#i know that if i were raised in the church

[nonexistentirl]

So... The Cape of the Sun is an item Cale got from Xiaolen. It belonged to the first god that came from Xiaolen. So, any guesses who that God may be? At this point, it could be any of them. Ones we know or ones we don't. Because so far we are only certain about the origins of two gods. God of Fire of Purification, who is the original owner of the Fire of Destruction ancient power, and the Sun God, who we know had bad blood with the Sage of Death and cursed the dark attribute species. The Sun God one is not explicitly stated but the hints given were enough. And the Fire of Purification one is obvious enough (though I wonder why then his church is in Xiaolen and not Nameless 1). So excluding those two, it really could have been any of the gods. The ruler of the first empire on Xiaolen, a single-lifer, later on a God. Do we know any Gods who may have been an Emperor in the past? I don't quite think it's an ancient god, but it's not entirely impossible since we don't know whether the worlds are older or the gods. I just don't think it would be the Sealed God, since his chapter is basically closed. And the cape is said to raise dignity. Which part of the Sealed God was dignified?

Incidentally, I would like to propose the theory that the God of War is the true owner of Dominating Aura. We now know that it wasn't Choi Jung Gun. I kept wondering why Cale never mentioned that the deep and dominating voice belonged to Choi Jung Gun even after meeting him in the Sealed God's Temple test. The owner of Dominating Aura was someone else. And he was related to God of Chaos somehow (?). That's all we seemed to know of him. Also, he must have existed before the times of Ancient White Star. Or he died because of that bastard. Since Choi Jung Gun got his power, he must have been dead and left his power behind. And incidentally, it's suspicious that we have yet to meet the God of War despite him having been mentioned all the way back in Part 1. We've met three ancient Gods already despite their first mention being in the side stories, but not the one God who was mentioned as chapter 170's of part 1. Why is he kept as such a mystery? The fact that both the orginal owner of Dominating Aura and the God of War seem to have connection to God of Chaos makes me suspicious. If I'm not misinterpreting things, the Dominating Aura seemed to not like God of Chaos. What if after becoming God of War he pretends to cooperate with him while plotting his demise? We'll have to wait for more canon hints but for now this is my theory that God of War is not an enemy.

[perotovar]

#don't think about how this is probably what joel looked like when sarah was born

[tousey-mousey]

To be clear, I'm about to disagree with this post, but I also do not want to trigger anyone including OP who may be working through some shit. Please do not read below the cut if that would upset you or if right now you're just working through some shit and need to express yourself.

The emotional timbre of your post is valid, even if I wanna disagree with some points. You are allowed to feel hurt, to feel ignored, or to feel isolated. You are allowed to feel pain. I hope that working through that brings you peace.

It is so fucking sinister that the only form of child abuse that society really cares about is sexual in nature.

So. I understand your point? But I simply do not agree. Society recognises an enormous number of things as child abuse that do not, at all, include sexual abuse. However, sexual abuse is unique because it can never FAIL to be abusive. There is no amount of sexualising or sexual contact with a child that can be seen as acceptable by the overwhelming majority of our society. This means that, unlike the other ways that society recognises children can be abused, nobody can raise even a shadow of a doubt that a parent having sexual contact with their child is not abusive. It is ALWAYS abusive.

On the other hand... restricting a child's choices of foods, for example, can be non-abusive. If a 10-year-old wants to drink wine with daddy, then that kid's dad is considered to be abusive if he DOES NOT restrict that choice.

Restricting clothing choices can be the less abusive of two option: if a boy wants to go to school wearing shorts and T-shirt and won't take no for an answer even though it's snowing outside, his parents would be considered neglectful for NOT restricting that choice.

A 9-year-old girl who wants to take up gymnastics needs to be carefully monitored, and both her parents and her coach could be considered neglectful or abusive for driving her too hard when it could and sometimes does permanently damage bone structure. Australia has recently had a massive scandal over the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) being alleged to have covered up cases of parents and coaches allowing children to make dangerous choices, or even encouraging or forcing children to make dangerous choices, regarding gymnastics. While sexual assault allegations are in there, the majority of the scandal is around parents and coaches who were physically and, importantly, emotionally abusing their children with respect to gymnastics at a young age, knowing that it would harm the children but allowing or encouraging it anyway. This is going to result in and has ALREADY resulted in criminal charges and even convictions for abuse. It is taken seriously.

Children can make bad choices in all sorts of ways. A parent is given wide latitude to control things like whether a child goes to a specific church in part because of organisations like the Jehovah's Witnesses, who a few years ago were sued for predatory conduct regarding children at a children's hospital here. They were banned from the hospital grounds or from being within line-of-sight of the hospital while preaching, and part of the issue was that they were predating children and using them to try to wedge their way into families at a young age during a time of strife and fear. Similarly, when a parent DOES go too far the other way, at least here in Australia the courts DO recognise that as abusive. Again using the Witnesses as an example, a Witness family took the government to court because a hospital wanted to force a blood transfusion on a 17-year-old boy with leukaemia and both he and the parents refused. The courts found that the boy had, essentially, been abused into his faith by his parents and that it wasn't a free and fair choice, so he was forced to get the transfusion until he turned 18 at which point he could make the call himself again - by which time, notably, he would be most likely cured. The family were found by the court to have been, basically, abusive, and their rights were removed as a result.

The problem is that kids are fucking idiots. That's by design: they're born knowing nothing and need to be taught everything. They have no understanding of how to make good choices and everything they are and have needs to be given to them over time. However, they do not learn it instantly: it is a process, and one that takes multiple decades to really get good at doing. Children are, therefore, going to attempt to make choices long before they are able to make GOOD choices, and so their carers NEED to be able to control those choices and deny them certain choices in order to keep them safe from themselves.

Kids will see a person claim to make caramel in the microwave by putting sugar and water in a bowl and leaving it on high for 15 minutes. This will, without a doubt, end badly. However, the child does not know that. They do not have the ABILITY to know that. Their parent NEEDS to be able to keep them safe from that.

However, in the process, they are restricting their child's free action, their child's food, their child's behaviours and movements, and may need to punish a child who repeatedly refuses to understand WHY they're being restricted and keeps trying to do it anyway. All those things that you see as abusive are, in this case, VITALLY important to keeping that kid alive and unburnt.

Unfortunately, the ways in which children can be incalculably stupid are similarly incalculable. As a result, parents need very wide latitude to control their children's behaviours and so the wiggle room needed to keep a kid safe is also enough to allow bad parents to abuse children. This does not mean abuse is "built into the system". It just means that there is no good system that can be designed that doesn't make abuse possible. It is not intentional and it is not "built in" - there's just no way to safely "build it out".

It is so fucking sinister that the only form of child abuse that society really cares about is sexual in nature. parents are free to control everything about their child's movement, presentation, eating, faith traditions, information exposure, socialization, and can restrict all of these things to an extreme degree as a form of punishment or in order to shape the child into whatever they want that child to be. and that's all considered completely normal, the parent's right! people don't even see the fact that a parent has the power to control so much about a child's life for damn near 20 years to be a problem. The only time they become concerned about child abuse is when the prospect of an outside stranger behaving in a sexual way toward a child is raised. and yeah a lot of really horrific sexual abuses are enacted unto children, but that's because they have zero control over their own lives and bodies in any other way as well. It is all about power and control. and typically the ones who are abusing children the most frequently are the ones who have the most control over them, the parents.

[zenaidamacrouras1]

Took my 7 and 9 year old to church for the first time because their grandma was playing the bells and they wanted to support her because she always goes to their cello concerts.

Last year we had a situation where their cousin was saying that Christmas was started when the Maccabees and the baby Jesus were stuck in a cave with a lamp that lasted seven nights and my kids were like yeah that makes sense you have that story totally right.

Also they often ask why so many churches have Ts all over them but I don't want to talk about crucifixion because it's gross and weird so I always say I dunno. They must like Ts?

So anyway we haven't been super diligent about the Christian thing. So before church I warned them they have to behave at church similar to how we behave at the ballet. That made sense to them.

Here are their takeaways:

Kid one. "I liked the cranberry sauce we put on the bread." Kid two: "maybe it was grape juice?" Kid one: "but it was a yummy magic potion, anyway."

They were interested in communion and drew a bunch of pictures of chalices with potions bubbling in them.

Kid two: "Yeah, i liked the tasty snacks"

Kid two: "i liked singing but I kept aaying that Cress word like Criss on accident." Me: "Do you mean Christ?" "Yeah, that one. Whatever it means."

What did you learn at church?

"that the curse of Jesus says we will neverrr die." (Spooky voice)

"I think jesus is supposed to be a blessing? Not an evil curse?"

Do you have any questions about church?

Kid 2: "if god isn't real how could Jesus be real? It doesn't really make sense."

Me: "how do you know god isn't real?"

7 year old Kid stares at me like I am the dumbest thing that ever existed. "How could god be real? God is just old stories. Which god even is it?"

[faaun]

we sang in the aeroplane over the sea tgth ☆

[aeonophagic]

me, the jester, asked the court if yaoi could bloom even on a battlefield. the court was so kind as to even help me care for the fields for it to sprout and then bloom — is it my fault?

bonus

[inkingthingsintotrees]

i feel it in my bones that kaos was written by an ex-christain

[gutsfics]

i think Simon is the kinda guy who doesnt cuss much. so like when he Does cuss it gets everyone's attention

[saturnisfallingdown]

interpreting coffee theory as the end all be all explanation for aziraphale's actions is so weird to me like have you ever tried to leave the church before? man it really is just Like That!!

[justthatspiffy]

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[critterofthenight]

i had such a fun dream, i didn't wanna wake up :c

[naughtyjewishgirl]

thinking about my ancestors who fled Inquisition Spain and hid their Jewishness for centuries and the ones who worked down the Welsh mines and the ones who threw bits of food at the tv when thatcher came on who fought tirelessly for a better world so that one day their great / great great great great great great etc granddaughter could make herself cum and then eat banana pancakes for dinner afterwards … Baruch Hashem

[gilsart]

your art of feliciano and lovino is gorgeous i adore the feral edge you gave them lol, and the little details - freckles, earrings, bandaids and dark undereyes are amazing as hints about how they live and their personalities. also since they're both wearing crosses im curious about how religious you think they both could be? I'm guessing it's something that would change over the years and could be a touchy subject if one is more religious than the other.

hi!! thank you first of all 🥺

i think both of them are religious, most people here are catholic. there certainly is a sprinkle of religious trauma here and there tho, we do have the vatican state after all... and even though it is a whole different nation from italy, with its laws and all, it still influences our politics (which really shouldn't happen).

i always thought of romano to be more religious than feliciano is, he probably does attend church every sunday, whereas feliciano doesn't – he keeps his faith more private. it is touchy, but i don't think they fight over it or even discuss it. with all the things that happened because of religion, i don't think they want to continue arguing over how many times you should pray a day and all.

[daenystheedreamer]

weird ask but whats the deal w brandon sanderson?

mormon 💀

[shekeepsmeworms]

Had some wine feeling good made a really shitty bowl in ceramics class this morning that I’m really worried has a bunch of air holes in it and had a really crappy therapy session where I didn’t talk too much but was honest about some other stuff which is good overall I guess but now I’m doing drunk crochet and watching the Duggar family documentary and probably going to stop watching soon once they start talking about the awful stuff but yeah day in the life of a woman doing her best I guess

[jaycewithawhy]

I has been 0 days since the last incident of batfandom antis being uncomfortably and conservatively Christian on main