interpretation of the text that sits alongside hundreds of good interpretations we can choose from instead.

Or, put another way: We can contextualize the text to see that there is a particular power dynamic at play that is foreign to us. We can recognize that we have misinterpreted that power dynamic in the past to hurt people. And we can interpret the text in a new way to help us love our Jewish siblings instead.

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Faravahar mosaic in Khujand, Tajikistan.