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Why I Dislike This Christian "Advice"

(Literally anything wrong with someone)

A fellow, well-meaning but naive Christian:

"Just pray about it!"

Yeah, no..

Telling this to nonbelievers is — honestly — asininely unhelpful. Yes, God cares. Yes, He listens. Yes, He can help anyone. But if someone doesn’t believe in Him, or only sees God as cruel, distant, or imaginary, then telling them to “just pray” isn’t comforting. It doesn’t bring them hope. It just sounds like you’re brushing them off with a religious catchphrase instead of actually caring.

“Just pray” or “Just say Jesus” might help some people, but there are others with pain so layered and complicated that three little words — no matter how sincere — aren’t enough.

So… what’s actually helpful?

1. Pray for them (and maybe with them — if they’re okay with it).

If prayer really is powerful (and it is), then don’t just assign it to someone who’s barely standing. Do it yourself. Pray for them privately, or gently ask if they’d want you to pray with them.

You don’t need to make it a public show. Quiet prayer done in love speaks louder than a hundred spiritual clichés. The most powerful witness is when someone later finds out, “They prayed for me. They cared. And God cared because they did.”

2. Practice Romans 12:15 — “Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.”

You don’t need to fix their life, explain theology, or tie everything in a bow. Just listen. Let them speak. Let them cry. Let them be angry, confused, or quiet.

Sometimes people don’t need solutions. They need someone to sit in the ashes with them. Some people don’t need advice. They just need to be heard.

And if they aren’t Christians, this is where your "little light" shines — not through preaching, but through compassion. You might not be Jesus, but you reflect Him when you choose empathy over empty advice.

Why this matters:

Because prayer is powerful — but love is the soil where prayer takes root. Telling someone to “just pray” without offering help, presence, or compassion can feel like handing them a Bible while they’re bleeding and walking away. Prayer was never meant to replace action. It was meant to fuel it.

So pray. Yes. But also: Sit with them. Listen. Cry with them. Help carry the burden they’re too exhausted to lift alone.

That is Christlike love.

I may be godless, but I ain’t headless.

*dabs*

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Prelims

Fandom: The Elder Scrolls Part 2/2

The two with the most votes will move to the next round

Padomay

Sheogorath

Sithis

Talos

The Godhead / The Amaranth

Vivec

Voting ended onDec 21, 2024

Part 1/2

Characters' info under the cut

[Contains spoilers for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Shivering Isles] The Elder Scrolls handles its deities with varying degrees of success, but I'd argue that Sheogorath (specifically his Oblivion incarnation, the others are meh) is one of the best depictions of a god as a fictional character. He is a member of the Daedric pantheon (ie the ones that did not contribute to the making of the mortal world) but he differs from the other members in that he was 'created' out of the former god of order to prevent a hostile takeover. He is considered a trickster god in general, frequently outsmarting other gods, but plays a variety of roles to the different cultures in Tamriel, ranging from vision-giver, tester of psychological weakness, and bringer of art, music, and feeling. Even his own followers hold a variety of views on him. But what really makes him stand out to me is his role in the Oblivion DLC Shivering Isles. The DLC takes place in his realm, which is under threat from a cyclical reappearance of the god of order, who destroys everything imperfect, that being the entire realm. Sheogorath asks the player to help by completing a variety of tasks to preserve his realm, its inhabitants, and their traditions. In doing so, the player learns to become like Sheogorath, and eventually becomes him to fight his previous incarnation when he turns into the god of order. It's a bit complicated and convoluted--TES players please don't get mad if I got anything wrong, it's been years since I've played--but essentially, the player comes out of the whole ordeal with Sheogorath's power and identity. Fandom has debated on what this means for a long time. I played Shivering Isles while at a tumultuous time in my life, struggling with my own neurodivergence. While the game doesn't portray everything perfectly, it still speaks to an appreciation of 'mad' people, and the variety of interpretations of Sheogorath's role and goals just adds to that. Heck, when you begin Shivering Isles, if you ask how the people of Sheogorath's realm can be 'cured', you are immediately told that they are not diseased, they just 'live in another state of being' and 'perhaps you need a cure'. The themes of this story helped me accept who I was. Also, look up some of this guy's dialogue, you will not regret it.

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What if M’aiq is the Godhead?

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Is Sophia 'the Goddess' wheras the Father is God?

Not quite, at least not how I’ve come to understand when studying Gnostic theology (of which there is no one definite description by any means).

It can seem that way coming from a Wiccan/Neopagan background where one is used to the idea of the polar opposite but (supposedly) equal male God and female Goddess. It was for me when I first started getting into Gnosticism years ago. And there are some Gnostic paths I’ve found that do refer to Sophia as ‘the bride’ or ‘consort’ of either God the Father or Jesus. Some see God as the ultimate, genderless force while Christ and Sophia represent the masculine and feminine energies of the cosmos. Others might refer to the Sophia as the bride of the Father with Christ as their child. There is scriptural evidence to back up both ideas I’ve found but I don’t agree with either.

For me personally, they are both God. The Mother and Father are not two but one. Barbelo, who is the ‘Great Mother’ form of Sophia, is not the Father’s bride anymore than He is Her consort. They are merely different ways of looking at the same Creator. Neither were created first but emerged from the Limitless Light as One. As concepts, they may serve different functions within the Godhead. The Father is the still and constant source of life while the Mother is the active creator who moulds that source of life into being. In truth they are one Parent and can be referred to as such if one wishes. For others They interact with us as familiar parental figures which we identify as Mother or Father. On another planet, in an entirely alien civilisation, God might appear in a different parental form we are unfamiliar with. Like most language used in religion, it is a personal translation of how we communicate with the Divine.

In Sophia’s form as The Daughter (Zoe) then She could be seen as the child of the Father, as well as the Mother. As either the Daughter or the Holy Spirit she is sometimes ‘wed’ to Christ or the Logos. Again, I don’t see this in the same way that Neopagans might view the Goddess and God as a married couple. Their union for me is one of twin siblings, of the Word and Wisdom completing each other, becoming whole as the Child of Light. Honestly I just try to avoid heteronormative metaphors when thinking about the Godhead as much as I can because I grew so tired of it when I was interested in Wicca as the community I was in was so rife with it at the time (apparently it’s a bit better now). I still find it present in a lot of Gnostic churches sadly, so perhaps I’m in the minority on this view, but that comes with being an independent Sophian.

Indeed there is some kind of ‘relationship’ between the forces within the Godhead even though they are One. In fact it is that force of love that binds them together and why the Quaternity (Mother, Father, Daughter, Son) is focused on in Sophian Gnosticism. God is not just a Father or a Mother but a whole family at the end of the day. The only family to which we are all a part of.

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Do it Todd...

De-canonize the Godhead.

Save the world...

Do it.

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Three Persons

A person can be defined as an emotional, thinking, rational and intelligent being, so with this in mind, let’s take a look at the person of Christ, the Holy Spirit and of God – JESUS 2 Corinthians 2:10To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ; GOD AND JESUS Hebrews 1:3Who being the…

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