strange fire

who delivered you the power to interpret calvary?

[re-visionaries]

(the womb where it happened, the womb where it happened)

[re-visionaries]

(the tomb where it happened, the tomb where it happened)

[theonion]

Christ Sues Catholic Church For Unlicensed Use Of His Image

VATICAN CITY—Claiming the religion was infringing upon His personality rights, Jesus Christ, the Light of the World, sued the Catholic Church Friday for alleged unlicensed use of His image. “Today, I have filed a lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Church for its unlawful appropriation of my likeness in their branding and promotional material,” said Christ, who in the case of King of Kings and Lord of Lords v. Vatican will argue that He hasn’t seen a cent since the Church started profiting off His image approximately 2,000 years ago. “I never signed off on, nor do I endorse, the sentiments behind any of these candles, plates, statues, paintings—none of it. I don’t want to have my brand devalued by a bunch of people just trying to turn a quick buck by slapping a reproduction of my wounded body on a cross.” At press time, sources confirmed the Church was attempting to reduce its legal exposure by altering its depictions of Jesus so they would instead feature short hair and a neatly trimmed mustache.

[re-visionaries]

me: the Catholic Church’s stance on women’s ordination sucks.

someone: have you considered the Episcopal Church?

me: ...no, never! no one has ever suggested that to me! thank you for this new information! 

[porifera-deactivated20120628]

[lgbtunis-moved]

OP literally traded his entire family and Narnia for some turkish delights but go off I guess

[killdie]

Kyle Montgomery Crystal Mary

[left-reminders]

Know your audience

[1000drawings]

[weirddyke]

love is real and worth it and SO important to me it’s pretty much my entire political spiritual philosophical deal………you can be critical of how romantic love is commodified and dominated by heteronormative myths for sure but ppl out there like “love is fake” aren’t doing ANYTHING interesting or subversive……love is revolutionary bc the systems that oppress us are directly opposed to all kinds of love, interpersonal love and self love etc. they’re trying to drive it out of us. love as an action love as a choice love as something u cultivate and tend to is the best thing in the world and it’s at the absolute centre of my life

[myownlittlebookcorner]

it’s 2018 and Goodreads still doesn’t let you give half ratings, so has humanity really made any actual progress, hmm??

[lezmeya-deactivated20190802]

feminism is not about equality of sexes. It is about physical, mental and social autonomy of women. Men are not a guideline to measure our independence.

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[re-visionaries]

Sometimes I get sad that I’ll never have the title “Rev.” in front of my name. I know it’s elitist and prideful, but I’m sad that I don’t have a community that would recognize me as a wise, compassionate leader. I’m against clericalism. I’m proud to be a lay woman. But there’s a little part of me that wishes anyway.

[re-visionaries]

@ruspiritual: I shall call you “Rev” in the secret places of my heart– “Pastor Jean”

Omg, iconic Pastor Jean haunting the dark places of the internet. I rebuke thee.

[iwillseethegoodness]

I hope and pray that you will one day be unshackled from your false belief that the Roman church is the one and only true church, and that churches that allow women leaders are lesser than. 

It’s not elitist and prideful to want equal standing with men in your church community. 

[re-visionaries]

…I don’t at all think that the Roman church is the one “true” church. I’m not sure where you’re getting that from. I don’t think that other churches are lesser. I have literally never said that. I think that the Catholic Church is deeply corrupted and damaged in its failure to ordain women, I just don’t have any intention of leaving it. And THAT is a very personal decision. This is my church, and I stay because it’s the tradition that molded me (for good and for ill) and the tradition that I am committed to working within (that work, by the way, includes working for women’s ordination). 

When I say that I’m against clericalism and am proud to be a lay woman, this is because I understand that the priesthood as many churches (including my own) currently conceive of it is a fundamentally unethical institution that should be radical reimagined. Being a part of the laity should NOT be considered something lesser. The modern institution of the priesthood is something that I consider a corruption of the Christian communities of the gospels and early church. The all-too-common reification (borderline deification) of religious leaders is idolatrous. 

I made this post because even though I believe these things, I sometimes still long for ordination - or more accurately, for the respect that it would confer upon me. No, I don’t think that desire is simply prideful - there are REAL reasons that I’m righteously angry about it - but sometimes there are elements of pride/hypocrisy in my desire to be acknowledged for my work in a certain socially-defined way even though I don’t believe that this way (the priesthood) is the only (or even the most effective) way for a person to serve their community. 

[iwillseethegoodness]

Generally people who recognize that the RCC’s position on women’s leadership and LGBT people is sinful stay because they think only Catholic Eucharist is real. If you stay for another reason, fine. But the way you internalize the church’s misogynistic clericalism as something you too are guilty of because you want to be reverend is troubling to me. Godspeed.

[re-visionaries]

Sigh. I’d just finished reading a lot of stuff that was reaffirming my beliefs about the how the priesthood is bad and thinking about my occasional longings for some of its traditional trappings but not all of them - and yeah, I was feeling weird because I think it’s not super helpful for me to want the social prestige of a title that I don’t believe in - it’s about wanting power in an androcentric, normative form and foregoing that deeper analysis of what that sort of power structure does to our communities. I do understand how you read my original post and what you’re saying, I think, - I just don’t think it fully describes my experience (and it’s hard to express my experience over the internet, of course). It’s not that I think that a desire to be ordained is inherently bad, broadly speaking, just that the desire is inconsistent with most of my thoughts about the work I want to do, which is cause for self-reflection.

Also, I don’t have stats on this, but many, many of the left-leaning Catholics I know and have read stay in the RCC primarily because it’s such an intrinsic part of their culture/community/etc.

Godspeed to you, too. 

[re-visionaries]

Sometimes I get sad that I’ll never have the title “Rev.” in front of my name. I know it’s elitist and prideful, but I’m sad that I don’t have a community that would recognize me as a wise, compassionate leader. I’m against clericalism. I’m proud to be a lay woman. But there’s a little part of me that wishes anyway.

[re-visionaries]

@ruspiritual: I shall call you “Rev” in the secret places of my heart– “Pastor Jean”

Omg, iconic Pastor Jean haunting the dark places of the internet. I rebuke thee.

[iwillseethegoodness]

I hope and pray that you will one day be unshackled from your false belief that the Roman church is the one and only true church, and that churches that allow women leaders are lesser than. 

It’s not elitist and prideful to want equal standing with men in your church community. 

[re-visionaries]

...I don’t at all think that the Roman church is the one “true” church. I’m not sure where you’re getting that from. I don’t think that other churches are lesser. I have literally never said that. I think that the Catholic Church is deeply corrupted and damaged in its failure to ordain women, I just don’t have any intention of leaving it. And THAT is a very personal decision. This is my church, and I stay because it’s the tradition that molded me (for good and for ill) and the tradition that I am committed to working within (that work, by the way, includes working for women’s ordination). 

When I say that I’m against clericalism and am proud to be a lay woman, this is because I understand that the priesthood as many churches (including my own) currently conceive of it is a fundamentally unethical institution that should be radically reimagined. Being a part of the laity should NOT be considered something lesser. The modern institution of the priesthood is something that I consider a corruption of the Christian communities of the gospels and early church. The all-too-common reification (borderline deification) of religious leaders is idolatrous. 

I made this post because even though I believe these things, I sometimes still long for ordination - or more accurately, for the respect that it would confer upon me. No, I don’t think that desire is simply prideful - there are REAL reasons that I’m righteously angry about it - but sometimes there are elements of pride/hypocrisy in my desire to be acknowledged for my work in a certain socially-defined way even though I don’t believe that this way (the priesthood) is the only (or even the most effective) way for a person to serve their community. 

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

I will put Chaos into fourteen lines / And keep him there.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Collected Poems; “Sonnet III,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[humansoflatecapitalism]