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I wouldn't be so pissed at Christianity if it wasn't for indoctrination. Religion should be something that you choose and when you're literally a two-year-old sitting in church you can't possibly choose it, you can't possibly understand the gravity of the cult that you have entered. You'll listen to the sermons you'll read your Bible you'll sing the songs you might never question what you're doing or you might only question it 30 years later, either way it's a big deal and you should be able to make it informed choice instead of having your choice taken away when you're a child.
#indoctrination#healing#ex christian#deconstruction#atheist#pissed at religion#thoughts#vent post#kids deserve better#religion is awful#unfair
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Exactly. It's pretty terrible, and it takes soooo long to unpack, unlearn, deconstruct all of this bs too 😩💜
I truly think the bible has many harmful/unhealthy teachings. People will try to deflect and say only when it’s twisted by abusive people or taught “wrong.” But no, I think it has harmful teachings at its very core. As an example:
When certain emotions are labeled as bad/evil/a flaw or something you just “shouldn’t do” it prevents many people from being able to process emotions healthily. See Ecc 7:9, Ecc 11:10, Col 3:8, Phil 4:6, James 3:16 as a few examples. I went through my life as a christian never really fully processing anything, and I was so emotionally unhealthy. Instead of viewing emotions as neutral signals from my body and sitting with them and letting them move through my body, I would read the thought terminating cliches of “don’t be anxious give it to god” or pray about it and continue to be disconnected from my body. I would feel shame when experiencing normal feelings of jealousy, anger, anxiety and feel like I was spiritually failing. That shame would cause me to continue to suppress those feelings instead of hearing and processing them, and it could cause it to come out in dysfunctional ways. And I see this in hundreds of people who are Christians in my life.
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Please intentionally attempt to see the magic in everything. Everything is magic, even if you understand the "boring" reasons why things happen. Look at the magic in growing plants, the magic of your muscles flexing and retracting, the magic of your eyes and skull, the magic of a cat's purr.
It's all magic. Understanding the "why" is just understanding what makes things magical, it doesn't change that it's all significant and magic.
#positivity#this has helped with my sense of aimlessness personally. it isn't even about belief in religion or gd or anything like that#it's about genuine appreciation and enthusiasm for the world and universe you live in#i personally always disliked the 'why feel awe about [thing] when [long technical answer about how it works]'#yes a plant grows through chemical reactions. but that's still magic. why deny yourself awe and wonder?#i can tell you the chemical reactions which make your arm flex. but that doesn't mean it isn't magic💛💛💛
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Co-worker who knows that I’m a nerd, “What are your plans for the 4th?”
Me, trying my best to figure out how to explain that the Thunder Saga is dropping for Epic, “Uh, well, YouTube is going to have a premiere for something I’m excited about.”
“Oh? What’s premiering?”
Me, literally stumbling over my words, trying to figure out how to explain Epic.
Him, “It’s something nerdy isn’t it?”
Me, “Yeah, so some guy seemingly got a hyper fixation on the Odyssey during Covid and decided to make a musical about it in parts, and the part with one of my favorite Greek monsters is this one.”
Him, confused cause he 100% was not expecting that type of answer, “Well, I hope it’s good.”
#epic the musical#epic#epic the thunder saga#it’s not that I’m embarrassed about being a nerd about things#I just tend to over explain and under explain in the worst ways#and I don’t know if that’s the origin of Epic coming about but it’s the energy I get from him in his shorts#and I did not bring up Thunder Bringer#because apparently saying thank god it’s a rapey Zeus gets you weird stares#I honestly just blame the amount of sanitization of him I’ve seen through my life#I want him to be shown to be the awful but powerful deity he is#stop clipping their claws for modern audiences let the deities of other religions be as bad as they were back in their prime
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I think something i don't often see in discussions about Futa's character is how, if you really take a second, he's kind of a people pleaser
He isn't so in a way like what Mikoto got going on, he does want to be around people of the same interests as him, and you wouldn't think he'd care about anything but authenticity if you stayed with the way he behaves on milgram. It is only when you think about him -in- those social circles he manages to get into that you can see him tweaking lol
I think the closest to see this that we have in milgram itself is that one interaction with Kotoko in which she attempts to debate how prisons respect human rights. Any other time he expressed his opinion/stance on things he was aggressive and maybe condescending to the rest because they disagreed with him, but the second someone agreed? Whole demeanor changed. Suddenly he didn't have much to say anymore and he just parroted Kotoko's words back at her. Why. If he has such a strong personality and mindset, why was someone validating his point enough to shut down his otherwise very firm attitude?
Futa doesn't go as far as to manufacture his every word for it to cause a positive reaction on others from the get go, but he does seek validation all the same. He braces himself for rejection by being loud and obnoxious and harsh until he sees a positive reaction and then is when he does a complete 180 to keep the other person in that place of validation. He is simultaneously completely bad at it though, but I never said he was good at people pleasing. Which connects back to what i've said before about his inability to fit in. Even when he thinks he's doing it right and he sees himself getting validation by people he cares about (in the case of his crime, by mimicking his friendgroup's method of "bringing justice" by calling out someone online, that same friendgroup following along and reinforcing the idea that he was doing it right), he ultimately fails anyway and loses it all over again.
In the end, he's just extremely socially awkward and anxious. It isn't in his nature to reach anyone else's expectations even if he genuinely wants to, so he'll either do what he can within his parameters (mold himself for his friendgroup of people he deems similar to him) or he'll avoid trying altogether because he knows he'll fail (what we see in milgram!)
It also shows how his yearn for a support system (t2 qna + mu's birthday timeline convo) isn't particularly new from his current circumstances, or why the only person he could think of when asked who he would want to see right now was his mom (who left so long ago he barely remembers her). He has just never truly had people that genuinely cared for him no matter what he tried to do to make himself likeable.
#and having this in mind i think i understand why he seems to be “giving in” to amane's beliefs#it isnt solely because of his current vulnerability#it isnt even just to find solace in religion#it is because amane offered him help. in a way shes validating him#and if believing in bullshit like salvation and god will make at least the elementary schooler talk to him sometimes#against being left alone with his thoughts and the voices in the walls#with the track record he has of slightly molding himself and mimicking others#yeahh#and honestly that only means itll backfire even worse! on Him!#in his own words#it is what it isSorry#but no yeah hes fucked. i dont think his religious arc is gonna make shit complicated for anyone else but him#but itll be AWFUL on him#milgram#fuuta kajiyama#fuuta milgram#character analysis#sorta kinda#as always
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i need to be an illegal elven experiment so someone can whisk me away to the lost cities so I can enroll in foxfire and manifest as a polyglot and get placed under Master Cadence Talle and then get expelled. on account of becoming desperately obsessed with her in a supremely fucked up mentor/mentee relationship where I base my entire self-worth and future on her and fall in love with the idea of being loved by her, placing her above all else, devoted to her and nothing else, desperately vying every day for her affection in fervent supplication, listening to her talk of the ogres, helping her manage the towers, while she thinks of me not nearly so intensely and as simply a passionate student, dooming me to a losing battle for her attention and fondness I futily fight regardless until she forgets me without a second thought as soon as I'm gone. who said that
#kotlc#master cadence talle#PLEASEEEEE#I NEED TO BE OBSESSED WITH HER IRL I NEED TO HANG ON HER EVERY WORD#I NEED TO MAKE A RELIGION OUT OF HER#LET ME FALL TO MY KNEES BEFORE HER IN AWE WHILE SHE FORGETS MY NAME#LET ME CHASE SOMETHING THAT CAN AND WILL NEVER BE
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Plural culture is going to our first pride and protestors triggered out a religious trauma holder and she had to fight so hard to not lecture them on how even if the Bible thought being gay was wrong, Jesus befriended the sinners he didn't shame them and so on and so on
And we're very proud of her for not doing that because we do not have the capacity to deal with anything that could've caused
#endos dni#osdd#pdid#did#did system#pdid system#osddid#actually did#traumagenic#actually dissociative#plural culture is#syspunk#religion#tw relgion#cw religion#tw christianity#cw christianity#yes the protestors were wrong and it was awful they were there#but we are not the person to be the one to take care of any of that and we're glad she was able to understand that#because she has gotten us into some situations before
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What you said about Grian keeping his modesty even after leaving the Watchers.... Hmmmm.... Grian in Hijab.... Yes that's the shit...
i think hijabs are just for women ! i'm unsure what the male equivalent is
But ! The Watchers i write are inspired by Catholicism, his mum is a nun who veils. This is also just for women, but if he wereeee to veil then it'd be something like that--i mean not the full extent of a nun, but there are head scarves that allow hair and neck to be shown
headscarves are very pretty regardless tho <3
#ask#hijabis fr look like princesses anytime i see them on tiktok im awe struck#<- which i hope is ok to say ! i think flowing fabric is pretty#i used to draw Tommey veiling with a bandana ! pagans also veil and i think its gender neutral#also im a pretty modest person too so i always prefer drawing clothes/extra layers *_*#modesty is also a touchy subject i dont think anyone should be forced to cover.-#-you should only dress how ur comfortable. and never tell others how to either !-#-regardless of religion imo !! religion is very personal !#Catholics usually only veil within churches but it depends eh#AUGH im thinking abt kid xelqua again. always seeing his mum wear a veil so he does too. just bc hes a kid. they copy. so cuTE#in 3L he should wear a veil and no one knows he has cat ears#i think more people should write the watchers using their own religions it'd be rly interesting i think#PERSONALLY i always saw veiling as ... protection from evil eye ? i guess how i'd word it ? and less abt ~purity or whatever
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gah now i'm getting On My Shit about the discworld again and like i've said what i want to say about the witches and the watch but there's also small gods like i will never be over small gods i finished it and i was like... has this... has this healed some of my religious trauma?
if you've never read it, the plot is thus: on the disc, gods get their power from belief. therefore, the more believers a god has, the more powerful they are. and so, there is this god -- om -- who has risen in power, who has a country devoted to His worship, which hunts down and slaughters heretics and infidels, to whom people pray multiple times a day and make pilgrimages to His holy city, which has a huge citadel and huge structure of a complex religion devoted to his worship. and, on a whim, He comes down one day to see how things are going.
and discovers that he has no power.
that, in this country of millions who profess to worship Him with all their hearts, there is only one person left who actually believes in Him.
and there's a lot of meat there, and a lot more plot to delve into, but the core theme ends up boiling down to this:
can you forgive your god for how they failed you?
and do they deserve that forgiveness? how can they earn that forgiveness?
because ultimately, the forgiveness that the messianic archetype is embodying is not that of the god's grace, but of the people's -- to forgive their god his absence. to give their god another chance to be their god.
and whether or not you, in the end, can forgive, it gives you the language to realize that this is what you were asking for with your last prayers. whether or not you can ever go back, whether or not there have been other reasons since that have convinced you further, it gives you the language to accept that your god failed you. and it is not your fault.
this book speaks loudest, perhaps, to those of us who left our church with grief, not with anger. with hurt betrayal, not with the fires of defiance.
it didn't change my lack of religious belief, but it helped me conceptualize my feelings about the church, the things that went deeper than intellectual arguments. about that sense of betrayal, that hurt, that twisted-up knot within me that it had built, and it gave me the mirror within which i could see that i had been failed by my beliefs. it wasn't that i hadn't believed enough, it was that my belief had been betrayed by the absence of an answer.
there have been other reasons since then that have cemented my atheism, but small gods made me stop hating the church i used to love, because it made me recognize why i hated it so much and said "you're not wrong, it didn't have to be this way. you were betrayed and you were failed and you can let it go, now."
#discworld#gnu terry pratchett#small gods#religious trauma#i won't pretend it fixed everything because it's not that simple#but it gave me the language to understand the core of my emotions coming out of that awful place#and that was a seismic shift#i was steadily veering towards the Angry Atheist archetype but it unraveled that anger within me#i'm no less an atheist and this book never tried to change that - sir terry was a secular humanist and this is very much not one of those#preachy christian books like it is *aggressively* not one of those preachy christian books#it's about religious trauma and working through it and dealing with your complicated feelings about your religion#and having that mirror to recognize that what i was feeling *was* trauma. it *was* betrayal. and i wasn't wrong to feel it.#shifted something deep within me
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Please tell me more of your thoughts on maegelle, maybe it’s cause I’m new to the Fire and Blood side of the fandom but I’ve never seen anything deeper about her maybe being negative. Especially in regards to her mother/family. I’m quickly becoming Saera girlie and I wonder if Magelle’s role in the church might’ve contributed to her sister’s “”rehabilitation”” being bad enough to have her leave the continent.
Okay so the thing here is that she does to Alysanne what Jaehaerys does to Alyssa, which is force/cajole their mother into taking back and living with a man who has publicly humiliated her and made incredibly clear he has no respect for her, but we only really whack Jaehaerys for this. The first quarrel is more personally egregious to me because it's only Alysanne who must bite her tongue here and not Jaehaerys - she is not asking for anything extreme here! Her daughter committed the heinous crime of fucking before marriage, it's been like three years, and three of their daughters have subsequently died, but he hasn't calmed down at all about Saera. Alysanne even tries to compromise by just asking to fly to Lys to visit her and he forbids her from seeing her own fucking daughter. That's an insane level of abuse. And what does Maegelle do? Well she tells her parents that they need to keep up appearances and be seen in public together. Reminds me a lot of show alicent's "you may slap him about as you like at home but out in public we must be united" comment - essentially, Maegelle is telling Alysanne she has to cope with being barred from seeing her daughter and grieving her losses properly to keep up appearances. I mean fuck, maybe Alysanne genuinely wanted a divorce from Jaehaerys. Maybe at that point she was so distraught she wanted Jaehaerys to take a lover, and replace her, and leave her the hell alone so she could be with Gael or otherwise just go to Lys anyways. But Maegelle puts a stop to all of this by invoking Rhaenys' wedding and how they need to look united. Ghastly behavior.
BUT THEN. Less than two years later, Aemon dies and Jaehaerys names Baelon heir. And look, Alysanne is 100% right to be pissed the fuck off at Jaehaerys for naming Baelon - from our several comments about Rhaenys being called "our future queen", the fact that Aemon and Jocelyn never have any other kids, I think the fact that Rhaenys has a dragon as well, all of that makes very clear that everyone is sort of expecting Rhaenys to carry on the Targaryen line in some form or another. Beyond that, Jaehaerys knows damn well that Alysanne has historically been touchy about this - see her comments about little Daenerys. Jaehaerys, with this move, makes it clear that he had never planned for Rhaenys to be queen at all and was misleading everyone. This one is on par with Rogar's nonsense imo because it's so public and everyone knows how Alysanne feels about the succession. He doesn't talk it over with her after she's lost a son btw, he just announces it and takes everyone by surprise.
AND THEN ONCE AGAIN. HERE COMES MAEGELLE. "mom just get over it." And again, what does Jaehaerys give up here? Nothing. He's either sending Maegelle or he's just straight up leaving Alysanne alone and assuming she'll come back to him? It's just nasty. She's losing the ability to walk, to ride her dragon, to remember people's names, she's barred from seeing Saera, she's got a daughter the age of her grandchildren because Jaehaerys forced her to have another child, and she's not even allowed to just spend her last years on Dragonstone being left to age with what dignity she has left. No, she has to be at court, she has to be by her husband's side, because That's Her Place. It's just as smug, just as cruel as Jaehaerys forcing Alyssa to Rogar's side - and the cruelty, in my opinion, is the point here. "You made your bed now lie in it" type behavior, towards a woman who has just been publicly disrespected, who is grieving her dead children.
So anyways, do I believe Maegelle was just as viciously cruel to Saera and that's part of why Saera ran away? I can absolutely believe that yes. I think we see that a lot with Septas to be honest - women who get a thrill out of torturing other women who don't conform properly. Mordane actively eggs on the gap between Arya and Sansa until it becomes a gaping chasm, Moelle and Unella are happy to take orders that involve them sexually humiliating Margaery, her cousins, and Cersei and take a sort of sick glee out of doing it, so I don't think it's exactly far off to say Maegelle had a cruel streak in her that came out when it came to the women in her family not conforming properly. I think we can also take into account George's general distate for religion and Catholocism specifically and the way the Septas work as nuns, and the way nuns were like, insane at various catholic schools. I think there's an interesting play here right - that Jaehaerys can look a mother who put her own life on the line to make him king and hand her right back to the husband who hates her to die having his kids, because he's being vindictive and cruel about her having the audacity to remarry without his permission, and Maegelle looking the mother who has ruled capably and given her the space to be what she wanted to be, and hand her right back to the husband who clearly has no respect for her whatsoever, because she's cruel and believes a woman is not allowed to have differing opinions from the man who currently owns her. It doesn't matter what Alyssa or Alysanne personally did for the two of them; they're women, and they have no right to disagree with the men around them.
#like people call alicent a tool of the patriarchy and while i get that take alicent is reacting from genuine and founded fear for her kids.#maegelle enables her father's abuse of her mother twice over for no other reason than...what spite? religion? love? fuck that shit.#MAEGELLE is the fucking tool of the patriarchy. there's no reason for her to completely side with jaehaerys here. she does it anyway!#TWICE. at least alysanne's dumb ass eventually UNDERSTANDS the way she's treated saera is awful. maegelle does Not Care.#oof this era gets me fucking heated.#anti maegelle targaryen#anti jaehaerys i targaryen#asks#anons
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hey nerds I updated my website again
specifically I finally made my Paul Hill/John Pruitt shrine
190 images. I had to paste those links BY HAND man
In total it works out to be one image or gif every 2 minutes of this 8 hour show.
enjoy
Plus some pictures of him smiling and also that one where he’s soggy looking.
#I’m putting this in the religious kink tags bc that was in fact why I made this#priest kink#religion kink#father paul hill#john pruitt#monsignor pruitt#hierophile#I want to to awful awful things to him#midnight mass#father paul#character shrine#neocities#nekoweb#He can’t die there’s so much good kink potential there
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It's incredibly frustrating to me that Christians have no idea what consent is and it makes sense if you think about everything that they've been taught and the way that the Bible works, I mean nobody ever asks for permission to do anything, women are incredibly subservient to God and to men, so it's like an incredibly foreign concept to them. I mean God didn't ask a teenager for permission to get her pregnant, so why should a Christian ask for permission to hug you? Etc. I understand the thinking of why they don't put any importance on it, it's just an incredibly frustrating concept, I mean a Christian can't even respect your boundaries when it comes to conversation because if they find out you're not a Christian, they'll get an uproar because they have to "save your soul!" Ridiculous
#healing#ex christian#deconstruction#atheist#good riddance#consent#treat people with respect#kindness is all that matters#kindness#vent post#thoughts#respect#religion is awful
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awful fwb rarepair posting sorry but like. kabru's party unwinding in a tavern. kuro goes to bed early but mickbell stays. an hour passes. kabru realizes mick and holm have not returned to the bar. he turns around. they're at a table for some reason. rin notices him looking at something. she turns around to look. holm is toying with mickbell's ears. mickbell is letting him. their chairs are Way too close together. holm's other hand is out of sight, under the table. kabru and rin turn back around. they look at each other, a mutual understanding in their eyes. if they don't look at it, its not happening.
at least now when holm judges kabru for being obsessed with laios he can just go "you are fucking mickbell" and end the conversation.
#mickholm nation rise UP#(i am the only person. i am in an empty room)#btw i know holm is religious but like. hes never explicitly stated to be celibate#also we know absolutely nothing abt said religion other than he cant eat meat and he cant drink#no mention of being unable to get into a situationship with the worst man you know#holm kranom and his awful taste in men#vs mickbell tomas and his weakness to bad decisions#if chilchuck ever found out... oh man#'DID YOUR PARENTS TEACH YOU ANYTHING' 'im an orphan' 'SHUT THE FUCK UP'#also im aware this ship is awful thats why i love it so much#amen
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i really love the 'it came to me in a dream' moments when writing.. i had just made the main human knight character for this story and named him but had no appearance in mind until i woke up this morning already 100% certain that he looks EXACTLY like george harrison
#he's the next in line for the throne but he is NOT the eldest son. the eldest son is a bastard#who is trying to be legitimised by killing a dragon that killed the king's brother#so our guy mr harrison is like aw fuck i cannot let my older brother be recognised as legitimate. i need to kill that dragon first#but holly was a witness to the king's brother's death and knows that no dragon killed him. kingbrother killed himself thus rendering him#unable to go to heaven by christian* doctrine and a sinner. meaning that avenging him shouldn't be rewarded at all#*sorry the concept of knights is completely inextricable from religion & the absence of xtianity in medieval european fantasy is a shame#anyway when bastard son kills the dragon and gets the evidence of kingbrother's body out of the cave this forces sir harrison#(a complete jerk btw)#to work towards making this tiny little pest kobold thing someone whose eyewitness testimony would be trusted in court. no easy ask.#dog knight story
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when not one, but now TWO mutuals have reblogged a post that makes you feel like you’re doing something wrong
#sorry about this guys#its just that I’ve seen two of my moots reblog a post about how when someone brings up religion it hurts them#and I have brought it up because I am religious#so now I feel fucking awful#beth rants
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