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wolfythewitch · 5 months

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i have so much rage in me one day i think i will explode. i dont think i know how to forgive as much as i know how to forget

#art #wolfy religious tedtalks #sketch #comic #i have such a huge disconnect with my emotions and i do genuinely think a lot of it ties back to religion #crazy how that happens #whats funny is i now have a lot of people i vaguely dislike but cant remember why.#crazy what happens when you treat forgiveness like an instruction and not a process

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stil-lindigo · 8 months

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the fox god.

a comic about a trickster.

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#cw: emotional abuse #cw: gaslighting #cw: animal death #charity - a god whose name was only ever meant to be ironic #i love playing with the concept of religion like this #im not religious at all but i did go to a christian school for twelve years #and i remember learning about the story of abraham. who long story short gets told by god to kill his son to prove his love for god.#and at the veeeery last minute god goes sike! this was a test to see if you'd do it! here's a lamb to slaughter instead #but the whole concept of that exchange in and of itself is so #anyway #one thing i meant to include in the creative notes but i ran out of room for is that charity never calls cunning by his name.#it's just “fox”. which was a small touch to indicate that he never acknowledged cunning's identity outside of being something exploitable.#but for all charity's hidden disdain for cunning #he still stole all his strengths and coveted them. he became known as the fox god.#so maybe some part of cunning survived. despite everything.#“give me your heart.”#“my god. it had always been yours.”#comic art #hearteaters #stillindigo art #stillindigo comics #one more comic to go until im finished with this collection!!

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iscariotapologist · 1 day

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today in church one of the priests referred to trans people as "those who are growing into the gender they were called to be" and i'm kind of enjoying the idea of like....divinely ordained top surgery

#if god thinks i should get top surgery he needs to venmo me $9000 usd #there was someone in the gay social hour who said she had gotten kicked out of multiple catholic churches (for being trans)#and her therapist recommended this church specifically....#going into affirming churches still makes me a little emotional if i am being fully honest. if you have an affirming religious space #i hope you can hold onto that shit with your life #anyway. charming way to think about it i like it more than the bread and wine one personally #me

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mauvearts · 9 months

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Caranthir

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#Caranthir #my love #silmarillion #silm #the silmarillion #tolkien #and finally the quest of completing all 7 of them goes on [epic music in the background]#i had a hard time constructing a card for caranthir and i quit all my previous ideas and just drew something that felt right #resulting in a piece that isnt really what i wanted but i had soo much fun drawing him <3 #not much symbolism going on here but #i choose columbine on his mantle - as a symbol for grief and also self hatred as columbine stands for weakling #columbine is a loaded flower in christian symbolism - and as a parallel i feel like caranthir is quite religious #like staying true to customs and traditions and seeking help in prayers to Eru as a way to control his wild emotions #i have to stop here - this is a rabbithole 8'D

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vaguely-concerned · 4 months

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thinking about garrus 'I heard you're going to hell and back so obviously I'm coming along' vakarian in these trying times

#inviting himself along to the end of times as your +1 just to have your back. who else does it like him #he remains the king of providing emotional security #mass effect #garrus vakarian #thinking of it like this... garrus and jigen share some deep down shit as characters don't they lol #it's about... the loyalty and steadfastness to the degree where it starts to feel borderline religious and yet deeply personal of it all

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donnyclaws · 2 months

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Coughs up blood... oc studies

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#art tag #tiger crawl home #damian #aran #taurcoast #endalla #taurcoast waiting for her partners to get out of their own heads so they can be a cule in peace. religious guilt is a head emotion not #an animal one

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thepeacefulgarden · 5 months

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ricksanchezbignaturals · 4 months

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rick baby if you're not going to hell nobody is

#rick's prayers in this episode really do be living in my head rent free #im just so in love with the characterization like if it wasn't already obvious that he has religious trauma this scene really seals the dea #getting to see rick sanchez of all people- absurd amounts of power; god complex; cynical atheist rick sanchez begging for his life in praye #it makes me feel things #and like this bit in particular. he's on his fucking knees with his hands clasped and head bowed. man's SCARED and i am emotional #yes i was raised christian how could you tell #rick and morty #rick & morty #rnm #r&m #rick sanchez #rick and morty season 2 #a rickle in time #my nonsense

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cassemiah · 10 months

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How do I explain to you

that your idea of heaven

Is the closest I've ever come

to understanding hell?

#religious trauma #religious abuse #poetry #spilled poetry #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #poems on tumblr #poets on tumblr #spilled words #spilled emotions #poem

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thekidsfromyestergay · 2 years

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2002 // 2022

#fuck all kinda of religious devotion have you seen THIS #ive been so emotional about the scorpion lately #he knew. before anyone in the world did. he knew.

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jellysshitpoems · 2 months

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Lover, my Love. - Poem by me (jellysshitpoems)

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dosiadove · 1 month

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it is crazy to me that if you tell your child their whole life that they are evil, broken, inherently awful human beings its considered emotional abuse.

but under christianity its just freedom of religion.

no child should belive that about themself.

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fragmented-artist · 1 month

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fortes-fortuna-iogurtum · 1 year

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I've been reading Exodus lately and I've just gotten to the portions where God gives the first commands to the people via Moses (twice), and then goes on to give detailed instructions about the tabernacle and how it should be built, and I'm just... we think art is unimportant?? we think things only mean as much as their functionality?? we so easily fall into the trap of believing that beauty means nothing, that it's cheap and only worth whatever mindless distraction it brings, that it's barely more than a cheap sensual thrill, that buildings should just be practical and plain and cheap, that everything should be functional but ultimately disposable, that paintings and dresses and mugs and curtains and carpets are just pretty but have no real value, that beauty is fleeting and vain and therefore shouldn't be thought about too much, if even looked for at all... we fall into these traps so easily, and we forget that there are chapters upon chapters of painstakingly detailed plans to build one portable worship tent, and those plans have been handed down through thousands of years of human history, because beauty and art and skill in craft is important

#I have to go get ready for work now but I will come back to this #and don't even get me started on the parts about God calling specific craftsmen *by name*#he called them!! by name!!! he said 'this man is good at his job. he creates beautiful work. he will build my temple and make it beautiful'#and even more--God inspired him!!!! it was a calling of GOD for him to create beautiful carvings and tapestries and candlesticks!!!#look even if you're not jewish or christian or religious at all you have GOT to see what it means that all these incredibly detailed plans #for building this tent-temple are extremely important #because even if you don't believe in God and don't think that this is all significant bc he personally gave the instructions #and then helped preserve this record of them so we could still read them today #you do have to see how important they were to the people of that time who first wrote them down #and the extreme care that was taken to record all of those detail #AND the fact that it's been preserved for so long and we can still read all the care that was put into creating this incredible piece #of artwork and worship they made #gurt says stuff #I just. gahhfhhfj. I'm feeling emotional about chapters of the Bible that I can't even fully force myself to pay attention to #bc there's so MUCH and I'm bad at visualizing this stuff and I tend to zone out while listening to it #but the fact that it IS that much!!! that there SO MUCH DETAIL and it goes on for SO LONG that I even struggle to pay attention!!!#that this was THAT IMPORTANT to the people who wrote it and to God!!! as an artist and someone who has always cared about art #this means so much to me ok #christianity #bible verse #bible thoughts #exodus #art #theology

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andromeda3116 · 9 months

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gah now i'm getting On My Shit about the discworld again and like i've said what i want to say about the witches and the watch but there's also small gods like i will never be over small gods i finished it and i was like... has this... has this healed some of my religious trauma?

if you've never read it, the plot is thus: on the disc, gods get their power from belief. therefore, the more believers a god has, the more powerful they are. and so, there is this god -- om -- who has risen in power, who has a country devoted to His worship, which hunts down and slaughters heretics and infidels, to whom people pray multiple times a day and make pilgrimages to His holy city, which has a huge citadel and huge structure of a complex religion devoted to his worship. and, on a whim, He comes down one day to see how things are going.

and discovers that he has no power.

that, in this country of millions who profess to worship Him with all their hearts, there is only one person left who actually believes in Him.

and there's a lot of meat there, and a lot more plot to delve into, but the core theme ends up boiling down to this:

can you forgive your god for how they failed you?

and do they deserve that forgiveness? how can they earn that forgiveness?

because ultimately, the forgiveness that the messianic archetype is embodying is not that of the god's grace, but of the people's -- to forgive their god his absence. to give their god another chance to be their god.

and whether or not you, in the end, can forgive, it gives you the language to realize that this is what you were asking for with your last prayers. whether or not you can ever go back, whether or not there have been other reasons since that have convinced you further, it gives you the language to accept that your god failed you. and it is not your fault.

this book speaks loudest, perhaps, to those of us who left our church with grief, not with anger. with hurt betrayal, not with the fires of defiance.

it didn't change my lack of religious belief, but it helped me conceptualize my feelings about the church, the things that went deeper than intellectual arguments. about that sense of betrayal, that hurt, that twisted-up knot within me that it had built, and it gave me the mirror within which i could see that i had been failed by my beliefs. it wasn't that i hadn't believed enough, it was that my belief had been betrayed by the absence of an answer.

there have been other reasons since then that have cemented my atheism, but small gods made me stop hating the church i used to love, because it made me recognize why i hated it so much and said "you're not wrong, it didn't have to be this way. you were betrayed and you were failed and you can let it go, now."

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #small gods #religious trauma #i won't pretend it fixed everything because it's not that simple #but it gave me the language to understand the core of my emotions coming out of that awful place #and that was a seismic shift #i was steadily veering towards the Angry Atheist archetype but it unraveled that anger within me #i'm no less an atheist and this book never tried to change that - sir terry was a secular humanist and this is very much not one of those #preachy christian books like it is *aggressively* not one of those preachy christian books #it's about religious trauma and working through it and dealing with your complicated feelings about your religion #and having that mirror to recognize that what i was feeling *was* trauma. it *was* betrayal. and i wasn't wrong to feel it.#shifted something deep within me

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zer0expektation · 2 months

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never getting over the fact that s4 Cas's arc is literally just a gay metaphor

#wdym he came from an uber religious family #started questioning everything after have like three conversations with one hot man #and being all like “im experiencing... emotions”#turned to a shunned family member to help navigate these questions and emotions #got caught by family and sent to 're-education camp'#and then was forced to choose between his family and the man he was falling for #crazy business #spn #supernatural #supernatural season 4 #castiel #destiel #gay #queer #queer coding #love a show thatll unashamedly queer code queerbait and canonize queerness the same gay angel #deancas

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