#catholic gold

[isawthismeme]

[stabbythespaceroomba]

I was at Work, rolling cutlery (a mindless task), and thinking about Brackwood and how their families have different religious beliefs ((the blackwoods the old gods, the Bracken the Sept ((according to the wiki)))) and thinking about how we’re all about them as Romeo and Juliet,,,,,

But like - haven’t any of y’all seen this painting???? It’s a Catholic woman with her Huguenot lover, and she’s begging him to wear white cloth to signal himself as a Catholic just as a religious massacre of Huguenot’s is about to take place in France. And the Huguenot is gently pulling it away because he might love her, but he’s not going to abandon his beliefs, abandon his side in this (incredibly loosely termed) ‘battle’.

He would rather die than renounce his loyalties, his faith, despite how much he clearly loves her (LIKE LOOK AT HIS FACE!!)

Anyway, imagine you were two teens / young men, caught up on opposite sides of the battle with your own deeply entrenched loyalties and beliefs, and the love between you isn’t going to save you.

The mill still burns

[canisalbus]

Imagine if Machete was Muslim instead of Catholic. His name would be something like Saif سيف, and Vasco would probably be something like Dhahabi ذَهَبِيّ

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[dreveel]

Across the Way; {Credit}

[anghraine]

jenndoesnotcare replied to this post:

Every time LDS kids come to my neighborhood I am so so nice to them. I hope they remember the blue haired lady who was kind, when people try to convince them the outside world is bad and scary. (Also they are always so young! I want to feed them cookies and give them Diana Wynne Jones books or something)

Thank you! Honestly, this sort of kindness can go a really long way, even if it doesn't seem like it at the time.

LDS children and missionaries (and the majority of the latter are barely of age) are often the people who interact the most with non-Mormons on a daily basis, and thus are kind of the "face" of the Church to non-Mormons a lot of the time. As a result, they're frequently the ones who actually experience the brunt of antagonism towards the Church, which only reinforces the distrust they've already been taught to feel towards the rest of the world.

It's not that the Church doesn't deserve this antagonism, but a lot of people seem to take this enormous pride in showing up Mormon teenagers who have spent most of their lives under intense social pressure, instruction, expectation, and close observation from both their peers and from older authorities in the Church (it largely operates on seniority, so young unmarried people in particular tend to have very little power within its hierarchies). Being "owned" for clout by non-Mormons doesn't prove anything to most of them except that their leaders and parents are right and they can't trust people outside the Church.

The fact that the Church usually does provide a tightly-knit community, a distinct and familiar culture, and a well-developed infrastructure for supporting its members' needs as long as they do [xyz] means that there can be very concrete benefits to staying in the Church, staying closeted, whatever. So if, additionally, a Mormon kid has every reason to think that nobody outside the Church is going to extend compassion or kindness towards them, that the rest of the world really is as hostile and dangerous as they've been told, the stakes for leaving are all the higher, despite the costs of staying.

So people from "outside" who disrupt this narrative of a hostile, threatening world that cannot conceivably understand their experiences or perspectives can be really important. It's important for them to know that there are communities and reliable support systems outside the Church, that leaving the Church does not have to mean being a pariah in every context, that there are concrete resources outside the Church, that compassion and decency in ordinary day-to-day life is not the province of any particular religion or sect and can be found anywhere. This kind of information can be really important evidence for people to have when they are deciding how much they're willing to risk losing.

So yeah, all of this is to say that you're doing a good thing that may well provide a lifeline for very vulnerable people, even if you don't personally see results at the time.

[woodlandkisses]

[angelspearlheart]

[floral-grunge]

Kt Agogo

[thecatcrew]

One of these black cats, is not like the others….can you tell which one is Egypt?

[ed13d1]

Miraculous Madonna of Sinj

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

The Trinity Adored by All Saints, Spanish Painter (ca. 1400s) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTLW5QQM1N8

[federicagiordanophotography]

By Federica Giordano

[vindemiatrics]

quiet, quiet

[uglyandvengeful]

Arsony but not in a “2020-discord-bunny-hat-monster-energy-gun” way more like a “Lingua Ignota-Ethel Cain-Saint Maud-Joan-Of-Arc-Lord Of The Flies” way

[aestermeadow]

[psalmlover]

found on pinterest