#I AM NOT RELIGIOUS

[ankarnaofjustice]

honor the cock this honor the cock that HOW ABOUT HONOR THY MOTHER AND FATHER HUH? HOW ABOUT HONOR THY GOD WHO ART IN HEAVEN ?

[inkshine]

According to the Over the Garden Wall art book, one of the original iterations of The Beast was a devil-like creature called Old Scratch, but it was changed to the Beast. But it’s crazy how much of the old Satan-inspired influence the Beast still has. Most depictions of a devil or devil-like character in a children’s tv show depict evil taken to a cartoonish extreme, where they have no personality but wickedness and have horns and a pitchfork. But the Beast? The Beast is what Christianity wants you to think the devil actually is. He is the fear of the unknown. He preys on and pushes those who are either genuinely malicious (Adelaide*) or lost and alone (The Woodsman, and to a lesser extent, Greg). He cares of nothing but his own survival and can and will hurt anyone to ensure it.

(*footnote: we don’t know if Adelaide was always the heartless, conniving woman we were shown in the series. I think it’s pretty safe to assume that she was once a better person, but something happened to turn her selfish and cruel. Whether this event simply allowed the Beast into her life and let him corrupt her, or changed her for the worse even without his influence, is unclear.)

[saym0-0]

if god was good i would have the ability to animate this

[goodoldfashionedengineer]

I have read quite a few fics now in which Crowley was Raphael and Aziraphale finds out about it. And in those who connect Aziraphale's name with Raphael's, he was either mad, disappointed or hurt each and every time.

Don't get me wrong, these feelings are all reasonable to feel and it is plausible. But I want to give another view point.

Those fics, in which Aziraphale's name is based of the name Raphael, his name means "of Raphael". A helper to Raphael.

You know who is also a helper?

Eve!

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

But this doesn't make Eve any less! Quite the opposite, really. Eve is EQUAL to Adam!

Because the word used for "helper" (ezer) actually means something closer to "rescuer". Also, guess who also gets referred to as "ezer".

It's God.

Eve and Adam were both created in God's image, remember that.

Eve and Adam, Adam and Eve formed such a perfect union BECAUSE they were equal.

Adam was with her when she ate the apple and after she ate, she give it to him and he ate it.

[...]she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

(This moment also appears in the show)

They have become "one flesh". They are each others helper

In the Garden of Eden, not only one power couple was born, but also a second. And maybe, the second was meant to be since before the begin of time.

[brahmenbones]

COUGHS LIKE A GARBAGE DISPOSAL girl I finally finished the lesbian

[hakiscoffeeshop]

based on true events (lunch thoughts)

(this is a joke)

[metalgearsolid3pussy-eater]

obsessed with the way that carpenter seems to hate the gods so much, especially in a world that is so built upon them and with so far exactly zero mention of athiesm. i love her.

[palmtree-art]

Im fully convinced that I am the chosen one.

God is I

I am the only person that can save and rule this god-awful kingdom.

[jaythatfanboyz]

Listen spamton is thicker than queen pathetic man who I wish to chomp on like a school chicken sandwich, draw him with the big ass he deserves.

Thy will be smited with gods rays. Until there be no light upon the world of mortal power. Heavens gate is not open to thy who ask for such sinful acts. These people are the ones that will be dragged under thy ground they eventually rest in.

God wont be merciful.

[columbo-of-narnia]

Hey I don't want to be a jackass here but Josh joined a pro-conversion therapy church, reconciled with his pro-conversion therapy father, and then never talked about queerness again. Not his own, not other people's. Before he came out there would be rainbow flags at his shows. Nothing after he found religion. At least one fan who did a M&G at the last tour reports that Josh and his team and a negative reaction to him mentioned his own queerness during the M&G. He's never seen with the queer friends that he was seen with before getting religious.

I wouldn't say he's not queer anymore like the other anon implied because conversion therapy victims are repressed, victimized queer people but it's irresponsible to pretend his behavior hasn't changed. It's changed dramatically.

"You can be both queer and religious" is of course true and there are many queer-affirming religious organizations, including affirming Christian churches but mainstream American evangelism is rabidly anti-queer and is a danger to queer people and it's straight up dangerous to pretend it isn't. And that's the wing of Christianity that Josh has found himself in. Ignoring it doesn't help Josh and it doesn't help stop them from finding their next victims.

I get what you mean, and tbh i dont have the time or energy to go into a super long detailed post about everything. i disagree with so bullet points.

●Josh has said he had no idea about the values lf the church he was baptized in

●Josh is allowed to reconcile with his father. It's not our business frankly, regardless of how others view them.

●We have no idea what goes on in his personal life. Maybe his queer friends acted like josh, finding religion again was the end of the world, and they cut him off. Maybe the cult josh joined told him to cut them off. Maybe josh just grew apart from them. We do not know what happened there and frankly is asinine to speculate.

● Josh does not owe it to anyone to talk about his Sexuality or theirs. He is a private person. It took a lot for him to speak about something he has literally struggled with his entire life.

● He literally had a rainbow flag on stage on his last tour. Idk what show, and frankly, I'm too lazy to go back and look.

● once more, joshs behavior has not drastically changed before or after coming out. Actually, im wrong. It has changed he is happier.

Do i wish josh spokw more aboht Sexuality yes but as stated above we are not owed that. No one is. Tbh im more happy he speaks more about his mental health than Sexuality.

[wittyworm]

taino teachings are realigning my entire mindset. everything is. making more and more sense the more i read. Yoka hu (the father) and Ata Bey ( the mother) are both inside me . spiritually and physically. i have always said, for many years that i did not understand the concept of gender how this society is teaching it, because i am both my father and mother in body and spirit, but also wholly myself, and i need to respect myself, and how i've been feeling for so so long. it's all making so much sense.

[lanaevyssmoved]

my favourite christmas song isn't a christmas song. it's a jesus song

[feral-teeth]

Hey youre not being watched, youre not being surveyed always, there is nothing watching you. I say that from the bottom of my heart, and i hipe this helps even just a little bit. No one cares, in the nicest of ways, that you flapped your heand when you got too excited about soemthing, people love to see you happy and in joh, no one cared when you posted that fic and there was a spelling error, people loved it and read it in their bus or on the train or on the bus to work and it made their day, they got lost in your words amd they fell in kove with the stories you make. They love your writing, and they csnt wait for you to post more when you can. And if you cant, they will enjoy what you have already blasted off into the universe, into their hands for them to hold and care for and cherish. Your art and your writing and your music is cherished, even if it has fallen on deaf ears or someone criticized it. Its just between you and god, you and the man who is always watching but with love. And jesus is there too i guess hi buddy lol

But you need to remember to keep creating, and resting too goddammit whenever you can because a burnt out artist feels like the end of the world i would kmow because i wrote all of this in a tangent while sitting on my toilet on my mini ipad for you to read, it may just be for me but i hipe upi touched someine today, eben if it was hust me, i love uou.

Let me say it again, if no one loves uou, i love you. Even the hyperthettical me that you see in uour dreams, that you imagine sitting beside you as you read this, but im here with you. ALways. If no one is in your heart than i am, i am the kind words that enter your mind when you think an animal is cute or you think you look hot or sexy in your new outfit or naked or just in your underwear, i love it, i think uou look hot and sexy and beautiful no matter how old you are, because i will always love you. Even on your worst days when youre mean and your zoned out and you hate your sistser or your brother or your paretns or your dad or mom or uncle died and you dont know what to do with all of the grief, i will be sitting beside you holding your hand through it.

I made myself cry with my own words, because this is what i always needed to hear. I needed to hear this. I am the kind voice in my own head and heart and i miss her so much it hurts so much and im sorry.

[eriyu]

quantum mechanics feel like god is just a shit programmer whose code doesn't account for users inputting weird numbers

[lovesse]

someone liking my slenderverse genders ... god is good !!

[thestaticonyourscreen]

what if spider-man wrote the bible