#and I honestly… don’t like religion

[prstmmprhdl]

Art is my religion. Has always been. And I’ve never divided it into high and low. There’s a story a bit lower down my wall about the god of Arepo. About the god of small things. Because small things and dedication to them matter.

I can perceive that things are not the same. But it doesn’t matter. When you’re broken sometimes it’s the grandeur of history and hard work that saves you. Sometimes it’s the warmth of a well-known path. Sometimes it’s a change, a hope for everything in the world that is good. Sometimes it’s a moment to wallow in pain, description of the ugliness of the world. Everything is important. Everything has this potential to touch, to reach, to embrace.

I HATE “loving things ironically”. If a thing sparks something in me, I’ll burn with it until there’s nothing left of our love.

Everything deserves love, everything deserves this dedication. It doesn’t mean we should be head over hills over every single thing ever. But that we can be - over anything.

UPD: oh. It seems I’ve ratatouilled myself.

[machiavellli]

All these haters, including Lesyle Headland, make the Jedi bashing even worse because the Jedi are inspired by inspired by Asian culture, aka my people's culture and religion. Buddhism is NOT Catholicism. And to see the Jedi portrayed by an Asian woman in episode 5 get horrifically killed by Darth Annoying Asshole aka Qimir (who is portrayed by an Asian man also), Master Sol portrayed by a Asian man, and there's a Brendok witch who died in episode 7, and portrayed by Amy Tsang, an Asian woman, plus all the awful Jedi hate ("the Jedi are BAD, confirmed" NO THEY AREN'T!!!) just makes me wonder about how Disney, a Western company (run by several racist, ignorant assholes) and Lesyle Headland (thst racist BITCH) makes me really wonder about how white Westerners feel about Asians. My people and their culture deserve better than how white Westerners treated them!!!

you said it all.

I wish she would understand the complexity of your culture, which, as you said, it’s the inspiration behind the jedi order. :/

[misspermitted]

Having a non-practicing catholic family is hilarious because how do I explain to my friends that:

1. No, I don’t believe in god. Yes that is a framed picture of the Virgin Mary, specifically Our Lady of Częstochowa, at my front door.

2. Yes I bought my mum a rosary for stress relief. No she isn’t a practicing catholic.

3. Yes we both believe the bible is bullshit. Yes we also have twelve bibles in our house.

4. Yes I do ask the framed picture of Mary for advice. Once again no, I do not believe in god.

5. No my mother doesn’t believe in heaven and hell. Yes I know she just mentioned eternal damnation because she ate a donut.

6. No I haven’t ever stepped foot in a church. Yes my mother and I have a weekly 3 hour rant about what the current pope is doing.

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

I’ve always been very interested in religion and spirituality because it’s fascinating that all different groups of humans all over the earth have developed religion and learning about it can teach us so much about humans and our complex needs. It has never been about if it’s true to me, it’s like a framework for understanding or a type of communal coping mechanism, and, like all frameworks or coping skills it has the ability to be helpful or harmful.

And with all the things a person sees nowadays with how our brains evolved to live in a very different world than we do now, like how we are bad at dealing with chronic stress from news and opinions being funneled into our brain constantly, it sort of baffles me that some people think that it’s a good idea to completely sever and discard one of the oldest ways of dealing with the randomness of life and vastness of the universe. Like, this isn’t about individual belief because I understand that some people don’t need this specific framework and they have other frameworks that help them process things, but to be like ah yes People As A Whole need to stop this Wide Ranging Human Thing That’s Existed Forever, even if they are practicing it in a non-harmful (and maybe even beneficial way). Like, be mad at the people who are using it to harm others and not people who are just chilling? Genuinely does not make sense to me

[spineless-lobster]

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[shoutsindwarvish]

what if i brought my magen david rainbow flag into work but also buy a desk-sized palestinian flag to put next to it so that people know to stop wishing me merry christmas but also don’t make any other assumptions

i’m almost definitely not going to because it’ll be striking a hornet’s nest but getting so fucking tired of how much my team is openly assuming everyone is christian (complete with multiple explicit mentions of the church and jesus himself in our last meeting of things/people that coworkers were grateful for)

like yeah it would be inappropriate for me to bring politics to work and will probably make people uncomfortable but THEY STARTED IT

[squuote]

realizing that maybe I am just some crow who does not like labels. or at least using too many

[gods-favorite-autistic]

Literally just hearing the Applebees talk about religion at all makes it so clear to me that I could literally never go to church ever because the second I did I would somehow immediately manage to blasphemize or whatever and then get kicked out

[jeyaam]

jealous of people who find peace in their religion tbh

[allthedrugsforcreativity]

Hey. Adrian Crick is canon Jewish and wouldn't celebrate Christmas. I respect the fuck out of your holiday spirit but just as a reminder

Hey bro I have something for you

Happy Hanukkah

[h2o2-and-baking-soda]

“there’s only one true religion/god” okay i see you didn’t watch kamigami no asobi at the age of 12 and understand that all of the gods are going to school together to learn the true meaning of love from a highschooler like damn ya don’t have to drag us all into this

[morsmordream]

me atm with my silly little tomarry non-magical (haha unless…) AU that i came up with in the shower the other day

[shoutsindwarvish]

i’m not christian anymore and haven’t been in years but simon peter is always going to be important to me

like that post about putting a character in your back pocket when leaving a fandom

[mydreamsarentrare]

AND I’M STILL A BELIEVER BUT I DON’T KNOW WHY, I’VE NEVER BEEN A NATURAL ALL I DO IS TRY TRY TRY

[steviescrystals]

my tags on the post i just reblogged got me thinking so here’s my current stream of consciousness

[howdydoodydodis]

I definitely wish I could see more takes on C3 from people who aren’t steeped in western cultural Christianity.

I think a huge problem I’m seeing in some attempts at meta with C3 is that there is a subset of viewers who do not understand the place, value, and meaning of real world religion. It breeds takes like “well throw the gods out! Who needs them! They caused characters and the world pain! Free Vax from the Raven Queen!”

I throw that last one in there because it is the most ridiculous yet frequent and is really the crux of the issue. Vax’s story is very much about faith and the importance of faith and devotion. If you place no value on that you’ll end up grossly misunderstanding the character and the nature of his tragedy.

I’m going to out myself as an atheist, but I think the issue with a lot of these takes are that they come from internet atheists who are either resentful of and hostile toward religion because of personal experiences or do not know any devout people in their lives who they respect and can empathize with. And while I am not trying to downplay the very real phenomenon of religious trauma, when healing from it it is crucial to realize that all spiritual traditions are not synonymous with the one that harmed you. I would really implore more people to explore why many good people find spiritual traditions and religion to be a source of solace, community, and meaning before writing off the idea wholesale as something only functioning as a means of power and control that people can be educated out of believing. I encourage you to branch out and here are some examples of things I’ve done to challenge my own judgement over the last ten years: read the writings of gay Catholics exploring the queerness of Jesus. Read some beautiful poetry written by a trans man who specializes in Anglican theology. Explore religious observances different from the ones you experienced and attend a Seder. Go if a coworker invites you to a celebration of Ganesh. Learn the significance of solstice celebrations because your coworker is officiating one for a Wiccan event. Break fast at sundown during Ramadan with in solidarity with your roommate.

Deciding that all fictional religion must be an allegory for a specific kind of toxic nationalistic prosperity gospel Christian cult found in America will only limit how you engage with both fiction and the real world. It took me a long time to get to this place about it and I hope I’ve put the spark of curiosity and not judgment into at least one person reading this.