#churches and money

[ausetkmt]

Danger, Do NOT Tithe- Is it Wrong to Tithe?

Just give him a moment and understand that HE IS SPEAKING TRUTH, to Devils, who collect their shekels in the name of their false prophets. Stop paying for rolls royces if you are riging in a honda.

[sofipitch]

So we were on vacation visiting some pretty Catholic church not for mass but just to see and there was a spot for vigil candles and at the time they were like 25 cents (they are like one or two dollars now, even prayers get hit by inflation I guess) and my mom paid for both me and my brother (~5 yrs old at the time) to light one. She explained that it's usually for someone who died or you feel needs a prayer. I lit one for a family member who passed, I didn't remember but my mom told me a lot about her and really loved her. My mom was tearing up a little in happiness that that person was on my little kid mind. And my brother, who was obsessed with the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie lit one for Willy Wonka

[rottengurlz]

she’s like if the virgin mary smoked a pack of pall malls every day 🚬

[see-arcane]

I thought I was reaching in Dracula that Jonathan got bitten by Dracula and that during his hospitalisation by the Hungarian nuns he got the "poison in the blood" as Mina calls it diluted by the holiness of the place. Because no one ever talks about that possibility. AND THEN IT HAPPENED. In Nosferatu 2024. I feel a sense of not being crazy! Someone else saw that possibility.

Everyone say thank you to Bobby Egg for not just reading the book but actually making use of really neat concepts Stoker left around for us to pick up

[sneepity-snoop-snorpity-sneep]

I gotta blabber for a sec about how much I appreciate how unique and SO not-simple of an antagonist Olrox is.

like he's introduced as the Vampire Who Kills Richter's Mom, and it was a straight-up murder. Like he fully sought her out, she was in the process of sending her kid overseas most likely because she knew he was coming - even before we fully get Olrox's side of the context, we can tell that shit was personal. Right down to the vivid green eyes, he's giving weirdly chill disney villain vibes. But the entire rest of the show? He's the dude in the bad guy car of the villain train just sitting and judging (OH is he judging) every other person there.

Olrox tracking down and killing Julia Belmont is the most confrontational we ever see him get. Every other scene he's in? He's watching, assessing, sometimes philosophizing, and eventually pulling his own chess moves, but fighting? Rarely! And the additional context of his character makes him even more fascinating!!

Olrox is really one of the only vampires in both Castlevania and C: Nocturne that seems to hold onto a connection to a human's life - even after he's no longer one. He reminisces to Mizrak about being a human during the fall of the Aztec Empire, he chooses to spend his time more like a human than any vamp since Lisa sent Dracula traveling like a human way back when.

Homeboy crossed the Atlantic by fucking ship, at a time when the trip took literal weeks and weeks and he can't even leave his quarters except at nighttime (granted, idk if he *has* a faster way to cross the ocean but it kinda seems like he'd do the ship trip anyways) he chooses to rent a room at an inn instead of staying at the chateau (and boink a cute human in said room, cough cough), and really seems to avoid other vampires - although I'm not sure if that's cuz he just doesn't vibe with 'em in general, or because he really doesn't vibe with the current hot vampire philosophy of the century, which seems to be very heavy-handled colonialism + elitism

I kinda wouldn't be surprised if it's both honestly - given that the only other vampire we meet besides him who spent time in the americas/new world was a literal plantation owning slaver (and unless I misremember, Annette says there were multiple vampires among the rich in St. Domingue), it seems pretty likely to me that whoever turned him was probably a vamp who had a direct hand in the downfall of his nation - coming to the New World specifically for conquest and to seize resources seems like it would be hella appealing for vampires. It would make a LOT of sense for Olrox's standoffish behavior around the other vamps to go back to him having been turned by someone very similar to them, who was probably not just an enemy to him, but part of this massive wave of destructive change in his human life.

like he really gives an impression of actively disliking and withdrawing from every other villain's motivation in this show - and it makes a lot of sense if my speculating is even a little bit close. The vampire's goals in Nocturne would be very nearly the same thing that drove the fall of the Aztec Empire - desire for power and control, justified by some """""natural order"""" hierarchy which really just boils down to 'we want all of this and we're going to indulge in making up a dramatic jerk-off reason why we're entitled to it, since you can't stop us taking it anyways and we've got time'

Dude seems to make little effort to be vampire-like - we rarely see him revel in his power like many other vampires do, as well as seeing him nonchalantly rubbing elbows with humans. He speaks fondly of a man he loved, who he fell for while said guy was still human, TO the other human he is currently crushing on! And I do mean crush, like he doesn't react to or treat Mizrak like a plaything, almost every time we get an Olrox lore-drop it's because he's talking to Mizrak sincerely about things that matter to him. He LIKE-likes this human, to the point of jumping directly into a fight to whisk Le Crush to safety in front of a vampire so powerful he won't directly oppose her! Absolutely fascinating behavior all around.

MAN but I want to see some flashbacks from this guy - as far as we know, vampirism is completely an Old World thing - Europe, Asia, Africa, every other vampire we've seen in both Castlevania shows has been from these continents. Were there even any vamps there at all before europeans landed on the shores of the americas???? I mean, I've heard of one of the old religions in mesoamerica having a suspiciously vampirelike god, but how would that connect to Olrox getting vampirized as a 30ish Aztec man?

MAN OH MAN but I am looking forward to seeing what Olrox gets up to in s2 -I'm burning to know if he's gonna survive the series or not, because despite him being the first villain we meet in Nocturne and doing a deed that usually gets villains the 'karmic death' ending, overall he's not really being written like a bad guy the audience wants to see go down. especially since he's not actually in opposition to our protagonists and has a vested interest in keeping one of Team Good Guys newer members alive. My guess is he's either going to get a similar ending to Isaac, a villain that we root for who actually catches a break and doesn't die, ooorrrrrrrr he's gonna get a Highly Tragic sort of death

[tonyloon]

Huxloween 2024 - Day 9 - Witch  @huxloween your promptlist really lit my creative spark again- I'm loosing sleep over sketching and writing fanfiction! Thank you so much! <3

[yandereine]

TFA shipping chart because no one asked.

I don't really have "notps" so much as ships I personally disagree with but can live if I see them. Very few pairings will actively make me nope and close but consensual shockblur is just not for me.

But one sided? GIM-

[puuuders]

I might draw the Jim aus beating each other to death because that was so fun :3

[mother-lee]

photos i took in woodstock, vt

[middle-earth-marauder]

May I offer you (yet another) WIP in these trying times? Listened to too many Oliver and Company songs on my way back from my externship site yesterday and got slapped with my new favorite AU so everyone gets to suffer with me while I make 1980s no-power street urchin redesigns lol

Everybody say hi to streetrat!Shadow lol

I’m posting this because the AU is in my head and I’m gonna scream if I don’t get it out I’ll have more finished character references later. In case you’re wondering, Shadow in this AU would fulfill a sort of Roscoe/Desoto role if we're going with Oliver & Co. roles, an enforcer for the antagonist but with a…. shall we say, complicated history with Sonic and crew. It's not as cut and dry as Oliver!AU that's just the OST that kicked it off in my head lol, I'll make a bigger post about it after my interview today

(Stay tuned for my piss poor attempt at dressing this man in the appropriate grunge core aesthetic later today

Also this AU is definitely Sonadow don't even worry, that brainrot ain't going nowhere lol)

[sadgirlfor3versblog]

Hideaway by Penelope douglas aesthetic

[dinosaurwithablog]

James Brown is the preacher in the Blues Brothers 💙 I would love to go to this church. They sing and dance like no other congregations that I've ever seen!! While in church, Jake sees the light and knows that he needs to get the band back together to raise the money necessary to give to the Penguin to keep the orphanage open.!! Hallelujah!! The band consists of some of the greatest blues musicians in the world. This movie helped those people in real life by bringing back their music and helping them to earn some money. John Belushi's love of the blues is what inspired this movie and the album they released and the skits on SNL. He helped bring the blues to the forefront of the music world once again. I love the music from this movie. Great stars like Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin appear in this star studded cast of musical greats!!

[dramoor]

"Much of the modern world sees beauty as a luxury (which it so rarely affords). I grieve deeply when I hear the modern sentiment directed towards a beautiful Church 'that money should have been given to the poor.' These are the words of Judas. And those who say such things rarely give anything themselves. Beauty is not a contradiction of generosity."

~Fr. Stephen Freeman

(Photo © dramoor 2014 Church of Our Savior on Spilled Blood, St. Petersburg, Russia)

[maddie-grove]

I wouldn’t really object to the anti-sewing sentiment in Catherine, Called Birdy, given that:

Karen Cushman is clearly doing something on purpose by making Catherine the medieval equivalent of a teenager who hates doing these bogus chores and just wants to go to the mall. It’s a book for kids and Catherine’s “ugh I’m so mature now why won’t Mom let me go to a public hanging” attitude is supposed to emphasize that people have always been people but also that the past was unimaginably different.

I get why a Silent Gen/Baby Boomer woman would represent part of the heroine’s struggle as “she has to do very gendered chores instead of going out and doing more active, rough-and-tumble activities.” I grew up in a post-Title IX world, where home ec was either not part of the curriculum or part of a gender-neutral “life skills” class. Cushman didn’t.

One of the themes of the novel is that Catherine (while certainly oppressed) is not uniquely unfree, because everyone is part of a rigidly hierarchical society. Catherine goes from thinking she has the rawest deal of anyone to realizing that other people have similar or worse struggles. Of course she initially thinks whatever she has to do is the worst.

It’s a childhood favorite (although probably not my top Cushman) and I like it.

However: every time she describes spinning as “foolish” (not boring or hard or unenjoyable), I do think “girl that is how you get CLOTHES.” It’s only slightly less essential than farming. This would be a little silly in a fantasy novel or Disney movie, but in a historical novel for children that’s meant to be educational about daily medieval life, it’s actually embarrassing.

[moregraceful]

i realize i started this day (12am) determined to spread trans joy but when given an opportunity to make myself mad about something meaningless that no one was arguing about, i will always take it. are you or are you not convinced luke kunin could eat pussy like it was the last meal on earth. get real

[renard-dartigue]

@ghxstly-death

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