#Christianity is a cult of personality

[isawthismeme]

[mollysunder]

The one thing I don't understand about the theory where Piltover and Zaun are teaming up to fight Noxus in the end, is why are Vi and Ekko flying towards Jinx's supposed airship if they're on the same team? Why does Vi NEED to confront Jinx in the middle of a warzone?

We see Ekko in garb that looks like he's on Jinx's side, but we mostly see him with the Firelights in those scenes, and they not decorated in Jinx's colors. Even minor background characters that are on Jinx/Sevika's side have a pink X on the right side of their chest. The Firelights are completely free of any graffiti or markers that would identify them with Jinx, and Vi is in an enforcer uniform. We don't see any other Zaunites in the crowd, but for some reason Vi and Ekko are centering their concentration on Jinx.

I think what's happening is that Ambessa's forces are fighting against Piltover's enforcers, but Jinx isn't helping, she's taking advantage of the chaos. Jinx is probably in Piltover to do something big that Piltover can't defend against since they're preoccupied with Noxus. Jinx will probably think the fight between Noxus and Piltover is the best opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. Vi and Ekko will probably object, they'll say her plan goes too far, and it'll get people killed. The whole scenario will probably be a more extreme mirror to whatever the Silco flashback will reveal about what went down on the Day of Ash and why Vander tried to kill Silco, except this time with magic.

[deservedgrace]

i was thinking about the sleep deprivation thing that cults do and something i completely forgot about with regards to that conversation is that the sleep needs of children/teens are different to adults. it's a range as most things are, but when it comes to sleep you HAVE to go based off the biggest number to ensure everyone gets proper sleep because you cannot function properly without proper sleep

so, if you were a teenager who went to church camps and they allowed for less than 10 hours of sleep, or if you were a kid (6-12) and they allowed for less than 12 hours of sleep, you very well may have been sleep deprived, either intentionally or unintentionally

and as a little bonus: adults tend to respond to sleep deprivation with tiredness, but kids tend to respond with hyperactivity, and even one night of sleep deprivation can affect someone

[gxlden-angels]

I love getting my silly little dose of validation whenever I explain something as small to my childhood as "yea they taught us to be prepared to be soldiers in spiritual warfare between angels and demons from a young age" and having my therapist or a friend respond like

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

friendly reminder that what most people refer to as evangelical Christianity basically just refers to nondenominational Protestantism

[bakugoawayy]

I’m starting to see how transactional Christianity really is.

“Salvation? Do this so you can receive that. “

What child has to ask for protection from something as bad as hell?? Follow my set of rules which I made up to avoid this torture that I made for you… lol ok Hitler.

Gender? Follow misogynistic oop I mean biblical gender roles so you can be covered properly.

Again why do I have to do as you say for protection? That’s manipulative.

Homosexuality? Can’t be right because it isn’t “productive” when it comes to procreation.

So love isn’t a thing? Pleasure??? Makes sense why half of your sex lives are pathetic and bland.

“Don’t work? Don’t eat. “

Screw loving our neighbor right? Screw Jesus coming to preach the good news to the poor.

Tithe so I can open the window of heaven and take the devour away from you.

lol ok then what happened with the prodigal son? Also to take a cut of our earnings because it “belongs” to us is giving financially abusive parent.

Love? Because he did it first.

So is that why children even love their abusive parents? Seeing that God is the epitome of an abusive and negligent parent.

Oh but agape love is unconditional right?? Then why is everything else transactional?

It really shows you why Christians view everything as black and white.

“Well how can you have morals without god???”

Because I don’t need to live a transactional lifestyle to give or receive kindness and love towards humanity.

Christianity produces people who further perpetuate these cycles of generational abuse and harden people towards humanity. I don’t need a reason to love, I love because I simply am free to.

[espighty]

Just to elaborate on why I think purgatory was enough of a punishment; I believe it acted as an "eye for an eye" for all of the lambs the bishops killed. In whatever time it took for them to be released from purgatory, I would wager that the bishops (collectively) died once for every life they took. And if that number was not equal, the brutality of the bishop's death loops would certainly make up for it. With the combination of purgatory, the mental consequences afterwards, and the newfound permanence of the Bishops' injuries/disabilities, I consider them to have served their sentence. I don't feel the need to torment them once they are indoctrinated, unless they give me a reason to. And I project this belief onto my Lamb as well.

[realbeefman]

writing for like minds is so hard because both alex and nigel are living and perceiving reality through suuuch a particular lens. nigel will think something bananas like The only truthful barrier that lies between us is death, that fateful stumble through the gateway between time into a place immemorial… and alex will do some *waves hand vaguely at entirety of voiceover canon scenes* and then they’ll both be watching each other with an involuntary smile on their face and a softness to their eyes they would never internally recognize as the fondness that it is. can you guys stop being so emotionally indirect about everything so i can convey the things you’re doing in my mind palace into something that isn’t “and then they lioked at each other yaoifully bu then away (they are repressed)”

[july-19th-club]

forced myself to finish this book even though by the last hundred pages or so all i was doing was picking apart the post-catholicism of it all. bc i feel like it's important to read shit you don't gel with . just because. even though the whole way through i was like they HAVE to prove it's not real. they HAVE to. so not the point of any of it but i was desperate for them to Find The Body etc. and of course instead they have mystical time travel experiences and all that because that is the kind of book the actual star is but i was desperate for them to realize that the star you see is the actual star. and then it wasn't

[thegreatyin]

firmament chapter 3 is. very long. though admittedly length is relative and mostly just constricted by how many actions every other step in this chapter costs

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

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[oilith]

I'd REALLY like to study christianity and the imagery that comes with the different branches. Basically an enormous deep dive. It's something that interests me a lot, although i don't really believe in it myself. I'm already somewhat familiar with evangelical luterism (is that the way it's in english?) but catholic christianity interests me in particular. The extreme cases of religious belief are just something else

[esteemed-excellency]

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[deservedgrace]

one of the more frustrating aspects of ex evangelical/ex cult stuff for me personally is how hard it is to talk about. and part of that is the emotional side of it, yeah it's a shitload of cumulative and compounding trauma and trauma is hard to talk about sometimes. but it's not always hard to talk about, or at least equally hard to talk about, and the thing that's honestly more frustrating to me about that is how... extensive it is, how impossible it is to give an accurate picture of what it was like, especially succinctly. there are so many things that you need context for. there's so much that doesn't really sound that bad unless you have other information. so much was normalized to me that i have a hard time knowing what's actually "normal" and what's "yikes" to other people because i simply don't always have the context for "normal". there's so much that's normalized in society and churches that gets dismissed as "normal" when it really, really shouldn't be. there's so much i just don't remember because it slipped out of my brain the same as "normal" unimportant memories because my brain didn't process it as abuse or traumatic at the time due to that lack of context of what "normal" is; it was normal to me and just what people did and how people acted and what people said. and the thing that happens is all of this compiles into me sounding like i'm exaggerating and whining about a "normal church experience" because it's just so impossible to describe how all-encompassing being in a cult is if you don't have that experience.

[marlbor0gold28]

Everything feels better now that I’m a lesbian. I know I always was, but I tried my damndest to not be. I claimed bisexuality because I gave sex to men I was attracted to platonically. I was taught that sex is love, and that my role as a woman was to give this to men. My role as a child was to give it to them.

Anyway, I always was fighting to figure out if I like boys or not. I chose to be with them, and chose to like them. I chose everything. But what I don’t choose is the way I feel about women. That is natural, organic to my core. How good I feel being with a woman. How good it feels to please her and meet her needs and treat her like the goddess she is. It is romantic.

I feel romance with women. And I tried to live the fairlytale I was spoon fed about men that the cult and patriarchy I was raised in said life was. What I was supposed to make it. That my worth was based on the men that chose to involve themselves with me. The cult and state decided what was best for me. But I know the truth of my authenticity.

I am a lesbian and I feel so fucking free.

[ratinthevoid]

why did i believe i can ever come out to her