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Queer Christian using this blog as a faith diary

[animentality]

[whiteflowerfields]

There's just something about people who really like Easter but don't even acknowledge Good Friday that makes me a little sad.

It's like: Sure, you will exalt a risen savior, but would you weep at the tomb of a executed man?

[ancestral-reflections]

Stop using ai art to depict Jesus.

Jesus was a carpenter, he had to use his own creativity to make stuff.

Maybe you should too.

[appldino]

Happy Easter! Here's jesus because I like drawing him

[whiteflowerfields]

Ignoring contradiction is for cowards so here's my hot take

You cannot worship God through your phone. At best technology can be used to cultivate community, which you can worship though, but in the face of technology so much of Christianity has become spectacle.

And listen, the Church is no stranger to spectacle, Lord knows the Vatican loves their gold, but I think there has been a definite shift. The art and beauty of the Church used to be a celebration of the beauty of God and their creation. Now though it seems to be more about entrancing humans with extravagance, making every service an 'ad', rather than worship.

There is 100 times more divinity in noticing a single dandelion or firefly, than there is in live streaming your mega church's mega baptism.

[tea-with-mrs-mourning-dove]

[aromanticduck]

Happy Easter to all who celebrate!

[holyandhaunted]

This Good Friday I want to share my favourite poem by Jay Hulme, a queer, trans and Christian poet God as a carpenter. Jesus as a familiar to wood and nail. The beauty of all Creation evident and true even in pain.

image and image description taken from Jay Hulme on Twitter

[janepaulina]

[forthesakeofthespirit]

doves and pigeons being basically identical scientifically speaking is so important to me.

the dove, the symbol of the Holy Spirit, of God's immeasurable love and mercy come to intercede for us. is the same bird as the common "flying rat" of the cities, the slums, the poor, dilapidated areas that most folk would never willingly go.

even there. there is God. and He comes scruffy and dirty

[janepaulina]

"Atom-bombed Mary", also known as Our Lady of Nagasaki.

It is a part of a wooden statue of Mother Mary that survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. It was found in the ruins of Urakami Cathedral.

[whiteflowerfields]

Sola fide is one of the most destructive beliefs ever created and I do not trust any version of Christianity that succumbs to that cancer.

It is (in my lived experience) only a way for others to excuse and write off bad/cruel/dangerous behavior or a way for predatory churches to recruit vulnerable people with the promise that their mistakes don't matter so long as they accept God. I cannot stress the crimes and abuse that is swept under the sola fide rug. It is despicable.

[depsidase]

[whiteflowerfields]

Any priest that uses ai to write sermons should be defrocked and I am not joking.

[utopians]

mormons undoubtedly in the top 5 worst things the united states has ever invented which is really saying something

[utopians]

sorry that sometimes when I stay up too late I start posting abt how much I hate mormonism but the spirit just moves me to do it

[utopians]

like the mormon church is just such a perfect microcosm of everything wrong with christianity as it's practiced among the american right wing. everything abt it is so disgusting. one of the most utterly repulsive spectacles of racism, misogyny, and bigotry to ever leave a stain on the earth

[agni-bi]

Bringing this back because there’s been a bit of a push from Mormon influencers to normalize Mormonism, and as an exmormon I’m here to say fuck that

Do not allow the LDS Church to rebrand itself as some kind of harmless quirky church that just has a few silly rules. It’s a fucking cult that brainwashes its members and actively harms marginalized people. Mormonism deserves every ounce of hate it receives and then some

[whiteflowerfields]

Sorry if this blog's become a little bit of a Wake Up Dead Man fan blog, I just found that movie really moving. Expect more normal blogging to come up in the future.

[tracing-rivers]

"I confessed, to the wrong priest" is my favorite line in Wake Up Dead Man, because it's so subtle and yet so kind. Martha has been so dismissive of Jud the whole movie. Not outright mean, of course, but she clearly saw him as a tenant who sometimes gave her a hand rather than a priest, and put him down when he seemed to overstep by acting like one. The line is an admission that not only Jud is a priest, he's a priest who does share the beliefs she's built herself over for decades. Even disillusioned by Wicks's self-serving hypocrisy, he still allows her to see her faith as a moral pillar. It's saying "I should have trusted you, and if I had, maybe none of this would have happened".

It's the "because you are a good nurse" of the movie.

[ifyouknowmeirlgoaway]

The best thing about Jud's ministry is how un-evangelical it is.

And I don't mean it's not like the Evangelical church, I mean he's not interested in convincing anyone to be a believer or a church goer. When the woman at the construction company starts talking to him about her mother, he doesn't tell her that God is there for her. He tells her that he's there's for. She already knows she can go to church, maybe she is even a Christian and feels like she has her God's love. But Jud knows that what she needs is another human being, because she's talking to him.

And that's such a better way to welcome people to your church than telling them to go. He's letting her know that there's fulfillment and safety and love there beyond just the religious side, because he's there.

Jud isn't interested in convincing anyone. He meets Benoit where he's at as an atheist, talking about the stories as just stories that we can take meaning from, and that works. It inspires Benoit to a moment of real, selfless kindness. He makes sure Benoit knows the doors are open any time he wants to enter, even if he enters as an atheist every time. Because the important thing is how you affect people and their actions, not how you affect their beliefs.