#freedom of religion for all

[outletdesired]

I am tired of society accepting and allowing violence against Jews as appropriate. Pathetic! Where is the FBI ? Where is Joe Biden? Where are the democrats?

[mikeluciraphgabe]

Opened TikTok, saw the message, closed TikTok, opened TikTok again so I could react with people about, crumbled in realization that we are unable to group together anymore

[eugenedebs1920]

If this doesn’t make it clear the anti DEI, immigrant hate, white Christian nationalist agenda in this administration I don’t know what would…

To even suggest the prisoners in the concentration camps of WWII were treated humanely when over 6 million were slaughtered is more than absurd.

[guplia]

I've been wanting to get my mind off this for a while.

Sometimes I think how in apocalyptic movies most of them depict a normal world at the start. Usually the main character has a family, with children, a home to live in. And then they don't. And then I think of how their lives used to be just like mine, before it gets taken away by some aliens or an abnormal disaster that's about to ruin the world. And even though it's fiction, sometimes it scares me how they die horrific deaths that I can't bear to watch and I have to keep reminding myself that it's not real.

Except it is real. It's happening in Palestine. And people still think Israel has a right to exist.

I've seen videos of dead children and bodies flying so high out of an explosion and there's nothing to comfort me because it's real. Those were real, innocent people, and even though Israel has their hostages back and the ceasefire has happened those pigs are still bombing Gaza. The IDF are the aliens from all those movies, but so, so many people act casual about it.

Never forget the Palestinians. Never forget what happened to them.

[possiblyunhinged]

I can't explain it, but Laura Jane Grace upsetting the freedom-of-speech lot with a metaphor about God's dick... It just feels like we're back, baby. Laura Jane Grace has single-handedly restored equilibrium.

Nothing quite like a song about Christian hypocrisy being met with pearl-clutching outrage from the same 'Christians' who call human beings 'illegal aliens.'

The irony is strong with this one, lads.

[cat-the-cabra-preta]

Y'all, Christspiracy is available to watch for free!!! I've already watched it and it is AMAZING!!

[arctic-hands]

Do/did any other public high school have youngish men in white man-blouses and black ties that stood just feet away from the high school lawn in order to comply with freedom of religion laws who passed out little orange New Testaments + Psalms to students as we left school or is that just an Indiana thing

[envolvenuances]

maybe it's dating a former Jehovah's witness but I have a particular rage for christians who act like their faith is neither patriarchal nor missionary. catholicism can only pass as "harmless" today because it had to be striped of power by many different fights

[eugenedebs1920]

Wow! How does it feel to not be a part of the allies? To now be aligned with dictators and oppressive regimes? It feels pretty shameful over here as an American.

What maga has done to the United States is nothing more than treason and should be looked at as such.

When the United States of America sides with Russia as opposed to the sovereign (that means independent maga) country in which Russia invaded, a country where Putin committed war crimes against, it’s nothing less than pathetic.

maga is the party of Russia. They are the party of corruption. They are the party that stands against freedom and liberty. No more waving American flags around maga. The only flag you deserve to fly is the white blue and red of Putin’s Russia.

[13thpythagoras]

[autumn-larocque]

I met God at Flourish LA. I had an encounter with Him & His love that was so powerful & supernatural that I don't know if l'll ever be able to describe it completely accurately in words. Flourish LA was the preceding conference to Arise & Shine. It's coming up on April 18th & 19th (plus the 20th for @5fchurch Resurrection Sunday Service), and it has been prophecied that He is going to move even more powerfully at Arise & Shine. I can't even imagine what that entails based on what I received at Flourish LA last year, but l'm not going to miss it for the world.

Are you?

God doesn't see me any differently than He sees you. He wants you to encounter Him & know how much He LOVES you, He wants to heal & free you, and He wants you to have peace, joy, and abundant life, just as much as He wanted that for me.

Make it to this Divine Appointment He has made for you, have even a mustard seed sized faith, and receive from Him what will excede your wildest dreams.

I honor you @apostlekathrynkrick for your surrender to Jesus!

Shoutout to @revivalbornagain for making this edit!

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[ahollowgrave]

There was a post asking RPers with moon-worshipping characters how they handle the moon's revelation, especially with Endwalker. But! I am too shy to reblog that with my actual answers so instead I will post this two page rambling under a cut. (:

Okay, so I look at it through two lenses: 1) How much does your average citizen know about the big wide star and everything our beloved Warrior of Light gets up to in saving it all the time?

There are things in the real world I don’t know and things I am shocked to find out other people don’t know!

The history of the Star is vast and dense and no one can possibly know every crumb of it. 

2) Faith requires a sort of peace in knowing you don’t and won’t know certain things. If you have all the answers to all your questions, you don’t need faith.

The asking of questions is vital, here. If you are not curious about the world around you how can you possibly come to love it and those it shelters? If you believe for a second that you have all the answers to all the questions then your curiosity dies. 

That said with Odette and her convent it really boils down to:  They don’t know!

Odette is young, she may not have been alive during Dalamud’s fall and Bahamut’s defeat. I’m not really sure because time bubbles and I’m very vague with her age because time is my mortal enemy. When the moon started its fall the convent probably took it to mean: gods mad. Who wouldn’t? Even the faithless might pray under such a thing, no?  But the convent is secluded and news is slow to reach them and what does reach them is often embellished or outdated or just untrue. They must pick through the stories they are told and find the truth of the matter - which is subjective, as well! What is true for one might not be true for another. 

It is a bit of a chore, is what I am trying to say, and unreliable narrators are aplenty.

Currently, the Convent believes that earlier scripture naming Dalamud as Menphina’s Loyal Hound were written by Spoken who were trying to make sense of the world around them. They got it wrong, but no doubt there are things we get wrong even now with all our knowledge. 

The point of their faith is not to get things 100% right all the time but rather to meet the star and her denizens with hearts full of love. They don’t allow dogs at the convent, however.

The news out of EW is another matter since it still feels very fresh and new. Odette has stepped into the role of Nun Errant and she does relay information back to her Convent, either in person or via letter. I don’t know if the news of the WoL fighting the 12 made papers and so far it seems that most of the Loporrits that stayed star-side are in Old Sharlayan to learn! A big ship did go beyond the moon but that was… beyond the moon! So, like the nuns, I don’t know! They are but Spoken creatures, they question, yes, but it is difficult for them to see the grand picture being as small as they are.  It should be noted that Odette is not the warrior of light. I try very hard for her to not know everything the warrior of light gets up to in the MSQ because she, realistically, would not know. She’s just some nun! What I CAN say is that if Odette knew everything that I, the player, know she would still worship the Moon and Menphina. Imprisoning Zodiark before more needless death, setting the Loporrits to building a fallback and escape plan, reincarnating her closest and most trusted allies to serve as deities and make sure he cannot be freed? That’s love, baby. Of course, Menphina, the deity of Love, would be the keeper of the moon and its secrets! Also, almost none of this answered the secondary questions but… This is already very long but I could go on about the dark side of the moon, what it means to love, and all that but I’ll end it with this: It is okay for your characters to be wrong and make mistakes, IC! Let them have harmlessly bad and factually untrue opinions. 

BONUS: I recall a question about how a manmade moon might effect a god or goddess who is tied to it! But -- prayer and belief is were deities get their powers.

Well, the 12 as we know them are kind of ‘manmade’ themselves. Yes, Venat sort of reincarnated her most trusted allies, however… It was shown that prayers have the power to change them! We know that this altered Halone in some ways and I believe that it altered Menphina the same. Basically: Enough of her worshippers thought Dalamud was her ‘loyal hound’ and so she got a loyal hound. So, why should the moon(s) be any different?

[homely-ghost]

If I had a nickel for every time I made a made up fanfic in my head and got so attached that I wanted to make it its own story, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but fuck do I need to stop.

[disobedientbrowngirl]

Happy Navratri guys, let's honour our women and their unmatched, divine feminine strength for tolerating our beatings without ever getting tired🙏🏼

Sincerely, your Hindu men

[zelphafrost]

We live in a time when people are more concerned about telling people they don't even know how to live and what to do because self righteousness is more valuable to them than freedom.