Tag: religion

fabbittle:

billprideauxs:

lesbianshepard:

“I was raised Catholic” just translates to “I’m an atheist, but I feel kinda bad about it.”

“I was raised Mormon” means I’m gunna call myself agnostic and also I have anger issues

I was raised Mormon also comes with a buttload of desperate perfectionistic thought patterns that when you combine them with executive fuction issues that come with autism and/or ADHD pretty much guarantee you spend your life not only feeling like an unworthy failure, but being judged by your entire family. (Double down if you’re queer.) Congratulations! You fucked up a perfectly good kid is what you did. Look at it. It’s got anxiety. And no self-esteem. (And anger issues.)

novafuzzcheeks:

tranarchist:

honslayer:

anamalarky:

tilthat:

TIL some chimpanzees and bonobos are beginning to display very primitive precursors to religious behaviour

via reddit.com

Ronald K. Siegel has studied the precursors of religious faith in African elephants and concludes that “elephants are aware of natural cycles, as they practice “moon worship,” waving branches at the waxing moon and engaging in ritual bathing when the moon is full.“[7] Observations by Pliny the elder also note supposed elephant reverence for the celestial bodies.[8]

fucking cool

forgot Jesus, I wanna convert to an elephant religion

We just gonna listen to Pliny the elder now?????

jabberwockypie:

beakedwhalesyo:

gaslightgallows:

questions-within-questions:

baileywilson013:

Maybe misusing the name of God isn’t so much about saying the shallow words, “Oh my God,” as it is about using the name of God to justify discrimination, oppression, injustice, racism, slavery, xenophobia, poverty, sexism, islamophobia, ableism, homophobia, war, & the list can go on. 

Amen

When I was a wee little Gaslight attending Catholic Sunday schools, and then later in college when I was taking a Bible as Literature class, both my stolid neighborhood deacon and my dapper Protestant professor said almost the exact same thing:

“Taking the Lord’s name in vain isn’t when someone says ‘God damn it.’ It’s when a mortal, fallible human being presumes to put words in God’s mouth and say ‘This is what God wants you to do.’“

Exactly. It was always more about doing evil in God’s name than it was some sort of superstitious taboo on when and how one can say His literal name.

If you look across a whole bunch of cultures, names are really powerful
and important.  (Like the thing about “Don’t give the fae your true name
or they’ll have a hold over you”?) So it does kind of make sense that just throwing around God’s name whenever wouldn’t be polite.

I mean, God’s name isn’t “God”, anyway.  That’s a title the same way that “Lord” is a title.  People who aren’t monotheists have gods, too.

Like … “Captain America” isn’t Steve Rogers’ name. A bunch of people call him that, but “Captain America” can also apply to Bucky Barnes or Sam Wilson or Danielle Cage or a whole bunch of other people, depending on context.  (And, like, Steve was “Nomad” for a while, too.)  But there are also different levels of formality and familiarity and different connotations between saying “Hey Cap!” and “Hey, Steve!”

(I spent WAY too long thinking about that comparison.)

It’s my understanding that Judaism, for example, has a bunch of different titles for God that are appropriate in different contexts, but the actual name is only supposed to be used in the most holy situations.

challa-ho:

A man goes to see his Rabbi in a panic, and he gets there and he says, “Rabbi you’ll never guess what! My son has run away to become a Christian!” And the Rabbi responds, “Well you’ll never guess what! My son has also run away to become a Christian!” So the man asks the Rabbi what to do and the Rabbi says that they should pray to G-d. So they pray and tell him of their plight and G-d replies, “You’ll never guess what!”

– An old Hasidic joke that my Dad likes to tell me

Viking Age script deciphered – mentions ‘Allah’ and ‘Ali’ – Uppsala University, Sweden

jabberwockypie:

deadcatwithaflamethrower:

answersfromvanaheim:

Quote from this article:
“That we so often maintain that Eastern objects in Viking Age graves
could only be the result of plundering and eastward trade doesn’t hold
up as an explanatory model because the inscriptions appear in typical
Viking Age clothing that have their counterparts in preserved images of
Valkyries.”

Fuck yes thank you thank you thank you more widespread acknowledgement of this fucking PLEASE

SQUEEEE!

Viking Age script deciphered – mentions ‘Allah’ and ‘Ali’ – Uppsala University, Sweden

max-swell:

speakingwhentheworldsleeps:

You can never explain to your former faith that the water is fine. That you went past the forbidden gate, and entered the forbidden water, and it is good, and healing, and refreshing.

They have been told the water is not fine. The water is poison. The water will make you sick, make your bones turn brittle and your skin melt off.

But you cannot use your health as proof of their error. Because they have a new answer now: it was a slow poison all along and one day those who entered the water will die a painful, gasping death with the water as the cause.

And when no one dies from the water, you still cannot tell them its fine. Because there’s another answer, too: that the water will get you after your dead, that the consequences are invisible, incomprehensible, known only on the other side of life.

There will always be another answer for why the water is poison, even if there is no proof. So all you can do is immerse yourself in the water. Find healing in it. Recognize that all along the forbidden gate was lying to you. Even if no one comes with you.

This is an incredible metaphor. I’m using “come on in, the water’s great” as an apostate motto from now on. ❌

People are going to forget this very fast

tikkunolamorgtfo:

posteriorsteak:

date-a-jew-suggestions:

praxikate:

date-a-jew-suggestions:

lesbianzoidberg:

sub-ignis:

date-a-jew-suggestions:

Carrie fisher was Jewish. She was a strong badass powerful Jewish woman. Rest In Peace space mom.

according to Wikipedia

“Fisher described herself as an “enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God”.[69] She was raised Protestant,[7] but often attended Jewish services, the faith of her father, with Orthodox friends.[70]” 

So, unless Judaism became patrilineal when I wasn’t looking…

yeah it did actually, we all got together & changed it just so that you specifically would look like an asshole

Also tho like Jewish ethnicity actually can be patrilineal. Like I know she never followed the religion but she was a half ethnically Jewish person.

@sub-ignis here ya go 

Yeah exactly. She considered herself half Jewish so as far as I’m concerned she’s one of us.

yes you can be ethnically jewish but religiously other. it’s possible. she has dual lineage as well

[Fisher] says she has early memories of her father singing in synagogue, something that had “a big effect” on her. Today, as a single mother, she and her 16-year-old daughter often attend Friday night services and Shabbat meals with Orthodox friends.

“There’s such a loveliness to lighting candles and saying what you’re grateful for that week. It’s beautiful.”

Ever the artist, when asked about Judaism, she starts singing “Hearts and Bones,” a song her ex Paul Simon wrote for her back in 1983.

The lyrics read in part: “One and one-half wandering Jews/Free to wander wherever they choose.”

(source)

Patrilineal Jews are Jews.

You can be both agnostic and Jewish (I should know, being both myself).

Carrie Fisher identified with her Jewish heritage and considered herself to be a Jew. End of story.

Protestant Steve Rogers v. Catholic Steve Rogers and why that matters

historicallyaccuratesteve:

[I’ve been sitting on this post for about three weeks, trying to decide if I wanted to make it or not. I’ve finally decided it’s time to put it out there, so.]

This essay was originally going to be added to this post about Steve’s dog-tags, but I apparently have a lot of feelings about this and it ended up being ridiculously long and sort of tangential to the original post, so I’m simply linking the two. I’ve divided the essay into three parts: church history, immigration history, and speculation.

Disclaimer: I was raised Protestant (in a non-denominational Stone-Campbell church), and I attended undergrad at a Protestant Christian liberal arts college (also Stone-Campbell). My undergraduate degree included church history, but I am definitely not an expert, so I’ve included lots of Wikipedia links to compensate. I am currently attending a Catholic university for my masters, but again, the focus has not been church history (although I have interviewed and transcribed interviews with Catholic priests from the Brooklyn Diocese as part of my classes). I know enough about church history to feel comfortable making this post, but not enough to go into further detail than what is laid out here. If I have made any egregious errors in regards to either branch’s history, please drop me a note so I can correct them.

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