#not like 'christian bigotry' or 'religious trauma'?

[asterdeer]

would it be petty if i didn't read a book i was really looking forward to because the author lists "catholicism/christianity" as a trigger warning amongst other warnings such as "murder," "gore," and "ableism"

[jedi-enthusiasm-blog]

"Cal/Kanan fix the mistakes of the old Order and stop repressing what makes them human."

An actual take I have had the misfortune of reading with my own two eyes.

It's amazing how much amatonormativity and aphobia lies just beneath the surface of many anti Jedi arguments, among other kinds of bigotry.

I'm aroace. I cannot fall in love. I'm chemically, physically and spiritually incapable of it. According to this people, I'm broken, emotionally repressed… and when they drop the mask they will outright say I'm not even human.

That's, of course, without getting into the sheer ignorance or outright bigotry towards people who choose celibacy for religious reasons, or the many other reasons someone can abstain from traditional romantic relationships, from trauma and past abuse to "idk just don't feel like it".

"Why are you so against seeing Jedi critical takes?" Geez, probably because the people making them are bigots, towards a minority I'm part of, and will even claim I'm not human?

I am a Jedi fan, I love the Jedi if the name of my blog and the content I post weren't telling enough. I love them for three million and a half reasons. Their culture not being centered around romance, marriage and bio-kids is only one of them, and not even the most important one.

You have no idea how it feels like to see people like you, people who aren't what your society thinks is normal, being heroes when the world doesn't believe you exist or that there's something about you that needs fixing. And that's not getting into how people relate to the Jedi or find them comforting because they aren't Space Christianity Lite™️, because that's a topic that deserves its own post.

So people that have this claims or that even imply Jedi characters falling in love makes them somehow better, can go fuck themselves sideaways.

[sheabutterbitch]

what does god mean to you? growing up queer in the rural american south has conditioned me to view christianity as religion overall, and mostly the worst parts of it. i have this recoil when i think about it, and this sense of juvenile pride despite being a grown adult. like, "why must something be larger than me? why must i bow to it? how do we know it is even there?" i do have friends of varying religions and cultures, but i can't shake the trauma of religious violence/bigotry. admittedly, i'm also a very scientific, evidence-based person, and it's difficult for me to put my faith in anything, really. thank you

-your moon and venus twin :)

From an early age I cycled through many understandings of God; I’ve ventured into other religions, spiritual practices, atheism and agnosticism. What I’ve come to understand is that “A God of my own understanding” is just, that.

Working in the field of addiction recovery, we place a lot of emphasis on identifying a higher power. Believing in something greater than yourself has the psychological benefit of fostering resilience and motivation which is necessary in this life. I’ve seen individuals in addiction identify their higher power as Jesus but I’ve also seen them identify their higher power as an ancestor, a lost loved one, the universe, an animal, or an element.

The question of “how do we know it’s real” is no longer a question that I ask because it’s no longer one that matters to me. The feeling I get speaking my deepest longings, fears, and questions to whatever it is that may be listening does more for me than the preoccupation of finding the “one true God.”

Our society has the capacity to bastardize every facet of human life and manipulate it in a way that exerts power and enacts harm. I’m unsurprised that the age old philosophical and psychological practice of looking beyond oneself has been willed in this way, too. I won’t allow that to deter me from engaging in this practice in a meaningful way that inspires growth and change in my life.

I love watching this one TikTok account, Amber, who is a trans woman and a Quaker. Her video on The Theodicy of Queer Christianity was really good and sums up a lot of my thoughts. As a queer person, navigating religion or spirituality is difficult but I personally identify as Christian and feel comfortable in that.

[bluecrusadearcade]

lol. you wrote that long ass chatgpt paragraph and all i needed to read was the first point to know that you lack knowledge about basic politics and are quite literally contradicting yourself. like pls land transfers like the 2008 amarnath land row weren't mere “historical rights” 😭 they were part of settler colonial efforts. justifying political control through religious heritage is exactly how fascism works.

you don't even know what indigeneity means, Identity isn’t erased by conversion it transforms, like all living cultures do. many Indigenous communities in mexico, bolivia, and peru converted to christianity under colonialism. does that mean they’re no longer Indigenous?

no one denies the trauma kashmir pandits have faced. i mean if you have followed history close enough you'd know all major liberation fronts condemned the killings. the exodus was also a failure of the state to settle communal tensions. there are literally so many social and political factors behind the rise of islamic extremism (not saying that those justified the exodus). pandits were failed by indian govt and you literally cannot keep denying that (pls go read up on kashmiri pandits lived experiences with govt resettlement plans)

there's rot in every side and i could many examples but that'll be whataboutary.

and azad kashmir means azad kashmir. maybe engage with actual kashmiris online, literally all of them want and independent state and wish to be free from india and pakistan. so yes. free kashmir.

It’s honestly laughable how confidently you throw around words like fascism, settler colonialism, and indigeneity without understanding a shred of what they mean in context.

First of all, calling the Amarnath land transfer 'settler colonialism' is peak intellectual laziness. It was a temporary allocation for pilgrims—not a demographic invasion. Comparing that to settler colonialism is an insult to actual Indigenous peoples who faced genocide, forced relocation, and cultural erasure. Stop hijacking anti-colonial language to justify religious gatekeeping.

Second, your take on indigeneity is hilariously shallow. Yes, cultures evolve—but when conversion is used as a political weapon to erase institutions, rename places, and rewrite history, that’s not evolution. That’s replacement. You wouldn't call a razed temple 'transformation', unless your idea of diversity includes silencing every trace of what came before.

Third, you keep hiding behind many factors and every side has rot while conveniently absolving the one side that actually drove an entire community out with murder threats and targeted killings. What liberation front condemned the violence? Empty statements buried under years of silence, denial, and glorification of the very terrorists who led the exodus. Show me action, not post-facto lip service.

Fourth, claiming 'every Kashmiri wants Azadi' is just straight-up propaganda. You don’t speak for all Kashmiris—especially not for the ones who were forced to flee. You erase half the population just to score woke internet points. That’s not solidarity. That’s bigotry of the highest order.

So no, Kashmir doesn’t need freedom on your terms. It needs justice—for everyone, not just the ones who fit your narrative. Until then, spare us the half-baked Twitter theory and maybe pick up a history book that wasn’t edited to fit your echo chamber, because you write like someone who skimmed three decolonial theory threads and suddenly thinks they’re Kashmir’s spokesperson.

[simpfornegan]

I think there needs to be a conversation about white people centering Black trauma and inserting a white savior narrative into a film that goes out of its way to not do that. I'm sure there are Black Sammick shippers but when you have a movie full of poc that are against Christianity and they could all be queer coded, one has to think why we center the white guy aimed to destroy that community. So plenty of us, yes queer Black folks, are gonna side eye and dwindle it down to yaoi-fying the white man because, that is something plenty of us grew up around time and time again in every fandom. It is something that we have to engage more rather than assuming Black people calling this a white ship are doing it to be bigoted towards their own. It's just tiring is all. Also I'm sure you don't mean anything by it but can we please be more mindful of describing shipping related things as puritan. I know that word has been thrown around on this site for the smallest of matters. But it is a heavy term that has its roots in religious trauma, colonization, r*pe, forced in*est, white supremacy that I don't think needs to be used to describe people that don't care for a ship

and i agree, there should be a conversation about it. but i can also acknowledge that there is a time and a place for those conversations. as well as spaces to address those issues without minimizing/ridiculing black sammick shippers in their own space. also not saying it doesn’t exist but specifically with sammick, from what i’ve seen of the few fics they have, remmick isn’t ever written as a savior of anything outside of his own delusions.

again, the complaints about the ship aren’t the issue. the issue is vocalizing this assumption that sammick shippers are centering black trauma around a white male character in their own space rather than seeing their reasoning/perspective on how they actually perceive the ship or why they write it in the first place— writers exploring a dynamic, otherwise taboo, in a fictional setting. the problem is the persistence (not from you persay) to invade those spaces and shame others, most of whom relate to sammie and are often black (or pocs ) themself.

and my usage of puritan culture wasn’t directed at the fact that people just don’t like or care for the ship, but at how they interact with the ship because of said dislike. shaming shippers for enjoying a toxic dynamic / power imbalance in a fictional ship to the point of harassment is in fact giving puritan culture. harassing someone because they like a ship you deem problematic is puritan culture. not saying this relates specifically to you, but from the things i have seen in the tag on here and twt. it isn’t just with this fandom either, fandom as a whole has encountered this shift where anything written that is deemed slightly problematic is immediately condemned (a very slippery slope.)

but i do respect your opinion and i see where your coming from, and that it’s not a place of malice or bigotry, i just believe in protecting black ppl in their creative spaces.

and that leads me back to my point overall, just leave it out of the ship tag. respectfully.

[autistic-ben-tennyson]

A rant about Jedi Stans from an ex-Jedi fangirl

After some time I've had to reflect on my own behavior as well as my time in the pro Jedi fandom, I decided it's time to call this shit out. Some people take it really personal if someone criticized your favorite characters or their beliefs. Ironically, you all act more like the Sith than the Jedi with how obsessive you can be and insisting any criticism is equal to wanting genocide.

I'm going to start by saying I was in the pro jedi fandom for a few months. Truth be told, I was using it as an outlet for some of my anger issues with my hate towards Anakin, seeing him as similar to a lot of people I've had to deal with. Some of it was wanting more followers and fear of being disliked by the majority. I would pick fights with Anakin fans and was a bit of an asshole and I apologize for that. I still don't like him but no longer HATE him. Seeing how fandoms treat abuse victims who aren't perfect angels like Shinji Ikari or Lapis Lazuli has caused me to loosen up a bit. Many Jedi stans would probably hate those characters for not being “perfect” victims. In retrospect, this wasn't a good community for me. It was very puritanical and I often felt like I was wrong for enjoying media that went against the beliefs Jedi Stans put on a pedestal. Three of my favorite ships (Madohomu, Reishin and Hodaka x Hina) involve "burning the world for one person" and I felt like I couldn't talk about them without being a hypocrite. That and me agreeing less and less with Luca's beliefs pushed me to leave.

It's fine to enjoy a fictional character and defend them if you feel that they're being unfairly criticized. I've done it myself and have written essays defending my faves. The problem is that Jedi stans don't know when to stop. So many are quick to compare the Jedi to minority religions or marginalized groups as a shield against criticism, not recognizing how insulting that can be. Jewish, asian and aroace people are the ones normally used due to the Jedi beliefs being based off Eastern religions as well as Judaism as well as some aroace people identifying with the Jedi.

One thing I noticed about Jedi stans is their similarities to Jumblr which is full of religious chauvinism reworded to sound progressive. Many of them talk about how the Jedi shouldn't have to change their traditions with the times or to accommodate a few individuals like Anakin or Ahsoka. This can be similar to how a lot of people are quick to defend minority religions from outside criticism based on how they were treated by Christian colonists or missionaries. The problem is that this can veer right into ableist or queerphobic territory. You know who else believe that their religion shouldn't have to change with the times to accommodate people? Conservative Christians who hate being told to be affirming of LGBTQ people. Also, schools and parents/guardians do have a responsibility to accommodate kids with disabilities, mental health issues or trauma, even if it may be inconvenient or force you to bend the rules. Claiming they need to just suck it up is honestly disgusting.

This was all a big reason for why I left this garbage pit of a fandom. While there are some who hate the Jedi because they stan the empire or think people need 50s nuclear families to live fulfilling lives, not everyone does that. Believe it or not, some people have faced abuse and bigotry under Judaism and Buddhism. People can also criticize how Lucas presented their beliefs as some Buddhists think he didn't do a good job. Libsoftiktok is a vile transphobe, an Orthodox Jew and her beliefs are said to be fairly common in her community. Many people of color identify with the clones and dislike how even the nicer Jedi treated them. When Obi Wan told Anakin, "It's okay to have romantic feelings, but you must let them pass," that hits different for queer people who have been told similar things from "polite" homophobes. Some queer people do choose celibacy like Side B christians which is fine as long as they don't treat it as a moral failure to want a relationship. There are many neurodivergent people who don't like the Jedi beliefs as they hit close to home. Lucas may have not intended to come off as ableist but the Jedi did with their beliefs about negative emotions. To some people, platitudes like "just let go" aren't helpful and treating it as bad for not living up to those principles is gross.

I deleted the post, but a while back I made a post asking a popular pro jedi blogger their views on adoption since they claimed Anakin not viewing the Jedi as his "found family" was a moral failure. I found their response to be tone deaf and insulting. I responded in a decent way of course, but felt a bit judged and unhappy for wanting to know my birth mother. Adoptees are another set of people this fandom is insensitive and gross to. The Kenobi series I find insulting for that reason too, having Leia be a foil for Anakin and Obi Wan romanticize his recruitment as a child.

Jedi fans are also shitty to those with religious trauma and who faced abuse. Accusing anyone who criticizes the Jedi of projecting their issues with Christianity while simultaneously talking like conservatives as shown above. Tumblr in general has a weird habit of treating religion as if it’s either conservative evangelicalism, liberal reform Judaism and some vague pagan or eastern spirituality with little nuance. Some Jedi stans really come from a place of privilege. Claiming "they can just leave" is insulting to real religious abuse survivors who were raised with harmful beliefs like creationism or homophobia. I'm no antitheist but treating non christian religion as inherently progressive dismisses a lot of people's experiences.

Let's be real, the writing in this franchise was always a bit sloppy. Lucas's issue was wanting to simultaneously create both a black-and-white morality tale for kids based on the fairy tales and serials he grew up and a deep socio-political commentary about the Vietnam and Iraq wars which required some morally grey themes. Thus, along with his terrible dialogue that made the characters seem unlikable, is why the fandom is so divided over whether he intended people to agree with the prequel Jedi.

To wrap this up, I found the pro jedi fandom to be a terrible experience. It was a mix of faux progressivism mixed with fear of judgement for disagreeing. I ended up editing a post I made, and eventually deleted, comparing Yoda with Garnet from SU because I included a tiny bit of criticism and didn't want to get backlash. As long as it’s not gross or bigoted criticism of your favorite characters isn't the end of the world. People don't have to like George Lucas or his beliefs and put them on a pedestal. I feel like the fandom's worship of George comes in response to OT purists who claimed he "raped their childhoods" but there's fair criticism to be made. Just like how not everyone who criticizes Disney SW or any Disney media in general is an "anti woke" grifter. To the pro jedi fans reading this, here's a suggestion. Just block and ignore people, write an essay if you feel it's important, but don't act like an entitled bully if a blog or even a SW writer disagrees with the Jedi, interprets the story differently or criticizes your favorite characters.

[crazycatsiren]

You're absolutely correct about a lot of "anti-Abrahamic" sects or individuals have some form of either outright or underlying unexamined bigotries. Most white supremacist Pagans dislike Christianity because Christianity is too Jewish.

Not to mention how bioessentialist and transphobic they can be, like the goddess movement and many Dianic Wiccans.

I feel like many pagans want to paint the modern pagan movement and the revived pagan religions as a refuge for people looking to abandon their Christian backgrounds. But ironically, a lot of former Christians (especially youngsters) who are trying to flee their religious traumas will leave one religious extremist cult only to join another one, but it might look a little prettier because it's got a pentacle instead of a crucifix on it.

[beguilingcorpse]

as a non-practicing jew i think tlt is one of the Most catholic serieses i've Ever read and honestly i appreciate that about it. bc like at least it's upfront about it you know? as a kid i always hated it when authors tried to hide christianity in their books it felt like a trick. fuck you c s lewis i know the lion is jesus you cant fucking get me. but in tlt it's just one of the many many layers of subtext and intertextual references flying right over my dumb little head. anyway im claiming the sixth house as space jewish and im only half joking about this

YES i think a big difference is that a lot of fictional books are catholic in the sense of like.. they want to convert you. or at least the author thinks catholicism is the Right Way and so the narrative holds all of these not-so-subtle religious messages about salvation and god’s love and lion jesus or whatever. the locked tomb definitely has catholicism baked into its structure and narrative but it also centers on the negative parts of the catholic church - imperialism and the crusades, religious trauma, bigotry, etc etc etc in a way that’s very refreshing to read. gideon is space jesus and that’s not a good thing!

also you’re correct about the sixth. rip palamedes sextus your bar mitzvah would have gone insane

[best-overplayed-song]

As someone who never understood the hype around Take Me To Church and keeps forgetting that song even exists, can I ask the fans what exactly it is you like about that song? Because my current hypothesis is that yall were around 14 when it came out and music just hits different when you're 14. What else is there to like, genuinely

I try to stay unbiased here but Hozier is one of the only musicians I allow myself to be pretentious about, so before i info dump about why i love take me to church here's some other hozier songs you should give a shot:

francesca [i'd go through hell again just to hold you one more time], nina cried power [song about activism and black activists], swan upon leda [about the violence of colonialism, misogyny, and religious bigotry], eat your young [about the violence of war, capitalism, and generational trauma], movement, to noise making (sing), shrike, NFWMB [sexy], sunlight

anyway take me to church is so much more than just “loving you is like church”. he starts off by telling us how happy his lover makes him, despite constantly being told by The Church he was born sick and his happiness is a result of sinful behavior. he rejects the religion being forced on him, because unlike christianity, his church doesn't force him to accept absolution to reach heaven ("my church offers no absolutes / she tells me, 'worship in the bedroom' / the only heaven I'll be sent to / is when i'm alone with you"). the last two lines of the first verse-- "i was born sick, but i love it / command me to be well"-- questions why a god would create us to be inherently sick only to punish us for being sick.

i see the the chorus as a smart-ass comparison of his relationship to christianity. The Church expects him to blindly worship their lies and confess his sins, which he knows will be used against him ("take me to church / i'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies / i'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife"), but he's supposed to accept this and devote his life to God so he can get to heaven ("offer me that deathless death / oh good god, let me give you my life"). by offering to do this for his lover, he's equating their love to religion.

in the second verse, he reiterates that he worships his lover with a metaphor ("if i'm a pagan of the good times / my lover's the sunlight"). the subtle remark of referring to the ancient practice of paganism as "the good times" comments on the colonization and forced conversion of ireland by christian england, which criminalized paganism. immediately after stating how his lover demands a sacrifice, he hungrily eyes the high horse The Church sits on, and questions what power they have over him and his people ("that's a fine lookin' high horse / what you got in the stable? / we've a lot of starving faithful"). this could also be a reference to the irish potato famine, which was not a result of drought, but of english lords forcing the irish to turn over their entire crop to send to england.

then we get the most poetic description of sex i've ever heard: "no masters or kings when the ritual begins / there is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin / in the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene / only then, i am human / only then, i am clean". fuck man

a lot of gay people with religious trauma love this song bc of everything i described above. also, it's a fuckin banger.

and yes i was 14 when it came out. what about it

[weemietime]

Blorbo

- Shayne or Weemie

- He/him, 33, Canadian

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- I have a cortical visual impairment and visual agnosia, so sometimes I will misread or not see things properly. If I ignore or don't see something of yours it isn't on purpose.

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Common Questions

What is antisemitism?

"Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities." IHRA, International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance

Antisemitism is spelled as one word, without the dash, as it is not bigotry against all Semites (Arabs + Jews), it is solely about Jews.

Is antisemitism the same as antizionism?

The 3-Ds of antisemitism are Demonization, Delegitimization and Double-Standards. If your criticism of Israel doesn't apply to any other country, if the way you talk about Israelis doesn't match how you talk about Russians, Iranians, Chinese, etc. then it is antisemitism.

What antisemitism is not

Criticism of Israel on its own (i.e. crimes, gov't, policies)

Palestinian self-determination

Palestinian flags, pride, culture

Criticism of religious Judaism (i.e. trauma, harm)

Is accusing Arabs/Muslims of antisemitism racist/Islamophobic?

It is racist to accuse Arabs of being de facto antisemites.

It is racist to presume Arabs are all Muslim as well.

It is not racist to acknowledge that Islam is foundationally taken from Jewish texts and histories, which have been misinterpreted and abused to justify antisemitic violence. It is not racist to hold Islam accountable for the imperialism that pervades its evangelical arm.

Just like it isn't racist to do the same for Christianity. And we hold this standard for Judaism as well. Just like it isn't antisemitic to criticize the harms that Jewish religion has caused for others (such as LGBT), it isn't Islamophobic to do the same.

How prevalent is antisemitism?

It's baked-in to two of the world's major religions, Christianity and Islam. Unfortunately that means antisemitism is the de facto sentiment of a majority of the world's population. Antisemitism is one of the oldest, longest hatreds. That means we are often subjected to historical revisionism, such as denying the severity of the Holocaust, or publishing encyclopedias, textbooks, as "information" with clearly antisemitic content pasted over real events. 

A good example is a look at the Wikipedia article for what Zionism is.

This clearly shows that Wikipedia is being subjected to antisemitic historical revisionism.

What is the alt-left?

We will use the BITE model for indoctrination as popularized by Steven Hassan in Combating Cult Mind Control. BITE stands for Behavior, Information, Thought, Emotion. The most common form of indoctrination is called a thought-terminating cliche, or a fallacy-fallacy.

For example:

P1: "Israel is committing genocide!"

P2: "How many people have Russia killed so far"

P1: "500,000"

P2: "Do you think Russia is committing genocide?

Should we eject Putin from the UNSC?"

P1: "That's whataboutism!"

Resist this "whatabousim" idea, as it is designed to terminate all objections to clear hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is different than whataboutism, because it is a double standard, one of the 3-Ds of antisemitism.

So what is Zionism?

Zionism is the acknowledgment that Jews are the indigenous population of Israel, who have a right to self-determination in their homeland. Zionism is extremely broad. Some people don't even require Israel to be the Jewish country (their goal is simply safety and community for Jews world-wide, in Some Place), but this is a more secular argument.

Some people believe Zionism is only applicable to Jews (i.e. you cannot call yourself a Zionist if you are not a Jew), others are OK with goyim using the term as well. You'll have to feel that out, as both sides of the equation have a right to exist. Personally I use Zionism in as broad a definition as possible, so it does include non-Jews, with the exception of Messianic Christians, and evangelical hoo-hah.

When you're discussing Zionism with a Jew, especially as a non-Jew, you need to listen to what they describe Zionism as. It is de-legitimizing (another of the 3-Ds) to claim that Jews can't be trusted to point out antisemitic rhetoric. Jews define antisemitism, and we define Zionism. They are words about us, for us. 

In some cases people will say wrong dumb shit, so refer back to the first part of what antisemitism isn't. E.g. if someone (even a fellow Jew) says holding a Palestinian flag is antisemitic, they are actually being antisemitic themselves.

Is goy a slur?

No, in fact the term "gentile" was popularized by the KKK. Gentile is based off of a Christian scholar's interpretation of the term goy (Saint Jerome). Goy simply means "nations", as in non-Jewish people. Goyim/goy is not a slur. Some people might use it derogatorily, the same way Black people might speak negatively about white folks who have been racist to them.

It's still not a slur. We prefer to use goy because it is our word, we like it, and it doesn't have a history of being lobbed at us by mask-wearing wizard KKK freaks. Terms like "zio", "zionazi" etc are also slurs developed by David Duke.

You're a conservative who believes in prison abolition and social justice blah khadl blargo de glarm hlblehgah?

Conservative Judaism is a progressive, egalitarian denomination of Judaism. We believe in conserving the spirit of the Torah, but produce adaptive Responsa as we gain more scientific and social understanding. it is not Republican/political conservatism.

Why do you post all these gibberish asks by idiots?

That's actually the reason I am here! To do outreach to people who are brainrotted. I was an extreme kid. I was indoctrinated into a violent armed gang at age 8, and we had a lot of the same ideology.

Violence is cool, and our enemies should die and be hurt, brutality should be rewarded, etc. I want to dismantle this pipeline. I want to use my experiences to be a force for good, because that gives meaning to my life.

But I get that it's annoying to constantly read bullshit, so you don't have to follow me!

Is Israel committing genocide?

As it stands now, I'm keeping an eye on things. The simplest opinion I have is that we don't have any real data to work with, so we can't make conclusions. But we do have testimonies, believable ones, from people who were there and who are documenting the Likud war crimes.

So far, there is not conclusive proof that Israel is committing genocide in a systematic way. Some Israeli politicians are saying genocidal rhetoric, (one egregious piece of evidence is Halevi's statements that bombing Gazan civilian areas would "soften the battlefield," which is an open statement he made to media, this would mean he supports giving orders to deliberately target civilian areas - this is genocidal!) but this is separate from genocidal actions.

It's possible the answer to this question will change to yes and I have always been open about that. And if it does become yes, I will say yes.

[ergativeabsolutive]

Ultimately all that "annoying atheist" stuff is, is just the result of a fallacy on the part of some atheists that their irreligiosity and the fact that they Like Science (regardless of whether they are good at it) make them immune to religious and epistemological bigotry. Which is obviously bullshit. It's not some secret lurking Christianity, it's not some innate fault of atheists, it's not based, and frankly this isn't rocket science. I personally feel protective of atheists not just because of my friendships, but because they provided me a space to retreat to when I was recovering from religious trauma and because ultimately needlessly dunking on them is the province of religious reactionaries and should have no place in a modern society. But having been raised by the smuggest white ex Catholic on Earth I have never had any patience for the bullshit. Locking atheists and religious leftists in a room until they play nice or get killed with hammers

[saschagemruler]

Some of y'all need to realize that religious (yes even Christian) queers aren't your enemy. Obviously don't take no shit from those who are assholes but come on.

Christian ≠ conservative

Christian ≠ evangelist

Christian ≠ bigotry

There is a lot of discussion to have about the horrible effect of USAmerican cultural Christianity on the USA (can't speak for other countries but good ol' 'merica cant keep its shit to itself so probably other countries too) but if you claim to be accepting and open minded but someone who wears a cross necklace and talks excitedly about their God is grounds enough for you to be a dick, check yourself. Your trauma ain't an excuse.

I can't speak on other religions or how the queer community treats other religions but it can get quite fucking tiring to have to feel like you have to put a big sign on yourself and tiptoe around everyone else.

Just be nice to people

[sakebytheriver]

/I/ don't know anything about India or the hindutva, care to elaborate? I chose uh, christianity (despite my crippling religious trauma) mostly because I was also in the new age movement for a time and while christianity is BAD bad there's loads of normal people in it meanwhile people who take astrology really fucking seriously are the worst sorts of people to be in intimate contact with, from personal experience. What are the Other Crimes.

I mean, I'm not exactly a great source for it either, there's a lot of history behind the current situation in the Indian subcontinent, that can't really be summed up in a tumblr post, it's a very big region with a lot of fractured cultures and histories that each fill entire textbooks, for the longest time the region was mostly made of a lot of seperate tribes with different languages and dialects and cultures that had a lot of different conflicts with each other until British colonialism came to the region and forcibly united them or cut them off with the current boarders which has just resulted in a lot issues between cultures now that the Western colonialism of the region is not as obvious and overt as it was before, the Hindutva is a relatively recent ideology that came about in the 1920s and was possibly inspired by European fascism and ethnonationalism and has in recent times gained a lot more traction with the public and has inspired a lot of violence and rhetoric against Muslims, in fact the recent movie Monkey Man by Dev Patel touches on this topic a little bit with the main character being a Muslim from a more remote tribe that was the victim of Hindutva violence

Of course that's just about Hindu supremacy not specifically astrology, but considering that Vedic astrology itself is a core belief of Hinduism and was developed as a part of the religion's auxilary disciplines and is connected to the study of the Vedas it plays a part in the current fascist beliefs of the Hindutva

As for astrology itself not connected to the Hindutva it's still being offered as a legitimate scientific degree at many Indian universities and is still considered an actual science by the courts/government despite many studies done by real scientists in the region and the work they've been doing to get it classified as a pseudoscience and remove the ideology from any type of legitimate standing, there's been several court cases and different rulings over the debate, some classifying it as a science and others that didn't, it's been an ongoing struggle for the scientific community in the country as they fight to rightfully get astrology classified as a pseudoscience and have the ideology regulated especially in an educational setting

The idea that astrology is not being used to subjugate anyone is patently false, perhaps it doesn't have the same level of bloody history of colonialism that Christianity has attached to it, but ultimately both ideologies/religions have been used to hurt people and as excuses for the bigotries and biases that those groups of people already held regardless of their belief system

But also, like I said I am absolutely not a source for this stuff, the knowledge I have is fairly surface level, I know enough to know that astrology is not the same type of fringe ideology it is in the West within the Indian subcontinent and that the Hindutva has been ramping up their ethnonationalist rhetoric against Muslims and other religions in the region using the Hindu religion as their battering ram the same way that the West used Christianity as their battering ram

And of course this is all separate from the Hellenistic astrology which was developed in Egypt way way long ago before it was conquered by Persia and then it gained more traction and solidified into an ideology of divination under the rule of Alexander the Great getting spread into Greece as Alexander's empire expanded and then was subsequently adopted by the Roman empire from the Greek influence and for a while astological divination was very popular in the Roman empire. There's debate about whether Vedic astology got its start/influence from Hellenistic astrology, but there doesn't seem to be concrete proof either way. In the West currently Hellenistic astrology is the type you're gonna encounter at the craft fairs and the hippie get togethers and like once again if you don't believe that astrology being used by the Roman empire led to unnecessary bloodshed just kind of tells me you really have a fairly narrow scope on human history and politcal ideology

A lot of this information I pretty much knew already but I also just went to wikipedia and did some surface level research as I'm typing this to make sure I keep my facts straight

I suppose my ultimate point is that both Christianity and astrology are harmful ideologies that masquerade as an ultimate truth, but mainstream Christianity has been fairly mellowed through time and the commercialization of the holidays, a "mainstream Christian" is more likely to be a fairly normal person who just believes in God and Jesus and goes to Church to pray every Sunday, I knew a lot of mainstream Christians I went to Catholic school for most of my life and of course there were inlaid bigotries and biases to the religion that a lot of my peers upheld, but there were also a lot of my peers who didn't uphold those beliefs and instead upheld the main teachings of Jesus which are that of compassion and love for your neighbor. I've also met a lot of people who believe in astrology and that's also a mixed bag of beliefs and internal biases and for the most part I've met people who are fairly normal about it and don't let it dictate their entire lives but I have also met people who do and the fact that I've met several people who have looked me straight in the eyes and said "astrology is actually very scientific you just have to research it" with no hint of irony scares me to no end, there have been countless studies and scientific experiements done to prove that astrology is patently false and has been classified as a pseudoscience on every level, it's also such a gateway drug to cult shit especially the way they all tell me to "do more research" into the ideology, very much a pipeline talking point

I just think there's a bit of a difference between someone believing in a higher power that works mostly as a philosophical jumping off point to direct the community into working for the collective versus an ideology based on divination of destiny and classifying human beings based on the positions of giant balls of gas in the ether that masquerades as an actual science and absolute fact

Neither are good, don't get me wrong here, I am an atheist and a secular humanist, religion and God are not real either, but religion and God were invented for the purpose of community building in the early days of human civilization, astrology was developed for similar reasons, but there's a branching off point where astrology is now trying to be taken seriously as a science when it has been debunked over and over again while mainstream Christianity is solidly classified as a religion and a faith based system, (we are talking about mainstream Christianity rn and not the batshit crazy Christian scientists ok)

I guess I'll end this very rambly post that got longer than I intended it to be by saying that the idea that astrology has never being used to spill the blood of innocent people is just a very narrow scope on the actual history of our species

[cheerstotheelites-if]

What was your inspiration for Jasiel?

Uhhhh TW: religious talk? Though it's more on me talking about my experience growing up with religion and not me shoving the holy word of god with a capital G down your throat. I won't go into full detail and the rest will be about character inspirations for Jasiel, so don't worry.

To be quite honest, he was the culmination of my own feelings against religion and the trauma I got from it. I grew up in a Christian household for the majority of my life and studied in a Catholic school from nursery school to highschool. So, you can only imagine the conflicting beliefs that were taught to me growing up. Saints were believed in one religion, while the other isn't. Prayers are memorized, while another says it should come from the heart. I experienced Catholocism being made fun of in my Christian family for their many holy rituals and saints, while Christianity is both despised and hated for being so 'restrictive' and basically the cause of most of the bigotry from friends who grew up Catholic.

Something like that, amongst being a bystander to the troubles of those affected by the said religion.

Besides bystander's guilt and trauma that was inflicted upon the poor boy, have you guys heard of Sunday from the hit Turn-based RPG Honkai Star Rail? Yeah. Him. False bird Messiah. He's one of the main inspirations for Jasiel, specifically the aspect of being deceived by higher ups that their religion is the key to the happiness of their people in the Penacony main story and is now guilty for his past actions and trying to make up for that in the upcoming main story in update 2.7 of the game.

Another inspiration would be Agott from Witch Hat Atelier in the aspect of him trying to prove himself without the help of the reputation of his siblings or his family name. Jasiel, right now in the story, wants to prove his own words hold truth, and not have people blindly believe him because his siblings are two of the heads of the local church. He wants to be his own individual too. He doesn't want to be associated with the church nor have anything to do with it, and he gets frustrated that whatever he does something successfully and people just associate it because he's a Lèmieux and that he's "gifted by Lord Malkiel".

So, you can say he's got a bit of an inferiority complex, but it's a complex that stems from a lot of issues related to his family and what they do in the dark.

[veespee]

introduction

(EDIT: redoing this intro to match my new theme:3)

hello!

basic info about me: my name is Ven, i'm 16 yrs old, i'm greek, and my pronouns are she/they.

what i will post:

mostly poetry, small writing, headcannons (usually for slenderverse), quotes that i believe suit certain characters, moodboards, and maybe some of my drawings.

i enjoy analyzing media and rambling a lot, so i’ll be very happy if anyone really took the time to read any of my posts lol

you can ask anything, i honestly don’t mind unless you’re really weird, and can make any requests. i’m looking for fellow people around my age that enjoy my interests!

interests:

-slenderverse.

specific series: everymanHYBRID, marble hornets, tribetwelve, mydarkjournal, darkharvest00, whispered faith, stan frederick.

-ARGs, such as: mandela catalogue, the walten files, POSTcontent, i am sophie.

-video games, such as: night in the woods, life is strange. detroit: become human, what remains of edith finch, sally face, etc. etc.

-poetry about cannibalism, religious trauma, loneliness, limerence, yearning, and my favourite, canine poetry.

-music, genres i enjoy are: indie, rock, goth and new wave, death metal, slam metal, sludge metal.

specific artists: alex g, jeff buckley, elliot smith, radiohead, a perfect circle, nirvana, foo fighters, alice in chains, freshwater, deftones, cocteau twins, the cure, bauhaus, she wants revenge, london after midnight, christian death, mortician, death, field dressed, and more.

(visit my spotify if you're interested :))

-horror movies. (specifically: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, House if 1000 Corpses (+ all Rob Zombie movies), Creep, and lots more.

specific slenderverse characters i will/want to write about: HABIT/ Evan Myers, Jeff Koval, Vinnie Everyman/Caffarello, Steph, Dr. Corenthal, Alex (Koval and Kralie), Tim/Masky and Brian/Hoody, Noah and Firebrand, Kevin and Observer, Milo and Mr. Scars, Michael/Patrick, Shaun, Chris and Alex (DH00), Jesse Laurenzi, Heather McComber, Victor (MDJ) and Geneva, Tim/Mr. Flips, Robert.

things i don’t like:

-writing romantic scenarios about characters. i don’t like shipping, maybe some headcanons could be fine.

-NSFW. (writing nsfw, i am fine with nsfw jokes and such. just don’t go too far.)

-bigotry, obvious.

-zionists.

-ppl who defend Adam Rosner and Jeffery Koval.

things i do like:

-people interacting with me about my interests. please, do not be scared to interact with me and ask anything, i am very lonely. (/hj)

-getting requests. again, don’t be afraid to ask me anything and request anything.

thank you sm for reading!

[ladydeath-vanserra]

like as much as I have been very resistant to Christians and the Church™️ Specifically I cannot say I would be where I am now without the help of some of the most devout catholic women I have met. Hell, my mentor growing up went to church every Sunday and then spent her lunch breaks on Wednesday at church, too. She was heavily involved with our school system and was the head of the M.A.Y. Mentoring Program for my school, which was a community based program for our area

another deeply devout catholic woman, who didn't necessarily vibe with the Church on an Institutional Level helped ppl get to abortion clinics and had friends who had died during the AIDS epidemic. she and her friends snuck into Woodstock

the religious trauma I have has nothing to do with the churches from my hometown, but that of the church camps I attended over the summer

there are plenty of valid reasons to be critical of the Church and Christianity but tbh I have received so much help from churchgoers who knew damn well I wanted nothing to do with the Church and did not try to convert me in the slightest

and it's so frustrating that I have deconstructed so much of my own religious trauma and the history and cultural context of Christianity and the Bible and its so sad that I see so many people who literally blaspheme Jesus in order to uphold so much bigotry and violence across the world

you're gonna sit here and tell me the brown oppressed Jewish man who said to love your neighbor is going to be a-ok with yall being hateful bigots killing in his name