#fuck church

[diabolicphallus666]

[churrothezanyrabbit]

nother vent post.

[thepresidentstolemyfuckingsafe]

Was a camp counselor (unpaid babysitter) at a very white, religious summer camp last month. I'm not religious anymore, but my younger, also gay friends were going for the first time (they're agnostic and not out to their religious families yet) and there were speedboats, which I love.

I live in a less than diverse area, and the LDS church was hosting the camp, so I'm sure you can imagine just how white the crowd was. Not a single POC in sight out of like 80 people. I bring this up because one of the eleven year olds I was in charge of proudly talked about how her nickname was "cracker" which prompted the other youth leaders my age to freak out. Someone from my town who I see weekly was like "oh no, I hope she's not getting bullied at school, it sounds like there's black kids that have been calling her slurs :(("

And of course I can't tell this sheltered Mormon to grow the fuck up (even if I'm openly an atheist, I've got a nice, caring girl reputation to uphold) so I just had to settle for telling her that the kid probably gave herself that nickname, and every kid goes through a phase were they try to convince other people to call them by their favorite food, but wanting to make it look like someone else nicknamed them. I really wanted to be chicken nugget for a month when I was ten, and I was super upset when it didn't catch on.

Anyway, the other glorified babysitter was like "what? I don't know any kids who did that. Anyway that poor girl, she doesn't even know they're being mean to her :(((("

Guess which sheltered teens discovered through trying to subtly question the girl that her favorite food was in fact crackers, and that no one actually called her that unless she asked them to.

[amayastuff]

my brother and i were in a foregin country once, it was a rather catholic place

we were touring the old city and as usual there were many churches

now me and brother are rather atheistic, bordering on hatefull of that particular religion due to our upbringing sooo

everytime we were supposed to go near a church we would act like we cought on fire and were in agony due to holly grounds

people all around watched us, it was super funny

our parents were not amused tho

(i dont have anything against that faith, just people that use it for them selves, like priests to get money (near my house at least two of them pretended to rais money for the church and then fled the country all togheter), so i really dont like them, also the pedofilia is awfull and unfortunetly happens a lot there too (it did also happen in my town wtf))

[zillychu]

everyone sh. shutd up im cooking smthn

[eeriemilyworlds]

yet another therapy session with a poem

[artistic-scribbles]

bitches love my reckless swag

[anyfire]

interview with the vampire, season 1 episode 1: "in throes of increasing wonder" / anne rice, "queen of the damned: part I, chapter 2 - the short happy life of baby jenks and the fang gang"

[diabolicphallus666]

"These days the mass media is filled with the so-called 'Satanic" groups proclaiming Satan as a man-made construct. The ideas that they spew forth are declared as 'Real' and Modern.

They embrace the Atheistic Delusion that arises from Disillusionment and Agnostic Trends. This is why we completely reject Modern Popular 'Satanic' organizations fraudulent and exploitative. But all who know of Satan - know of His reality. His existence was before and will continue eternally - when mankind ceases to exist.

Satan provides the function and necessity of Chaos. Satan is the Lord of Strength and Force, the epitome of everything harsh, terrifying and strange in nature. Satan is the Slayer, Adversary and Destroyer of the False God within each of us and without.

He is more real than we are real. His nature has been observed by man for thousands of years and His reality is found in each and every culture or religion. We did not create Satan - Satan has always been there."

- Valentin Scavr, Res Satanae

[churrothezanyrabbit]

should i give this to my parents

[mashmouths]

does anyone know how to stop the body from keeping score? i have shit to do

[loveesiren]

[diabolicphallus666]

Slaughter and destroy the opposition!

Burn down churches, temples, monasteries, and mosques!

Defile and defecate upon all that the xristian scum find holy!

Let the uprising be known everywhere, even bus stops, get the message across that we will not fall easily or ever. In SATAN we stand strong, together we fight for trans freedom against the tyrants.

Death to the republican system. ☠️

[DO NOT REPOST]

Your local LGBTQ+ historian here with a TIMELY FACT: In May of 1933, the first books burned by the N@z! Party were looted from the library of The Institute for Sexual Science (ISS) in Berlin. This research facility was the world’s first sexology clinic. Founded by Magnus Hirschfeld, it promoted sex education, offered STI treatment, chronicled queer history and provided early forms of gender affirming medical care. The queer and trans community was among the first scapegoats of Germany’s fac!st regime.

History does, indeed, repeat itself.

Therein lies horror. And therein lies hope.

Because time and time again, the same old forces have tried to erase us and they always fail. Time and time again, their acts of hate inspire our acts of rebellion that push progress forward in response to their one, brutal step back. It shouldn’t have to be this way. But with every turn of the wheel, we thrive. If the study of history has taught me anything, it is that queer joy is as inevitable as spring.

FIGHT FOR US.

The 19th century painting featured is “Joan of Arc” by John Gilbert

[deservedgrace]

The other thing about discussing harmful things about the christian church and getting "that's not what that verse really means/that's not how that doctrine should be applied/that's not actually supported biblically/etc" back is that... at a certain point it doesn't matter. Yes there are varying beliefs within christianity (understatement with 45,000 different denominations lmao), but you don't get to claim that christianity is separate from any harmful beliefs when a lot of harmful beliefs are the majority.

You can say "the bible wasn't ever talking about gay relationships in [xyz] verses" but that doesn't make the average church actually safe and affirming for queer people. You can say "actually hell doesn't have any biblical backing" but that doesn't mean very much when like 75-80% of christians believe in hell. You can say "men and women are equal in the eyes of the Lord" but it doesn't erase the rampant misogyny in christian culture.

If the members make up the church, if members are the church, then at a certain point the cultural beliefs or majority beliefs have precedence over what was intended. You can't say "oh just ignore [belief/doctrine/interpretation/etc]" when that would be dismissing the church's most predominant collective beliefs. You don't get to just disregard harm because that "wasn't the intention". You don't get to look at the result of said harm and decide it doesn't matter because it makes you look bad.

[daynascullys]

how to say "I love you" in x-files [86/?] ⤷ 1.04 — “Conduit”

Mulder, I know what you're thinking. I know why this is so important to you.

[farfetchdquest]

just had a lesbian experience in a church parking lot???