#christian missionary

[sag-dab-sar]

So I bought a 7 Sorrows Chaplet. I was extremely hesitant to buy the one I wanted due to this:

I abhor missionary work. Like genuinely loath it. I actively avoided using ethnologue as a source because of how much I hate it. Nor would I ever donate to Samaritan's Purse or Salvation Army. But I was pleasantly surprised to find this:

"nor use aid to induce a person to change religion" thats what I needed to hear, in order to feel comfortable buying the chaplet. Hopefully they are true to their word— I would hope Christians would be.

"seek for our work to be our testimony" <- thats the proper way to 'evangelize' in my opinion. Show the love of Jesus Christ, let people see that you are doing amazing work because of him, and if they want to ask you about it then you can say "I do this because my Christian values teach me so." If the person wants to know more so be it, if they don't want to know more respect it. This is how I wanted to evangelize when I was a Christian but my church shamed me for it not being rigorous enough, I wasn't actively spreading the Good News, I wasn't fulfilling The Great Commission. Ugh.

Anyways, its nice to know part of my purchase went to an aid program that I hope is honest and helpful.

I basically just held my breath and jumped in the deep end of the pool with Our Lady of Sorrows veneration by this purchase .... without any idea how to swim. I'm hoping the chaplet will be a physical reminder and give me a reason to actually start instead of just thinking about it.

[theschalowest]

Christmas letter from my grandfather to his home congregation about his experience in the Red Uprising

I blacked out my grandma and uncle's names

[kazifatagar]

Veteran Umno Sec-gen wants Anwar to fire Hannah Yeoh

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[thebearme]

dogman doodles

[queerorthodoxy]

If you're going to be a Christian you need to acknowledge its history of violence and colonization so you do not continue the violence!!!!

[lcl-cultist]

[ghoulishtomato]

But I'm a Cheerleader is a very important movie to me for treating straight sex as something kind of weird and freakish as opposed to gay sex which is portrayed as wonderful and amazing.

Gay sex is is made to look off putting and hilarious so often (well, at least in mainstream media at the time Cheerleader was made) that it's cathartic as fUCK to see heterosexual sex treated like a weird and unnatural and uncomfortable ordeal that nobody wants to see.

[genericpuff]

I wonder why christian misrepresentation are rarely talked about if compared to other religion misrepresentation. Like, I've seen people really vocal about Greek myths misrepresentation in LO and such (and it's valid because it's a culture and religion) but I rarely saw the same thing with christian even though there are many media who use christian religion innacurately, to the point where it comes off as using it as an aesthetic and not a proper religion.

Is it because of rampant religious trauma especially in western world? No ulterior motives on this question. I'm not a christian and yet I'm curious about this. I apologize if this sounds harsh.

I obviously don't have The Answer(tm) to this but personally speaking (and I'm about to get VERY personal here so take this with MOUNTAINS OF SALT), I think it's just the obvious - Christian mythology is one of the most well-documented and strongly protected out of virtually any other religion on the planet. Especially here in the West, it's commonplace for kids to go to Sunday school, for couples to have Christian weddings even if they're not practising Christians themselves, even the American anthem references the Christian God. It's simply not as easy to 'misrepresent' it because the representation is written into our very fabric of society. Even Greece itself is primarily made up of Orthodox Christians.

So anyone that does 'misrepresent' it are either completely mislead hardcore Christians, or people who are doing it intentionally, such as with the intent to make a parody of it or to deconstruct it through a different context or whatever have you. And of course, people will still get mad at those things, if you're implying that people aren't vocal about Christian misrepresentation then frankly IDK what to tell you there LOL If you want a contextual example in the realm of webtoons, Religiously Gay was dragged to hell and back during its launch for having a very crude and insulting depiction of St. Michael, and frankly, yeah I don't disagree because what the fuck is this-

(like at best it's just terrible character design lmao that said, there's also plenty else to criticize Religiously Gay for, including its fetishy representation of gay relationships and the fact that it's still just the "naive person who looks and acts like a child hooks up with mean person in a position of power" trope, blech, but the character design is definitely the first thing you notice)

There are even plenty of hardcore Christians who will deadass claim "misrepresentation" over things that ARE factually correct but they just haven't read the actual Bible and simply cherry pick what works for their own agenda. And of course those people are routinely called out by people like myself who know for a fact that Jesus wouldn't have promoted the war crimes that many modern day Christians are committing and justifying today. So it really depends on the definition of "misrepresentation" here.

The issue specifically with LO and Rachel that I personally call her out for (and many others) is that she's called herself a "folklorist" and claimed she's so much more knowledgeable on Greek myth than anyone else, while making a complete mockery of the original mythologies while not being honest about her intent as to whether LO is actually supposed to be a legitimate retelling OR a parody (because it sure acts like the latter more than the former, but she still seems to expect us to take it seriously and consider her knowledge of Greek myth superior?) Which leads to a lot of her teenage audience claiming shit like "Persephone went down to the underworld willingly" and "Apollo did assault Persephone in the original myths actually" and the classic "why would Lore Olympus lie or make up fake myths?"

You just can't pull off this extent of erasure with Christian mythology because we have a whole ass book of it that's been preserved, sold on shelves, and systematically integrated into society for thousands of years. Of course, there are people who will still try their damned best to twist the Bible to match their own bigotry with the whole "Jesus hates gays" bullshit (he would never), but it's met with equal amounts of 'misrepresentation' that are actually fully well-read and are intentionally subverting and changing things to either critique, parody, or restore the original intent of a lot of stories in the Bible without all the manufactured right-wing crap.

Greek myth, on the other hand, has some stories that are well preserved, and others, not so much. And in the modern day outside of the poems and hymns, you'll also rarely, if ever, see anyone use stories from Greek myth to ostracize, torture, and murder other people. "Misrepresenting Christianity" is more often done by actual Christians who are using the Bible to commit hate crimes than the people who have actually read the Bible and are just taking creative liberties with it for the sake of deconstructing / parodying / analyzing / subverting it. Veggie Tales "misrepresents" Christian stories because obviously Moses wasn't a fucking cucumber lmao but it still accomplishes its goal by retelling Christian stories in a way that's fun and educational for children.

By comparison (on the whole, I'm not comparing LO to Veggie Tales LMAO) LO just isn't clear in its intentions beyond Rachel's initial statements that she was trying to "deconstruct" the myths, while labelling herself as a folklorist. Therefore, I'm going to criticize how she does it because the way she's done it up until now has been very mishandled and has resulted in a lot of misinterpretations of the myths simply for the sake of fandom. And yes, these people exist in Christian media as well - they're called TV evangelists.

And that's my (very heavy) two cents.

[incognitopolls]

Mission trips are meant as a way to help others, yet historically religious missions are a form of colonization and violent cultural oppression—and can be still today! mission trips are a common part of the experience growing up christian. For current or past christians (who went on a mission trip as a child or worked as a missionary as an adult)…. do you or do you not regret the work you did as a missionary?

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[icarianlibrary]

"Cult!"

And it's literally me just reading my Book of Mormon and highlighting verses to send to my friends

[battleforgodstruth]

How to be Set Free to Serve Christ - Dr. Peter Hammond Sermon

How to be Set Free to Serve Christ – Dr. Peter Hammond Sermon ▶️Peter Hammond (Playlist): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzOwqed_gET0gc01jtmH4JczNykTY-kvH ▶️www.frontlinemissionsa.org Frontline Fellowship seeks to glorify God through: Evangelising in War Zones Assisting Persecuted Churches Working for Reformation and Revival in Africa Serving God in: Angola, Mozambique, Malawi,…

[cheerfullycatholic]

From Terrisalin on Instagram

"What about the unborn" ✨literal chills✨ I love this I love her I love how obvious God was working in this moment

[bruhstation]

you who I called brother, how could you have come to hate me so?

[tipsytogglebutton]

Oh hi. Hey. I’m fine. Rewatching Young Justice is affecting me a normal amount. It’s not emotionally destroying me seeing the look in Dick Grayson’s eyes when he sends his little brother on his first mission as head of a team. Definitely completely fine with Blue Beetle’s story arc of learning to trust himself and it’s not reawakening my religious trauma at all. I don’t project my issues with my parents and god onto Batman. What are you talking about. I’m fINE NIGHTWING’S COMPETENCY OBSESSION BECAUSE HE CAN’T TRUST ANYONE BUT HIMSELF WHILE MASKING HIS CYNICISM WITH HEARTFELT SINCERITY AND HUMOR ARE GIVING ME AVERAGE AND NORMAL AMOUNTS OF FEELINGS

[kaapstadmk]

Solarpunk Tumblr is a little piece of joy that restores hope and renews vision.

Like, I grew up in a city with a fragile ecosystem and small floral kingdom. I grew up in a country wherein the roots of Ubuntu run deep (faint, at times, but deep). I grew up a child of missionaries who taught me to exegete and, to some degree*, had been led and inspired by anti racists of their time (inner city Louisville in the 80s).

When I moved back to the US, the Christianity I saw was not what I had been taught. The ethos was consumerism, not consideration. The environment was exploited, not protected. I grew weary of being the radical, leftist, ecohippie at my Christian college, medical school, residency, and job. I've gotten quieter and quieter over the years about humanism, native endemic gardening, and even my faith.

Seeing the existence of solarpunk as a movement - and not a small movement - restores some of that optimism, where I had thought it dead. It's refreshing to know I'm not alone and, while many in the solarpunk movement might not be Christian, I find that it still meshes and fits with the faith I was initially taught, that our world and every thing and person in it is a beautiful creation, a masterpiece, and that it is our responsibility, our very first and most primal job, to shepherd and steward it, to maintain it and allow it to thrive, for itself, each other, and the one who I believe gave it to us.

(*and, granted, my parents, like most boomers, became colorblind, missed unconscious bias and systemic racism, and fixated on abortion, but, for the time I was in their house, they actively corrected overt racism and discussed the racist harms of US history)

[delawaredetroit]

A quirk this OP was wasted on a one note villain whose vibe was a cross between the Inquisition and plague doctor.

Seriously, the ability to force the confession of unconscious weaknesses would have been a fun quirk to have in play for later arcs.