#religious content

[cocajimmycola]

angelcore names and pronouns?

Names

Saint, Spiri, Holi, Holy, Holly, Vir, Vero, Virtue, Star, Gem, Arch, Cherub, Guardian, Sera, Seraph, Sprite, Divi, Divine, Divyne, Dove, Heaven, Heavyn, Haven, Halo, Wing, Dream, Jewel, Evan, Nathaniel, Mica, Sera, Gabriel, Cassie, Cael, Angel, Angela, Zazel, Arkiel, Adriel, Apolly, Ariel, Asbeel, Camael, Daniel, Haniel, Muriel

Pronouns

Holy/Holys/Holyself, Vir/Virt/Virtueself, Fire/Fires/Fireself, Gua/Guar/Guardself, Cher/Cheru/Cherubself, Arch/Archs/Archself, Sera/Seraph/Seraphself, Di/Div/Divine, Dove/Doves/Doveself, Hope/Hopes/Hopeself, Love/Loves/Loveself, Wing/Wings/Wingself, Halo/Halos/Haloself, Wor/Wors/Worshipself, Pray/Prays/Prayerself, Bei/Bein/Beingself, Afr/Afrai/Afraidself, Ang/Ange/Angelself, Cu/Cup/Cupiself, Dov/Dovs/Doveself, Halo/Halos/Haloself, Wi/Wing/Wingself, Eye/Eyes/Eyeself, Ring/Rings/Ringself, Pro/Prot/Protectself, Dea/Death/Deathself, Bless/Bless/Blesself, Serv/Serve/Serveself, Lo/Lov/Loveself, Whi/White/Whiteself, Pe/Pear/Pearlself, Amen/Amens/Amenself, Pray/Prays/Prayself, Ser/Sera/Seraself, Fai/Faith/Faithself, Just/Justice/Justiceself, Cloud/Clouds/Cloudself, Char/Chari/Charity, Kind/Kinds/Kindness

[yes-i-have-thoughts]

Church Vow

(CW for split second mention of implied s/h and mentions of not great parents. Cross-posting from AO3.)

I've known you since you were a boy

Your parents did not seem kind,

They did not answer the questions you asked

Until you learned not to wonder "why?"

 I watched you grow up within these walls

Watched you learn and change,

And yet your friendship with one other little boy

That always stayed the same.

 I may not have eyes, but I do see

The lack of trust you put in me

Your faith is strong but it grows weary

The world is big, it must be scary

For one young man who knows not where he's going

Who tries to be strong and yet is still growing

Forced to grow up too fast, kicked out of the house

Is that what brings you here?

 You sit in my pew and stare at the

book in your hands, it must have answers

The frightened prayers of a grown adult

Prayers that never seem to get answers

You gave up asking your parents "why?", so you ask Him instead

And the answers you got led to feelings of dread

because they were not what you wanted often

Is that it?

 Or are you here for refuge

Here for escape

Here for someone to let you stay late

The priest is forgiving, he will let you in

He will let you tell the woes within

 But you shut him off, its what you're used to

No one knows your world but you.

That is how it must always be

No one else is allowed to see

"Boys don't cry"

yet you still weep

 I see you, Mark

I have watched you grow

I've seen you react

I've watched you become cold

Yet you open up again when you feel He is near

When you know Him, you show no fear

You put your trust in God and hope He won't let you down

I know for a fact that He would frown

at the thought of leaving His child to more strife

Until you consider the edge of a knife

 I also know Cesar

The boy you so love

Your friendship grows more than above

That boy is an angel. A loyal friend

Someone who will stay 'til the end

I know he is leaving

I know he is scared

That your friendship will be broken, unable to be repaired

 He will not leave forever. To college he'll go

But you will see him again, that much I know

You both want to move out of this place

Out to an area with much more space

Where you can be you and he can be him

But first you must withstand one more year

Within Mandela County

Under the cross

Just one more year

Yet you feel lost.

 I am but a structure

A man-made thing

yet I can see

All that happens within

I have seen funerals happen

I have seen tears fall

I have seen weddings

I have seen it all

 Yet the one sight I cannot bear

Is more than just a corpse's stare

It's a lost young child in an adult body

Hiding in a pew, because somebody

Made him feel unloved for what he was.

 Yet he is safe here.

The doors will not budge.

His refuge is his.

Hopefully that is enough.

[imbadatparking]

; your golden blood pours from the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet, stigmata symbolism flooding into your wrinkles and inlerfect skin and collecting into a puddle on the floor, as if i could kneel before you, cup my hands, and drink the bitter liquid. as if it could serve as my life force.

; you're sanctified, in my mind. i think if i took you off the pedestal i've placed you on, if i could see past your excuses and desperate pleas, i'd finally see what's right in front of me. my friends say there's something off about the whole situation, but what can i do when you're never wrong and are perfect in every feasible way.

; there's fallow in the fall and you caused it, but deep in my fragile bones, you feel like salvation. like if i cling to you as tight as judas clung to jesus, i can make the intangible tangible. if i can have your teeth scraping tongue, your molars, your irises, if i can breathe in your selfishly induced pain and relish in your compunctious cruelty, i can use your veins to paint myself in a softer light.

| k. - @nosebleedclub march i. sanctified

[blowflyy]

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[melandrops]

WHAT

curious about what's in store for you for 2024? :D

Let AO3 decide!

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[fefesoutsiderstuff]

TW: religious content but not in a preachy way. Just ritual gremlinry :)

I saw a hc that the Curtises were Catholic and I started thinking about Sugar’s confirmation name. I’m not Catholic but I have done some research and I settled on Olga after Olga of Kyiv.

Olga was a Kievan Rus princess and regent. Her husband was murdered by an enemy tribe. The tribe then proposed that Olga marry their prince. She “accepted” and then pranked them into getting killed. She changed her name to Elena after being baptized.

Sugar loves history, the Middle Ages, and badass women.

Mrs. Curtis was very confused and a little bit scared when Sugar announced that she wanted her confirmation name to be Olga. She did some research and suggested “How about you make your confirmation name Elena?”

Sugar rejected the idea because “No one knows who Elena of Kyiv is. They know Olga.”

[rainbow-bazaar-art-collective]

Made a thing for a friend <3

[cookinguptales]

So I’ve been enjoying the Disney vs. DeSantis memes as much as anyone, but like. I do feel like a lot of people who had normal childhoods are missing some context to all this.

I was raised in the Bible Belt in a fairly fundie environment. My parents were reasonably cool about some things, compared to the rest of my family, but they certainly had their issues. But they did let me watch Disney movies, which turned out to be a point of major contention between them and my other relatives.

See, I think some people think this weird fight between Disney and fundies is new. It is very not new. I know that Disney’s attempts at inclusion in their media have been the source of a lot of mockery, but what a lot of people don’t understand is that as far as actual company policy goes, Disney has actually been an industry leader for queer rights. They’ve had policies assuring equal healthcare and partner benefits for queer employees since the early 90s.

I’m not sure how many people reading this right now remember the early 90s, but that was very much not industry standard. It was a big deal when Disney announced that non-married queer partners would be getting the same benefits as the married heterosexual ones.

Like — it went further than just saying that any unmarried partners would be eligible for spousal benefits. It straight-up said that non-same-sex partners would still need to be married to receive spousal benefits, but because same-sex partners couldn’t do that, proof that they lived together as an established couple would be enough.

In other words, it put long-term same-sex partners on a higher level than opposite-sex partners who just weren’t married yet. It put them on the exact same level as heterosexual married partners.

They weren’t the first company ever to do this, but they were super early. And they were certainly the first mainstream “family-friendly” company to do it.

Conservatives lost their damn minds.

Protests, boycotts, sermons, the whole nine yards. I can’t tell you how many books about the evils of Disney my grandmother tried to get my parents to read when I was a kid.

When we later moved to Florida, I realized just how many queer people work at Disney — because historically speaking, it’s been a company that has guaranteed them safety, non-discrimination, and equal rights. That’s when I became aware of their unofficial “Gay Days” and how Christians would show up from all over the country to protest them every year. Apparently my grandmother had been upset about these days for years, but my parents had just kind of ignored her.

Out of curiosity, I ended up reading one of the books my grandmother kept leaving at our house. And friends — it’s amazing how similar that (terrible, poorly written) rhetoric was to what people are saying these days. Disney hires gay pedophiles who want to abuse your children. Disney is trying to normalize Satanism in our beautiful, Christian America. 

Just tons of conspiracy theories in there that ranged from “a few bad things happened that weren’t actually Disney’s fault, but they did happen” to “Pocahontas is an evil movie, not because it distorts history and misrepresents indigenous life, but because it might teach children respect for nature. Which, as we all know, would cause them all to become Wiccans who believe in climate change.”

Like — please, take it from someone who knows. This weird fight between fundies and Disney is not new. This is not Disney’s first (gay) rodeo. These people have always believed that Disney is full of evil gays who are trying to groom and sexually abuse children.

The main difference now is that these beliefs are becoming mainstream. It’s not just conservative pastors who are talking about this. It’s not just church groups showing up to boycott Gay Day. Disney is starting to (reluctantly) say the quiet part out loud, and so are the Republicans. Disney is publicly supporting queer rights and announcing company-supported queer events and the Republican Party is publicly calling them pedophiles and enacting politically driven revenge.

This is important, because while this fight has always been important in the history of queer rights, it is now being magnified. The precedent that a fight like this could set is staggering. For better or for worse, we live in a corporation-driven country. I don’t like it any more than you do, and I’m not about to defend most of Disney’s business practices. But we do live in a nation where rights are largely tied to corporate approval, and the fact that we might be entering an age where even the most powerful corporations in the country are being banned from speaking out in favor of rights for marginalized people… that’s genuinely scary.

Like… I’ll just ask you this. Where do you think we’d be now, in 2023, if Disney had been prevented from promising its employees equal benefits in 1994? That was almost thirty years ago, and look how far things have come. When I looked up news articles for this post from that era, even then journalists, activists, and fundie church leaders were all talking about how a company of Disney’s prominence throwing their weight behind this movement could lead to the normalization of equal protections in this country.

The idea of it scared and thrilled people in equal parts even then. It still scares and thrills them now.

I keep seeing people say “I need them both to lose!” and I get it, I do. Disney has for sure done a lot of shit over the years. But I am begging you as a queer exvangelical to understand that no. You need Disney to win. You need Disney to wipe the fucking floor with these people.

Right now, this isn’t just a fight between a giant corporation and Ron DeSantis. This is a fight about the right of corporations to support marginalized groups. It’s a fight that ensures that companies like Disney still can offer benefits that a discriminatory government does not provide. It ensures that businesses much smaller than Disney can support activism.

Hell, it ensures that you can support activism.

The fight between weird Christian conspiracy theorists and Disney is not new, because the fight to prevent any tiny victory for marginalized groups is not new. The fight against the normalization of othered groups is not new.

That’s what they’re most afraid of. That each incremental victory will start to make marginalized groups feel safer, that each incremental victory will start to turn the tide of public opinion, that each incremental victory will eventually lead to sweeping law reform.

They’re afraid that they won’t be able to legally discriminate against us anymore.

So guys! Please. This fight, while hilarious, is also so fucking important. I am begging you to understand how old this fight is. These people always play the long game. They did it with Roe and they’re doing it with Disney.

We have! To keep! Pushing back!

[titanicnerd-blog]

Chapters: 14/14 Fandom: Original Work Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Original Female Character(s) & Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s)/Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: Coming of Age, Religious Content, Nondenominational Christian, Best Friends, High School, Post-High School, College, Lung Cancer, Teen Romance, Teenage Drama, Graduation, Depression, Family Bonding, Sisters, Step-parents, Teen Angst, Heartbreak, mission trip, Original Character Death(s), Interns & Internships, Past Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Childhood Trauma, Weddings, Paris (City), Finding Love, Love Triangles, Love Confessions, Marriage Proposal, First Kiss, Complicated Relationships, Friendship/Love, Sisterly Love, Old Friends, Forgiveness, Healing, Angst with a Happy Ending, Eventual Happy Ending Summary:

Over the course of 10 years, Racheline Gresham goes from a naive teenager to a young woman, learning about herself and finding happiness and peace at last. Through her high school, college and professional life, she learns the meaning of life, how to love, how to sacrifice, and, most importantly, how to forgive herself.

[imbadatparking]

there's a line in a poem i love that reminds of the angel you ask about; it says "i had the sudden, mad notion that i wanted to be [his] lover". this poem is not about the collision of love and the desideratum it brings. the poem is about the scraping of a rock against a hollow cave, the feeling of mint in your mouth and water in your stomach as a means of distraction. however, bidart brings up the luck one can't rely on when searching for something deeper in life - the almost tangible feeling (and truly tangible when you reach out and touch her fingers) of what the meaning of life is, in accordance to society.

not many get to find it, they say, and when they do, it is very rarely that this person you cherish is the one. i want to know why we care so much; why we want to search the bottom of the bermuda and the top of everest when all this love is constantly surrounding us anyway. when it blossoms in the smell of day old rain and the taste of maple syrup and the simplicity of peeling and sharing an orange. we shouldn't need this fulfilled vision of a connected ideal that may not even exist; we should be able to see what we have and love and love and love anyway, regardless.

not many get to find it, they say, and i preach of the love around us, and in that i've found her. i've found her and i can't say she's the one but i love her and her eyes are green and yellow and brown and change color depending on the light. luck and love and she's the angel i didn't know i was looking for because i'm not religious. but she's here, and with me, and i have her, and i love her. i love her and i'd whisper it into the night a thousand times just to make her think it true.

Have you had contact with an angel?

[konigsblog]

TW: RELIGIOUS THEMES, STEPCEST, INTOXICATION, DUB-CON/NON-CON. DEAD DOVE: DO NOT EAT. MDNI 18+

Stepbrothers Simon, Kyle, and Johnny who force their religious, younger stepsister to get drunk with them. They continuously force alcohol down your throat until you're pathetically and drunkenly crying into Kyle's chest while Johnny rubs up against you.

Kyle cradles your skull and pushes his beer against your lips, getting lost in your half-lidded, drunken eyes. You don't even feel Simon slip inside your leaking cunt, or remember how you got into this position, with Johnny behind you, Gaz in front of you, and Simon beneath you. All you remember is feeling lost, absolutely dumbfounded when you couldn't find your cross necklace around your neck.

[shkika]

uh oh pebbles..

the sillies

[notaplaceofhonour]

I was raised in the People of Destiny cult (later renamed, and more well-known as, Sovereign Grace Ministries, now Sovereign Grace Churches).

The valorization of martyrdom and The End Times was so ubiquitous it was ambient noise. We stood in the church lobby theorizing about who the antichrist would be, we argued about whether Jesus would rapture us all before, after, or during the Tribulation Period where Satan would be given free reign over the earth. There was a strong Christian Zionist fixation on Israel as the final battleground and capital of the coming Messianic Age. But the one thing we were all certain of was is that we were in the End Times, that we were not of this world and couldn’t get too attached to our lives here.

We were raised to believe our sin nature made us undeserving of life, that we deserved death and eternal conscious torture.

My parents read us the Jesus Freaks books (a series by Christian Rap group DC Talk about martyrs). I spent “devotional time” reading Fox’s Book of Martyrs. We had guest speakers from Voice of the Martyrs, their pamphlets were often stocked in our church’s information center. We grew up with our dad listening to right wing talk radio and making us listen to songs about how the Godless atheists were outlawing Christianity in America, that we could all become martyrs soon.

The group’s theology was damaging & traumatic in a lot of other ways that contributed to the suicidality I have continued to struggle with for the rest of my life. For a long time I did not believe I would live past 20. There are times when the idea of giving my death meaning by using public suicide to make a political statement has appealed to me.

So now, seeing so many social media posts glorifying the suicide of a US Airman this week, I have been furious. Reading his social media posts, I recognize so much about the way I was raised in his all-or-nothing, black-or-white mindset, the valorization of death-seeking & martyrdom, and the apocalyptic fire-and-brimstone imagery of self-immolation. The moment I saw people I followed celebrating his self-immolation, I said to myself “this feels like a cult”

So when I learned he was raised in a cult too, nothing could have made more sense to me. His political orientation may have changed, but his mindset did not—it was no less extreme or cult-like.

I’ve talked about so many of the reasons this response from the broader left scares me, including how it’s laundering that airman’s antisemitic beliefs, but I cannot think of anything that would hit me in a more personal place than this specific response to this specific situation has.

When I see the images, I think: that could have been me. That scares me, and what scares me more is that so many prominent people are overwhelmingly sending the message to people like me that there is nothing else we can do that would have a more meaningful impact than killing ourselves for the cause.

I do not believe that. I will not even entertain it. And having to see his death over and over and over again, to argue against people who are treating this like an intellectual/moral exercise or a valid debate we all have to consider has been immensely triggering and fills me with a rage I rarely feel. It’s unconscionable that we are even putting self-harm on the table, and that pushing back against that is somehow controversial.

There is hope. Our lives do have meaning. There are far more effective means of fighting injustice. And the world is a better place for having you in it. Don’t fall into believing this is a way to give life purpose.

[psyzook]

OH MY FUCKING GOD- YES

I was looking at the reboots of this post from forever ago and just found this now. so sorry I was late to see this, but I absolutely love it @filthy-lil-bugger thank you very much!

There is something in this image that just makes me want to start worshiping this one specific photo. It’s a new age cross to my brain apparently.

[dollya-robinprotector]

honestly the slutty church outfits are kinda unsexy, you cant just put a cross on it and expect my priest kink to activate. you want to get in on priest and nun kink they sort of have to look like priests and nuns right? that shit is just lingerie man. im not saying its impossible to make a slutty priest/nun outfit im saying it just isnt done like that. but if anyone would have religious lingerie i guess it would be the dol church :/ still kinda disappointed and will probably imagine your designs over the ingame ones though

Wow, it's like I was sleep-walking and sending this to myself! Anon, you totally get me! :0000000000

Honestly, I think this might just be our preference. I, too, did not like those costumes. All I want is for at least you can still see that they're priest and nuns, not just some see-through clothes with crosses on it '''Ư _ Ư) At this rate I'm more looking forward to "proper" priest and nun clothes than kinky ones.

To me, what's appealing the most about religious kink is a feeling of secrecy and seriousness that cannot be tainted, especially for a priest. The more they cover the more I want to take it off, to defile it, that's why I said I can foam my mouth with just a default priest costume hhrrngghhh- Nun habit or dress can be modified in various ways, I love to do it, but priest robe or vestment can just stay the way they are. Ultimately I will always add more fabric to them than necessary lol.

Even that dress I drew for Kariya, you can't possibly call it a nun dress anymore. But hey, at least it's pretty, and it suits my taste XD

[aphidclan-clangen]

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