#christianity reference

[kuunibal]

Who is God to take you away from me? I wonder, does your God love you as much as I do? Do you love your God more than me? No, impossible. You don't look nearly as enraptured kneeling before the altar in prayer as when you are on your knees before me. You say your heart is filled with nothing but God's grace, but I recall you enjoying being filled by other things that would be sinful in His eyes. There is not a place in your heart, your soul, or your body that I have not touched, my beloved. I claim them, every part of you that you will allow me.

I challenge God for your devotion. Maybe that makes me a devil, but I care not. Worship something more tangible than Him, the way I worship you, mon ange, ma déesse.

[itzpristelle]

What on earth is a cross doing in this game. What is that, holy water?

[wowbright]

Adolescence in July — Kent County, Virginia

*

The air is thick like saliva

drooling warmth onto our skin.

It licks up from the blacktop.

It tongues out from crumbling brick walls

the color of campfire.

We drive.

Sharon waves at strangers

— they do that down here

(even stranger? the strangers wave back) —

and when we drive over the tracks

she squeals Lift your feet

so you don't get knocked up!

I keep my feet down.

Not that I want to get knocked up

but parthenogenesis does not happen in humans

and if Jesus's mother was a virgin

then the sperm must have gotten in her

another way

and it wasn't train tracks.

Maybe the flame of the Holy Spirit carried it to her

as hot and inescapable as today's pregnant sky.

Or maybe it was lips

sultry with spring heat.

I watch Sharon drive,

hands at ease on the wheel,

shifting in and out of lanes like it's natural, like a spark

snaking through kindling.

But me? I keep failing

my driver's test. When I'm behind the wheel,

the road becomes a wet log, heavy and resistant;

the heat is there, but

the fire won't ignite.

Later, the sun will flare red,

set the back-country ablaze

as it alights on the horizon.

I'll fall asleep on the floor of Sharon's room, windows open,

cicada song swimming through the steaming air,

— mate in search of mate —

desire crackling louder than fire.

*

[may-or-may-not-be-me]

I think the republicans are all just hoping that the rapture will come for us before the effects of climate change do

[kuunibal]

I'LL SAVE YOU

— RafScrap, Smoke and Mirrors

[recoveringdirectioner]

harry styles coming back is making me understand easter. and on the third year he rose again, in accordance with the scriptures. he ascended onto the stage….

[rikkalorelei]

But Christianity DID steal a lot of symbols and traditions from various other religions. To make it easier to convert the populace, probably.

You have it backwards. A lot of folks who converted brought beloved traditions with them and thus incorporated them into Christianity. 

I will concede that there were some forced conversions in some areas and they led to an increase in such synchronism. I feel terribly sorry for those that had to live through that and encourage every one to get to know the faiths of their family. 

If you choose to come off anon, I will gladly converse with you more on this topic privately. Otherwise, please feel free to go to the library and find the history section.