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okay new pinned being cobbled together with popcicle sticks and glue but.
Shay
25
he/they
mostly a vent blog about religion, sometimes other things
ex catholic and exvangelical #its complicated babey
follows/interacts from @/starswallowingsea
not anti-theist btw but i'm against modern american evangelicalism & general religious fundamentalism no matter the religion specifically i think it is rotten to its core. non-fundamentalist religions are fine
Being forced to go to church at 25 because I'm trying to finish paying off my loans while living with my parents is like. Incredibly evil for them to do and I've never really believed (despite being held up as a "good Christian/Catholic child" when I was younger) and struggled with that because for a while when I was like 14-17 I thought it was my fault that I never really felt the presence of God. I did everything right and everyone would talk about how God clearly blessed me because I was academically and musically inclined and should use those talents to serve him in some way. But even at church camp when they basically engineer encounters with God through music and sermons meant to connect with teens I never really... felt anything. I was apparently good at faking it though because nobody ever questioned anything. I don't think I was vocal about any criticisms I had about the bible or God or the sermons or homilies I listened to, I was barely paying attention by the end of it and so I just did surface level discussions when required and kept to myself the rest of the time. And when I got confirmed at 17 the bishop was so transphobic I decided to stop believing entirely while sitting through mass that day and the only reason I've gone to mass since then is because I've lived with my parents or was afraid of them asking about the church on my college campus (and then they didn't do that and so I stopped going pretty quick). Like I have no desire to be here, I don't pay attention more than I need to, and just find it to be a miserable experience and the fact that the priests are like you have to force the waning believer to come to church again and they'll believe again is probably playing into some of it but it doesn't work or at least just makes me loathe the church more because I do not want to be here.
sighs. just noticed a terf reblogged one of my posts. blocked them obviously but do i need a big flashing sign on every post that says "I LOVE TRANSGENDERISM" or something. go away
Do my parents think forcing me to go to church on the like 3 sundays I'm home is going to make me believe again or are they just forcing me to go because they're losing control due to me being 24 and doing odd jobs around the country
i feel like people who were raised religious & gradually started questioning everything they had been told and eventually decided to leave those beliefs behind deserve to burn the holy book of the certain religion at least once in their lifetime
For all the shit i talk about my old youth leader's sermons sometimes, at least when i was in the church he wasn't a doomsday preacher and told us that there have been a lot of end times scares in history and we dont have any reason to think ours will be the real end other than that we are the ones living it. Life will keep going
aaaaaaand they literally made another blog to block evade all of us and post another "callout" of my friend trying to manipulate the perception of events to make them look like a victim. give up already good lordddddddd.
imagine sending someone 17 asks and then pretending you're the one being harassed. be so real right now you cannot be seriousssssss
Forgot to say amen after receiving communion this week and got a weird look from the deacon 🙏
absolutely insane take from the priest this past sunday but apparently he doesn't consider marriages only carried out at the courthouse and not through the church as real marriages so if you got married and didnt get a specifically catholic marriage then having sex is still a sin. absolutely baffling take along with the rest of the purity culture bs he was spouting
not how i wanted to start my friday but okay
Dipped back into the jw discord server for the first time in a while and actually read the server rules.
Here's some highlights:
Did they really need to make 3 separate rules about Homosexuality?
I need to update my pinned on here real bad
Listen, i dont mean to sound like a reddit atheist, but... You ever think about how evangelical Chriatians very literally believe that there will be a genocide in which billions of humans, mostly just innocent everyday people, are condemned to suffer in hell?
And, like, that's the end. That's the finale. Of everything they believe. That's their solution for the world. A final one, if you will.
And they don't rebel. They don't say "hey, wait, that's a bit much" and appeal to their God to maybe reconsider. They don't even seem to really mind.
Instead, they worship. They conjure up an image of a genocidal maniac, and they worship it. The word "praise" is bandied about a lot. Praise. For a leader whose endgoal, very transparently, is genocide.
Suddenly a lot of history makes a little more sense.
God. I think one of the reasons my parents are way more insistent that I go to church is because one of the new priests is like. Harping on getting family members back to the faith and I openly do not go to church when I live away from home and now I feel like my parents think I have a demon problem
"Oh you need to bring your family members back to the church it'll be good for them. My brother found himself again once he started going to church again so clearly all of your family members who dont go to church need the same" no. Penis blast
mom going "you'll thank me one day" for dragging me to church against my will. i dont think i will considering i haven't believed since i was like 12 years old and have been hiding it for over a decade.
GOD i fucking hate my parents sometimes
