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i have to migrate blogs because I deadass can't find my fuvking login information and can't change anything I need to! this sucks!!!!
my pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand
bi women in relationships with men are still positive bi rep because they still feature a bi character and are accurate to the bi experience and that’s that.
thanks for coming to my ted talk.
A scrimblo and her bimbinis,,,
god seeing people afraid to id as ace/aro because "what if it is just a phase? what if it is just hormones? what if it is just mental illness? what if I do find "the right person?"" makes me so righteously angry because I promise you, I promise no one in the community is going to revoke your aspec card on account of hypotheticals. if someone told you that then the stupid motherfucker lied to you. you do not look at water and go "well I'm not sure if I should drink this, because if the temperature drops below zero, it'll turn to ice." relax. let yourself just be. drink the water if you're thirsty. because it's water right now. doesn't matter if it'll be ice by tomorrow, or mist by next tuesday. it's water and you can drink it if you want to.
the little dots that are in my vision at all times when i stand up
Bruh it’s not that hard to let go of Harry Potter why does it have such a gorilla grip on some of u people. “It’s a cultural phenomenon” okay? it’ll never be SpongeBob.
Do u want to be transgender friends online
m mm madoka!!!
Reminder that nonbinary people are in fact… trans? Like you don’t need to list “nonbinary people and trans people” separately. It’s okay, we know that we’re trans. We’re already included. Come on.
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I think many of y’all need to be educated about the concept of lateral aggression because too many of y’all think that being marginalized yourself gives you a free pass to act completely fucked up towards other marginalized people, even ones in your own community that you share marginalization with, because you’re under the false impression that your behavior isn’t harmful on any meaningful level and that’s not true. Not in the slightest.
Too many of y’all wield your marginalized identity like a shield to try to minimize and justify your behavior and that is causing active harm to the rest of us while simultaneously making it easier for our oppressors to continue oppressing us. Knock it off and get over your bully complexes. The world is not your playground and your behavior is causing tangible harm to those you come in contact with.
The lack of self awareness of some of the people reblogging this is so fucking wild, holy shit.
So let me make this clear:
• If you’re a queer/lgbt person who is exclusionary towards people on the ace and aro spectrums, bi people, pansexual people, nonbinary people, people who use neopronouns or xenogender labels, etc, this is about you.
• Going with the point above, if you’re a queer/lgbt person who engages in transmisogyny (looking at you terfs) or any other form of transphobia, this is about you.
• If you’re a non black poc who regularly shits on black people while trying to bring attention to issues your community faces, this is about you.
• If you’re black and think you can say whatever the fuck you want about other non black races just because you’re not white, this is about you.
• If you’re a neurodivergent person who shits on physically disabled people or vice versa, this is about you.
• If you’re a radfem, especially of the swerf variety, this is about you.
• Non Christians who engage in antisemetism, this is about you.
The list could go on. The point is that regardless of your own marginalization, you still have the ability to contribute to the marginalization of others. Your marginalized identity doesn’t make you immune to needing to check yourself for whatever privilege you do have. Literally every single one of us has work to do on ourselves when it comes to tearing down systems of oppression. The responsibility is not only on our oppressors and those with privilege over us.
Spirit Animal is racist.
Patronus was invented by a transphobe.
I think it’s time we all suck it up and say what we mean: fursona.
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Okay, I keep seeing posts in this same vein and no discussion is ever offered, so I’ll bite. To an extent that makes sense, because religions are so different. At the same time, they all have certain commonalities, or they would not all be classifiable as religions, and these “You only know and actually have a problem with Christianity!” posts seem to ignore that.
Things I, as an atheist brought up exposed almost exclusively to Christian beliefs, dislike about “religion”:
Encourages having certain values/morals/behaviours out of faith/because the religion’s philosophy espouses them, rather than due to arriving at those through some process of reasoning
The above discourages the development of critical thinking skills and encourages fundamentalist thinking and refusal to adapt to new information
Taught to children from a young age, who therefore don’t really get to consciously choose to follow the religion
Difficult to opt out of (as an adult or otherwise) without facing judgement or social consequences (depending on the community)
Offers origin myths that clash with scientific education, except where support of science is sufficient to resist it (in a constant, exhausting tug-of-war), at which point the goalposts are shifted and the origin myths are reframed as being “metaphorical”
Sometimes results in, frankly, extremely creepy self-absorbed cult-like behaviour wherein even strangers on the internet will randomly quote religious verses at you during an argument and just expect that everyone around them, like... cares what their religious text says about this issue. How is this not an absolutely terrifying level detachment from reality?
Are these perceptions shaped almost exclusively by contact with Christianity? Sure. But as far as I can see, large, organised religions share most if not all of those characteristics - in fact, it would be hard for them not to, as many of these are central to a religion keeping itself alive above all others. If I’m wrong, by all means tell me? Let’s actually discuss this instead of just bad faith regurgitations of “Atheists are so silly, they think all religions are like Christianity!”
So this is mostly from what I’ve gleaned as an outsider watching Jewish discussions about this and from my background as Vaguely Protestant, and I’m sure other religions will have their own views here. Now:
Encourages having certain values/morals/behaviours out of faith/because the religion’s philosophy espouses them, rather than due to arriving at those through some process of reasoning
Christianity. Judaism encourages certain behaviors because it’s The Right Thing To Do and doing the right thing is its own reward rather than Because God Says So And You’ll Get To Go To Heaven.
The above discourages the development of critical thinking skills and encourages fundamentalist thinking and refusal to adapt to new information
Dogmatism, not inherent to religion exclusively. For bonus points, Judaism actively encourages critical thinking about the torah.
Taught to children from a young age, who therefore don’t really get to consciously choose to follow the religion
On some level everything is taught to children from a young age, including nondenominational morals. That said, most protestant Christian streams that I know of will have a moment where the child’s religion stops being That Thing Mom Makes Me Do and starts being “Do you as a human person believe in this too?”, which makes proceeding a conscious choice.
Difficult to opt out of (as an adult or otherwise) without facing judgement or social consequences (depending on the community)
“depending on the community” is doing a lot of legwork here. Do you know how my mom stopped being an active Christian? She stopped going. Boom, done. She still had her family and church-friends and nobody gave a shit. There are definitely Asshole Religious People who will see people leaving as betrayal, but there are Assholes about everything in that aspect. Vegans switching to low-omnivore diets for health, car-people switching to different cars, people leaving for a different company. It’s unfair and not useful to posit this as inherent and exclusive to religion.
Offers origin myths that clash with scientific education, except where support of science is sufficient to resist it (in a constant, exhausting tug-of-war), at which point the goalposts are shifted and the origin myths are reframed as being “metaphorical”
The idea that religion and science are inherently contradictory is as recent as the 19th century, popularized primarily by John William Draper and Andrew Dickson White. Before that, they were thought to be complementary and largely the same thing. If they were found to be contradictory, well, then either one of them was being misinterpreted or we didn’t know the full picture yet.
Furthermore, this is basically exclusively a feature of Fundamentalist Christianity. The Baháʼí faith holds as its fundamental tenent that true science and the true faith cannot be in conflict. As per the son of its founder, “religion without science is superstition and that science without religion is materialism”.
In Hinduism, the division of objective sciences and spiritual knowledge is a linguistic paradox. The two are interwoven to the point where Hindu religious scholarism and scientific advancements were basically the same thing. Many Hindu scriptures are also scientific manuals, and vice-versa. As per Hindu sages, logical argument and rational proof using Nyaya (one of the six orthodox schools of Hinduism, roughly meaning "justice" or “rules") is the way to obtain correct knowledge about faith.
Buddhism actively encourages the impartial investigation of nature, and has a strong emphasis on causality, as does science, and Tenzin Gyatso has stated that if buddhist teachings and science are in conflict, science supercedes the teachings. "My confidence in venturing into science lies in my basic belief that as in science, so in Buddhism, understanding the nature of reality is pursued by means of critical investigation."
In Islam, science is considered linked to the concept of being one with God, and nature and science are not seen as separate from religion but as a part of it and as a method of understanding God’s work better. Science was well-studied in the pre-colonization Islamic world, and it’s not a coincidence that the world’s first university was founded by a muslim woman (Fatima bint Muhammad Al-Fihriya Al-Qurashiya) in modern-day Morocco, starting as a mosque but turning into a place of education for more than just Islam. Ibn al-Haytham, also a Muslim, was actually one of the first people to hold the idea that that a hypothesis must be proven by experiments that were repeatable by anyone or proven by mathematical evidence, basically inventing the scientific method 200 years before Renaissance scientists. “I constantly sought knowledge and truth, and it became my belief that for gaining access to the effulgence and closeness to God, there is no better way than that of searching for truth and knowledge.” Islam is also home to the Ahmadiyya movement, which emphasizes that there is zero contradiction between Islam and science", and also 100% supports evolution as the method God used and uses to create new species.
Just because vocal Fundamentalists have decided that their form of [religion here] is the One True Truth, their creation story is Exactly How It Happened, and science is some sort of conspiracy, doesn’t mean every religion is in contrast with science and believes everything happened exactly how it was written.
Sometimes results in, frankly, extremely creepy self-absorbed cult-like behaviour wherein even strangers on the internet will randomly quote religious verses at you during an argument and just expect that everyone around them, like... cares what their religious text says about this issue. How is this not an absolutely terrifying level detachment from reality?
Sooo what type of religion specifically has been quoting reigious texts and verses as a “gotcha”? Because I’m gonna make a wild guess here and say that it probably wasn’t Jainism.
But as far as I can see, large, organised religions share most if not all of those characteristics - in fact, it would be hard for them not to, as many of these are central to a religion keeping itself alive above all others.
Most religions aren’t interested in forcing others to conform or lifting themselves above all others. Judaism in particular is like “If you want to join us go for it, but it’s gotta be your choice to seek us out”. I also feel like it’s very disingenuous to blame religion instead of the shitheads abusing religion to force other people into their sphere of influence.
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At the same time, they all have certain commonalities, or they would not all be classifiable as religions,
There’s actually a movement by non-Christian religions to redefine it because the Western definition of ‘religion’ includes aspects that are not universal. Judaism does not mandate belief as part of being Jewish, and Hindu atheists still follow many of the rituals because they see them as separate from faith.
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TL;DR if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s probably fundamentalist Christianity.
It erases a LOT of marginalized religions. Off the top of my head, most of these don’t even remotely apply to indigenous religions, for instance. (And given how much harm has been done to the people of those cultures by Christians, it’s really shitty to lump them in with Christianity.) I dunno, man. It seems like you’re kind of doing the fundamentalist Christians’ work for them if you’re choosing to equate ALL religions and anyone who believes in stuff beyond the physical with their fucked up cult. It benefits them if people think religion and spirituality are just SUPPOSED TO BE abusive and controlling.
Because I ALWAYS assign colors to my mutuals in my head and want to know if other folks do this too I have a game:
Reblog this with the color you associate with the person you reblogged this from.