#Christian deconstruction

[yummytiger]

Marilyn Manson is allowed to burn the "america first" trump "bible" on stage if he wants to

[alethianightsong]

My brain whenever I start to feel bad for losing my faith but God is supposed to be all-seeing so he saw me having a faith crisis & did nothing:

"IT'S NOT MY FAULT if in God's plan. He made the devil so much stronger than a maaaaaaaan!"

[alandemoss]

Top 5 Jesus-Centered Truths for a More Authentic Life

1. Love Over Legalism Jesus taught that true faith isn’t about following strict rules but embodying love, mercy, and justice. He challenged the Pharisees for focusing on the letter of the law instead of its heart (Matthew 23:23). To live authentically, prioritize compassion over mere compliance. Experience the powerful moment when Jesus appears to frightened Pharisees, challenging their beliefs…

[dem1verse]

tw // religious trauma, mentions of illnesses

i don't normally post heavy stuff like this, but i really needed to get this off my chest.

i have been living with pcos since i was 12. and to be completely honest, it hasn't been easy. i haven't gotten my period in a year, and my sanity is slowly slipping. but by far the worst part of it all, is being dragged to countless evangelical revivals and conventions in order to 'fix' whatever's wrong with me. i hate being the scapegoat for something i know nothing about. why should i have to suffer? i hate the feeling of a hand being placed on my head pushing me to the cold, hard ground. i hate being told that's it's my fault. now my mother's dragging me to another pastor's church in HOUSTON for fuck sake. ive already told her i don't want to go to something i don't even believe in. and she still won't see that her child is silently suffering so much that they're willing to trust literal strangers on the internet. i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it

[hindahoney]

Unlearning christianity was something I spent months actively working towards before had even started to consider converting, and truly getting through the trauma of it all is something I'm still not finished with even though I'm about a month or two away from going in front of my beit den. I'm STILL unlearning the fear of "hell" even though I haven't actually believed in it for years atp. christians really see the world in such a black and white, completely defined way (if you ask a question they have a definite answer for you that's pretty much the same between a majority of christians) and my community and Rabbi have stressed to me that being Jewish is not all or nothing, it's more where you just try your best and work to continually improve yourself, so for me it's really comparative to going from parents who expect nothing less than straight A's in school to parents who are happy with Cs and even Ds and offer to help you with homework instead of yelling about how you should pay more attention in class, and every single thing I remember about my christian background is in direct opposition to my jewish future

Reposting because I think converts would be able to relate to this. Thank you for sharing, I've heard from a lot of people about how difficult and traumatic Christianity can be, and even more so trying to break away from it.

[yummytiger]

I learned that Real Christianity was Gay Friendly when I was in high school through a friend named Brittany who was a Christian and an Ally, this is when the whole Healing Journey began

I really need people to realize and respect that queer Christians can and do exist. 

They are not wrong for being queer and they are not wrong for being Christians. They are not traitors to their faith and they are not traitors to their queerness. 

[jesusinstilettos]

I’m about to save you thousands of dollars in therapy by teaching you what I learned paying thousands of dollars for therapy:

It may sound woo woo but it’s an important skill capitalism and hyper individualism have robbed us of as human beings.

Learn to process your emotions. It will improve your mental health and quality of life. Emotions serve a biological purpose, they aren’t just things that happen for no reason.

1. Pause and notice you’re having a big feeling or reaching for a distraction to maybe avoid a feeling. Notice what triggered the feeling or need for a distraction without judgement. Just note that it’s there. Don’t label it as good or bad.

2. Find it in your body. Where do you feel it? Your chest? Your head? Your stomach? Does it feel like a weight everywhere? Does it feel like you’re vibrating? Does it feel like you’re numb all over?

3. Name the feeling. Look up an emotion chart if you need to. Find the feeling that resonates the most with what you’re feeling. Is it disappointment? Heartbreak? Anxiety? Anger? Humiliation?

4. Validate the feeling. Sometimes feelings misfire or are disproportionately big, but they’re still valid. You don’t have to justify what you’re feeling, it’s just valid. Tell yourself “yeah it makes sense that you feel that right now.” Or something as simple as “I hear you.” For example: If I get really big feelings of humiliation when I lose at a game of chess, the feeling may not be necessary, but it is valid and makes sense if I grew up with parents who berated me every time I did something wrong. So I could say “Yeah I understand why we are feeling that way given how we were treated growing up. That’s valid.”

5. Do something with your body that’s not a mental distraction from the feeling. Something where you can still think. Go on a walk. Do something with your hands like art or crochet or baking. Journal. Clean a room. Figure out what works best for you.

6. Repeat, it takes practice but is a skill you can learn :)

[oxytocinatrocities]

A comic I drew about leaving the Mormon church.

Can also apply to other things. Ex. constitutional originalism in the US

[yummytiger]

I Know Why You're Afraid To Come To Jesus(an open letter to people who haven't given their lives to Jesus)

I know why you're afraid to come to Jesus,

you fear that you'll have to stop being you in order to follow God incarnate,

but if you really knew Jesus, then you would know that he wants you to be yourself more than anything,

you see, Jesus Loves You for who you really are, he wants you to rip off the mask and the chains of oppression, he wants your true self to come to him with an open heart and open arms,

you see, Jesus doesn't want us to change our personalities, he loves our individualities, what he does want us to change however is our bad behaviors, our behaviors that hurt ourselves and others, that's what Jesus would call sinful behaviors

I know why you're afraid to come to Jesus,

you're afraid that if you did you would have to leave the entire world behind,

but in reality, God wants you to come back out to the world to preach the Good News, that Jesus is alive and that through him we are a new creation

I know why you're afraid to come to Jesus,

but it's time to let your fears die

it's time to come back home to where we all originally came from

don't be afraid to become your true self through Jesus

this is the true meaning of being Born Again

[alienbycomics]

Content Warning: religion and transphobia⚠️

Happy Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️ I made a comic reflecting on my church upbringing as an eXvangelical trans person. The Jesus conservative Christians claim to represent looked lot more like many of the LGBTQ+ friends I know and love. Just some food for thought 💖

Here’s a link to a supplementary post: Jesus and Gender Non-Conformity in Christian Art

[escaping-amish]

I love how he finds the words to describe the concepts that float around my head daily ❤️❤️❤️❤️ love him!

[protestantposting]

*pulling out the biblical inerrancy brick and/or putting in the cultural context is important brick into my theological framework*

*theological plinko ensues*

Oh shit, oh fuck I can be gay now?

[audreyrose7]

I think about this all the time.

[adventism-atheism-orthodoxy-me]

I have no mouth. And I must Scream. by Harlan Ellison

Sinners In the Hands of an Angry God. by the Rev. Jonathan Edwards.

They Relate in the mind of an Atheist.

[seraphimfall]

i’ve read so much tradcath bullshit the last two years. i can confidently say tradcath men fit into one of two categories:

“protestant-raised and converted to catholicism because of his crippling porn addiction and racist tendencies. reposts crusader and conquistador memes. is hated in his local parish.” tradcath

“catholic-raised band kid who ate his lunches with the religion teacher. smells like mildew. cut off all his friends that came out as gay after high school. now larps as an aquinian scholar and cries after jerking off.” tradcath

[yummytiger]

God is a God Of Love and Variety, of course he created Gay People, he creates any type of people

Whenever someone says God can't make people gay, it takes a lot of self-control not to say that telling The Good Lord what He can and can't do with His creation is not a hill I'd want to die on