#just xtian thoughts

[just-xtian-thoughts]

People always comparing some epic "tiny vs big" story as "David and Goliath" all the while overlooking how easy and free that battle was for David. Goliath may have been a chad and a unit, but David was the Saitama of the Bible at that moment. He was an absolute mustelid that had no doubts that he could and he would. Nowadays I suspect what people mean by their "David and Goliath" likenings is more like "white man vs the steppes of Chomolungma" than anything else. Put more "giants in my life" that I one-shot like Goliath, I need more easy wins...

[shalom-iamcominghome]

Me to people who are using "judeochristian" imprudently

[joelletwo]

trying to find a tkgn fic i barely remember the details of but whoaaaa no way really nice sorrowfulsweet sugi pov kid-to-adulthood........

[aropride]

ok well we know that jesus can emit pure light as he did when he was in his tomb + i assume the light is holiness or joy or purity (considering his spirit was in heaven but his body had died in sin) (considering his body was holy but his spirit was drowning in unquenchable fire).. thinking about the version of jesus i made up in my head who's way cooler and more transgender and i think he would emit sparks and a glowing electric light if you fucked him and i think it would inspire an unfathomably intense lust

[balteus]

christian esotericism is so cool too bad it's heresy 😔

[bastard-sweet]

The point of A Christmas Carol was not to teach morals by example; it was to teach morals directly. Ebenezer Scrooge was specifically made to be a reader insert. The lessons of A Xmas Carol can mostly be divided into 'you don't want to be this guy (he's suffering)' and 'you don't want to be this guy (he's evil, like ultimately, Biblically, very un-Xtian)', afforded by the third category of Basically Everything In The Book 'you don't want to be this guy anymore (he's deeply relatable to the upper-class Victorians the book is targeted at)'. The fact that he doesn't spend money on himself is not a sign that he needs to care for himself more; it's to show that he's so greedy to the point that it is useless, to show that valuing money this much is bad and senseless. The fact that he were to die if he didn't change for the better is an example of Cosmic punishment. Maybe the story does have a hint of teaching Scrooge to take care of himself, but that's only for the same reason that Scrooge is given a 'workaholic billionaire' backstory. The rich like(d) to see themselves as hard-working, and were the target audience, and Dickens didn't want to insult his target audience while trying to teach them basic human decency. So he also took the opportunity to slot that into the 'you don't want to be this guy (he's suffering)' method of teaching.

[abigail-pent]

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[thriftdyke]

do you think jesus died and came back wrong

[lunar-fey]

YES WIN THEY ALREADY FOUND SOMEONE TO TAKE THAT OLD LADYS SHIFTS FROM ME I DONT HAVE TO GO THERE TODAY YAHOO

[llycaons]

skip 'hello from the magic tavern' ep20 if you're listening, btw. the guest makes a joke of being antisemitic. like I don’t think it's meant to reflect her actual views but her fantasty character is antisemitic and it's treated as a joke

[just-xtian-thoughts]

Excessevily morbid take but our theology considering Satan as already being ruler earth (before Jesus returns) gives me this a funny image of earth being like this stereotypical suburban house where God occasionaly hurls rocks at it...

[shalom-iamcominghome]

This isn't, like, the biggest deal, but I do find it funny when people are almost... surprised or shocked that converts unironically believe in judaism and also unironically align themselves with jewishness. It's just something I've seen a small handful of times and it's like... of course I (and others!) unironically believe in this stuff. I'm not putting in this work because I don't have enough going on in my life

[cruelsister-moved2]

i mean whats not clicking

[lolcatsdeamon13]

Just got really excited about the idea of instead of the "melting pot" where everyone comes together to form a basically homogeneous but delicious dish, having the idea of the stew. If you just have meat in your stew or just carrots or just potatoes, it won't be a very good stew, but when you put them together on a good simmer it makes a delicious dish. The main difference from the melting pot, however, is that while the whole dish infuses with my carrot's taste, I am still a carrot. I am made better by learning the culture of the potato, but the potato is still a wonderful potato. My tastes are important in this stew, but I won't be forced to convert into a piece of beef. The importance should not be set on becoming a homogenous yummy middle, but embracing the deliciousness of each piece, picking up flavors from each other by learning from each other, and becoming a better whole because of it.

[writer-at-the-table]

There's a preoccupation in (culturally) xtian pop culture about the possibility of people secretly continuing non/pre-xtian pagan/"old ways" religious practices that's always seemed a little weird to me.

I don't just mean the folk horror genre, either, though that's a big example. It shows up as a trope in other genres of story in xtian hegemonic cultures, as well.

Heck, it comes up so often on Midsomer Murders that it's practically it's own genre of episode. That's what sparked this post, in fact.

It'm starting to think it reflects some deep insecurity in xtian cultures rooted in the coercive nature of xtianity's spread.

Something to do with the difficulty of reconciling that history with, if not necessarily active faith, then at least a self-image of the modern xtian hegemonic cultures in which the writers, directors, ect who put these tropes in their work (and the audiences who read them) were born, raised, and live their lives.

Also something to do with that history and the fact that the genuineness of any coerced conversion is always inherently suspect.

Not sure where I'm going with this, if anywhere, but I am having thoughts.

[redrook]

thinking about the time I was 5 and a teacher explained what Heaven was to me for the first time (all the best people are there, recess is forever, and I could eat as much chocolate as I wanted) and I'm like ma'am sign me the FUCK up (roughly speaking) and then she had me pray to Jesus to ask to become Xtian

And I was SO absolutely excited, because I thought I'd get immediately beamed up into Heaven, Star Trek style. Everyone else in my class may have been excited about recess coming up, but they were SUCKERS because I was about to get FOREVER recess, and INFINITE chocolate

And I'm like man what's wrong with people that everyone doesn't do this. And my teacher was like you are so smart and that's so true and I'm like yeah I AM so smart and that IS so true

cut to around an hour later, and I'm now angry, confused, and hurt, that Jesus was taking so long to beam me up to Heaven and I was expected to go to REGULAR, FINITE, TEMPORARY recess. A little delay, I could understand. The man was probably very busy. But once it got to a whole hour, that was just unreasonable.

So I go and ask the teacher what went wrong, and why Jesus was dragging his feet on this whole taking me to Heaven thing, and she was like oh. I'm sorry. You only go to Heaven when you're dead.

And I asked her something along the lines of, so the only people who know about Heaven are dead people. and we can't talk to dead people

And she uncomfortably said, Yes.

And I just scowled at her and walked away.

She never tried to talk to me about Jesus or Heaven ever again, but I hope the next time she wanted to convert a five year old, she thought about me scowling up at her in my thick rimmed glasses asking what exactly the holdup was for the Good Lord to just fucking kill me already lmao