Loving deities and spirits is not disrespectful or a moral failing. Seeing them as your friends or family is not disrespectful.
The universe is massive and mysterious and everything that exists is a child of the universe. We are literally all family.
The sun, the earth, the ocean, the air? Alive. Spirit. Friend. Family. Part of the ecosystem of the universe. All divine.
Spider, and cats, and birds, and trees, and sand, and dirt, and all the creatures and elements? Kin. Family. Friend. Ecosystem. Symbiotic. Revered. Respected.
I can't help but notice how this idea that deities arent friends/family or that it is disrespectful to see them as such is very anti-indigenous and anti anything outside of Christianity (and its branches like Jehovas Witness, Evangelical Christian, Mormon, Etc).
If an individual prefers a more formal, stoic, impersonal connection to deities or spirits then that is their choice. I'm not saying that everyone has (or should have) the same beliefs as me. I'm saying mine are not wrong for being different than theirs.
So in my belief, the universe is symbiotic full of ecosystems both physical and spiritual In which they are perfectly organically alive and to feel love and reverense and an emotional bond to those with harmonious symbiotic relationships can never be disrespectful.
Humans and part of our organic; perfectly imperfect design: are emotional creatures. We form bonds with people places and things. It is how we connect to ourr lives and assign meaning to anything. We feel things. Even the most stoic human is still innately sensitive and emotional because emotions are physical changes in our body that have been designed to convey information to us.
Anger: increased heart rate, adrenaline, cortisol and other things. The information it delivers is "this is not okay. I must fight. I must protect. I must stand my ground". Emotions are highly effective at conveying Information and giving us direction or motivation to take action.
So on top of "deities arent friends or family you are disrespecting them" being annti-indigenous and anti- anything outside of christianity- I think it is also very anti-human. Like how we as humans experience life is fundamentally disrespectful, disgusting, inferior.
Milions of years of evolution honed us and tailored our senses to our needs. As social mammals we are very relational creatures. Sensitive. Emotional. Sentimental. Again, even those who think they are all logical. (And obsession eith logic over emotion is a tally an emotional response to the fear tactics instilled by white supremacy and patriarchy. White supremacy because the poc they were oppressed were seen as "high strung" and emotional which was used to justify why poc are inferior and deserve to be slaves. Patriarchy because *puffs chest* men better! *caveman grunt* men logical! Women emotional! We must control women because they are incapable of rational thinking!!)
So yeah, ma you societies instil fear and disgust about emotions and love and sensitivity because it is seen as inferior. So those who think they are not emotional are having the response to this that *only an emotional creature could have*. The type of abuse from social congitioning would not work if we were not innately emotional.
Anyway thats all I got for now. I'm sure this pretty much only makes sense to me, but who knows.
Bye.
P.s.I have not proofread this. I may or may not fix typos at some point.













