#Critique of religion

[tmarshconnors]

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, prose poet, and cultural critic.

Born: 15 October 1844, Röcken, Lützen, Germany

Died: 25 August 1900, Weimar, Germany

[throesofincreasingwonder]

You know what? I want a whole post for this:

Sex Repulsion is not the same thing as, or an excuse for, Sex Negativity

non-negotiable!

I am a sex-repulsed asexual. This means that I am uncomfortable and repulsed by the idea of engaging in sexual acts. This does not mean that I have an excuse to be repulsed by other people's sexual attraction or the right to police how other people engage in or express sexual acts or attraction.

Young queer people need to learn the difference between sex repulsion and sex negativity, and actively work to unlearn sex-negative attitudes. Asexuality, even sex-repulsed asexuality, is and should be fully compatible with sex positivity.

If you are uncomfortable with the idea of other people feeling sexual attraction or engaging in sexual acts that do not involve you in any way, that is not sex repulsion it is the cultural Christianity and you need to seriously work on that.

[biggesthomuradefender]

madokami and devil homura are actually both critiques on the christian god, the devil, and blind faith, and in this essay i will—

[scltbvrns]

homogenising something that has always been inherently diverse will kill us all one day.

[scarletspider-lily]

i'm telling yall, we really need to make the phrase "love the sinner hate the sin" obsolete by saying "love the believer hate the religion"

make em uncomfortable!! lets do it

[chamerionwrites]

Intellectually I understand where people are coming from, but personally I do THE biggest double take every time someone boils down conservative Christian ideology (and/or secularized cultural reflections thereof) to a kind of dour puritanism that proclaims happiness is sin/suffering is a moral good/everyone should be miserable all the time. Like I get it! I do. But also, institutionally, I have never met a group of more passionate worshippers and vicious defenders of their own comfort than evangelical Christians. There is a reason the common thread between my various weird triggers more or less boils down to "toxic positivity." There is a REASON my exvangelical tag is #walking away from omelas.

[lime-bucket]

Its awfully convenient how not once in hazbin hotel were cain & abel mentioned.is it cuz fratricide was too edgy fr the rAuNcHy aDuLt show? Or did viv purposefully kept them out of the story cuz she knew theyll give adam a sound reason to his hate fr sinners as well as destroying any chance fr her to push the narrative of "the sad dad whos trying his best" on lucifer?🤨

cuz tricking a boy to kill his brother wont make him that sympathetic to the viewers now would it🙄

[moonssugar]

i love when people say you can't examine the jedi order's flaws or discuss them or ever portray them as bad because that would be misrepresenting buddhism and would be bad because thats a minority religion (in the west) as if real life buddism isnt as flawed as every single other religion in existence. people also forget two other important things: first that theres another religion that starts with a c the jedi are also partially based off of and secondly the reason the jedi has buddist influences in their worldbuilding is because of this pesky thing called orientalism that star wars happens to be full of to the brim. also the idea that examining the jedi critically 1:1 equals slandering its influences is such a example of the inability to distinguish fiction and in universe things from actual reality

youre defending a half assed orientalist idea of actual religion in its poorly executed fictional amalgamative form...why?

[moony-2001]

With the announcement of two new original stories by Rachel herself, I’ve been oscillating between “let her try cooking again” and “we’ve already seen what she did to the Greek pantheon she should be relegated to lunchables”

[apostate-in-an-alcove]

LGBTQ Christians, like a lot of Christians, value their feelings and comfort over the very real harm caused by Christianity and the people who've been harmed by it. Good for you that your denomination is affirming and you have every right to practice the religion of your choice but how fucking dare you try to dictate how people should feel about a god and religion that has been used as a tool to oppress the very community you're a part of.

[omnist-angels]

It's ridiculous how many exceptions to "thou shall not kill" people can come up with.

[fullmetal-scar-simping]

Seen a lot of bad takes and misinterpretations of Scar as a character across all major versions of the FMA series, and none betrays a greater failure in grasping his character, his narrative, and the journey he goes through than describing him as a "murderous religious fanatic."

Congratulations! You completely failed to grasp the most rudimentary beats of this character and instead went with a racist caricature instead! Flush your head into a toilet!

[bonefall]

NGL: Stuff like Brambleclaw being a terrible namer is like. really fun but also kinda hits with the 'he;s not some meglomaniacl villain hes just a shitty guy'. like. you could see squirrelflight finding that really endearing. IDK if this is some mastermind shit, or if i'm just reading wayyyyy to into this, but i like how you give characters that are pretty bad dudes very humanising qualities. Especially when they're silly/cute. Kinda reminds you that like. theyre like. a person. well. cat but yknow. and they chose to do bad shit, with influence from their past, rather than being inherently terrible. 👍

YEAH MAN, that's what I'm SAYING

Abusers, ideologues, and other terrible people are not masterminds. They aren't born evil. They're not inherently smart OR stupid. They can love, they can be funny and polite, they do things they believe are justified and want to be good people. They don't think of themselves as villains.

Evil isn't complex. It's really, really not. I feel like that's the #1 cause of confusion when I get a question like, "Why does this person do this malicious act, when it's bad/inconsistent/mean?" The answer is always simple;

They wanted to control someone.

They wanted something and didn't mind who they hurt.

Spite and short-sightedness.

Look for anything deeper and you will not find it. Heroics are complex, being a good person is ongoing and changes over time. We're in a constant state of growing. Malice is childishly simple; it feels good to get what you want.

With Bramblestar especially... it always goes back to what I said here, when talking about the idea of an Evil!Bramble. He's a person, and you ruin everything that's so interesting about him by stripping away that nuance. Squilf and Bramble loved each other, truly, and legitimately. He can be charming. He can be nice. He still hurts her. Reconcile with this.

He is not wiser for what he went through, as a child. His pain doesn't make him better. Man's just a jerk... that's it.

[lostandbackagain]

making a list of things to watch for in a religious themed reading of inkheart

[sarenth]

Religious =/= Christian

I am a Heathen, someone who has studied religion in college and is actively, deeply engaged in a non-Christian religion.

Christianity is not all religions. If you mean Christian or Christianity use those words. Not Abrahamic, not Judeo-Christian (the use of this term is inaccurate, and erases the large gulfs of theological and cultural differences between Christian and Jewish religions and cultures), not "religious".

I am a Heathen. I believe in, worship, and in some cases, work for various Ginnreginn, which is a word meaning Mighty/Holy Powers, and I use to mean the Gods, Ancestors, and vættir (spirits). I am religious. I have a hearth cultus I keep with my family and communities, and have a rich religious and cultural life.

If you are talking about being ex-Christian, critiquing Christianity as an institution, critiquing Christian theology, or making comments towards or on Christian communities, please be clear about it.

It's inaccurate and poor practice rhetorically, politically, and religiously to cast the issues of Christian religions and communities on everyone else. It adds nothing useful to dialogue or discourse if you cannot be bothered to be specific with regards to issues around Christianity or any other religion or religious topic.

Blanket condemning all religions because of Christian religions, history, actions, theology, politics, etc is not only supporting Christian hegemony and supremacy, it also denies every other religion and culture their own unique voices, theologies, ideas, and culture concepts. Likewise, condemning all religions in the name of "rationality" and "logic" is just supremacy by different means.

[spotsupstuff]

Honestly with my understanding of how your cycles work it would be funny to see an interaction between a human and an ancient where they are like "Woe is us we are trapped in a cycle blah... blah (basically longwinded explenation of how it works)" and the person is just like "I don't see the issiue here that's cool as fuck"

yes, well... part of why the rebirth cycle (Small Cycle) became so despised *is* because of propaganda. originally the thing was seen as a gift worth worshipping and praising, but as most things usually do, it has some downsides that certain group of people latched on to to demonize it

most of those being the aftermath of waking from death. such as still feeling the pain of the injury that killed the individual. it's relatively fine if one gets a fast death like a Noot stabbing, but if it's death like bleeding out from dismemberment? waking up feeling the pain of it, the phatom body part aspect even though it's Right There and not being able to treat it until it fades on its own isn't so fun

then the mental scarring of going through something like that...

the raincarnation cycle (Great Cycle) became despised because of something like a spirit's depression/nearly chronic frustration. low karma Ancients (under karma level 7) experience those kind of feelings seemingly out of nowhere, detached from the situation happening in the physicality

one can be eating their most favorite food ever and suddenly Bam, feelings of anger, sadness and frustration all at themselves. this happens because the spirit is aware it isn't moving forwards in cultivation/towards natural Ascension as it is supposed to and that upsets it

and judging by the existence of Those -points at Iterators- not many people actually work on bettering themselves because Why would they? They have the Iterators to get them the reward for becoming a good person without them having to change anything

so the nearly chronic spirit frustration/depression is common