#Queer Christian

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

So many people who are bad at generosity coming up with excuses not to give to people. If your first reaction to hearing "you should give to the homeless" is "Uh but uh what if they uh are lying???" then you should give more than normal because you need to practice radical generosity before you can understand moderate generosity.

[grandpa-spooks]

Christianity on Gender Transitioning

If you're okay with a woman getting her breast tissue reduced because it causes her a lot of pain and no bras are supportive enough, and you're okay with men having vasectomies once they no longer wish to bear children, why are you against gender surgeries and transitions? If top surgery is "mutilation", so is breast reduction. If vaginoplasties are "spitting in the face of God's creation", so are vasectomies.

Gender transitioning is no different than any other surgical procedure-- it is done to improve the quality of your life, and it in no way denies that God made you beautifully in His image. It is because, while God declares you to be beautifully and wonderfully made, physical dysfunction is a normal reality.

As another example, those who are disabled are still created perfectly. Their disability is neither their sin nor God's mistake; it is a condition given to their person and their life, with its challenges but also with its great benefits for them and the Kingdom. At the same time, it is foolishness to suggest that they never lessen the hardship that can come with their disability through surgery, because it will "mess with God's creation". Modern medicine is used by God, including through surgeries.

This concept can be applied beyond disability, back to the woman with the chest/back pain, and the man seeking a permanent contraceptive so his wife can stop worrying about her pill or toxic IUD. We all benefit from surgery in different ways, and for some, that may include gender surgery. How is it different?

If you believe that being transgender is against God’s will, that is another discussion. But it’s odd to target the surgeries as the epitome of ‘the transgender tragedy’ when it’s just another surgery.

[oleandro-drag]

saint sebastian tended by saint irene but they're both drag artists

felt like this might be something this site would enjoy

on stage: oleandro & delfi oraakel, photographer: peroksiid (on ig as oleandro_drag, delfi_oraakel and peroksiid)

[blood-is-the-life]

[saintmachina]

Deeply religious openly queer people are God's strongest soldiers. Constantly justifying their own existence to everyone from all sides...Phew

[moonmoonthecrabking]

happy pride month to religious queer people, who feel like they’re contradictions, or told that they’re contradictions, but stay true to these important parts of themselves anyway. happy pride to the queer religious people who have to explain their identities, and who have to defend their faith or their queerness in either circle.

i love you, i am one of you, thank you for being in this community with me.

[chelledoggo]

i want to print these screenshots out en masse and post them onto evangelical church doors like they're the 95 theses

[satyrradio]

Trans Christian

a flag 4 trans folks who are also Christian :]

[depressionanddeconstruction]

Queer Christians are on a whole other level. Queer Christians have faith you can't even understand. Queer Christians know God in such a deep and special way. Someone who realizes they're queer and STAYS a Christian has such a powerful belief in God and such an intimate acquaintance with His goodness. I wish homophobic, transphobic, conservative fundamentalist evangelicals could grasp even a tiny bit of the joy and peace and love that I experience through my QUEER relationship with God.

[citrussunrises]

Every time I have ever found God it has been from a group of outsiders.

Every picture of God that has ever looks like him has been made by people who never saw a Jesus that looked like themselves

I have never felt more at home than when listening to a gay person talk about God. I have never understood someone better than the lesbian Catholics who love to veil, or the transgender episcoples who see their transition as an opportunity to share in God's creation, or anyone who found God and then carved their own way to him.

When I sit in chapel, and the worship music feels like noise, I know there is a hymn being sung with a shaking voice that sounds just like Christ calling out for his father. When I see lessons written in script, I know there are sheets of construction paper printed in stock fonts on a family's kitchen table sent home from Sunday school teaching the same. When I get a hand out with Bible verses bought from Amazon, I know that someone has written the same verse in craft glue and collage and their blood.

I think God is present the most when the process of finding him is distinctly human; because I think he knows us, and makes the way he finds us human.

[ohholydyke]

I’m a lesbian and a Catholic which means the only man I’ll ever marry is Jesus Christ the Son of God Bridegroom to the Church and I eat his literal flesh and drink his actual blood every week through the transubstantiated Eucharist in remembrance of when he was here on earth and looking forward to when he will come back

“You just need the right man” I found him. It’s Jesus. We’re one flesh now. Yeah he died for my sins and in doing so united me to the creator God Almighty. He was dressed up for the occasion and everything. He kissed me on the forehead and led me to my girlfriend and said go love her as I loved you be happy. My husband is seated at the right hand of God from which he will come to judge the living and the dead if you care. Yeah I tried to pray the gay away but he cupped my face in his hands and said “there is nothing about you that needs to be fixed. You are holy as I am holy.” He had me nail my internalized homophobia to the cross and he carried it for me. The Holy Spirit gave me the rizz to flirt with my girlfriend when we met well enough that she fell in love with me and when we get married and she’s my wife I’m going to thank my husband Jesus Christ.

[queerorthodoxy]

I love queer Christians, I love our faith and resilience and I love our relationship with God BECAUSE of our queerness, not in spite of it

[gayleviticus]

'gender transition won't make you happy, only Jesus will' is not only an extremely annoying thing to say but i think probably a violation of James 2.16

[nerdygaymormon]

[blood-is-the-life]

I feel a lot of anger at but honestly a lot of pity for bigoted and hateful Christian’s too. I’m sorry they have been so brainwashed and blinded they cannot see their biggest commandment is to love and I want them to be free of that one day.

[thepsychopompsthrenody]

i'm really sorry but you're gonna find god in the Other Stuff, too. religious trappings are nice. so is tradition. it's good to have buildings to go to and things to wear and holy texts to read and prescripted songs to sing. it's comforting to have lineage and instructions. bless the treasure map.

but god's Elsewhere, too: out on the tips of skinny branches and wading in the weeds, left of center, left field.

so if you decide to test this theory and go rambling around calling out innumerable, unpronounceable names, know that you won't have to look too hard. divinity does a terrible job concealing itself. god willing you will take a shine to the idea that god happens everywhere, in everything, all the time.