AGNUS DEI @apostaticlamb - Tumblr Blog

hiii, i'm veron and welcome to my weird relationship with religion blog. i was raised roman catholic, but i don't really subscribe to all of those beliefs anymore. i cycle through a few labels, like agnostic, atheist, irreligious, and deist. i like jesus' polycule and their peace-keeping fujoshi mary magdalene. i like the aesthetics of catholicism, and i'm a huge fan of the concept of saints. i'm not a fan of how religion has been weaponized to oppress others. i love being transgender and queer and nothing will ever change that.

TERFs, other bigots, zionists, and proselytizers will be beaten with clubs. peace be with you!

#mine #we're also gonna talk abt conclave here too :3

everydaylouie

St. Jerome

#rb #art #saints #st. jerome

br1ghtestlight

spent MONTHS looking for this stupid tumblr post bcuz i constantly want to reference it and it wouldn't come up no matter what i searched despite it being (what i thought) was a popular well-known tumblr post only to find that the original blog turned off reblogs and deactivated and that it only got 12k notes total. but im posting it anyway to preserve its legacy

#rb #the father

angel-derangement

“atheism is just its own religion” I don’t think that’s true “atheists will readily reconstruct the in vs out group dynamics and shame cycles of major religions” this we cannot possibly dispute

#rb

crazysodomite

christianity is not real anyways. it was invented for 14 year old furries to make ocs with halos and wings and shit

#rb

vexwerewolf

I genuinely think there was no greater insight into the modern Christian mindset than when the Pope said he very much hoped Hell was empty and he was absolutely hounded by both Catholics and Protestants outraged at the idea of a man who wanted a place of infinite suffering to have nobody in it.

#rb #popes #pope francis

lowpawly

I hate that like when arguing with christians about how they think that homosexuality is a sin because of the bible its a faux pas to be like ok well that's not real

#rb #the word #queerness #literally. it's a book several hundred years old that was just organized by ppl picking and choosing what messages they thought #would best fit their personal agenda #also ppl choosing what they thought was god's “true word” which is a whole different discussion involving hubris and judgement #which are often considered sins themselves #but whatever. i'm getting off-track

freakasaurus-rex

"google ai" "spotify ai dj" "ai assistant" "enhanced by ai" what if i just start beating people over the head with a rock

marlinspirkhall

Cain

#rb

noknowshame

every tumblr post in 2025 reads like this:

◼️jesus-sidewound

man I am having a great day today

◼️the-fingerer

:)

◼️jesus-sidewound

:(

#rb #the son

hi all, yes i’m alive <3 the conclave hyperfix just died lol

#mine #waves at you. i’m okay!!

jellybeanium124

there's a jewish story about a rich man who goes to his rabbi to ask him about building an orphanage, and the rabbi is like "yeah duh go for it!!" and then later the rich guy comes back and is like "actually I've decided not to... I was just doing it for my own image and not coz I cared about orphans" and the rabbi was like "bitch the orphans don't care why you're building the orphanage!!!" and sometimes I wish I could say that to lefties who haven't unpacked their christian upbringing. sometimes motives don't matter!! who give a fuck why a politician wants to do a good thing? bitch the orphans don't!!

stinkweed-imp

This bumps up directly against the deep-seated christian beliefs that a) actually yes the reasons do matter and if you do good deeds for sinful reasons it's just as bad as doing bad deeds, and b) charity should only be the domain of the church. eg it's all well and good for the church to run a soup kitchen, but if some wealthy pensioner who's bored after retirement does it instead? That's suspicious, he's trying to turn the needy away from god, or he's trying to inflate his own ego, or he could even be acting from the pure unalloyed goodness of his heart and love for his fellow human beings, but the devil is still working through him.

And keeping all this in mind I look at the current state of disk horse online and I'm like. huh. A lot of these folks grew up christian probably

#rb

maalidoesart

what do you know of war?

#rb #conclave #art #benitez #lawrence

offwegointothewildblueyonder

conclave is so very good because it asks the important questions - what does it mean to mourn someone you never really knew? can you ever chase power and remain the person you were? can you hold onto faith even as it is tested time and time again? do british people deserve to be happy? and so on

#rb #conclave

mclennonyaoi

they’re doing slutty nun discourse on twitter

mclennonyaoi

people really love to believe that modesty, especially religious modesty, exists in a vacuum . when the truth of it is that modesty is extremely sexual lol

mclennonyaoi

like obviously don’t sexualize real nuns . whatever . i can agree with that. but people are going beyond that trying to protect. like . the concept of a nun and fictional nuns from sexualization like oh ok i see what this is now

mclennonyaoi

in a lot of christian spaces you’ll see people advocating for modesty for children, especially children as low as 2, to teach them early. ESPECIALLY girls, who are told they need to pull their shirts down, close their legs, wear a dress, etc . and a lot of christians who participate in this will tell you that modesty isn’t only a physical thing- it’s the way they act, think, show respect. but by treating their bodies as inherently sexual and “immodest” sinful things that need to be covered up. it becomes sexual . it doesn’t matter how much clothing you put on your child, you are sexualizing them.

mclennonyaoi

i think people have this idea that sexualization is like . only when a woman with big boobs wears a bikini . when sexualization actually has more to do with the incredibly prevalent misogyny in our culture and the way that it is enforced on womens bodies and womens choices . like sexualization doesn’t stop and end at what someone wears . and that definitely extends to the concept of “modesty” and how that’s enforced as well.

#rb

onthearrow

One of my favorite things about Lawrence/Lomeli is how well-liked he is. In the film he's familiar with everyone and seems to be trusted; in the book he waits in the cold to welcome each cardinal to the conclave and is then constantly worried about remembering everybody's names, etc.. And then he sits there and laments about how all he can do is manage and how useless that makes him when in reality his care and social skills have made him dear to many (at least that's how I interpret it!)

Like let's not forget that the Dean of the College of Cardinals is an ELECTED position, the man is a gentleman! You go Lawrence with your impeccable soft skills!!

#rb #conclave #lawrence #in a way a manager is still a shepherd #he just shepherds the shepherds