Coyote teeth

Leona - she/her- poetry and religious ramblings

[irishironclad]

Look if you’re going to argue against my religion you could at least argue against my religion and not a denomination I don’t believe in or some wackadoodle version you made up in your head

[pro-birth]

Abstinence education MUST be based on a foundation of respect for self and others, and a sense of responsibility towards sex and how it can affect you and others. It can NOT be based on fear of sex, making sex an activity that “dirties” you, or something that turns virginity into a prize that makes you “pure.”

[tatumsdrawing]

Every time I see one

[coyote-teeth-poetry]

It feels like empowerment to sell yourself, but you are still being bought

[unsentimentaltranslator]

Also since the overwhelming majority of prostituted women want out, I don’t buy that it even does feel like empowerment.

[fordexplorereddiebaueredition]

You give male desires the power to feed you, you also give male desires the power to starve you

[coyote-teeth-poetry]

It feels like empowerment to sell yourself, but you are still being bought

[purpleisnotacolor]

some people will be like "ah yes, purity culture comes from the puritans, which were fanatic Christians, so purity culture comes from christian doctrine, and the two are basically synonymous", and then unknowingly praise Christians for expression the counter-christian ideas of... grace and forgiveness and not needing to be perfect.

[coyote-teeth-poetry]

My faith is a thing with claws and teeth 

It howls like a starving dog

My religion’s alive, it craves fresh meat

I’m hungry for my God

Tearing through flesh, I search for salvation

Grace is a bone to bite into

Apathy reeks of a rotting damnation

I’m desperate for something to chew 

[coyote-teeth-poetry]

Hey just wanted to let you know that everything’s ok, I checked. The parking lot was full at the library on a Wednesday, and an old couple was walking arm in arm, the lady had a book and was telling the man about it. A mom helped her little girl step up on the curb and balance on it. It wasn’t easy because her backpack was almost as big as herself. I also checked the park, and a family was there watching their kid ride on his heelys. Do you remember those? A pair of friends walked their dogs together, and a brother helped his baby sibling up after they fell. There were ducks, and trees, and people, and not everything was online and bad. So yeah, just in case you were wondering. I checked and everything’s good :)

[coyote-teeth-poetry]

Saint Joan of Arc

Saint Jeanne D’arc hangs round my neck

And looks with metal eye

I hear the voice of angels wept

And cried the girl divine

“You’re blessed, you know,” I tell her

As she raises up her fist

“To burn for something holy

And to greet it with a kiss”

Saint Jeanne D’arc does not respond

She’s burning ever still

The pain is not in touching God

But the fear you never will

[fairtradebananas]

“God poured me out like milk and curdled me like cheese” sounds like a post you’d find on tumblr dot com, but it is in fact Job 10:10

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

I love the Christ Child. The Divine Babe. Just like, as an image. This is a baby, barely even 2 years old. Angelic warriors attend his birth. Pagan astrologers, the advisors to kings and emperors, journey miles and miles at great expense to worship this child. The King of the Babe's hometown, is so threatened by the birth of this infant, that he commits an infanticide. The divine babe must become an immigrant - a stranger in a strange land.

In the city of Rome, the capital of the World, there is a man, Caesar Augustus, who claims to be the son of a god. But he is about to be challenged. By a baby in a manger.

[apilgrimpassingby]

Now the virginity of Mary was hidden from the prince of this world, as was also her offspring, and the death of the Lord; three mysteries of renown, which were wrought in silence by God. How, then, was He manifested to the world? A star shone forth in heaven above all the other stars, the light of which was inexpressible, while its novelty struck men with astonishment. And all the rest of the stars, with the sun and moon, formed a chorus to this star, and its light was exceedingly great above them all. And there was agitation felt as to whence this new spectacle came, so unlike to everything else [in the heavens]. Hence every kind of magic was destroyed, and every bond of wickedness disappeared; ignorance was removed, and the old kingdom abolished, God Himself being manifested in human form for the renewal of eternal life. And now that took a beginning which had been prepared by God. Henceforth all things were in a state of tumult, because He meditated the abolition of death.

St. Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle to the Ephesians 19

[coyote-teeth-poetry]

Catholicism is just: believing everyone is worth saving, prayer beads and candles, seeing God in nature, seeing God in yourself, in others, in bread and wine, the sea and the stars are a reflection of our mother, there is divinity in the disgusting, God is not some abstract idea, he is real and touches you physically, he crawls inside you and you are made holy, the dead are your family, you have never felt more loved by God, you have never felt more hated by something else you can’t place, what even is catholic guilt, if this is guilt I’m feeling I never want to be absolved, I need to be forgiven and I already am, the world tells me I don’t need Him, but I’m sick to my bones with the ache of it.

[smol-catholic-bean]

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[coyote-teeth-poetry]

:D so cool!!!

[coyote-teeth-poetry]

her name is LUCE and she LOVES you <3

[coyote-teeth-poetry]

You look at God and curse him for the evil in the world. As if He were the cause of fires and floods and wars. You don’t understand that darkness is the absence of light, and evil is the absence of God. It creeps in when He is away. All things good in this life are His presence. Is the air at fault when someone drowns at sea? Or is it simply a mad dash for the surface, and you don’t know which way is up. 

[coyote-teeth-poetry]

people will say religion oppresses women because they cannot comprehend a woman being liberated without being sexualized. They don’t understand the idea of a woman finding freedom outside of men’s desire for her, instead of leaning into it.

A woman veiling or wearing a hijab or mitpahat, or any kind of modesty, isn’t men oppressing her, it’s her finding value and freedom in God, not men. God sees the inherent value of her outside of what she can give to men.

Stop telling women they are oppressed by their religion.

[unsentimentaltranslator]

Why do those rules only apply to women? And why are the only possible options here "woman wears modesty garments that men aren't expected to wear" and "woman wears sexualising garments that men aren't expected to wear"?

[meepertonton]

Why isn't her value considered to be present regardless of her adornment and clothing? Why are these things even considered related to her value in any way?

[coyote-teeth-poetry]

you’ve made a good point. Of course she has value outside of her clothing. And of course she has inherent value no matter how she dresses. I hope that it didn’t come across like I was saying otherwise. My point is the idea in culture that modesty is bad. How a woman dresses in no way is tied to her value, but how a society views her for dressing is telling on how that society functions and works.

One that promotes modesty to an extreme is using it as a form of control. It views women like a precious object that you don’t want someone else to steal. One that discourages it, views women like a painting. Something beautiful for other people to look at.

One is about control, the other is about consumption.

A woman is only ever really free from this when she realizes her worth outside of what others think of her. Some women find that in themselves, others in God. Both should be respected.

[coyote-teeth-poetry]

people will say religion oppresses women because they cannot comprehend a woman being liberated without being sexualized. They don’t understand the idea of a woman finding freedom outside of men’s desire for her, instead of leaning into it.

A woman veiling or wearing a hijab or mitpahat, or any kind of modesty, isn’t men oppressing her, it’s her finding value and freedom in God, not men. God sees the inherent value of her outside of what she can give to men.

Stop telling women they are oppressed by their religion.

[unsentimentaltranslator]

Why do those rules only apply to women? And why are the only possible options here "woman wears modesty garments that men aren't expected to wear" and "woman wears sexualising garments that men aren't expected to wear"?

[coyote-teeth-poetry]

You’ve created a false dichotomy here. Of course the only two options aren’t: cover yourself completely, or: reveal yourself completely. Also it’s not down to the specific garments, I was just pointing out popular symbols of modesty across different cultures. I was commenting on the people who believe modesty is oppressive and that women’s liberation has to look a certain way. This response is just looking for things I didn’t explicitly imply, to try and criticize me for not saying them.

Constructive criticism is good, and I would appreciate it. But apply it to the things I did say, instead of the stuff I didn’t.