#Christian God

[atheostic]

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man -- living in the sky -- who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do.. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! ..But He loves you... and HE NEEDS MONEY!

George Carlin

[journeying-wizard]

wait fuck do i say oh my god or oh my gods now??? like yeah as a catholic you aren't supposed to say "oh my God" because that's using capital g God's name in vain but in my head i got around that because god ≠ God because god doesn't have that capital g and thus -> not referring to capital g God and using his name in vain. but since i'm polytheist now does that mean it'd be "oh my gods" instead?

and wait is god supposed to be capitalized in regards to other deities? like, when you're calling a deity a god of something. is gods supposed to be capitalized? because in my head god is what God is; God is his name, and what God is is god because. oh my god bflre it was God is god because there's only one, and since he's the only of his kind, what his "species" is called is just his name. like God is a being and god is the genre of being he is, and that genre of being is called god because there's just the one capital g God. but. i don't believe it's only capital g God now like i believe these other guys exist too. so i can't say that. all of the above is probably heavily inaccurate because i was raised catholic and when u're raised catholic there's just some things u never rlly actually look into because things just Are The Way They Are and for smaller stuff like that u kinda just use what u know.

i also realize what i said looks like it contradicts my initial thing abt god ≠ God so i have to explain even more. and what it boils down to is that god ≠ god. SO BASICALLY. the being God is, god, equals deity. god = deity. with oh my god though, you can't replace god with deity. like, oh my deity. nobody says that. god ≠ deity. it's like,,, two separate things. if god¹ ≠ deity, and god² = deity, then god¹ ≠ god². it's not quite a case of a word having two definitions, because the "god" in "oh my god¹" carries the same definition as god². they're just used in different ways which causes them to have different meanings. that sounds a bit contradictory but i think the point got across.

and wait now my brain has connected the dots on if god should be capitalized w other deities. it's a third god word. god¹ ≠ god² ≠ god³. because when a deity is being called a god of something it's a TITLE and god¹ and god² aren't used as titles. god² = deity = god³, but god² ≠ title while god³ = deity = title (because a god can be called "deity of..." instead). so god³ = God but also God ≠ God. if name ≠ title, and God¹ = name; God² = title, then God¹ ≠ God². i could say like — oh my god, that's a god, it's God, God of Everything — and all four instances of the word mean something different. if it's still hard to differentiate: oh my god¹, that's a god², it's God¹, God² of Everything. (ignore the god of everything part i'm still trying to work out what my religion is and how my belief in capital g God fits in with my belief in other gods, because i've been p sure that means im not christian/catholic anymore. but yea i just kinda wanted to make that example to get the point across).

SO TO RECAP:

God¹ = name

God² = title

if name ≠ title, then God¹ ≠ God²

god¹ = god used in "oh my god" = word

god² = deity = being

if word ≠ being, then god¹ ≠ deity; god¹ ≠ god²

if name ≠ word, then God¹ ≠ god¹; if title ≠ word, then God² ≠ god¹

God¹ is a god², or a being, but all god²s are not God¹; Apollo is a god², and Khonsu is also a god², but both of them aren't God¹, like how Khonsu and Apollo aren't each other, because all of them are different beings (aka god²s) and have different names.

-> like how all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares. in this metaphor god²s are rectangles and God¹ is a square, which is also a rectangle. it might get the slightest bit convoluted to ppl not familiar with christianity once the Holy Trinity is thrown into the mix but meh that isn't what this post is about; it's abt the word god and capital g God whose name is the same as his and other deities' genre of being, gods, and his name is also the same as a title other gods are given, God. i am so sorry to anyone who might be getting a headache.

but yeah context/placement and/or capitalization make a difference in the meaning.

i feel obligated to say i am not a linguist or theologist at all i'm just some lesbian who was raised roman catholic, had a crisis, and is now polytheist. i have no clue if any of this has any basis in study or something it's just me and my funky ass brain over here

......how did i manage to make my small crisis of if i'm supposed to say "oh my gods" instead of "oh my god" into a whole ass linguistics post. how do i even TAG this. I STILL DON'T EVEN KNOW IF IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE OH MY GOD OR OH MY GODS... i was just gonna end the post after the first paragraph but right before i hit post the other thought occurred to me and things spiraled from there. i am a FOOL.

[daylesspax]

Having thoughts about God

I remembered a moment in The Prince of Egypt where I had a passing thought that their depiction of God looked like a nebula

And that sparked something

God is the personification of the universe itself. He is everything and nothing, he is every molecule and atom and the space in between, He is the nebulae and He is the stars in the night sky, He is the black holes and stardust

And He is us

I use ‘He’ to respect the religion and for simplicity’s sake, but I believe He would be beyond our binaries because He is everything (and nothing)

I think God would be a truly neutral, beautiful force. A burning hot energy constantly expanding and simultaneously dying

And He created us to experience us

Not on purpose

He didn’t mold us from stray particles of carbon and hydrogen and the atoms of our cells

Because He is us, He crawled and fought for every inch of life so that He could live, and we are now here to witness Him, because just as He is the stardust we are made of, He is the earth beneath our feet and the air we breathe

I am not a religious person, I consider myself an atheist, but combining science and God is a beautiful concept to me

God is a force beyond us, and we exist because we can, everything exists because it simply could— no divine purpose other than what we carve out in our little space we call home

[atherflame-theconcubus]

So I’ve been seeing a lot more paganism/Hellenism, TikTok’s on my FYP, & a lot of them were talking about the Greek gods were pissed, as well as gods from other regions.

And then one of them just straight up confirm that all the higher beings are including the Christian deities (from what I can understand. This includes individuals like the sins, Lucifer, Jesus, Michael, Gabriel, and God himself.))

The Christian deities are pissed

God himself is pissed

A little later, I ended up coming across the TikTok, where Lucifer was saying that the deities and gods are basically planning something and to just sit tight, so let’s hope they can pull through

[rhiandoesfandom]

If The Christian God Showed Up To Me:

Me: Oh hey are you like-Dionysus or something?

God: Wha-why do so many people ask me that?! No. I'm god. You know. God.

Me: mmm you're gonna have to be more specific.

God: Right uh...wait why? I'm the 'one true' god. The god. GOD.

Me: See just cause you say it over and over again doesn't make it easier to understand.

God: You've never heard of me?

Me: Maybe....prove it.

God: You picked your nose during sunday class and wiped it on the chairs. Also you fell asleep in the pews.

Me: HA good times.

God: So I'm here for penance of sins-

Me: Hey Hermes what do you make of this dude

Hermes: Mmmm banished *hits god with his staff*

[shadowbrightshine]

I'm a Christian.

Sometimes I like to envision God as a beautiful lizard, looking the world and basking in the heat of the stars he made. Listening to the music his angels sing and waiting for the day he comes down to make the universe the perfect temperature again.

[mythology-headcannons]

God is dead... Inside

They're, like, super depressed

Jesus and Lucifer try to convince them to see a therapist, but... accepting help isn't easy for anyone, including gods.

[hyliandude]

Normalize saying

“Oh, you mean Christian God?”

When someone mentions God

[yellowfoot-06]

Imagine if all the contradictions, all the things that seem insane to us, the hypocrisy, the wrath, the love, everything about the Christian God, while not making sense to us, makes perfect sense to God. That they have such a complex mind and personalities that we cannot comprehend their machinations, what they��re thinking. What we may call flaws in logic makes sense if you have a different way of thinking.

Idk just a thought.

[sylveons-emo-phase]

A Conversation With God

You do not know where you are or how you got here. This does not distress you, nor does the entity that you first thought was in front of you but that you now realize you cannot locate. The thing that is nowhere but that you are convinced you can see is watching you, you think, from an impossible distance away. The breath on your face is warm and smells of wildflowers and rot. As quickly as you meet the eyes they are no longer eyes. You try to open yours but aren't sure if they're closed. The anatomy of the entity makes perfect sense, but you aren't sure how, and the way the body shifts is so seamless it is nearly imperceptible. You can identify bits and pieces, the antlers of a stag or the wings of a dove, but by the time you recognize its form it has already become something else. How foolish you are for thinking you understood. You have never felt terror like this before. You will never know peace like this again. You have a question. There is no answer. The entity screams, not audibly but in a voice that echoes infinitely, and it is grief and rage and ecstasy and sweet, delicate, mocking laughter. The silence is oppressive and absolute. Your ears are bleeding. The anger is reciprocated and you are shaking, fists tight, fingernails cutting into flesh. Without moving the entity reaches out, takes your hand, shatters twenty-seven bones. Gently, with the grace of a lover, it kisses your palm. You want to apologize, and the entity parrots your words before you speak. You are hated. You are loved. You are witness to a beautiful display of horror. You are god.

[crew-yah]

Freedom of religion also means freedom from having to participate in religious practices I'm not part of.

Why do I get bashed for not wanting to say grace and pray to a god I don't believe in?

"You have to be respectful to their beliefs!"

Isn't it more disrespectful for me to pretend and half ass it??

Why can't they be respectful of my absence of their religion?

I'm not stopping them from prayer, but they're allowed to interject into my life and hound me when for not praying?

Freedom of religion includes freedom FROM religion.

[atheostic]

God Hates You, Hate Him Back: Making Sense of The Bible by CJ Werleman 

[n0thingiscool]

[pirateprincessjess]

When I was a kid my family pretended to get raptured so I would think I was left behind on earth while they all went to heaven.

I was like 8 years old and my sister and mom had gotten really into the Left Behind novels (bible fan fic about the rapture). In the books when the rapture happened the clothes that people were wearing when they got raptured were left behind in neatly folded piles.

One day when I was getting home from school my family decided that they would leave piles of neatly folded clothes around the house, and then hide in the basement.

The intended effect was that I would get home and see the clothes then, think that my family had been raptured and that I wasn’t good enough to get into heaven… or something?

The problem was that I had never read these books, and didn’t really think about the rapture very often. There was no reason that I would see some laundry on the floor and think “The rapture happened and I’ve been abandoned by God! I’ll never see my family again!! Oh nooo!!!!”

I just sat down and watched cartoons and eventually my family got bored and revealed that they were all hiding in the basement.

It’s a good thing I didn’t understand the joke, otherwise that shit would have been traumatic.

[adinelleggreeo]

I 'came back to God' in early 2023 and that encouraged me to read the Bible.

Reading the Bible made me realize that what I learned in church (or what I didn't learn) was either false or incomplete.

Looking for the truth led me to videos like these and they flipped my understanding upside down.

That verse about even the elect being deceived? This series really opens your eyes to how deceived.

I'm posting this for those who are looking for truth to find. Of course, do your own research.

This video is part of a playlist, and I encourage you to listen to them all.

And as usual, I don't argue with people online. You'll be arguing with the wall because I will pretend that my inbox is empty. Speak with the creator of these videos. He's willing to hear you out and has the knowledge and patience to converse with you.

[xiaq]

Your first pride story was touching and all but you still married a man.

Yeah, bisexuals do that sometimes.