#Bible (authority)

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

guy who so desperately tries to find god. who wants to have faith in a higher authority to guide him out of the hole he's in. from the weight of guilt from simply existing, as the person he is. but every time he thinks he's answered his higher calling it turns out he's made the Morally Incorrect choice and his path to goodness and holiness was the road to the devil all along

#now trusting god will give you a way out? there's your real crime!!! #guy betrayed by the protestant promise of a direct connection with god. but is also somehow. joan of arc. #see he never achieves actual martyrdom tho bc he's not allowed to stay dead lmaooo #sam somehow the most unintentionally catholic AND protestant character of all time #dean the atheist who sees religious predestination as the curse it is from the get go. framed as the narrative's Real Moral Authority #but also in the process reifying patriarchal familial power n authority. very very important Value of the Church #i don't think it's that deep. the show's attempt at critiquing christianity. but the way it reinforces christian cultural values??? #'religious predestination and absolute faith in a higher authority...bad' #nice nice ok tell me more? #“so you should put your faith in family. in your patriarch (big brother)” #????????? #the thematic incoherence of it all. it's like the world's stupidest puzzle box to me. i can't leave it alone. #sam = maybe i can find god thru following my destined path. wait oh shit. #cas = maybe i can find god thru rebellion and seeking my own destiny. wait oh shit. #dean = god is fucking dead and me i also feel not so good #the “guy who so desperately wants to find god parallel” <- me coming out as a secret sastiel fan #both of them...finding god in de-[sniper on the roof kills me in one shot] #spn bible studies #j.txt

[awanderingrat]

guys listen to me. We will NOT be shipping Jesus Christ and fyodor dostoevsky.

I repeat. We will NOT be shipping JESUS CHRIST and TWINKIFIED FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY.

#Bsd #bsd 113 #bungou stray dogs #Bsd fyodor #fyodor dostoevsky #dostoevksy #<- adding those last two bc someone browsing the author tag and seeing this would be funny #jesus christ #Tagging him too #Uhh #bible

[overthinkinglotr]

Inspired by the trash homophobic conservative poll that was going around recently:

#lotr #overthinkinglotr #tw: homophobia #my theory about these people #is that most of them are Catholics who got into lotr because its a Catholic approved book or w/e #but they genuinely don’t know how to interact with a novel unless they’re treating it as a Bible #and don’t know how to interact with fandom unless they’re treating it as a congregation #and don’t know how to interact with an author unless they’re treating him like God #and it’s obnoxious #this is a fandom not Sunday school #the point of art in conversation and communication #not mindless submission to authority

[gxlden-angels]

Bro I hate fundamentalists and culturally-fundie parents they'll say shit like "spare the rod spoil the child am I right haha yea my parents used to have to beat my ass with a switch almost everyday but I sure did learn my lesson" but like??? no you didn't??? you were hit multiple times for something you very obviously did not, in fact, learn

Like studies about how harmful even lightly spanking children is aside, you're literally contradicting yourself?? Some even admitted they got worse as they got older cause they wanted to see how far they could push their parents before they got punished

And studies not aside, you're gonna get child raising advice from the same book that tells you to stone your wife if her hymen doesn't break on your wedding night instead of the decades of research we have now?? Just say you're a bad parent and move on my guy. Skill issue

#bro I had a coworker go 'unpopular opinion I think some kids really do need beatings' and I'm like???? #unprompted???? what's going on there???? #well anyways I ended up going 'yea so I plan on specializing in play therapy with autistic children so I've been learning about talking #to children and the ways their parents and environment affects them' #and they're like hmmm but beating this kid with a stick after they broke something or I upset them to the point of yelling is good actually #had a boss say it taught him and his kids respect cause they were hard-headed #and I'm like?? that's fear not respect! they fear punishment! they do not act out of respect for you! #he's a conservative christian black man tho so he's like 'But Authority!' like bro I don't even respect you what are you on about #'You don't respect police and their authority?' Nope! I fear them! I do not respect cops and every cop/cop-adjacent person I personally know #has reinforced that for me #'We'll agree to disagree' Cool! Doesn't mean you're not wrong! I could believe trees aren't real but that is in fact incorrect #then he pulled out the bible verse and I was like ah okay I forgot you like 'here's how to treat slaves' book you're so right bestie #I'm totally wrong now and so sorry for doubting you and your 2000+ year old book I don't believe in <3 #They'd go 'well I turned out fine!' then say something that directly contradicts that #anyways I need christians to get their grubby little hands off the current state of Child Protection and Rights in the U.S. #So we can actually start working on helping kids without the force of christian hands suffocating them #cause homeschooling and child raising by evangelicals are so fucked up bro I'm tired of this shit #I'd only stay in my current state to help children get out of that cycle since I'm in the bible belt #ex christian #religious trauma #child abuse tw

[guzhufuren]

VegasPete + favourite AO3 ficwriters’ tags (pt.2/4) 

bonus: 

#kinnporsche #vegaspete #kinnporsche text post meme #kinnporsche ao3 tags #vegas theerapanyakul #pete saengtham #bible wichapas #build jakapan #mine #x text posts #leftontheladder #tuserfaiza #userjap #forangel #kinnporschesource #blowing kisses to all the authors in vegaspete ao3 tag you are responsible for my wellbeing #please angels write more of dark pete i need it like air go bananas with it the way the untamed authors went with dark lan zhan #do it cmon

[possiblyawesometmblr]

personally i still believe that the percy jackson musical did the best job of capturing the spirit of the original book, but the show did the best job of taking the source material and improving on it

#the musical treated the book as the bible #the show treated the book as a baseline to build from #both are good! but different! #you can really tell the show is the product of an author coming back 19 years later and saying #if i could fix this one part what would i do differently #and as a writer? god i feel that #pjo #percy jackson #pjo series #pjo musical

[forgetful-river]

You're allowed to ascend but only if God wants you to, and God can be a bit of an authoritarian bastard

#Thinking about Eve. Incredibly fucked up that she was so harshly punished for being seduced by knowledge but also her defiance gets #credited to a 'man' these days (even though the modern conception of satan is almost certainly not how the authors of the bible intended it #its just such a weird catch 22 #and ya know. her name is Eve. the beginning the genesis and the thing she gets to create is the punishment of mankind. original sin. #like yeah she also birthed the first humans but that's not what she's known for. she's known for being tempted into falling and dragging #Adam with her #lmao insane ramblings to put in the tags of homestuck fanart but also yeah it is that deep sometimes ya know #also!!! the bisexual colors were not intended but also I do hc Ara as bi so it works #aradia megido #hs #homestuck #my art #eyestrain #just in case!!

[stuckinapril]

i love anthologies. anthologies are so sexy

#in an alternate world where im an english lit major the norton anthology of english lit is my bible #it's by no means an exhaustive overview but i really love how everything is in its neat timeline #and you get a general vibe for how literature was back then as opposed to just going in blind. u see how everything influences everything #a major (maybe a bit irrational?) fear i have is i come out of a book w superficial understanding #and while that has contributed to unfortunate reading slumps i do also like this trait of me #where i am actually focused on giving a book/period of time the respect it deserves vs just reading it flippantly #i like doing my silly little pre-read of a period of time/author before jumping into it #i don't do pre-reads for everything but there are books where i find it necessary to prime my brain for absorbing them #and anthologies are good for that #and they're also a good resource for investigating authors whose vibe sits right w u. #or for knowing the general quaintessential authors of a certain genre of lit #i also love poetry anthologies #the commentary comparing/contrasting certain authors is also rly interesting to me . ok i'll shut up now #p

[br1ghtestlight]

why was bob in CHURCH arguing with a PRIEST. he doesn't even go to church. he's not a christian????

#in my head I'm imagining that bob decided to show up to church sunday morning in a full suit and sit through the entire service #just to start an argument with the priest and call him out on his bullshit #bcuz he heard one bible verse he disagreed with and was like NO i need to talk to someone about this immediately. an authority figure #*already searching up the address and schedule of the nearest church* #txt #bob's burgers

[yandere-daydreams]

Were you someone who was or is fond of reading books, growing up ? Because you're so excellent at writing. Like, nowadays its so difficult to find any book with half the narrative structure or interest your writing has. Feels like you were someone who liked hunger games at some point.

no yeah you read me and my preteen hunger games obsession like a book T-T admittedly tho, i am kind of currently in a reading slump not for lack of trying, but just because,,, i feel like a lot of recent horror/thriller/mystery stuff has been kind of preachy, lately? idk how to explain it, but i feel like darker genres feel the need to come with some greater life lesson they can serve up to the reader on a silver platter within the first hundred pages which very much goes against my 'tell your silly little story and i'll decide how it's changed me as a person later' mentality to fiction. i will resist the temptation and forgo posting a detailed list of all the books that have been added to my DNF list in the past month and their many issues but know that it is exhaustive.

#is you ARE looking for more recent/less mainstream books that i take a lot of my writing cues from #i could not recommend the author darcy coates highly enough #specifical her survival horror stuff #even MORE specifically Hunted and Dead of Winter #maybe even Craven Manor if you're good with a supernatural element #or fuck it #go back to the classics #read rosemary's baby #there's a sex scene that involves both first lady jackie kennedy and the devil (from the bible) #and that's what it takes to be REAL literature #personal #anon ask

[silly-stringray]

(SPOILERS FOR THE LAND OF STORIES) okay so sorta outing myself as a Land Of Stories fan, but who cares the it’s a great book series. So we all know the potion that can make any work of fiction real, and this potion worked on greek mythology. Greek mythology isn’t collectively seen as fiction though, majority does, but accent Greeks, and some people nowadays, see it as real. This is the same as the bible. Not everyone sees it at nonfiction, some see it as completely fiction. Would the potion work on the bible???? Could have the masked man got fucking God on his side???

#the land of stories #the wishing spell #the enchantress returns #a grimm warning #across the kingdoms #an authors Odyssey #worlds collide #chris colfer #the masked man #the bible #god #alex bailey #conner bailey #the bailey twins

[noesa]

this is your sign to stop being catholic :)

#i am saying this as a former catholic myself #because the argument for papal infallibility is obviously flawed when you consider how popes contradict each other all the time #you think god is changing his mind? no. the popes are human with all the biases that come from being human #jesus never even said anything that alluded to papal infallibility in the first place. that was entirely made up afterwards #(personally i think even the argument for papal authority is not that well justified) #but i encourage you to read the bible. like really read it. see what things you believe are actually present and which aren't #because a LOT of things modern christians - of all stripes - believe fall into the latter category #catholicism

[captainjonnitkessler]

People will dismiss the importance of interpreting the Constitution because “maybe we shouldn’t care what a bunch of racist sexist slaveowners would have thought 200 years ago”

But bring up one passage from a holy book that hasn’t aged well and people will trip all over themselves to say “well, actually, in this translation, and if you use this interpretation, and if you listen to this crackpot theory that no theologian takes seriously but that I’m going to present as established and widely accepted, then -” instead of just following through on “maybe we shouldn’t care what a bunch of racist sexist slaveowners would have thought 2000 years ago”

#i'm so sick of hearing religious people explain to me why actually leviticus doesn't ban gay people y'all #it DOESN'T MATTER. it literally does not matter if it does or doesn't #i am not going to respect the moral authority of a 2000 year old book regardless of how well you justify its slavery #and people don't make moral choices based on bible interpretations. they choose bible interpretations #based on moral choices they've already made #atheism #skepticism umbrella

[theprayingteacher]

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[thelifethatgoeson]

I made a deal with the devil.

The deal was very simple, I could ask whatever questions I wanted and he would answer honestly, and in return he could ask me.

Which confused me.. what could the devil want to know about us?

So I started “is heaven real?” I ask.

“Yes.” He responded. “As real as hell.” His voice sounded like the dying embers from a chimney.

“Who will go to heaven?” I continued.

“Well.. whoever God wants to have.”

“Could you be more specific?” I tried asking, but it wasn’t my turn.

And so he asked “how does fear feel like?”. A little bit confused I tried explaining how the emotion felt like. My explanation was vague, but he seemed satisfied with my response.

“Why do you want to know that?” I ask.

“When god made me, he limited my ability to feel fear. In fact, I can’t feel a lot of things..”

“What is it that you can feel?”

“Pain.” He spoke.

Knowing time was running out, I refocused the conversation. “Could you be more specific on my question about heaven?”

“Heaven is open to all of gods creations, with no expectations.” He responded.

“So in that case, you too can go to heaven. Since you are one of his creations. Right?”

“I could,” he answered “but I won’t.”

“Why not?”

“Because I made the mistake of doing what only god should do.” After thinking about his response for a few seconds I asked “are you talking about ‘creation’?”

“My attempt didn’t go as planned” he told me. “I created my angels in my image and likeness. God chained their souls to hell for all of eternity.”

“Your angels.. their the demons?”

“I guess so. Plus, I couldn’t go to heaven without my angels. For they would be suffering. That’s why I chose that when the moment came, I would be in hell with them. Suffering by their side.”

“But why would you do that!?” I asked confused.

“Because I love them.”

My face softens. “Well.. everyone will be excited to know the good news!”

“And what news will that be?” He asked.

“That no matter what we have done, we’re still going to heaven!”

“But you cant..” he said with irony “none of you can.” My voice became shaky and I asked “all of gods creations will go to heaven, with out exception. Wasn’t that what you said?”

“Yes.” He responded with sadness “it’s what I said.”

“Then I dont understand..” he looked at me with sadness and explained with a heartbreaking tone “it’s because none of you are gods creations.” He paused “you’re mine.”

#the devil #we are the devils creation #short story #tw religious themes #religion #religious trauma #religious imagery #heaven and hell #creative writing #poetry #literature #author #slam poetry #spilled poetry #bible

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

Judging Others

1 ‘Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. 2 For with the judgement you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. 3 Why do you see the speck in your neighbour’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your neighbour, “Let me take the speck out of your eye”, while the log is in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbour’s eye.

Profaning the Holy

6 ‘Do not give what is holy to dogs; and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under foot and turn and maul you.

Ask, Search, Knock

7 ‘Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. 9 Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for bread, will give a stone? 10 Or if the child asks for a fish, will give a snake? 11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

The Golden Rule

12 ‘In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets.

The Narrow Gate

13 ‘Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it. 14 For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

A Tree and Its Fruit

15 ‘Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? 17 In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus you will know them by their fruits.

Concerning Self-Deception

21 ‘Not everyone who says to me, “Lord, Lord”, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only one who does the will of my Father in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, “Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many deeds of power in your name?” 23 Then I will declare to them, “I never knew you; go away from me, you evildoers.”

Hearers and Doers

24 ‘Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. 25 The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its fall!’

28 Now when Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were astounded at his teaching, 29 for he taught them as one having authority, and not as their scribes. — Matthew 7 | New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA) New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicised Edition, copyright © 1989, 1995 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. All rights reserved. Cross References: 1 Samuel 15:33; 1 Samuel 24:13; 1 Kings 13:18; Job 22:16; Psalm 6:8; Psalm 16:11; Psalm 34:4; Psalm 37:4; Psalm 84:11; Psalm 109:17; Proverbs 9:8; Proverbs 10:8; Proverbs 10:25; Proverbs 23:9; Isaiah 35:8; Isaiah 63:7; Daniel 4:14; Matthew 5:17; Matthew 8:1; Matthew 10:15; Matthew 11:1; Matthew 12:33; Matthew 22:40; Matthew 25:10; Luke 6:37; Luke 6:41-42 and 43; Luke 11:10; Luke 13:24; John 3:14; Romans 2:1; 2 Corinthians 11:3; James 3:12

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