#leftist christian

[writergracethepanda]

Far-right Christians really do the Bible a disservice by treating it as a book God dictated and had wrote down for him. It's a living document, ever evolving just as Christianity has. It's an imperfect work written by imperfect people talking about the perfect God within the context of their time and culture. I really want to make a project out of rereading my Bible and reading it that way.

[charonsferry]

The American evangelical movement is such a Thing because despite placing so much emphasis on the apocalyptic stuff, the way apocalyptic Bible stories describe false prophets is ridiculously accurate to megachurches and shit. Satan moves through the folding chairs, makes people believe in sending their gay kids to Hell more than even the concept of Heaven

[areweforgivenyet]

Looking for Christian mutuals! I'm trying to reconnect to my faith and find out what it means to me personally. All denominations are welcome so long as you remember to love and respect thy neighbor! God loves all His children 🫶 we are all created in his image and we're beautiful!

[thereconstructinggirl]

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Hey y'all I'm Madeline (she/her). I've created this blog as a way to document my reconstruction journey. I hope that as I write and think that someone who also believed they had to leave because either they are queer or questioning or lost someone dear to them can resonate with my story.

This is a side blog, and I will follow from an old main account called linniewritesficz.

While I often contemplate going to seminary, I only have a minor in Religious Studies. I do not claim to be an expert or a clergy person and will not operate as such.

I believe in therapy, but I am not a therapist. I will attempt to offer advice when I see fit but please always seek out a professional.

I am about to begin the process of getting confirmed in the Episcopal church! While the trauma I experienced in my teenage years is still there, I haven't felt true acceptance like the kind I feel in my local church. I'm really excited to join it.

I am also a practitioner/mystic/witch and am learning how to syncretize that practice into my re-emerging faith. I'm reading a lot about St. Hildegard at the moment.

I am queer. It is a big part of my identity. This is a pro queer pro trans blog, and I will not tolerate any form of homophobia or transphobia.

This is also a pro choice, pro palestine, pro BIPOC, leftist blog. I believe in healthy discourse and respectful discussion, however zionism, islamaphobia, anti semitism, racism, or any hatred/discrimination for people who are historically marginalized will not be tolerated.

I'm so excited to engage on this journey and document it in a way that makes sense for me. I hope to connect with like-minded people and find the community I needed a long time ago.

[freeandclear3567]

I don’t usually do this but I want to start a thread where we all pile on this anonymous* comment I found on IG! It is so dang wrong and I’d love to see a big reblog chain disputing it!

*screenshot with name cut off

So to this moron all homeless people must be idiots who don’t know how to spend money on practical items! What a joke!

[queerorthodoxy]

In my opinion, there is only so far the tradwives and Ortho bros can go, the true future of Orthodoxy is with men like Archbishop Elpidophoros and with acceptance instead of hate

[queerwordofgod]

my mantra for the last few days has been, “Lord, carry me through”. full prayer is a struggle, but i think this is enough. Lord, carry me through.

[joanofarcs-stigmata]

Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mystical Rose, Water of the Desert, we ask that you pray for your children to God the Father, that He will protect all migrants.

Ask the Father to pour out the love of the Holy Spirit upon all who are isolated, alone, and separated by choice or necessity from their native lands.

May those torn away from their families and forced to leave their country to find work elsewhere be reunited: spouse with spouse and guardian with child.

We especially ask for the intercession of your immaculate heart for migrant women and children, who are particularly vulnerable to the dangers of human trafficking. Please give them your protection and shield them from evil.

May the Church receive the grace to welcome with love migrants who enter past any boundary, seeking a home in our parishes and communities.

We ask for your prayers and intercession for all immigrants, especially those who are desperate, alone, and in need of God's loving support.

We beg for your love, compassion, help, and protection for all immigrants who today experience great sufferings, sorrows, necessities, and misfortunes. Cover them with your mantel, oh Virgin of Guadalupe, as we remember your words to Saint Juan Diego:

“Listen, put it into your heart, my youngest and dearest son, that the thing that frightens you, the thing that afflicts you, is nothing: do not let it disturb you…Am I not here, I who am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Am I not the source of your joy? Are you not in the hollow of my mantle, in the crossing of my arms? Do you need something more? Let nothing else worry you or disturb you.”

[omnistpilgrim]

New Testament Bible Verses about Greed, Wealth & Social Justice

Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you. Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last days. Listen! The wages of the labourers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and pleasure; you have fattened your hearts on a day of slaughter. -James 5:1-5

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. -Matthew 5:3

Give to everyone who begs from you, and do not refuse anyone who wants to borrow from you. -Matthew 5:42

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth -Matthew 6:19

You cannot serve God and wealth. -Matthew 6:24

If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor -Matthew 19:21

It will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God. -Matthew 19:23

Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me. ...Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me. -Matthew 15:35,36,40

Then they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold doves; and he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. He was teaching and saying, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a den of robbers." -Mark 11:15-17

Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and to be greeted with respect in the market-places, and to have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honour at banquets! They devour widows' homes and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation. -Mark 12:38

He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts. He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly; he has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty. -Luke 1:51-53

Whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none, and whoever has food must do likewise. -Luke 3:11

The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour. -Luke 4:18,19

Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled...But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry. -Luke 6:20,21,24,25

Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one's life does not consist in the abundance of possessions. -Luke 12:15

For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted...when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you -Luke 14:11, 13,14

All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need. -Acts 2:44,45

No one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common... There was not a needy person among them, for as many as owned lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold. They laid it at the apostles; feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need. -Acts 4:32,34,35

May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain God's gift with money! -Acts 8:20

If your enemies are hungry, feed them; if they are thirsty, give them something to drink; for by doing this you will heap burning coals on their heads. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. -Romans 12:20, 21

Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labour and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy. -Ephesians 4:28

Women should dress themselves modestly and decently in suitable clothing- not with their hair braided, or with gold, pearls, or expensive clothes, but with good works. -1 Timothy 2:9, 10 [modesty here refers to flaunting wealth]

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. -1 Timothy 6:9,10

Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have -Hebrews 13:5

Let the believer who is lowly boast in being raised up, and the rich in being brought low, because the rich will disappear like a flower in the field. For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the field; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. It is the same with the rich; in the midst of a busy life, they will wither away. -James 1:9-11

Religion that is pure and undefiled is before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world. -James 1:27

Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom of that he has promised to those who love him? But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into court? -James 2:5,6

If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, 'Go in peace, keep warm and eat your fill', and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? -James 2:15,16

[mygothlife555]

So I want to clarify something about my spirituality!!!

I consider myself to be a Christian Witch!!!!!

I have always been empathic and somewhat intuitive, and had premonitions. I was practicing as a Witch for some time before I (re) discovered Christianity and I still feel a calling to heal and protect people using magic.

I just wanted to say that!!

[jesusinstilettos]

I’m about to save you thousands of dollars in therapy by teaching you what I learned paying thousands of dollars for therapy:

It may sound woo woo but it’s an important skill capitalism and hyper individualism have robbed us of as human beings.

Learn to process your emotions. It will improve your mental health and quality of life. Emotions serve a biological purpose, they aren’t just things that happen for no reason.

1. Pause and notice you’re having a big feeling or reaching for a distraction to maybe avoid a feeling. Notice what triggered the feeling or need for a distraction without judgement. Just note that it’s there. Don’t label it as good or bad.

2. Find it in your body. Where do you feel it? Your chest? Your head? Your stomach? Does it feel like a weight everywhere? Does it feel like you’re vibrating? Does it feel like you’re numb all over?

3. Name the feeling. Look up an emotion chart if you need to. Find the feeling that resonates the most with what you’re feeling. Is it disappointment? Heartbreak? Anxiety? Anger? Humiliation?

4. Validate the feeling. Sometimes feelings misfire or are disproportionately big, but they’re still valid. You don’t have to justify what you’re feeling, it’s just valid. Tell yourself “yeah it makes sense that you feel that right now.” Or something as simple as “I hear you.” For example: If I get really big feelings of humiliation when I lose at a game of chess, the feeling may not be necessary, but it is valid and makes sense if I grew up with parents who berated me every time I did something wrong. So I could say “Yeah I understand why we are feeling that way given how we were treated growing up. That’s valid.”

5. Do something with your body that’s not a mental distraction from the feeling. Something where you can still think. Go on a walk. Do something with your hands like art or crochet or baking. Journal. Clean a room. Figure out what works best for you.

6. Repeat, it takes practice but is a skill you can learn :)

[whereserpentswalk]

The nazis that you see in movies are as much a historical fantasy as vikings with horned helmets and samurai cutting people in half.

The nazis were not some vague evil that wanted to hurt people for the sake of hurting them. They had specific goals which furthered a far right agenda, and they wanted to do harm to very specific groups, (largely slavs, jews, Romani, queer people, communists/leftists, and disabled people.)

The nazis didn't use soldiers in creepy gas masks as their main imagery that they sold to the german people, they used blond haired blue eyed families. Nor did they stand up on podiums saying that would wage an endless and brutal war, they gave speeches about protecting white Christian society from degenerates just like how conservatives do today.

Nazis weren't atheists or pagans. They were deeply Christian and Christianity was part of their ideology just like it is for modern conservatives. They spoke at lengths about defending their Christian nation from godless leftism. The ones who hated the catholic church hated it for protestant reasons. Nazi occultism was fringe within the party and never expected to become mainstream, and those occultists were still Christian, none of them ever claimed to be Satanists or Asatru.

Nazis were also not queer or disabled. They killed those groups, before they had a chance to kill almost anyone else actually. Despite the amount of disabled nazis or queer/queer coded nazis you'll see in movies and on TV, in reality they were very cishet and very able bodied. There was one high ranking nazi early on who was gay and the other nazis killed him for that. Saying the nazis were gay or disabled makes about as much sense as saying they were Jewish.

The nazis weren't mentally ill. As previously mentioned they hated disabled people, and this unquestionably included anyone neurodivergent. When the surviving nazi war criminals were given psychological tests after the war, they were shown to be some of the most neurotypical people out there.

The nazis weren't socialists. Full stop. They hated socialists. They got elected on hating socialists. They killed socialists. Hating all forms of lefitsm was a big part of their ideology, and especially a big part of how they sold themselves.

The nazis were not the supervillians you see on screen, not because they didn't do horrible things in real life, they most certainly did, but because they weren't that vague apolitical evil that exists for white American action heros to fight. They did horrible things because they had a right wing authoritarian political ideology, an ideology that is fundamentally the same as what most of the modern right wing believes.

[thurifer-at-heart]

This is so important and brilliant. I'll be ordering copies for my queer interfaith group at college! And maybe hand some to my chaplain!

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[troythecatfish]

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[queerwordofgod]