#(it's something the bible talks about)

[gxlden-angels]

Bro I hate fundamentalists and culturally-fundie parents they'll say shit like "spare the rod spoil the child am I right haha yea my parents used to have to beat my ass with a switch almost everyday but I sure did learn my lesson" but like??? no you didn't??? you were hit multiple times for something you very obviously did not, in fact, learn

Like studies about how harmful even lightly spanking children is aside, you're literally contradicting yourself?? Some even admitted they got worse as they got older cause they wanted to see how far they could push their parents before they got punished

And studies not aside, you're gonna get child raising advice from the same book that tells you to stone your wife if her hymen doesn't break on your wedding night instead of the decades of research we have now?? Just say you're a bad parent and move on my guy. Skill issue

[arbitria]

me for the entirety of black sails up to the last 5 minutes: oh boy i can’t wait for mary reade to show up

me at 55 min into the finale:

[cultivating-wildflowers]

it's Nehemiah. the book is Nehemiah. the book she never knew existed is Nehemiah.

[spark-circuit]

me at my bookstore job to the 27th young adult straight edgy fantasy romance to come in this month

[john-mary-andco]

“How to make Mr my teacher grade my work faster”

“Please my parents are gonna ground me and I won’t get to go hang out with my cr friend”

“I’ve been asking my friend for weeks and he finally said yes pl”

……

“Is it a date if you’re going out to eat”

“Am I a homosexual”

“Am I…Batty?”

“Nearest therapist/psychologist in my area”

“How to sTOP HAVING THOUGHTS ABOUT YOUR FRIEND WHEN YOU ACCIDENTALLY SEE HIM CHANGING IN THE LOCKER ROOM”

“Why do gym classes have mixed grades”

“Si. Nful. Thou. Ghts”

“What to do when you’re having a crisis.”

“Breathing techniques for breakdown?????”

…..

“How to stop rambling”

“Does talking too much annoy people”

“Why am I so nervous around my friend”

“How to not want to hate other friend”

“Am I a person of sin”

“Is it sinful to hate people including myself”

“Leviticus 18:22 quote”

[nikoisme]

okay so i was just studying and minding my own business when my mother walks in and gives me the literal Bible and walks out with no explanation???

[hungry-hobbits]

everyone has their categories of little guys they gravitate towards but i kind of realized the one for me that has the most guys in it is probably "autistic-coded, well meaning, soft spoken christian guy" bonus points if they have a romantic (implied)/devoted relationship with another man who is more masculine than him

[boygirlctommy]

hate having a genuine interest in christianity bcus there is No One in my life i can discuss it with. i sound too atheist to talk w religious people and too religious for the athiests lol

[halfricanloveyou]

ok ok ok like i thought “the chosen” would suck cause “blah another series about the life and times of jesus” like we GET it it’s been around for CENTURIES you guys make the same damn movie all the time

but it’s actually legit really good? lots of pretty good representation! not everyone in the movie is white. actual portrayals of jewish culture instead of just ignoring that part. disabled people. matthew being autistic. characters that aren’t just two dimensional. the people in it feel like real people. there’s actual jokes, jesus cracks a few and they’re really funny?? so far nothing hateful, no gay or transgender bashing. it calls out the church for being judgemental and hateful in a way that’s very tasteful

it’s not perfect tho. jesus is…still white for some reason? despite mary not being white? and no one else around him being white? no gay people in it which is kind of a bad and a good thing…but it’s a portrayal of jesus and the people around him as human. as real life people who felt things and made jokes and rolled their eyes and stuff. also the guy they cast as jesus is pretty hot as are all the disciples. which isn’t the point or whatever but i can’t say i’m complaining. it’s free online and i think it’s worth a watch!

[proshippers-against-censorship]

So I'm a muslim and a lot of the stories in the Quran & the Bible are essentially the same with different names (arabic name vs english name), sorry that this gonna be a vent

The Noah ark's story still doesn't make sense to me because the ecological disaster of a worldwide flood (we already in hell with climate change already) but my parents & brother... They just believe it as it is even after I explain that no, it's an massive ecological disaster and no amount of religious belief logic can convinced me that everyone in that ship can repopulate the earth without a bottleneck in genes in less than 7 generations, not to mention all plants are dead dead from the flood and sea water mixing into the fresh water, even the fishes & sea mammals are probably gonna dip in number fast from getting stranded after the flood disappear or their habitat is destroyed frol hell & back

Also Moses story, my parents believe that Pharaoh is a SINGLE PERSON and not a fucking royal title (yes I managed to get the Ancient Egypt phase)

Oh and back in elementary school, my class and 2 other class got gathered to watch a homemade religious movie to teach us about the sins and virtues and all that jazz, the thing is that the homemade movie also shows a very minimally censored corpse on a hospital bed that has been badly decomposing and calling that what's happen to sinners

Yeah a lot of the stuff you brought up is partially why I was agnostic when I was younger. But I also like to think that part of the Bible is a mix of exaggeration, mythos, and just the effect of the fact that face it, the writers of it likely weren't very well travelled, and while the whole earth couldn't flood, a decent few hundred / thousand miles probably could have.

That religious movie sounds a bit extreme to be showing elementary schoolers though. Sorry you had to see that, it probably would have haunted me for life.

[kirkwallguy]

whyyyy did Marcus tell Mary to suck it up and go through the wedding apologies i do not know much about their backstories (or how they’re connected 😭) but it seems very compelling!! do u have any references for the both of them tyyy

uhh mostly because he's sick in the head?

okay, real answer is because it's the path of least resistance for both of them. marcus doesn't want to get super involved in her personal drama because he dislikes her and disagrees with her politics. he's also very aware of the fact that he needs to protect his apostate family (anders, bethany and warden amell. potentially a baby mage but i'm not completely sold on that) and doesn't want to cause controversy. he's also very aware of her situation and... what can she do? call the wedding off? it's the biggest event of the year. he knows it's literally beyond his control but he still wishes he could do something.

in a worse, deeper layer of himself, there's also this sick sense of... poetic justice? mary has made her bed and now she has to lie in it. she chose a divine who will actively hurt the mages, so finding out she is in fact a mage is funny. anders goes along with this despite it being upsetting because he has never had a full conversation with mary, but bethany really disagrees because she had ties to mary's mage sister in the kirkwall circle. matilda amell doesn't care because she's busy hooking up with bianca (another plotline.)

[papasmistakeria]

Father Dougal McGuire’s sermons must’ve been insane

[moneygoblin04]

I am stressed, and I am on edge, and I feel like I'm actually, legitimately reaching my limit. It's kinda funny how my mom was the one to push me there

[scorpiusmalfoylovesoscarwilde]

only hot girls get emotional about the relationship between jesus and judas every night

[aduckwithears]

Gabriel and Matthew 25:35

I hardly know what I want to say here (wow I am NOT a biblical scholar), but this has been kicking around in my head for a while so it's time to get it out there.

Like a few of us seem to have done, I started out life in Catholic school and learned my bible verses like a good little overachieving neurodivergent duckling.

So when Gabriel shows up with nary a tailored stitch on him and then over the course of the season Aziraphale proceeds to not only clothe, but give drink, housing, and safety... well I had two thoughts.

One was that this is peak cat lady behavior by Aziraphale where Gabriel is the scruffy cat who gets a pink collar and tuna everyday. The OTHER thought however was Matthew 25:35-40 (yes, I looked up the exact number, it's been a long time since Catholic school haha). Here it is (KJ just cause):

Matthew 25:35-40 King James Version (KJV) for I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

It's talking about who gets welcomed into Heaven for good, charitable behavior - using the Jesus as a Stranger example. I am NOT a biblical scholar (Catholic school didn't last long), but I do find it interesting that Gabriel's visit hits so many of the exact beats of this verse. I'm almost surprised Aziraphale didn't quote it to try to convince Crowley to help (he would have gotten the biggest, most dramatic demonic eye-roll ever).

Now, it may be as simple as Aziraphale doing good and literally in this case following the teachings of the Bible (in a sentiment that most can agree is actually good). I just find it interesting that this is a big part of the plot of season 2 given the probable second coming of Jesus plot of season 3. In fact, knowing this info about season 3 going into season 2, I wondered part way through my first watch if Jim could be Jesus in Gabriel's body?? This seems to be squashed by the end of season 2 but... I dunno. Maybe if the season had been released week by week it could have been a theory we debated. I don't know that all this pertains to anything anymore but I had to get it out of my brain, and if anyone has anything to add I'd love to hear your thoughts!

(Also re-reading the Matthew verse above it occurs that many of those things could apply to Aziraphle and Crowley specifically the meat and prison bit, but that's probably a stretch and I'll stop now)

[thefabelmans2022]

sometimes i think about pope francis saying he hopes hell is empty and i get. strangely emotional.