Did you hear? They're reworking how catholic god is to be depicted. It's now a 30 something anime woman with E cup tits and puffy nipples visible through her robes. And when she's depicted performing miracles they are to lactate a bit seeping through the cloth. What? Oh no the doctrine is completely unchanged. You'll go to hell if you jerk of to her.

You did the right thing by leaving. 

Even if it feels scary or wrong, your life is ultimately going to be better for it. They made you afraid of practicing your free will because they want to keep controlling you. 

But they can’t touch you now. 

You’re free. You belong only to yourself. You can rest now. 

Your life is only just starting..

at my church the fonts were only cleaned immediately before and after a baptism, but also they definitely always smelled like chemicals

also though like, i really wish we at *least* had candles, not *only* fluorescent lights.

im so pissed sometimes that i was Mormon instead of like, Catholic or Orthodox because Mormonism is like your insane uncles conspiracy theories about catholicism. its just so lacking in rizz.

im so pissed sometimes that i was Mormon instead of like, Catholic or Orthodox because Mormonism is like your insane uncles conspiracy theories about catholicism. its just so lacking in rizz.

i live in a small rural town. i've learned how to accept that my neighbors are liars.

"none of these words are in the bible" you're not even reading the secret part of the bible. with all my posts in it

I cannot express how jarring it was after being raised by a "Porn Addiction Coach" to get into a relationship with a woman and come face to face with the fact that she did actually want me to sexually desire her.

Like, in Evangelical Purity Culture, male desire was basically poison. It was a threat. It was this constant temptation that would destroy everything. And even after leaving, in the sort of queer, feminist spaces i spend most of my time in that wasn't something that pretty much anyone was spending time actively dissuading me from feeling.

But my desire is good. It's not something that I'm being accepted in spite of. It's a positive thing. It's a bonus. Not even just vanilla stuff, all the stuff I'd convinced myself were these weird terrible desires that were shameful to have.

It honestly took me over a decade to fully accept that. To stop dissociating during sex and confront that I was, in fact, being a massive perv and that was fantastic and preferable and that I could accept that into my self-image without shame or self hatred.

But it's important to do. It's important to leave relationships that don't welcome that part of you. To know that your sexuality is valuable and valid and worth owning and celebrating. Because the alternative is just...not being. Either existing as yourself and repressing the part of your identity that is sexual or allowing that sexuality to exist but turning off your self while it does.

abraham joshua heschel, god in search of man: a philosophy of judaism, 1976

There’s a Yaoi about side wound boypussy

Yeah yeah we've all read Matthew

I saw people on twitter asking what’s up with all the radfems supporting Russel Brand over there and the answer is that Brand believes porn addiction is real and is linked with religious front orgs focused on popularizing the pseudoscientific idea of porn use being the same thing as drug addiction. It’s common for abusers like Brand (or Weinstein) to popularize pseudoscience about “porn addiction” and “sex addiction” because they don’t want to accept blame for their abuse and instead shift it off to things already seen as immoral vices.

Also mandatory linking of articles about research into “porn addiction” bc being the most successful rightwing pseudoscientific propaganda push means a lot of people just don’t question it being a thing and when you just mention it’s not real you get a flood of people going “urrm akshully anything can be an addiction”

Something that's kind of funny to me in retrospect is that I'm a leftist BECAUSE I was raised Mormon, not in spite of it. The interesting thing about the church and my parents only wanting to sugar-coat the bible/book of Mormon and not apply it to the conservative politics that they clearly wanted me to adopt is that it backfired horribly. the feel good stories about Jesus helping the poor and the ill and the whores and the tax collectors were my pretty steady theological diet which made it so confusing when my parents who refused to talk politics to me as a child told me that "we don't give money to bums" or when the church decided it was okay to theologically exclude the children of gay parents from membership. As far as I can tell the most Christian thing I've ever done is become agnostic because I'm pretty sure Jesus warned against hanging out with religious hypocrites

Just experienced an emotion that I can't put a name to but certainly did not like when I suddenly remembered how much time in my life I have put into not just memorizing the 13 articles of faith and various youth themes and scriptures, but also the entire document "The Living Christ."

see i think what people get caught up in is going "oh this and that are fetish art......hey did you know x thing is a fetish...pretty crazy right.....this piece of art is actually a fetish for the artist........" and like. see the problem is thinking that devalues the art. i don't think something being a fetish or sexual in nature or whatever actually detracts from any meaning or emotional weight something could have. i don't think "horny" is a worthless or meaningless emotion and i don't see why exploring it in art is any different from "sadness" or "happiness" or "anger". does that make sense? im just sayin we should examine why we view sexuality as inherently detracting/meaning less in art than other things