#if it wasnt for Christians

[cupcakegalaxia]

People want all the benefits of Christianity without all the repenting of sin, putting it to death and trusting in Christ part.

[whilomm]

oh okay heres one:

"sleepaway camp"= you go there for at least a few days, a week, sometimes several weeks, and sleep there, as opposed to a """camp""" where you go for the day and your parents or whoever picks you up afterward (those arent really camps, but like. idk when i went to "space camp" it was a weeklong but not sleepaway). in the U.S. at least, the typical image of a sleepaway camp involves staying in cabins, dunno how common it is/what it looks like in other countries.

for the first few i just mean like. not necessarily a stealth church camp, just like. idk, a camp where theres also an Assumption Of Christianity and just general vibes without being actually church camp. So, there might not be daily services and jesusy dedicatwd activities, but maybe theres still a prayer said over meals and shit. Which i assume might exist...

(oh and @reblogforsamplesize if u wanna)

[natjennie]

getting some responses on my post about kristen and her parents conversation, specifically the "isn't it kinda funny that helio chose you and you were the one to bring the daytime back" and I think it's really interesting how different people responded to it like. maybe it's because I live in the southern united states but. there is a lot of religion, specifically christianity, as that is the obvious analogue to the helioic faith, that is downright evil, I agree. and obviously the prevalence of it is harmful to a lot a lot a lot of people, just as it's harmful to kristen in fiction.

but you have to understand that the individual people are deluded, they genuinely believe what they're doing is right. it's really easy to be like "ugh they sicken me it makes me so mad" in a theoretical sense but. do you have drive through workers wishing you a blessed day. do you have people see your kt tape and offer to pray for your pain to go away. like. idk I just think we have to have a little bit of compassion and understanding for people that are so entrenched in their faith that they do truly believe from the bottom of their heart that what they're preaching is true. especially in a world where divine magic is real!! kristen TALKED to helio. she makes literal miracles happen on the daily. so faith in that world is gonna be heightened to a crazy degree.

obviously I condemn their human-supremacy and their cult practices etc etc etc but in that little moment I felt for the applebees. it didn't make me mad or disgusted or annoyed. it made me sad. because they saw their daughter perform a miracle of the sun and it meant nothing to her. that "that doesn't feel special at all to you?" wasn't from a place of arrogance. they weren't lauding it over kristen. they were pleading. begging her to see it from their eyes: she is the chosen one. she is a prophet of helio and has been doubting and they want what's best for her. she's their savior. she brought the sun back from the endless night. that doesn't feel special at all to you?

[valtsv]

bro there are tons of religious traditions that came up with a concept of heaven without any concept of hell?

i know, my post was specifically about the christian concepts of heaven and hell, because those are what i grew up with. which is why i used a quote from christian literature as an example. i had no intention of making any generalised statements about religion and common concepts that feature across different religions as a whole, so i'm really sorry if it came across that way and i said something offensively ignorant. i'd be happy to correct my mistake and learn from it if that's the case.

[jadenatorr]

hello to the 5 people currently in the something rotten fandom

[wastelandslug]

saw someone refer to Noah as "from Christianity" the other day and I died a little bit inside

[stenclastiel]

If they greenlight Teen Wolf the Movie 2, it should be Stiles, Kira and Theo going on a road trip in with Eli to help bring back Derek.

Like imagine all four of them in that jeep.

And Stiles is an FBI agent, Kira mastered her powers, and Theo is a doctor or something

[orcelito]

I know trigun is the Religious Symbolism Anime but smth u must understand is that i love it in the most sacrilegious way possible. Yes religious themes r cool to study etc etc etc but I'm over here rocking out to the objective sacrilegion that is having our Jesus figure be a hyperactive punk that loves donuts and is also not so subtly also an angel & his slutty priest boyfriend who is also an assassin and has a giant cross machine gun and Also constantly has his tits out. Also they're trans.

Like. This is not a Christian anime to Me, even with the symbolism and themes lol

[moon1ee]

open youtube. search up "grian limited life episode 7: the last boy". hit play and watch the full episode. i guarantee you will be happy and normal after. you've got to trust me *vomiting blood*

[haemosexuality]

when people say Phillip and Caleb are like Cain and Abel they usually mean that phillip=cain and caleb=abel. Since yk cain was the one that killed abel. But phillip and caleb's story to me is like what would it be if Abel had killed Cain. If Abel had gotten tired of his older brother, his keeper, disrespecting God. if Abel, ever devoted, was driven to murder. If he spent hundreds of years regreting it. Trying again and again to revive his brother, but Cain was always too good, too sinful, and abel had to kill him again and again until he found a version that wouldn't sin. Abel smelled of blood, and Cain carved wood.

[columboposting]

Torchwood expanded universe content is wild because it’s like. Ok here’s an audiobook from 2009 where Jack Harkness goes to super hell. Yeah like Castiel. Yeah an Anglican thought he had too much charisma and banished him there. Yeah the black goop consumed his body and everything. No i’m not joking

[danthropologie]

Christian Horner about Daniel Ricciardo's return to F1 | ESPN F1 Unlapped, August 3, 2023

[randaccidents]

Twenty-seven songs are yours Yet you still want for more?

I made some lyric posters for CCCC! (cause I was bored in class lol) They came out a lot like actual posters and Im honestly quite proud of them.

[I have not tested them as phone wallpapers yet BUT feel free to use these as phone wallpapers! Otherwise ask permission (shovel)]

Tiny things Im happy about (cause I wanna yell about stuff, itll go into the read more but theres Easter Eggs in there about stuff that literally writes itself but I couldnt fit in and hints to some of the deeper symbolism I used):

I started this because I wanted to make something really skeletal and visceral for Heart and Mind and it just went from there

Yes that is the Entire Reason why I used realistic body elements I had to separately import that heart in

Each of them has an element represents them - its the only element that is in front of the lyrics

Speaking of, Whole is special in their represented element (hint: Whole is only a medium for songs)

Having to make up something for Soul and Whole thats, yknow, a body part (or not in the end for Whole)

The lyrics in each poster is something that the character has said about themselves, said in reference to themselves in the songs or represents a view that they hold (mostly)

Speaking of I believe I represented almost every song/motif possible? I know I skipped Taken for a Ride - I think thats the only song not represented in at least one poster actually. huh. It is in the post though (I did that before I realised I didnt include Taken for a Ride)

Does this make the posters album posters instead lmao

The lyrics are also in order of song appearance!

The names of some of the fonts I went through are: Give you Glory for Soul, and Kollektiff for Whole. If the fonts weren't too small I wouldve kept them qwq the joke literally writes itself

Speaking of fonts, Souls final font is literally empty, zoom in and youll see that its made of only lines and no fill

The electric and acoustic guitar are flipped in the Whole poster. Thats cause uhhhh I planned it I dont have to make amends hahaha (I done fucked up thats why and Im lazy to fix it now)

Ironically, Heart and Mind were the easiest posters

Soul was meant to have a grey background but it was so fugly I just couldnt let it sit

Whole was a last minute addition, there were only supposed to be three in this series

I started Whole's poster expecting to lack lyrics. I have been proven VERY WRONG he has the smallest font size (and I thought Soul had a lot)

Whole is also the only one with coloured lyrics; HMS have their lyrics in black/white/grey

Mind has the least lyrics about himself (cause he spends so much of his songs dissing Heart lmao)

Canva doesnt have noose images :( /j/j/j

I absolutely forgot some of the tiny things but Im just happy about it and want to dump it out :) Maybe someone else would appreciate it too

[deoidesign]

if adam and steve were muppets who would they be

muppets, presumably

[bananonbinary]

Wait when did you defend simulated child porn?

they're talking about the fact that i am pro- any type of fiction existing. i think that there's many reasons you could want to write about a topic, and any given work could be handled well or poorly. if someone wants to write about something very taboo and fucked up, something that would be obviously harmful and bad in reality, i would judge that work on its own merits instead of assuming its just evilbad because it contains the Bad Thing. (also like...even if it is actually handled poorly....i dont really care that much. there's a lot of bad fiction out there that is just so shitty and offensive. i trust people to read it and go "wow that was really shitty and offensive not gonna read that again." orrrrrr i'll make a rant about why it sucks on tumblr dot net and call it a day lol)

also like. i think fiction about child sexual assault probably would HELP the conversation in the long run, because i hate the concept of "taboo topics." we need to be able to have frank discussions about this crime, the harm it causes, the forms it takes, and harm-reduction, and we can't do that if every fictional thought exercise immediately gets you branded a predator.

[skitskatdacat63]

I'm looking at 2005 rn for a project I'm working on but omg why is Christian Klien kinda????????

I guess Red Bull's always had a habit of signing German speaking twinks...