thousands of forgotten neolithic prophecies are probably being fulfilled all around us all the time and we don’t even know it

i remembered today how in the cult i was in there was this one guy so hellebent on proving other people who he felt were being too ‘unorthodox’ in the cult wrong that he starting citing a fictional ya novel like it was the new testament and looking back now that was hilarious and i laughed really hard about it today but also terrifying. im so glad i got out of there

i have weird feelings about it but its kind of alienating to be the only person in your friendgroup that doesnt practice some kind of witchcraft or has new age beliefs. i’ll be talking to someone and they mention their spirit guides or spells n stuff and i’ll be sitting there like quietly taking it in but not feeling it or they mention something superstitious like seeing signs or communicating with the dead and i’ll mentally sign out (bc i have traumatic experiences with that topic and really mixed feelings bout it). a friend will mention making wards or binding or communicating with their gods and i’ll be totally not expecting it

maybe its because my religious environment growing up was homogeneously evangelical christian or its because the spiritual landscape has changed almost overnight but i feel like im not connecting with them in some way because im missing that aspect of spirituality they have. it feels like lack, it also feels like yeah i can wrap my head around the basics of this belief but not the experience of believing it. i dont have faith in it and they do and thats fine, the thing is im the only one. and i dont have the ‘basic’ religious (organized, established) beliefs either. im big None and it feels weird

Kashmiri Muslim women offer special prayers during the Eid Milad-un-Nabi, which marks the birth anniversary of the Prophet, at the Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar,  Indian administered Kashmir on Oct. 19, 2021. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims gathered at the shrine in the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir to offer prayers on the Prophet’s birth anniversary.

Photo by Adil Abbas

The desert asked, “Oh Sun, why have you stayed? When all things of life has left me? I am nothing but a cloudless being, even a single drop of rain will not reach me. I am empty.”

The sun replied,

“You were once a great sea. Surrounded by the pleasures of life, which became your biggest enemy. Our Lord has stripped you from yourself. Now, only you can illuminate the stars that no man has seen. Your grains holds wisdom for the hopeless souls.

You are not the absence of life, but the presence of Allah”.

~ mindofserenity

my favorite metaphorical language in the Bible is the personification of the earth as a witness to the lord, like the earth remembers what happened and it was so important that the rocks cry out to God. like that’s metal. the poetry in the Bible is so metal 

Maya religiosity still survives Christianity, in photos offerings and rituals to a pre-Columbian deity, Pascual Abaj, by the Mayans of Chichicastenango in Guatemala, photos by Kamran Ali

You over Her [not as a body but as a steeple]

ramble, queerness, god, thoughts, contradictory neg and pos feelings about god, homophobia, homophobic protests etc etc, under cut bc its very long and rambling

is it possible to just leave god at home? think about bringing god with you on a cloudy day (like an umbrella) but then decide “you know what, if it rains it rains” and go out without god’s blessing. and feel nice if it does rain. i think ive learned how to detach myself from the concept of a god when i want to. a day before going to pride this weekend i was gonna ask someone i follow here to pray for us going to the parade and festival bc they do prayer requests and its pretty fucking scary out here for queer folks right now. anything could happen. but then i said “fuck it, whatever happens happens.” anxious and everything, trying to not let it get in the way of joy but ultimately i decided that maybe it didnt matter or god didnt care and ive still got a sore spot when it comes being queer and god anyways, why should i ask them for protection, the most commonly cited reason why im made to feel even a little unsafe in the first place?

there were some christian protestors that invaded the parade space before it actually began, we laughed them out of there and they entered the space twice to show their tall signs with bullet points in rainbow colors warning all of us that we’re going to hell. and then there were the other vague passive aggressive “jesus saves” guys (there used to be one guy. now theres a group). the bolder they get the more dangerous it becomes for us. i still cant cough up the smallest ask for help to a higher power. im used to feeling alone and riding solo when it comes to stuff like this with someone elses god on the other side fueling the fire. i guess on some level i still see my queerness and divinity as still diametrically opposed even though i find holiness? goodness? in? my? queerness? trying to fuse those two concepts, god/holiness/divinity with my queerness/holiness/divinity, is that something i should even attempt to do? i know its possible. maybe im not built for that. maybe its just not compatible for me with any existing faith. ive really tried growing past that mindset into something better but everything outside of me makes it so difficult. how do you people do it? how do you really deprogram enough to feel like youre not overstaying your welcome on gods doormat bc you asked for your queer siblings to be safe, that anyone out there actually cares?

i wanna talk about this weird pride thing in my area where there are churches at pride. how that makes me feel (lot of things). yea.

Casablanca, Morocco

Surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, Hassan II Mosque is the second largest mosque in the world. It also boasts the world's tallest minaret standing 656 feet (200 meters)-high.

I think it’s super important for everyone to deconstruct their religious beliefs, whether they’re leaving it/have left it or not.

Questioning why you believe what you believe or why you believed what you believed is good for growth- no matter where it ends up taking you.

so I’m a lifelong atheist and I’ve never actually read the bible but this guy sure seems like he has ADHD

God works in mysterious ways TO YOU. I get it though

Sri Ananda Nataraja - Nithyanandeshwara Hindu Temple, Seattle, Washington Maasi Chathurdasi Abhisekam to Sri Ananda Nataraja, Sivagama Sundari Devi, Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam and Nithyanandeshwara Paramashiva 🙏🏻 (via Instagram: Nithyanandeshwara Hindu Temple)

The teyollia or heart "soul" is the spirit in which a person's memories, experience and personality reside. When we die, our teyollia travels through Mictlan, the Land of the Dead, where it crosses dangerous and painful paths. The challenges that our teyollia faces in Mictlan purify it, stripping it of memory and individuality. In this way, what a person was during their life is lost in the underworld, and the clean teyollia can return to the Earth and give life to a new being.

In this painting, Mictecacihuatl, Lady of the Dead, holds a dead man's teyollia in Her hand. You can find this painting as a print in my Etsy store! Click here!

Mason, a Navajo girl, and her family during her Kinaaldá ceremony, where she transforms from a girl into a woman. From The Story of God with Morgan Freeman.

First Woman and First Man depicted in a Navajo creation story.  From The Story of God with Morgan Freeman.