#religious blog

[temple-of-perunika]

Digital temples and digital shrines of Tumblr. Please interact with this post if you are still active!!!

[jezzzebel]

SO UH... As a pagan, does anyone else get the urge to invest 💲💲💸💸 into buying a small house and renovating it into a temple building?

Or is it just my money-less self dreaming?

[selenophiliiaaa]

Aphrodite Anaduomene (the goddess rising out of the sea)

[sanalovestodream]

今、聖書をよみました。Here is the verse of the day which I captured yesterday.

This in the Bible is written to the Philippians. (ピリピ人）The reference in English is Philippians 4:9, which says, "What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me — practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you."

This honestly stuck out to me because I was just thinking about all the work I've been doing lately and how stressed I've been. Because honestly, yeah, I've been really stressed.

Between work and academics I was really struggling to spend time with God. Honestly, I'm sure everyone has that problem at one point. For me, without noticing it, I stopped spending as much time as I previously did. I had one friend ask me, "From one to ten, with one being the worst and ten being the best, how would you rate your current spiritual journey? As in, how often are you praying, how often do you talk to Him? How often do you go to church or Bible study or worship? How often do you spend time just studying the Bible?"

And I said..."Well, honestly, last year I'd say it was a 8/10. I spent so much time with Him." But now I felt myself falling away from Him, I couldn't spend time with Him with how busy I was, and with how tired I was by the time I got home. So I was stuck saying, "But now, I'm probably a 5/10."

Ultimately I had to make a change in my schedule and swap jobs, so that I could prioritize. Yeah, making less money because I have a different job. BUT, now I'm able to spend more time with God and I feel ultimately more peaceful.

Why? Because as illustrated by this verse, I had to remember everything I learned, everything I've studied, everything God has told me, and put them into practice. And now, I'm at peace. We're chill guys, we're vibing.

No I'm still not perfect, but...I'm trying. Trying to spend time with him. Trying to not worry (as I wrote about previously in John 16:33). Trying to put into practice the values the Bible has taught me...

Has anyone else had a similar experience? Message me your thoughts on this verse. ♡

まってね、wishing you all the best blessings

~ さなえ

[sweetdeedra]

deedra/deena just call me dee

most religious stuff is now here

-> psalmsfordeedra.tumblr.com

semi abandoned/under construction neocities

->sweetdeedra.neocities.org

[pomegranatehymns]

Made using pintrest shuffles

For Lord Zeus

[godslaughters]

Dead Christ (details) by Philippe de Champaigne

[clandestinewhore]

𐕣 𐕣 𐕣

[ultraviolencesaints]

[temple-of-perunika]

How do you celebrate the upcoming holiday of Mokosh? I suppose that herbs play a role (the same way they do in Christian version of 15th August) but I would love to know more.

Hi! Thank you for asking!

I personally am gonna celebrate the upcoming holiday of Mokosh on the 8th of August, which is the holiday of Saint Paraskeva of the Balkans.

If that's the holiday that you meant! It's a christianized version. But it's still my family's slava (patron saint celebration) and i will be too busy with helping out my family around the house and with guests, unfortunately...

But i will pray to her that morning and give a small offering. Then a day later, i will try to do something more.

Thank you for the ask! I get so happy when people use the ask feature aaaaaaa ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[do1li3]

[inkskinned]

the thing is that they're so fascinated by sex, they love sex, they can't imagine a world without sex - they need sex to sell things, they need sex to be part of their personality, they need sex to prove their power - but they hate sex. they are disgusted by it.

sex is the only thing that holds their attention, and it is also the thing that can never be discussed directly.

you can't tell a child the normal names for parts of their body, that's sexual in nature, because the body isn't a body, it's a vessel of sex. it doesn't matter that it's been proven in studies (over and over) that kids need to know the names of their genitals; that they internalize sexual shame at a very young age and know it's 'dirty' to have a body; that it overwhelmingly protects children for them to have the correct words to communicate with. what matters is that they're sexual organs. what matters is that it freaks them out to think about kids having body parts - which only exist in the context of sex.

it's gross to talk about a period or how to check for cancer in a testicle or breast. that is nasty, illicit. there will be no pain meds for harsh medical procedures, just because they feature a cervix.

but they will put out an ad of you scantily-clad. you will sell their cars for them, because you have abs, a body. you will drip sex. you will ooze it, like a goo. like you were put on this planet to secrete wealth into their open palms.

they will hit you with that same palm. it will be disgusting that you like leather or leashes, but they will put their movie characters in leather and latex. it will be wrong of you to want sexual freedom, but they will mark their success in the number of people they bed.

they will crow that it's inappropriate for children so there will be no lessons on how to properly apply a condom, even to teens. it's teaching them the wrong things. no lessons on the diversity of sexual organ growth, none on how to obtain consent properly, none on how to recognize when you feel unsafe in your body. if you are a teenager, you have probably already been sexualized at some point in your life. you will have seen someone also-your-age who is splashed across a tv screen or a magazine or married to someone three times your age. you will watch people pull their hair into pigtails so they look like you. so that they can be sexy because of youth. one of the most common pornography searches involves newly-18 young women. girls. the words "barely legal," a hiss of glass sand over your skin.

barely legal. there are bills in place that will not allow people to feel safe in their own bodies. there are people working so hard to punish any person for having sex in a way that isn't god-fearing and submissive. heteronormative. the sex has to be at their feet, on your knees, your eyes wet. when was the first time you saw another person crying in pornography and thought - okay but for real. she looks super unhappy. later, when you are unhappy, you will close your eyes and ignore the feeling and act the role you have been taught to keep playing. they will punish the sex workers, remove the places they can practice their trade safely. they will then make casual jokes about how they sexually harass their nanny.

and they love sex but they hate that you're having sex. you need to have their ornamental, perfunctory, dispassionate sex. so you can't kiss your girlfriend in the bible belt because it is gross to have sex with someone of the same gender. so you can't get your tubes tied in new england because you might change your mind. so you can't admit you were sexually assaulted because real men don't get hurt, you should be grateful. you cannot handle your own body, you cannot handle the risks involved, let other people decide that for you. you aren't ready yet.

but they need you to have sex because you need to have kids. at 15, you are old enough to parent. you are not old enough to hear the word fuck too many times on television.

they are horrified by sex and they never stop talking about it, thinking about it, making everything unnecessarily preverted. the saying - a thief thinks everyone steals. they stand up at their podiums and they look out at the crowd and they sign a bill into place that makes sexwork even more unsafe and they stand up and smile and sign a bill that makes gender-affirming care illegal and they get up and they shrug their shoulders and write don't say gay and they get up, and they make the world about sex, but this horrible, plastic vision of it that they have. this wretched, emotionless thing that holds so much weight it's staggering. they put their whole spine behind it and they push and they say it's normal!

this horrible world they live in. disgusted and also obsessed.

[bebs-art-gallery]

The Vow of Silence by Light Beyond the Frame

[sanalovestodream]

今日は、聖書のよみました。In my opinion, this is some of the most comforting of reads.

In English, this passage is found in John 16:33.

The ESV translation of John 16:33 says, "I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have great tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world."

Basically the intention of this verse is words of comfort. Jesus said this as encouragement, telling us not to worry about the future, to not worry about the trials that we go through.

In another words, no matter what we go through, Jesus is here for us. God is here for us. We aren't alone here, because he watches over us.

This verse helped me through a lot last year. I was feeling terribly stressed. I had so much going on that I barely had any time for myself. I was worried for my future, for everything I had coming up next...

But then I realized, when I read this, that if I just sit down for a little while and pray, then I might just be alright. That I'm not alone, that I'm safe with him no matter what.

Whether it's politics, or if it's the bad things on the news, or if it's feeling pressured, or alone, or having too much to deal with, I don't have to worry as much because God is with me no matter which direction life takes. Ultimately, I'm safe with him.

I hope that perhaps, this might be a little comforting or inspirational to anyone else reading this.

With Love,

~ Sanae ♡

[xochimillilili]

Love when I'm fucking a cute bitch and they start moaning oh god as I fuck a load into them

Like mmhm, that's me sweetheart— you praying and begging for me to go even rougher? Praying for more of me inside you, little dove~?

[pomegranatehymns]

🌍🥂

- posthumous-pagan

To answer what my favorite devotional act is, it's talking/praying to my deitys and giving offerings. Any offering honestly, no matter how big or small. I'm a gift giver, and it's how I show my love or admiration to anyone, so it makes me very happy when I can put things on my alter and say "hey this is for you! I thought about you! :)"

And to answer the other question, I personally worship the Greek patheos, and I believe they exist. I just don't have any experience with any other pathos and don't feel very compelled to try to reach out and see if they are, I'm content with what I have. I still have Exploring to do with the deitys I worship now.