I love how he finds the words to describe the concepts that float around my head daily ❤️❤️❤️❤️ love him!

It's funny how certain religious people act like accepting LGBTQ rights will lead to paedophilia being normalized when they've already let that shit slide for centuries.

Then again, what else do you expect from people who value religion over the rights of children?

Don't let them trick you into thinking they care.

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.

My biggest problem with God and having a 'personal' relationship with him has always been the idea that we are to love and respect this 'being' more than we love and respect those we are surrounded by.

Its like hearing about stories you have never met and being expected to love this person more than you love your family or those that you interact with on a regular basis. I dont KNOW you. Why should I feel indebted to you when we have never spoken before, we have never interacted or held hands. I have never felt your warmth, nothing tangible has been felt from you. I, of course, when I participated in the church would feel the 'presence of god' while praying. But at the end of the day, I was alone in the room. It was just me crying and praying to myself. There was no god in the room with me.

Aww, poor baby christian. You're mad the world is declining? You mad that people can be themselves, love openly and not discriminate? You mad that you are seen as assholes who pass judgment and take none? Aww, poor baby christian...fuck you

Anyway, imma go play with my buttplug, kiss a dude and live a happy, gay, apostate life cuz you don't hold the monopoly on goodness, morality or love.

Fuck you and i hope your idea of what society should be declines faster, cuz it's disgusting and more harmful than you fucks even care to consider.

I don't need your god or any other to live a happy life.

i've cut my hair

i'm wearing pants

"He died for you"

"that's not my fault

i didn't want him to"

a hand strikes my face

guilt haunts me

shame taught by a loving place

i look up

He looks down

things are as they've always been

Being an Ex-Pentecostal with religious trauma is weird because some days you'll hear the music and jam out to it, and on others you'll hear it and have an existential crisis.

The more that I explore new forms of spirituality, the more I see that the religion I was raised in is not as unique as it claimed to be.

I was raised pentecostal and as I develop a practice of witchcraft, I've found that many of the basics of the craft are things I already learned how to do in the church. Speaking in tongues? Meditation, grounding, centering. "Quiet time" with God? Also meditation and grounding. Discerning between spirits? Picking up on energies! Prayers of blessing and "hedges of protection" sound like they're straight out of a witch book! So much of my practice is shaped by things I was taught in church in order to keep me away from witchcraft; yet ironically, those very things are the building blocks of my current journey into it.

I sometimes wonder how upset the people from the churches I grew up in would be if they knew the way I've repurposed their indoctrination. Yet somehow, I don't really care what they would have to say anymore. Despite my fears of leaving, my mental health is better than ever and I'm slowly improving as I develop as a person. I've found the peace that 15 year old me found at an altar; only this time, it has no strings attached.

💀💀💀💀

Children don't need religion to develop good morals. I'd argue that certain religions get in the way of that because they encourage you to do things because a deity approves and it will lead to you having a good afterlife or whatever. And I don't know about you but I find that to be self-serving.

Not to mention, the fact that religion can advocate for immoral things.

Let's just teach children to be good just because.

Grew up listening to “Christian Rock” and K-Love, so now I’m cursed to have “He Reigns” by the Newsboys be the soundtrack for my nostalgic recollections of childhood

Realistically If Eve was unable to comprehend the difference between good and evil, can we even blame her for not obeying god and being 'seduced' by the serpent? She doesnt understand the difference between right and wrong, so why would God damn her for doing a 'wrong' act if prior to eating the fruit she was unable to tell the difference anyway.

As an ex-christian, the thought that "god never changes, he is always the same" has become one the most terrifying things christianity has to say and idk how I used to take comfort in that stupid phrase.

It's terrifying. He never changes, his promises mean nothing, because he is still the genocidal warmongering jealous and violent god he was in the old testament. He will still kill and curse and destroy if he cannot get hi way. How can people just say that nonsense line and still think that this is a god worthy of worship?

Hey so btw idk who out there could use this post but if you have like ridiculously long hair and you want it short but you can't cut it for whatever reason try putting it in a low ponytail at the base of your neck, flipping it towards your face, pinning it in place (try to make it as flat against your head as possible) and then put a beanie over it. It looks like bangs or short hair. You can also pin it into a part if you want it to look neater.

I have the short green hair of my dreams now but beanies were my literal lifesaver before I got to that point so if this is helpful for someone else out there I'll be glad