All apologists are fools or grifters

HI! I'm Solidarity. This is where I'll put my queer religious Christian-adjacent things. My main is @be-they-do-crimes

[god-is-queerer]

God took the woman from Adams side

but not side like rib

side like the side of a mountain

God split the first human in half

perhaps one side larger than the other

but of equal flesh

and told them not to eat the fruit in the center of the garden

and then the snake came

he said "you can be like God"

making it literally the oldest trick in the book

"you can be beautiful" says the makeup company

implying that you are not already

but you see when the human was alone they were lonely

and lesser beings could not satiate that longing

and the human was made in God's image

you were made in God's image

and God had such a desire too, in the beginning

but not after the human

God is content with you

with your companionship

"you can be like God"

says the serpent

and the true fall

was that you ever believed

that was not

already

the case

[god-is-queerer]

yk I was thinking about the second creation narrative in Genesis and the whole "its Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve" thing

(which no one serious considers a legitimate point of theology, but a lot of people do spread homophobia on the basis of the idea that heterosexuality is "God's design" and point to this story as support of that)

And it occurred to me that that argument really falls apart when you consider that earlier in the story, God tried to pair Adam with the entire animal kingdom first.

like.

I'm not saying that the Abrahamic God prefers bestiality to heterosexuality. but the people who use the story as an argument about the righteous state of human sexuality are at least... kind of implying it, right?

[sacredheart-stigmata]

“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’ “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

It is not enough for ICE to be 'defunded'. It must be abolished, on all levels. Slave catchers must be stripped of all power, and the lowest and least of us must be upheld and protected. Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison

(Christ Breaks the Rifle by Kelly Latimore // Matthew 25: 31-46)

[stoptheearthletmeoff]

"oh you think john the beloved was queer?" i think the entire message of the bible is a queer one

[beemovieerotica]

please actually watch this all the way through

[cherryfleischer-deactivated2026]

I'm starting to understand why depictions of mohammed in islam are forbidden

[mysharona1987]

[disgruntledexplainer]

And the eye cannot say to the hand: I need not thy help; nor again the head to the feet: I have no need of you. Yea, much more those that seem to be the more feeble members of the body, are more necessary. And such as we think to be the less honourable members of the body, about these we put more abundant honour; and those that are our uncomely parts, have more abundant comeliness. But our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, giving to that which wanted the more abundant honour, That there might be no schism in the body; but the members might be mutually careful one for another.

-1 Corinthians 12:21-25

[periwinkledragons-deactivated20]

What is even the point of being a follower of Christ if we aren't serious about it? If we only remember God exists when he says something sweet and easy? Everyone wants manna but no one wants to walk through the desert.

[ohholydyke]

Everyone wants manna but no one wants to walk through the desert 🤝 Everyone wants a revolution but no one wants to do the dishes

[periwinkledragons-deactivated20]

What is even the point of being a follower of Christ if we aren't serious about it? If we only remember God exists when he says something sweet and easy? Everyone wants manna but no one wants to walk through the desert.

[ohholydyke]

Everyone wants manna but no one wants to walk through the desert 🤝 Everyone wants a revolution but no one wants to do the dishes

[god-is-queerer]

Lord, burn away all obligation in me until all that is left is desire.

[garden-hymn-deactivated20251105]

obsessed with this passage from Christian Mysticism Today by William Johnston: "And do not think that to enter the mystery of Christ is to escape from the world. Again I say that the mystery of Christ is centered on His cross. This means that it is the mystery of the poor, the sick, the afflicted, the deranged, the imprisoned, the dying, and all those suffering people with whom Jesus identifies. It is the mystery of the exploited, the manipulated, the terrorized, the oppressed. It is the mystery of nuclear war, of hunger, of injustice, of human anguish. It is the mystery of you and me when we suffer and when we sin. Christian mystical experience, far from flying from the suffering and sinful world, is an entrance into its very heart."

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

"be not afraid"

demanding

you have no right to control another person's feelings

does not provide a productive alternative

"when you hide behind that rock I feel as though you don't appreciate the fact that I came all this way to deliver the word of god"

statement of fact

not pushy

opens conversation to productive compromise

emotionally aware

[a-queer-seminarian]

“I do know of one preacher who…suggested that the Christian way was one among many ways to God (a wave and not the ocean), because afterward a man came up to her and said, ‘If God isn’t partial to Christianity, what am I doing here?’

…As natural as it may be to want to play on the winning team, the wish to secure divine favoritism strikes me as the worst possible reason to practice any religion. If the man who asked that question could not think of a dozen better reasons to be a Christian than that, then what, indeed, was he doing there?

An old story is told about Rabia of Basra, an eighth-century Sufi mystic who was seen running through the streets of her city one day carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she said she wanted to burn down the rewards of paradise with the torch and put out the fires of hell with the water, because both blocked the way to God. ‘O, Allah,’ Rabia prayed, ‘if I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell, and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. But if I worship You for Your own sake, grudge me not Your everlasting Beauty.’ 

In Christian tradition this comes under the heading of unconditional love, though it is usually understood as the kind of love God exercises toward humans instead of the other way around. Now, thanks to a Muslim mystic from Iraq, I have a new way of understanding what it means to love God unconditionally. Whenever I am tempted to act from fear of divine punishment or hope of divine reward, Rabia leans over from her religion into mine and empties a bucket of water on my head.”

- Barbara Brown Taylor in Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

[lgbtqafaith]

Brisbane Cathedral ❤️💛💚💙💜

*please do not use without permission

[god-is-queerer]

God Responds to the Angry Man¹

I am right here, My child

you ask why as though it were true

you ask why as though

your anguish is proof enough of My absence

as though I would force you to bear this trial

without the solace of your anger

as though I gave you this trial

as though I did not tell you

that your actions would lead you here

as though it is the fault of the map

that you took the road to destruction

and arrived at your destination

as though I did not learn in the flood

not to save My children at any cost

as though I am not here with you

feeling your anger more deeply than My own

as though I do not hold

the anger of all you have hurt

who shall I cry out to, little one?

We are all that is and all that will be

yet when I cry out (to you)

there is no answer

¹ Heb adam, sometimes translated to 'human'

[traumacatholic]

"Pope Francis said during an interview one time that he fell asleep during prayer. The interviewer asked him whether that was allowed, and he said that fathers always love it when their children fall asleep in their arms. That always stuck with me. Rest in peace." [x]

[beguines]

Do I actually believe in the true reality of the resurrection? Did Jesus come back to life?

I don't know. Does it matter?

What I do know is that I would stake my life on it. I believe in mystery and wonder. I believe that systems of murder and oppression do not have the final word. I believe in life, in compost, in the seedling lingering under the snow. I believe in the provocative and dangerous power of resurrection. I believe that resurrection is something we practise with our lives. I believe it looks like justice. I believe it is born of struggle.

Lydia Wylie-Kellerman, "Do I Believe in the Resurrection?", Geez Magazine, Issue 60: Signs of Dawn