#former church

[scotianostra]

The Tron Kirk today.

Good to see the Tron open again, I advise visitors to Edinburgh to try and buy souvenirs from the likes of places like this, rather than the tartan tat shops that dominate the Royal Mile.

I must also calm down on the amount of photies am taking as I am having difficulty posting them all!

The Tron Kirk is one of the iconic buildings of the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. Built in the 17th century, it stands tall with a mix of Palladian and Gothic elements.

In 2003 the Tron was placed on the Buildings at Risk Register and has since cycled through various uses, most recently being leased by Edinburgh World Heritage Trust. It has now been taken on by Scottish Historic Buildings Trust to develop a feasibility study for its future restoration.

As seen among my pics the Kirk features a fine hammerbeam roof of an unusual latticed truss construction.

I think the main problem before was getting someone to commit to taking on the Tron and restoring it, which, from what I understand would mean repairing the roof in full, the cost will be in the millions, now that charity organisations like the SHBT are involved perhaps lottery money etc will become available.

[starrysharks]

a buncha weirdos draw themselves

[growingupmormon]

My sister: it’s so weird that Mormons can just spot another Mormon out in the wild even those who’ve left. Like in high school we got clocked as Mormon and we could tell who was too.

It’s essentially social isolation, you mirror the behaviors of those around you growing up, if everyone around you isolates themselves from the outside world then you’re all gonna start to be a little weird to the outside world making it harder to leave, it’s subtle mannerisms we learned for sure

It’s that and Mormon Face!

[wonder-worker]

I've been thinking about the tragedy of Elizabeth Woodville living to see the end of her family name.

I don't mean her family with her husband, which lived on through her daughter and grandson. I mean her own.

Her sisters died, one by one, many of them after 1485. When Elizabeth died, only Katherine was left, and she would die before the turn of the century as well.

All her brothers died, too. Lewis died in childhood. John was executed. Anthony was murdered. Lionel died suddenly in the peak of Richard's reign, unable to see his niece become queen. Edward perished at war. Richard died in grieving peace. For all the violence and judgement the family endured, it was "an accident of biology" that ended their line: none of the brothers left heirs, and the Woodville name was extinguished. We know the family was aware of this. We know they mourned it, too:

“Buy a bell to be a tenor at Grafton to the bells now there, for a remembrance of the last of my blood.”

Elizabeth lived through the deposition and death of her young sons, and lived to see the end of her own family name. It must have been such a haunting loss, on both sides.

[coppertophomegurl]

Having a lot of thoughts this m*thers day.

I HATE the way the mormon church automatically assigns m*therhood to all girls/women/afabs.

M*ther's Day at church always looked like making ALL the girls and women 12 and older (literal children) stand up while a member of the bishopric/branch presidency placated them with meaningless missives of gratitude and about how being a m*m is the most divine role a woman can hold (🤮🤢) while the young men passed out a cheap little gift to every single women standing.

I thought this tradition wouldn't exist in the singles ward. I was wrong. Same shit again. It was around then (18/19) I realized how gross this felt to me.

I don't want to be a m*ther. EVER. But I didn't even realize I had the choice to opt out of parenthood until I was a full blown adult (fortunately before I had any children) I was literally groomed for m*therhood by the church.

Young women's lessons and activities spent planning out children's names, making baby quilts for our future children (ma'am I am 12 years old. I AM children.) And learning parenting tips and how to be a good stay at home wife/m*ther.

I have such a difficult relationship with m*therhood and the mormon church is the cause for a LOT of it. I've been out of the church for many years now and I am still unpacking and unlearning.

But, damn this time of the year is hard for me.

[corvidfeathers]

in vampire the masquerade the Catholic Church somehow is big enough to both be puppeted by the lasombra vampires and ALSO fund a centuries-old vampire hunting organization. some poor sucker definitely balances budgets that include both charges for mysterious vampire business and the society of leopold’s yearly supply of stakes and holy water

[theoppositeofprofound]

[demon4dilfs]

in the club saving pics to my Geoffrey Rush Pinterest board

[beauty-grace-outer-space]

PSA that all of your ex-vangelical friends are triggered as *fuck* right now.

[apostate-in-an-alcove]

The anti-Catholicism on this site is so insane because blogs will on here will act like agreeing with Catholics on LITERALLY ANYTHING makes you evil and morally reprehensible meanwhile there's certainly individual Catholics, Catholic groups and certain church teachings that arguably would find common ground with a lot of secular liberal or leftist people. I'm critical of the Catholic Church as much as the next person but you people need to stop acting like the Church is a homogeneous monolith of pure evil and mayhem, you're making yourself look stupid and foolish.

[bingsucks]

I had a dream where they got the people who wrote/directed the big bang theory to write/direct the community movie. Sorry I mean nightmare

[kemetic-dreams]

Washington, D.C., circa 1916. "Slaves reunion." Lewis Martin, age 100; Martha Elizabeth Banks, age 104; Amy Ware, age 103; Rev. Simon P. Drew, born free." Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, 921 N Street N.W.

[stormlit]

i think sofie does believe in the maker and the sort of general basis of andrastianism, but she just...does not believe in the chantry, and so faith is a really complicated thing for her, especially in terms of any kind of practice of it. she has a lot of religious trauma from her treatment at the hands of templars representing the chantry in kirkwall's circle, and it has really coloured her view of anything related to the chantry. the templars in particular have her ire and she will never forgive any of them (even imperial templars, honestly, though they have historically had less power than the southern ones), but she also mistrusts the divine, the seekers, the inquisition because of their association with the chantry and what she views as its corruption and oppression. she has fought against circles and the templar order since she was about 14.

she would like to find a form of religion that feels comfortable to her. the chantry as an institution isn't it.

[growingupmormon]

When someone finds out I was raised Mormon and their response is an excited

“omg, can I ask you some questions?!”

Special interest info dump imminent

[the-almighty-god]

*knocks at your door*

Hello? Almighty God?

*grabs bag, tries to grab something*

It's must be here somewhere...

*finally grabs searched item*

Ah! There it is!

Okay, now to why I'm here. I found this and thought I should take it to the authorities, which would be you...

Thank you for the whale, @creative-soul-22

You realize you just brought a religious pamphlet to the door of God. I think that's a first.

[sigmadecay]

I’m thinking about that stupid post about burying statues of St Joseph to sell a house, not bc the post itself is stupid but bc there’s all flavors of self righteous Protestant in the comments that piss me off soooo bad

Cause first off you have like, Protestants, saying in complete seriousness that Catholics are committing heresy (PLEASE I beg of you get a fucking grip)

& then you have like, the “former-Christian” “kitchen witch” Wicca crowd, who somehow manage to be even more condescending than the other Protestants & go “silly Catholics don’t even know they’re practicing witchcraft 🤭”

& I hate that post bc I LOATHE when things make me want to stick up for the Catholic Church. But like you’re wrooooong. The worship of the saints as “minor gods” for lack of a better term, as opposed to intercessory figures, is called “folk piety”, it is a thing, it is not witchcraft, and it is frowned upon by the Vatican. The pope is frequently like “you’re on thin ice with this shit” lmfao. Like this is not a tenet of the Catholic faith. I feel like that’s important. It depends a lot on your background, your culture, etc. idk it annoys the fuck out of me