#You have the right to your religion

[midnight-mama]

So my neighbors came over, and I invited them in for tea or coffee. They lasted for 30 minutes and then were kicked out. Why? I have a Bisexual flag in my living room. One that means a lot to me and my husband. The husband got offended that we had a Bisexual flag but not the American one(because we're an army family ig). He then asked us to take it down because of his religious beliefs.

I told them to leave my home immediately.

[coffeelovinggayidiot]

Like all of tumblr, aparently: we 💜 love ✡️jews✡️ and we would 👊 punch nazis and we reblog five 5️⃣ different haukkah 🕎 posts a year we are like so progresive 💁✨️

Also all of tumblr, aparently: death to all jews 🚫✡️ if you're a jewish person who lives in IsNotRaEl then you're an evil 👺 bad jew and you deserve to be raped and murdered ☠️☠️ what? You fled to israel because we were murdering you by the millions??? Well you should have all died lol ☠️☠️ happy hanukkah btw 🕎

[ofekma]

"noo but this time it's different! Our antisemitism is morally justified! We really do have a good reason to hate the jews!" - every antisemic person at any point in history.

[deservedgrace]

it is so frustrating to me when people only learn to be empathetic or care about something when it personally happens to them or someone they care about

and like, yes, obviously i'm glad when people learn better and do better, and i don't want to shame people that are now doing better because ultimately it's not helpful and changing at all is a good thing and i do want to acknowledge and celebrate that

but also why did it take you needing an abortion and almost dying to become pro-choice and advocate for abortion access? why could you only see the humanity in queer people when your brother came out? why do you only view racism as a real issue now that you're friends with a person of color?

why do things have to personally impact you for you to give a shit?

[vividdreamer]

"hating religion is counterrevolutionary and is an alt right pipe line blah blah blah" girl shut up all I said was that it's bad when your religion tells you to kill people for having sex

[planefood]

This is just a thing I see on my internet romps every now and then but it drives me crazy for no reason, bare with me. Why do people draw lines in the sand about different kinds of therians lol? Who cares if someone woke up and decided that they're wolf therian or something when you decided unconsciously you were a wolf therian instead. Why do people fight about whether or not someone can choose to be therian, its the most silly gatekeeping I see. And don't come at me saying "well theres this label for chosen therians because they're not actual therians like me" you guys... made these terms up in the first place it literally doesn't matter. There is absolutely zero difference between a chosen therian and a not chosen therian and you can't convince me otherwise. How would a self proclaimed "real" therian know that they didn't just choose to be therian one day, there's absolutely no way you can know that for sure.

Every time I become curious about a subculture there's always some ridiculous gatekeeping, even objectums seem to fight over silly bullshit.

[allieinarden]

If you are scrupulous, the gulf between what you were taught about religion and what you think you were taught about religion could be huge. It is, of course, fully possible that you were given bad doctrine by clueless individuals, but if you still have access to the people who schooled you in your faith—family members, family friends, mentors with whom you remain in touch—it might be worth asking them what they meant by some of the things they said. The scrupulous mind tends to draw very extreme conclusions. You might be shocked by some of the clarification that you get.

[madbard]

Quick question for my fellow UTMV fans…

(Glances around, then drops poll and runs.)

(This may or may not be an extension to that Dustplates post from earlier…)

[words-writ-in-starlight]

Sometimes I read the books that the internet is going feral over and I'm just like "take my hand babygirl I can show you the world."

We can do better baby. I can get you a better version of this.

[girlboygilliontidestrider]

“I think.

my friends, caspian, Karlach and Laezel, i love them dearly. i enjoy practicing music, yet the shame weighs on my shoulders, do i enjoy being out in land rather than following my own crafted destiny? is it my right to wish i wasn’t chosen? No, it is not, I smite these ideologies, I pray to be forgiven though i am not even sure I am being heard. “

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

Nazis are a threat to everyone. We know this, we understand this. HOWEVER. Goyim, non-Jewish people, I'm asking you to think before you speak on Elon's actions.

Yes, the people trying to insist it was just a "Roman salute" and meant nothing are infuriating, but I have seen responses to it that do nothing more than encourage neo-Nazis and their sympathizers. I've seen "comebacks" where people say "Go do a "Roman salute" in a crowd", "go do it in front of a Jewish person". I just saw a video of someone saying, "Better yet, find yourself a synagogue, and go do the "Roman salute", and see how that goes... bet you won't."

You are putting Jewish people in danger. You, leftist who thinks you're being so smart and witty with your comeback, are encouraging neo-nazis to threaten Jewish people. "Better yet"? Go find a synagogue? Go find a synagogue, go there to do the Nazi salute, and that's the better option you're suggesting to them? What you're doing is telling a Nazi that they need to actively harm Jewish people to prove their beliefs to you, and I can tell you that encouragement is embraced by them.

Jewish people are already going to be one of the main targets of any Nazi or white supremacist group, but half of you are actively offering us up for your "gotcha" moment. Y'all don't think before you speak, and you need to examine why you would ever think to give specific ideas on how to harm Jewish people to neo-Nazis who have just been emboldened to a level we haven't seen in decades.

[pjharvey]

my current plan re: tumblr is to use this site once a week TOPS at least until the US election in november, then maybe resume every day. i literally dont think the amount of anger i have over the stupid bullshit i have to see from people who think you should have to be guilty about everything you do and that feeling as much guilt as possible is peak activism is like sustainable in terms of purely like. my own health reasons. im being tested for hyperthyroidism and a number of other things rn bc of chronic pain + issues eating exacerbated by stress and i don’t feel like mass unfollowing ppl bc a lot of it is coming from ppl i care about

[jorindasfate]

The belief that gender does not determine your personality/that interests, personality traits and clothes are not gendered cannot coexist with the belief of gender identity. They are inherently contradictory.

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

I have always sort of wondered what makes culturally christian escapees to atheism so resistent to the idea that religions other than christianity really and genuinely are EXTREMELY different and trying to insist that this one aspect of christianity you hate most is definitely for sure universal to all religions this time is going to make you come across as A) an asshole, and B) an asshole that those of us from marginalized religions can't trust because apparently you won't even believe us when you're told you're misrepresenting our faiths.

[tatsumi-rin]

Moral Orel doesn't seem 100% like a show I'd feel seen in if you don't know me but then I remember the episode with the special ed kids and underneath the usual satire on extremist bible belt religion it reminds me WAY too much of how actual special ed departments treated me and other kids growing up.

Like the writers must HAVE BEEN THERE IN LIFE, man. I'd kill to sit down with Dino Stamatopoulos and find out what the fuck inspired him and the other writing staff that day.

[autumnrory]

i am soooooooo dreading thursday like it's one thing to not have started screaming at my parents the last few weeks but to be fully surrounded by it with them and my brother and sister-in-law and unfortunately NOT my sister and brother-in-law who are decent and reasonable human beings lol like i am all alone against insanity and like for the most part they don't say a lot of really stupid shit in front of me (anymore at least bc damn i cried during so many arguments over police brutality in 2014) so it's mostly just little things nowadays that make me roll my eyes but i imagine there will at least be like hushed political conversations and i'm honestly just like. i think i will sit through the meal and go off by myself and if my niece wants to come with me or something cool but otherwise i just. cannot spend an extended period of time around four people who voted against me and my friends without breaking down and it's still a very real possibility that it'll happen anyway bc i am going to look at my sweet lovely nieces and think how horrible this world is for them i mean my nephew too ofc but ya know. not AS horrible for boys as it is for girls and also there's a very real possibility he's already believing a lot of bullshit being his age, having republican parents, being deep into sports, being on tiktok like......all of those factors make me worried lol