Love Yourself

Gina || 27 || Germany || ex-JW || pomo

[anonymousanomalyinthebuilding]

[jehovahs-bitches]

Merry Christmas to everyone who has to spend the holiday season alone. You are so very loved!

[deservedgrace]

one of the cult scholars i listen to said "most children are not being raised to die" months ago and i still think "being raised to die" sums up growing up in fundamentalist christianity so well.

my friends and i didn't know if we would grow up to be adults. we would have conversations about wanting the chance to be an adult and knew we were """selfish""" for wanting to live if it wasn't in god's plan. we were raised to believe that we would either be killed for being a christian (in the us no less) or that jesus was coming soon (rapture/end times theology). we knew it was "sinful" to want something outside of god's plan but we couldn't help ourselves.

we were members of the lord's army. we were to obey orders and lay down our life if necessary. "this life is just a test" they'd say. "our real life is our eternal life with the lord." none of this is real, it's just a test. if you pass, you get into heaven. if you fail, you're sent to eternal damnation and hellfire. this is an open book test, we've been given all the answers already. if you fail, it's your own fault.

being raised to die means that your future doesn't matter. jesus is coming soon. jesus is what matters. "set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. for you died, and your life is hidden with christ in god."

i've been out for years. i'm in my late 20's. i still don't know how to set my mind on earthly things. i still struggle to believe i have a future.

[chilling-seavey]

We were supposed to be mourning our 1D boys in our 80s. Not now. I’m speechless.

[jehovahs-bitches]

Off topic

I‘ve been in denial since I heard about Liam‘s passing, but just now it hit me. I wish I could cry, maybe that would make me feel better. Instead I just sit here, struggling to breathe.

[pretentious-librarian]

i dont want god’s forgiveness. i want HIM to apologize to ME.

[hamletthedane]

Nobody was doing it like Mary Magdalene. Tits out. Standing on a mountain. Holding a skull. She’s like the lesbian catholic hamlet. Aesthetically an absolute win for the gays.

[brave-little-avocado-toaster]

Listening to interviews with adult converts to a religion is wild because they so clearly didn't grow up with fear of eternal torture as a foundational building block of their psyche.

[winged-thinged]

Look, we joke a lot, but really, "you were born evil, wretched, worse than the scum of the earth, and it took killing a god to make you salvageable, so now you'd better be grateful to that god and thank him 10,000 times a day for it and fill your thoughts with him 24/7 and abide by the letter of his every word, lest you suffer unimaginable torture for all of eternity" is a truly horrendous thing to believe about yourself and other people

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"I any part of your reasoning for believing something is, 'the bible says so,' calling you an idiot isn't an accusation, it's an observation."

You're also admitting you don't believe in your god, you believe in your bible.

[fuckyeahreligionpigeon]

[strongagnostic]

HUNDREDS OF REASONS NOT TO BE RELIGIOUS!

[fuckyeahreligionpigeon]

[digital-nihilism]

Words cannot describe what happened there. Only a deep shame of being human...

[strongagnostic]

HUNDREDS OF REASONS NOT TO BE RELIGIOUS!

[aevallare]

do you think mocking catholicism is funny

yes. next question

[jehovahs-bitches]

In the mood to make religious people mad

[enby-xb-nomad]

Saw this image on Facebook and immediately had one of those "WELP I know what I'm going to be talking about at my next therapy appointment" moments.

For real, I'm 38 years old and I left the church when I was 19 and there is a part of my brain that has never stopped looping on this exact sentiment and possibly never will.

[fuckyeahreligionpigeon]