Hey can we like. Not. Accuse @queerautism of starting a cult just because it wants to come up with and follow a set of its own personal beliefs?
Cause like, I’m not going to touch on how damaging this can be to someone actually trying to leave a cult, but I will talk about this from a personal perspective of someone who’s left their born-and-raised religion.
Seeing people say that shit would have scared me off forming my own beliefs if I had heard it back when I first started questioning.
I was born and raised Catholic, went to an all Catholic school from kindergarten til high school and probably would have gone to a christian college if there’d been one around me that wasn’t already infamous for basically being cultish in and of itself.
I first started with not even *questioning* what I believed in, just taking things that seemed correct in my mind and adding them to my faith. Some people say reincarnation is real? Sure, why not; I’d imagine heaven would get pretty fucking boring otherwise, so I can add that into my beliefs. Some say that you can ask Fates or the universe questions and receive answers via runes or tarot readings? I mean, I will personally never touch that but sure, maybe that exists, why not? Oh, now I’m following several blogs who all worship gods from Norse or Hellenic pantheons? Well that doesn’t mesh with the Only God rhetoric, but they seem really genuine and I believe them. Guess I’ll just work it in somehow!!
By the end of my christianity, I was so far removed from being Catholic, I was basically my own personal amalgamation of christian/pagan with my own set of beliefs different enough from everything I took to in all practicality be considered my own personal religion.
But if I had had people calling me a cult-starter or that I was doing something horrible? I probably would have never realized that Catholicism wasn’t for me. I wouldn’t have finally given up on christianity in general and just devoted myself to being a heathen, because I was already halfway there anyway.
I am so much happier because of my incorporation of other beliefs and my ultimate *changing* entirely of my beliefs. And the people sending those bad faith anons, or the actual blogs trying to say that rouke’s coming up with it’s own personal beliefs is “bad” somehow?
Fuck y’all. You’re trying to take away someone’s personal spiritual journey, something incredibly freeing and wonderful to go through.
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.
Quit taking jokes seriously when it comes to people you don’t like. Quit exploding things out of proportion because someone you don’t like says it. Quit bullying this person because you disagree with it.