#im actually agnostic

[ironunderstands]

It makes me so sad when people boil venti down to a useless drunk, and zhongli to a forgetful old man, even worse if they treat them like they don’t care about their nations. Honestly, it confuses me how the Raiden Shogun was the only one seen as a real archon, but that’s just because she was scary. It kinda creates the unfortunate implication that the only way for a character to feel like a god is it they terrorize their own people. Is it not enough to watch over them and step in when needed? Why do we demand the archons to be actively threatening?

It also upsets me when people try to pretend that furina was never the hydro archon. Like yes, she didn’t have the power and was playing as the position, but until act 5, everyone believed she truly was a god. Is that not enough? If a human plays at a god to the point where everyone considers them as one, are they a god?

#Venti #zhongli #raiden shogun #food for thought i guess #idk im agnostic I want an actual religious person’s perspective on this #Furina #I really hate how people view the archons in general though #People tend to forget that they are people too

[rouge-the-bat]

so often i see people equating hierophilia with religious trauma and im just over here like. actually im just into it bc its hot <3 xoxo

#yeah my family is religious so it was always around me in a vague sense #but it was mostly absent besides for like. the holidays. which never actually included any religious tones the way we celebrated them #''but if theyre holidays originating from religions then they always have religious tones-'' theres a big difference between #a kid only knowing easter as Egg Decorating Day and a kid being brought to church and actually being taught about jesus n shit #ive been to church maybe 3 times in my life. if even that. retained absolutely nothing #anyways im rambling. my point is i barely had a religious upbringing #and now im an agnostic atheist and relgious stuff is hot ♡ #hierophilia #kink tw

[hyprfxtdbstrd]

if i loved jesus as much as i love red dead redemption 2, i could read the entire bible front to back in two days flat

#cause the bible's over 700k words long #and it is very much in my ability to read a 300k+ word rdr2 fanfiction in a day #so i could easily read the entire bible in two days if i was actually invested in it #but im agnostic so #guess those 13 years spent in christian schools still isnt worth it #rdr2 #red dead redemption #red dead redemption 2 #rdr #arthur morgan #ao3 #archive of our own

[diogoatjota]

Mfw my friends send pics of their xmas eve outfits but because my parents are so alienated from catholic culture we simply dont celebrate it

#I JUST WANT TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAAAAAS WERE ALREADY CULTURALLY CATHOLICS. WHAT IS THE PROBLEEEM?MM #the devilish combination of being poor immigrants (HOWEVER. IN A COUNTRY WITH VERY SIMILAR TRADITIONS/SAME RELIGION) and lowkey agnostic #I NEVER GOT TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS BECAUSE MY PARENTS CANNOT BE FUCKING ARSED AND HALF OF MY LIFE I DIDNT EVEN GET PRESENTS! #damn... i sound like a disney villain lmfaoo 😭😭😭 #anyways! id like to have the option to get annoyed at my families xmas dinners! but WE DONT HAVE ANY #BECAUSE WERE SPRAWLED ACROSS THE CONTINENT #ALSO fun fact MY GRANDPARENTS DO IN FACT CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS. SO DO MY AUNTS AND UNCLES. SO WHAT IS OUR PROBLEEEEEEEMMMMM IM SO MAD #ill have to do all the christmas cooking (except... the steak my dad bought i think) ALL BY MYSELF! IIIIIIII GIFT WRAPPED MY PRESENTS FOR MY #PARENTS! AND GUESS WHAT IF I HADNT TOLD THEM I DID THIS. I AGAIN WOULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN ANYTHING FOR XMAS 😐😐😐 #PLEASE GOD I JUST WANT TO BE IN A LOVING FAMILY THAT CAN ACTUALLY SHOW LOVE 😭😭😭😭 #sham!s rambles

[butchdykekondraki]

Y'all are religious??

nah im just autistic

#[ren] #im agnostic actually ^_^

[existencebringsonlypain]

How do you reconcile your religious beliefs with the fact that many Christians have such a negative and slandering view of the queer community? Can you separate yourself from that and still feel comfortable with your beliefs? Not asking in an accusatory way but in a curious one.

It's fairly easy for me- I simply don't believe that's what makes one Christian. What's written in the Bible, give or take a few words, is to love your neighbors. There are barely any references to "homosexuality" (The term doesn't quite fit what the original text has written, it's more the act of a man being in a submissive, "womanly" position during sex) in the Bible, and the most popular two are dubious at best. There's the "man shall not lie with man" one, which, looking at the original script, should have been translated as "man shall not lie with boy," like, pedophilia. And there's the other, which is in a vice list, the same list that says you can't make fabric with two different types of materials or sow fields with two different types of crop. So, dubious.

Now, the Bible isn't everything. The PEOPLE are what make a religion a religion. And, actually, a lot of catholics- with my experience- aren't ...like that. In fact, I'm bffs with the daughters of the principal at my old catholic school, and one is bi and the other is trans questioning. We're everywhere!

What I've tended to notice is the people who believe that God hates the gays are the same people who use the Bible as an excuse for shitty behavior. They're the people who will accost you for having tattoos or yell at you for not capitalizing pronouns referring to God (yk what I mean, like "God is good, we should worship Him.") They're disrespecting people, which is- guess what- exactly what God says not to do! My faith says to be kind and to love one another, and I don't think the people who are acting like that actually believe in what God says you should do.

Plenty of Christians are great people. Plenty of Christians are shitty people, too. Unfortunately, we tend to attract the shitty people, but I'm catholic because I believe in the not-shitty parts of the religion, which is actually most of it. The Bible is basically just telling people not to do war and to be nice to people! Along with oddly in-depth family lineages. But I choose to think that my community and some outspoken individuals within it don't represent the actual meaning behind the text. And the meaning is really just telling you to be kind.

#im tired idk if i actually answered your question #but i think god is. probably real! be pretty weird if he wasn't! so i suppose i'm technically agnostic #but i participate fully in the catholic faith #the main reason i'm catholic is because i believe a lot of the morals are good. be nice #dont do crime (or at least. dont do bad crime) #and love one another #and also fuck rapists! jesus actually really hates rapists look it up. he is savage #existenceunrelateds #ama #asks #tw religion #cw religion

[maryam0revna]

okay people talk about “religious trauma”, but only recently did I find out that, as a child, one of my best friends used to wake up before anyone else in the house and panic because she was so convinced that everyone she loved had been raptured.

that she still sometimes feels irrationally afraid, almost thirty years later, and has to remind herself that surely a mass disappearance would make the news.

that this isn’t remotely uncommon.

that my boyfriend, who was raised in a very different denomination, used to have the same fears, as well as at least one of my coworkers.

people talk about religious trauma in a lot of ways, and I always associated it with purity culture, bigotry, and oppression. but these raw, granular little moments, where a 6 year-old version of my friend is gripped with terror because the house is too quiet, everyone she loves must have been taken away, and she must have been the only one that was Unworthy...it’s just so much more fucked up than I ever realized.

#actual blog post on this webbed site? insane #but it's just NUTS #the number of conversations we've had about her old denomination where i've just said 'people really believe that? like for real?' on a loop #and I say this as a Person Of Faith or whatever #i mean I'm episcopalian which is like if you mixed catholicism and unitarian universalism into one very liberal and contradictory thing #where the aesthetics are Traditional and the priests are Lesbians #(and all other flavors of LGBTQ+) #so obviously it's different #it's just insane that this is a real thing that happens in so so so many faith communities and people just. literally scar their children #with these batshit apocalyptic theological wanks that are nothing but Bad Theology tbh #don't get me started on the 'End Times Theology just absolves people of being good christians' rant #(and also fetishizes the Victorious Christ image over the Victim Christ (which is infinitely more relevant and demanding of empathy)) #(which is why it makes Americans uncomfy-- we don't like losers after all) #(and empathy? don't know her) #okay i'm Getting Started so I won't but !!!!!!!!!!!!! #i'm just glad my friend is happy after converting to catholicism and my boyfriend and coworker are happily atheist/agnostic #my hot take is that I think God would rather they be happy and doing good stuff in the world instead of miserable on-paper christians idk #okay im done now but YIKES

[daisies-on-a-cup]

i think god listens to children more often than adults, but also that god only really gives children what they pray for when what they're praying for is something like a second chance

#material goods? nah #god cures stomach aches caused by guilt #saw your tags malihah and it reminded me of the time i prayed in a bathroom stall in a restaurant called FATZ #because i was sick with guilt over having read like. a smut book? i think? on my kindle when i was 8 #and it really wasnt even like the actual books bc you had to pay for those- it was literally summaries/synopsis of the books #but i was soooo sick with the guilt of having to do so that i couldnt eat my potato soup and went to the bathroom #got on my knees and prayed to mary and god for like 10 minutes #just begging them to forgive me and make the pain go away #and i was in there for so long my mom came to check on me but when i left i felt so much better #my stomach pain was gone and later i lost (?) my kindle and idk what happened to it #but i interpreted that as god forgiving me and also getting rid of the thing that made me sin #im more agnostic than i am believing but i do have a relationship with god and i think about that bathroom prayer all the time

[xocasper]

yep yep i’m back and here to say that something long is gonna drop soon. i’m talking 5k+. don’t ask.

#is the school in the im not okay music video catholic #because we get a little religious #like an itty bit #it’s fine he’s sexy #jesus fuck why is this so long #there we go again #sorry everyone i grew up religious and it’s permanently ingrained in me #i’m agnostic now though #did someone say ‘93 word paragraph about religious guilt?’ no! did i do it anyway? yes! #sorry i know you said fluff but the best you got was a 500 word makeout session and some giggles #that was a joke by the way! they fuck #spoiler alert #i think there’s fluff #idk i’ll tack it on at the end or something #pretend i didn’t say that pretend i actually know what i’m doing #also?? i wrote a great paragraph in my notes app last night

[saucetail-hasanewblog]

also since im girlblogging today my teacher put on god's not dead for us to watch and omgggg its such a bad movie

#hashtag girlboss #like ok the professors an atheist? its because his mom died when he was 12 and also hes a condescending prick to everyone he knows #and bc of that his girlfriend leaves him #the girl thats a blogger/journalist for 'the new left' questions a man who shoots ducks and loves god? yeah shes infertile #and I dont think I even have to mention how weird and 'christianity is the best thing ever' thing was with the muslim girl aisha #its pure spouting of american christian talking points #without actually taking the time to represent the others side and instead making them look angry and rude and condescending #i say american bc obvs its set in the usa and plus im pretty sure #its not of the same branch of christianity i was born into (am agnostic though) but idek what the kid in the movie is

[nowordsmp3]

#wish now and then was like this but we move #im actually now and then agnostic #we cant determine whether its bad or good #songs

[winterrhayle]

church leader on my bible zoom call (that i dont attend by choice) was just talking bout how she went to her friend's gay wedding and told him that god doesnt support that lifestyle like.... girl why the hell are u at that wedding if ur homophobic

#and then she proceeded to say that she still loves him but 'doesnt love the sin' #like........ #just admit ur homophobic aND GO HOOOME OMG #actually no just dont attend at all #i feel so bad for that man imagine ur friend saying that to u at your wedding #people like her are literally why i want to just not be christian #not that i am really christian these days #agnostic at best #but like #me and my friend were texting when she said that #bc #she knows im lesbian #and we just wanted to slap her through the screen #personal #religion tag

[friendbreakfast]

all both of my memories of catholic church are as follows:

when i was a child i used to go to it even though i never truly *believed* in God, because they gave out cookies and chocolate milk

i used to have a recurring nightmare about being chased by a skeleton around the church. this can be explained by me seeing a medical skeleton on the corner whenever i went to church for cookies and chocolate milk

#nowadays id say im more agnostic than an atheist #but its super funny to think of child me going to church and attending not a single ACTUAL thing #BUT the moment they gave out cookies and chocolate milk #like literally never hearing anything about God or Jesus or whatever because i never was there to hear it #just drinking chocolate milk and eating cookies #unaware of the religion happening around me

[bahrlee]

I remember realizing I didn't believe in God and feeling like I was going to be in big trouble for it so vividly like I was literally in the middle of praying (which I didn't usually do but when I was at my baptist aunts house I did even when I was alone out of fear) and just feeling deep in my heart. "this is so stupid. This is pretend. This is a big game of pretend right. Church is like the adults playing house. This isn't real" like I didnt realize that people actually believed in all this stuff I thought everyone was in on it. And in that moment I realized that that wasn't the case. And then I felt scared like I was gonna die. I was like 7

#i didnt even grow up in a particularly religious household??? i just went to church sometimes with my aunt #and the way she made us pray before dinner made me go 'oh so i have to pray all the time when im here' #like i didnt realized she actually believed. like actually #the few experiences i had w church and christianity were honestly traumatizing and bad and i cant imagine #what its like for people where it was much more prominent :( #im still not an atheist tho. much more of an agnostic thiest

[taestripes]

Alice in wonderland: 'If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take.'

Agreed, we don't know how to live.

We're all unique snowflakes, but I think divorce & drugs & alcohol exists so we can try to calm down from all the anger & rage we feel when we can't get what we want, or the way we want to be treated or remembered.

Essentially if anger is as murder, Hell is basic entry level for everyone—so if GOD sent HIS SON to die on the cross in our place to avoid this Hell & lead us thru life by HIS HOLY SPIRIT; & HE says there is only 1-way forward & JESUS is the way/truth/life, that no one comes to the FATHER except thru JESUS. [John 14:6]

Why in the world would we ever avoid HIS easy yoke? Why wouldn't we ask HIM in to show us the way?

We clearly don't have life/truth/way to GOD, unless we accept JESUS, life/death begins forever after we're ejected from earth.

I wonder if you were to die in your sleep suddenly: Are you ready to be drop-kicked into eternity?

#btw im agnostic so actually answering: yes pochita is my starter pokemon howd you know

[strawberriandromeda]

Krishna was in my dream????? Like hello Well Respected Hindu Deity welcome ,,,,,sorry I'm Catholic

#refiba screams #im not actually Catholic #but you get the point #if you're agnostic/atheist that is #nvm only Guillermo del Toro gets me