[heidelbro]

“Protestant” is often used as a catch-all, but it flattens the depth of protestantism. There are many types of protestants. Presbyterians. Lutherans. Baptists. Continental reformed. Methodists. The Society of St Pius X.

[chapel-roach]

"why are you a christian when they hate queer people?"

well 1) your experiences are not universal and 2)

i do actually believe this stuff. i do believe that God created the universe. i do believe he spoke to the jewish people and made an eternal covenant with them, and i do believe he incarnated himself as a human and was born of a human woman. i do believe he became a religious teacher, traveling around the land we now call the levant. i do believe he was murdered but then came back to life three days later. i do believe that the descendants of his students have more or less kept the faith of their elders since then, and i believe that god still guides them in spirit today. i do believe that the dead will be raised to eternal life to live with God.

some of these things i believe more or less depending on the day, but it's the story i cling to, and i didn't get to choose that that's what gives my life meaning. i don't get to just drop it because sometimes it's socio-culturally inconvenient. because it's what i believe. some of us really do believe in things

[hatsforsheep]

my faith has been described perfectly. im reminded of what john neville figgis wrote.

Christianity may be true or false, but it makes claims subversive of all the rationalist projections of life. It rests on presuppositions which cannot by any ingenuity be reconciled with any view which denies the miraculous, the unique, the individual. Its whole meaning comes from a faith in a life of spirits behind the veil. It cannot without hopeless error be confused with those systems which deny such a life or treat it as impersonal.

and

[The written account of Jesus] is incomplete, unchronological, unscientific, if you will; but the impression is always the same, the weird mingling of the homely and the far-off, the strange romantic tenderness for things human and little, the passion of faith; and the unbroken calm all intertwined with that power to do things, to make wonders, leaves us, as it left his earliest friends, in suspense. "What manner of man is this?" Stranger [...] to our age. He was strange to His own, so strange that men were driven either to crucify Him or else to take up the Cross themselves.

[chapel-roach]

"why are you a christian when they hate queer people?"

well 1) your experiences are not universal and 2)

i do actually believe this stuff. i do believe that God created the universe. i do believe he spoke to the jewish people and made an eternal covenant with them, and i do believe he incarnated himself as a human and was born of a human woman. i do believe he became a religious teacher, traveling around the land we now call the levant. i do believe he was murdered but then came back to life three days later. i do believe that the descendants of his students have more or less kept the faith of their elders since then, and i believe that god still guides them in spirit today. i do believe that the dead will be raised to eternal life to live with God.

some of these things i believe more or less depending on the day, but it's the story i cling to, and i didn't get to choose that that's what gives my life meaning. i don't get to just drop it because sometimes it's socio-culturally inconvenient. because it's what i believe. some of us really do believe in things

[rabbitrah]

Thinking about how I sat in chapel 3x per week every week from ages 11-18 with a giant crucifix looming over me.

[rabbitrah]

Literally just:

[hatsforsheep]

<- made a mess of her face crying at the eucharist again award

[eesirachs]

dead dove but it’s me warning you about the bible

[hatsforsheep]

"dead dove, do eat" - ezekiel 3:3

He said to me, “Mortal, eat this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it.” Then I ate it, and in my mouth it was as sweet as honey.

[speakthewordonly]

at a certain point it becomes almost too much like what. God made himself be born as our brother and gave us his sweet mother as our own and he walked on the earth with his real feet and breathed our air and we spit in his face and he is devastatingly in love with us and feeds us his blood. how do we go about the rest of our mundane daily life knowing this. the answer of course being that God sanctified the rest of our mundane daily life by joining in it in the Incarnation.

[demigirl-in-christ]

according to my catholic calendar, St Paul is a patron saint of writers and authors. does that also make him a patron saint of fanfic writers by way of transitive property?

[hatsforsheep]

the ao3 reviews are in

[hatsforsheep]

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sometimes i see posts like this a few degrees of separation away from me and blink

seeing a guy admit that that childhood is similar to slavery is so mask off. that the most salient point to be made in his mind is not "this might be why children are especially vulnerable to their parents" but rather "i need to explain why they Need to Still Obey" is deeply cynical. one must wonder how this might affect his responses towards child abuse. one must wonder what this person would have thought about slavery if he was on the wrong side of those "external social developments."

also hats off for making me appreciate paul because paul grounds marriage in creation and *christ*. "For no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body." christ is the second adam and he brought humanity closer to god than we were at creation. the highest marriage is not found in the "anthropological value" of a husband and wife. the highest marriage is between the church and christ. that the specificity of mortal marriage is not a direct one-to-one match for the marriage between the church and christ should be a pretty acceptable conclusion for these types of guys because they would faint hearing about medieval side wound adoration. but they reify a deliberately vague hierarchy for casuistry and leave the potential of godly love uninvestigated.

[hatsforsheep]

[psalmlover]

madonna of the americas, pray for us

source: pinterest user blaircaleb

[eesirachs]

faith is not a thing you consent to

[yanguang]

pronoun 老子..

[hatsforsheep]

[allaboutmary]

Women in traditional Purepecha dress carry the image of the Virgin Mary through the streets. Feast of the Assumption, Michoacan Mexico. This picture is courtesy of Ilhuicamina on Flickr. His photostream is a treasure trove of Mexican culture and customs. Ilhuicamina’s page

[speakthewordonly]

[sacredheart-stigmata]

keep seeing people online talking about how horrific it is that the united states military's list of recognized religious beliefs inside the military just dropped from 211 to 31, how it's a violation of religious freedom and religious protection for soldiers, etc, etc, when the biggest problem here is: why are they serving in the united states military in the first place