estamas

and the lord said: "get freaky with it"

[mangxakorado]

✴️ michele/a ∆ ze/hir + xe/xyr but honestly anything works ✴️ agnostic animist creating my own faith. url explained here ∆ check out @estamovojo & substack <3 ✴️ i love talking abt religion/spirituality/philosophy/existentialism!! its what i want to do for the rest of my life! i hope to provide spiritual/existential direction for folks (esp queer people) after college :] ∆ "Forgive you? Of course. As I forgive the night, the day, and all the stars."

[a-queer-seminarian]

Excerpts from “The polyamorous Christ: on the sexual ethics of incarnation” by David W. Congdon, 2025

[Full article here]

One of the oldest charges against Christianity, recounted in the late second century by the Roman Christian apologist Marcus Minucius Felix in his Octavius dialogue between the Christian Octavius Januarius and the pagan Caecilius Natalis, was that Christian gatherings were debauched orgies of lust: 

They recognize each other by secret marks and signs and fall in love before they scarcely know each other. Everywhere they practice among themselves, a kind of cult of lust, so to speak, and indiscriminately call each other brothers and sisters, so that even ordinary fornication, under the cloak of a hallowed name, becomes incest. 

Caecilius’s comically exaggerated outrage serves to cast in relief the deep sense of spiritual unity and universal siblinghood that early Christians cultivated as they sought to establish their group identity. Mark Jordan thus observes that ‘Christianity is latent polyamory.’ The agape feasts signaled a deep sense of spiritual love that, according to the accounts of heresiologists, occasionally spilled over into erotic relationships – sexual license being ‘a distinguishing feature of heretics, because sexual restraint is, of course, the distinguishing feature of the orthodox.’

[a-queer-seminarian]

Excerpts from “The polyamorous Christ: on the sexual ethics of incarnation” by David W. Congdon, 2025

[Full article here]

One of the oldest charges against Christianity, recounted in the late second century by the Roman Christian apologist Marcus Minucius Felix in his Octavius dialogue between the Christian Octavius Januarius and the pagan Caecilius Natalis, was that Christian gatherings were debauched orgies of lust: 

They recognize each other by secret marks and signs and fall in love before they scarcely know each other. Everywhere they practice among themselves, a kind of cult of lust, so to speak, and indiscriminately call each other brothers and sisters, so that even ordinary fornication, under the cloak of a hallowed name, becomes incest. 

Caecilius’s comically exaggerated outrage serves to cast in relief the deep sense of spiritual unity and universal siblinghood that early Christians cultivated as they sought to establish their group identity. Mark Jordan thus observes that ‘Christianity is latent polyamory.’ The agape feasts signaled a deep sense of spiritual love that, according to the accounts of heresiologists, occasionally spilled over into erotic relationships – sexual license being ‘a distinguishing feature of heretics, because sexual restraint is, of course, the distinguishing feature of the orthodox.’

[electricheart]

a little reminder! by annalaura_art

[and-her-saints]

"We cannot condone naïve enthusiasms, nor fuel unfounded fears. Instead, let us establish standards for discernment — the dignity of the human person, the universal destination of goods, the preferential option for the poor, care for our common home and peace — and let us translate these standards into practices such as responsible planning, the assessment of human and social impact, the inclusion of the most vulnerable, the promotion of digital literacy and guiding research and industry toward justice and peace."

— "Magnifica Humanitas" by Pope Leo XIV (2026) par. 14

[traumacatholic]

Our Lady, Star of the Sea is an ancient title for the Virgin Mary. The words Star of the Sea are a translation of the Latin title Stella Maris.

The title has been in use since at least the early medieval period. Originally arising from a scribal error in a supposed etymology of the name Mary, it came to be seen as allegorical of Mary’s role as “guiding star” on the way to Christ. Under this name, the Virgin Mary is believed to intercede as a guide and protector of seafarers in particular. The Apostleship of the Sea and many coastal churches are named Stella Maris or Star of the Sea.

Star of the Sea, Light Our Way Star of the Sea so radiant in the glory of God’s Love Your crown outshining all the stars of heaven above, O, lovely Queen of Peace, gowned in azure’s of the sea, Help us find the way to Jesus, in your wise serenity. We ask you Pearl of Grace to grant us vision, courage, will, So ‘peace on earth’, that miracle, at last might be fulfilled! Dear Mother of the Church, blessed beacon of God’s Light, May you always guide your children on the stormy seas of life. Make our hearts into safe harbors where dear Jesus is received Hear our prayer, O, Spiritual Vessel, Mother of God, Star of the Sea.

[chkq-deactivated20260531]

mathematics is a sort of goo/ooze secreted by the human mind when it rubs against the universe

[eesirachs]

my relationship to the bible is teasing. i giggle, i know how long my eyelashes look. it's a relationship of "ugh," and "no, you." i know the things god's into

[cryptotheism]

"Medieval Christians would have gone nuts for protons, neutrons, and electrons for trinity reasons" sounds like a jokey oversimplification historypost but I cannot really articulate how true that is. They would never shut up about it.

[ahopefulbromantic]

RIP St Thomas Aquinas you would have loved atomic physics

[sedesapostolica]

[los-copa]

her name was Juniper Blessing, she was 19 and she was just doing her laundry

[wispthicket]

From one of her friends on a Reddit post.

[likeahauntingmelody]

before sunrise (1995)

[weltenwellen]

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[stkateri-deactivated20260526]

Will you please pray for this little boy and his family that came up on my local news? A stepfather beat a 5 year old boy for “acting gay” and his two siblings witnessed this.

[clearpills]

[hotvampireadjacent]

[mangxakorado]

this is god @ humanity, to me

[anotheraldin]

“All that may be said of me is that I have always loved beauty,

and been enthralled by it whenever I beheld it —

whether in the face of a human being,

or in the rising of the full moon,

or in the setting of the sun,

or in the hush of night’s repose,

or in the awakening of dawn,

or in flowers scattered in bloom,

or in the delicacy of feeling,

or in the sweetness of the soul,

or in a line of poetry,

or in a passage of prose.”

-Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti.

[clawmarks]

A floral design representing the Passion of Christ - Carlos Schwabe - before 1926 - via Christie's