#leftist christian

[thereconstructinggirl]

Obligatory Pinned Post

Hey y'all I'm Madeline (she/her). I've created this blog as a way to document my reconstruction journey. I hope that as I write and think that someone who also believed they had to leave because either they are queer or questioning or lost someone dear to them can resonate with my story.

This is a side blog, and I will follow from an old main account called linniewritesficz.

While I often contemplate going to seminary, I only have a minor in Religious Studies. I do not claim to be an expert or a clergy person and will not operate as such.

I believe in therapy, but I am not a therapist. I will attempt to offer advice when I see fit but please always seek out a professional.

I also don't refer to myself as a Christian. This is for many reasons, but I am still very new to my reconstruction journey. This will probably change in the future, but as of now I label myself as a spiritual person.

I am also a practitioner/mystic and am learning how to syncretize that practice into my re-emerging faith. I'm reading a lot about St. Hildegard at the moment.

I am queer. It is a big part of my identity. This is a pro queer pro trans blog, and I will not tolerate any form of homophobia or transphobia.

This is also a pro choice, pro palestine, pro BIPOC, leftist blog. I believe in healthy discourse and respectful discussion, however zionism, islamaphobia, anti semitism, racism, or any hatred/discrimination for people who are historically marginalized will not be tolerated.

I'm so excited to engage on this journey and document it in a way that makes sense for me. I hope to connect with like-minded people and find the community I needed a long time ago.

#progressive christianity #progressive christian #queer christian #episcopal #christian witch #christopagan #christian mysticism #pinned intro #leftist christian #spirituality #spiritual journey #deconstructing christianity #deconstruction #reconstructing christianity #reconstruction #catholic #lutheran #anglican

[queerwordofgod]

my mantra for the last few days has been, “Lord, carry me through”. full prayer is a struggle, but i think this is enough. Lord, carry me through.

#i also saw someone today say ‘tomorrow will come better’ #and i really like that so. yeah. #tomorrow will come better. #christian #queer christian #prayers #leftist christian #Quaker #faithblogger #prayer

[omnistpilgrim]

New Testament Bible Verses about Greed, Wealth & Social Justice

Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you. Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last days. Listen! The wages of the labourers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and pleasure; you have fattened your hearts on a day of slaughter. -James 5:1-5

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. -Matthew 5:3

Give to everyone who begs from you, and do not refuse anyone who wants to borrow from you. -Matthew 5:42

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth -Matthew 6:19

You cannot serve God and wealth. -Matthew 6:24

If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor -Matthew 19:21

It will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God. -Matthew 19:23

Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me. ...Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me. -Matthew 15:35,36,40

Then they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold doves; and he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. He was teaching and saying, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a den of robbers." -Mark 11:15-17

Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and to be greeted with respect in the market-places, and to have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honour at banquets! They devour widows' homes and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation. -Mark 12:38

He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts. He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly; he has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty. -Luke 1:51-53

Whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none, and whoever has food must do likewise. -Luke 3:11

The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour. -Luke 4:18,19

Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled...But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry. -Luke 6:20,21,24,25

Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one's life does not consist in the abundance of possessions. -Luke 12:15

For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted...when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you -Luke 14:11, 13,14

All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need. -Acts 2:44,45

No one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common... There was not a needy person among them, for as many as owned lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold. They laid it at the apostles; feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need. -Acts 4:32,34,35

May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain God's gift with money! -Acts 8:20

If your enemies are hungry, feed them; if they are thirsty, give them something to drink; for by doing this you will heap burning coals on their heads. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. -Romans 12:20, 21

Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labour and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy. -Ephesians 4:28

Women should dress themselves modestly and decently in suitable clothing- not with their hair braided, or with gold, pearls, or expensive clothes, but with good works. -1 Timothy 2:9, 10 [modesty here refers to flaunting wealth]

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. -1 Timothy 6:9,10

Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have -Hebrews 13:5

Let the believer who is lowly boast in being raised up, and the rich in being brought low, because the rich will disappear like a flower in the field. For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the field; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. It is the same with the rich; in the midst of a busy life, they will wither away. -James 1:9-11

Religion that is pure and undefiled is before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world. -James 1:27

Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom of that he has promised to those who love him? But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into court? -James 2:5,6

If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, 'Go in peace, keep warm and eat your fill', and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? -James 2:15,16

#christianity #wealth #social justice #greed #equality #capitalism #billionaires #wealth disparity #leftist christian #progressive christianity #poverty #Liberation theology

[bites-respectfully]

so it seems that @morrigans-daughter has blocked me, but that's okay, i still have my blog.

i really don't want to spread hate or anything like that, however i feel like what they are doing is appropriative and harmful. if anyone who comes across this post to thinks i'm wrong, feel free to message me for a calm, constructive conversation! i'm open to admitting it if that's the case.

so, the situation: they are a polytheistic spiritual practitioner who firmly believes that there are many deities and that all of the existing mythological and religious texts are equal and are, essentially, a bunch of myths. now, it's totally fine, no problem here.

HOWEVER, what got my attention was that they worship and work with, among other deities, both Jesus (and the Christian God) and Allah. They also refer to themselves as a "muslim witch".

Now, since i'm not muslim (or christian) myself, i don't think it's my place to really tell them what's wrong with their behavior. still, we had a conversation in the comment section of one of their posts about working with Allah, after which i got blocked.

i believe the conversation is still visible, so i won't go into details, but i reminded them that in order to become muslim (reminder : they were not muslim before "Allah contacted them and decided to work with them"), they needed, among other things, to recite a prayer (shahada) that acknowledges that Allah is the only god. they disregarded this completely and pretty much just stated "if i'm doing something wrong, Allah will be the one to punish me".

again, i don't feel like i can say much in regards to this situation since i'm not of any religion they're appropriating myself, but i don't want to just leave this be because they also seem to spread misinformation onto other people. that's why i want to ask other people (preferably leftist muslims and christians) to do something with it. again, if you feel like I'M IN THE WRONG - simply state it to me! but for now it feels like they just cherry pick what they like about religions and disregard what they don't like, including the core principles of these teachings.

last reminder: DO NOT SPREAD HATE, DO NOT HARM THIS USER OR HARASS THEM IN ANY WAY. PLEASE BE A DECENT PERSON AND, IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A CONVO WITH THEM, FOCUS ON THIS TOPIC AND DON'T BULLY THEM FOR UNRELATED STUFF, NO MATTER IF YOU LIKE THEM OR NOT. THIS SITUATION IS ONLY ABOUT THE HARM THEY ARE DOING AND NOTHING ELSE. thank you.

#muslim witch #leftist muslim #queer muslim #lgbt muslim #leftist christian #lgbt christian #queer christian #abrahamic witch #polytheism #polytheistic witch #deity worship #deity work

[whereserpentswalk]

The nazis that you see in movies are as much a historical fantasy as vikings with horned helmets and samurai cutting people in half.

The nazis were not some vague evil that wanted to hurt people for the sake of hurting them. They had specific goals which furthered a far right agenda, and they wanted to do harm to very specific groups, (largely slavs, jews, Romani, queer people, communists/leftists, and disabled people.)

The nazis didn't use soldiers in creepy gas masks as their main imagery that they sold to the german people, they used blond haired blue eyed families. Nor did they stand up on podiums saying that would wage an endless and brutal war, they gave speeches about protecting white Christian society from degenerates just like how conservatives do today.

Nazis weren't atheists or pagans. They were deeply Christian and Christianity was part of their ideology just like it is for modern conservatives. They spoke at lengths about defending their Christian nation from godless leftism. The ones who hated the catholic church hated it for protestant reasons. Nazi occultism was fringe within the party and never expected to become mainstream, and those occultists were still Christian, none of them ever claimed to be Satanists or Asatru.

Nazis were also not queer or disabled. They killed those groups, before they had a chance to kill almost anyone else actually. Despite the amount of disabled nazis or queer/queer coded nazis you'll see in movies and on TV, in reality they were very cishet and very able bodied. There was one high ranking nazi early on who was gay and the other nazis killed him for that. Saying the nazis were gay or disabled makes about as much sense as saying they were Jewish.

The nazis weren't mentally ill. As previously mentioned they hated disabled people, and this unquestionably included anyone neurodivergent. When the surviving nazi war criminals were given psychological tests after the war, they were shown to be some of the most neurotypical people out there.

The nazis weren't socialists. Full stop. They hated socialists. They got elected on hating socialists. They killed socialists. Hating all forms of lefitsm was a big part of their ideology, and especially a big part of how they sold themselves.

The nazis were not the supervillians you see on screen, not because they didn't do horrible things in real life, they most certainly did, but because they weren't that vague apolitical evil that exists for white American action heros to fight. They did horrible things because they had a right wing authoritarian political ideology, an ideology that is fundamentally the same as what most of the modern right wing believes.

#196 #my thougts #leftist #leftism #jewish #jumblr #actually mentally ill #mental illness #neurodivergent #actually neurodivergent #world war 2 #world war ii #history #queer #gay #queer history #pagan #athiest #athiesm #disability rights #communist #communism #socialist #socialism #anti conservative #anti christianity #christanity #christianity #mad pride #madpunk

[bothpartiesarebad]

(via Christian Leftist Jesus Christ Love Compassion Empathy Antiwar - Etsy)

#leftist jesus #antiwar #leftist christian #antipoverty #anticapitalism #anarchism #anarchist memes #christian left #jesus christ #bumper stickers #leftist etsy #black stickers #leftist memes

[seraphimfall]

sorry, but kanye shouldn’t have to verbally confirm to everyone that “yes, i literally am a for-real nazi” for people to get the message.

it shouldn’t have been allowed to get this far in terms of public platforming. we knew he was a nazi. we didn’t need to give him constant platforming for two months in order for him to “explain himself”. when someone espouses antisemitic conspiracy, BHI extremist beliefs, and holocaust denial/revisionism, they are a nazi.

if kanye hadn’t literally labeled himself a nazi, there would still be millions of people arguing that he isn’t one— despite the fact that he believes almost every core tenet of modern nazism.

the only thing this platforming has succeeded in is spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories to a whole new audience (not to mention dragging nick fuentes and milo yiannopoulos back into the mainstream). the level of normalization and indifference towards these kinds of beliefs on public platforms is terrifying.

this is what happens when people are too scared to just call a nazi, a nazi.

#kanye west #antisemitism #progressive politics #progressivism #leftism #news #exvangelical #religious trauma #apostasy #ex christian #breaking news #leftist #ex cult #ex fundamentalist #celebrity news #ex fundie #apostate #leftisbest #deconversion #ex religious #ex catholic #fuck kanye #losing my religion

[jesusinstilettos]

Sometimes people demand you justify being an atheist with a 200 page well-sourced thesis on biblical scholarship but one of the reasons I am not a Christian anymore is so fucking simple. It made my life worse. It made me unhealthy mentally. I’ve grown one thousand times more as a person without it. If it were really the one true wisdom from an all knowing infinite god, it would make my life better. And that’s enough proof for me. And it’s a valid reason.

#deconstruction #ex christian #ex evangelical #agnosticatheist #deconstructing christianity #agnostic #ex religious #exevangelical #leftist #religious trauma

[notaplaceofhonour]

thread

#I will never forget the like week or two weeks of dogpiling I got from christian devyne & his followers for making exactly this point #and the fact that a) it wasn’t too long after I got brigaded by transphobes after it was revealed that one school shooter was trans #and b) that the harassment from leftists was more difficult to get through #antisemitism #judaism #jewish #jumblr #erasure #intersectionality

[queerwordofgod]

#christian #leftist christian #queer christian #prayer #progressive christian #anarchist Christian

[newnitz]

I don't really see people talking about how cultural Christianity is applied to Jews.

In Christianity, Jews are the people who rejected and betrayed Jesus and are punished with statelessness and destitution, whose only redemption is accepting the Messiah and the Son of God. This is the basis of several antisemitic tropes, most prominently deception, religious supercessionism and the Wandering Jew.

In cultural Christianity, these tropes are considered tenants of Judaism rather than Christianity, as Judaism is considered Christianity without Jesus.

Christians see themselves as tortured saints, persecuted for spreading the truth of Jesus and God across the globe. Missionaries who go to non-Christian lands to try and get the people to convert by fearmongering with damnation to Hell see themselves as victims when they're rebuffed and asked to stop.

Cultural Christian non-Christians are usually atheists and adherents of folk religion revivalist movements who have suffered religious abuse, as many sects of Christianity normalize emotional abuse by instilling inherent guilt in the Original Sin and even physical abuse in "Spare the rod; spoil the child". These cultural Christians see the millennia of antisemitism and roll their eyes, to them we're just another sect of delusional religious people with a persecution complex.

To become a Christian all you need to do is accept the Father Son and Holy Spirit, to affirm your beliefs and confess your sins. To become a Jew you are either born a Jew, or you learn the Jewish culture and religion for months on end and must live half a year under the strictest restrictions of the Jewish lifestyle to show commitment. That is the difference between a universal religion and an ethnoreligion.

In a Culturally Christian world there is no room for ethnoreligions, and they do not exist. All religions are about your faith and which God(s) you believe in. So in a Cultural Christian's eyes, a country of Jews is a country that holds one faith supreme above all others and conditions rights with conversion, as that's how Christian countries have historically been.

Christianity's common ground with Jews comes from the Roman Empire appropriating the religion from the Cult of Jesus, and making it more appealing to the masses by introducing Greco-Roman and Germanic folk religion aspects into it. Xmas is Yule but with Jesus, Easter is a fertility holiday but with Jesus and so on. In the eyes of the Cultural Christian, Christianity and Judaism are two once-antagonistic sects of the same religion, no different than Catholics and Protestants.

Cultural Christianity erases and appropriates Judaism and is as inherently hateful of Jews as religious Christianity.

Now, when it comes to the elephant in the room: Islam.

Islam, like Christianity, is a universal religion. You must believe in Allah and accept the prophets, which include both Jesus and Muhammad. It is no more inherently violent than Christianity, though it's no less. In the Christian's eyes, Islam is the competitor, the enemy. The Muslims conquered Christian lands and converted them, and they've fought holy wars against one another throughout the Middle Ages.

To become a Muslim the Cultural Christian doesn't need to unlearn any of the core tenets of their culture. They can simply apply it to Islam.

Which is why many Cultural Christians, damaged by Christianity, are sympathetic to Islam. And since Muslims and Jews are no longer on good terms, they use this sympathy to give themselves a free pass to be antisemitic. Whether Muslims check their converts for bigotry, allow it or are powerless to stop them, that's another issue.

Jews are not diet Christians. We have less in common with you than you have with Muslims. Unlearn Christian cultural appropriation.

And no, I don't care that it's "offensive" to associate you with Christianity due to the religious abuse you endured. You still see the world through a Christian lens.

#cultural christianity #christian supremacy #Christian imperialism #religious supercessionism #wandering jew #wandering Jew trope #christian antisemitism #antisemitism #leftist antisemitism

[oliviartist]

I made this instead of Socializing

#jews #jumblr #jewish memes #leftist antisemitism #antisemitism #judaism #Jewish #Christians for Israel

[athingofvikings]

The guilty verdict for the Jews has already been decided, let the trial begin.

The prosecution will deliver their evidence to the court of public opinion.

The Jews killed Jesus, says the Christian. See, it says here in our holy book, written by people looking to separate themselves from the Jews and grow closer to the Romans. Pilate washes his hands and the Jews take responsibility for killing him.

The Jews are responsible for genociding the White Race, says the White Nationalist. See here, it says so in Mein Kampf and other writings by people who hate the Jews. They plan on wiping us out and replacing White people.

The Jews are responsible for genociding the Palestinians, says the Antizionist. See here, it says so in news published by Hamas, who are innocent freedom fighters who just want to kill all of the Jews everywhere in the world, as is their right. They plan on wiping all of the Palestinians out, which is why they've killed only a tiny fraction in months of intense fighting.

The jury convenes and returns the verdict, which was already decided upon.

The Jews may not speak in their own defense, of course. Who would be interested in hearing the words of the guilty?

#antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #christian antisemitism #right-wing antisemitism #white supremacist antisemitism

[whereserpentswalk]

Nonsexual nudity needs to be fully accepted in our society. It should be legal in public. It should be allowed in media regardless of rating or target audience. There is nothing about the human body that is inherently harmful to see or inherently sexual. Reblog if you agree.

#196 #my thougts #leftism #leftist #proship #anti censorship #anti capitalist #anti christianity #free speech #anarchism #libertarian socialism #social issues #social justice #queer #proshipper safe

[hero-israel]

Let me tell you being a former Christian this shit goes so much deeper than a lot of born Jews realize. The Christian worldview (specifically Calvinist/Puritan) seeping into and pervading all of modern leftism is honestly frightening. But also it's very funny.

They believe that there are Good people and Bad people, and that any mistake or lapse in judgment or instance of not being educated is a Mask Off moment, showing who is a member of the Elect and who is not. If you fuck up, that's not just a fuck up, it's Revealing. You are damned, were always damned, you were just good at hiding it, and now we know the truth and are doubly angry because not only are you evil, you lied about it. The only recourse is to shun you, and if that leads to your death, so be it. Anyone who's seen any micro celebrity get canceled saw this in action.

And the only way you can prove you're a member of the Elect is to operate as if you have nothing to hide. You have to loudly and proudly proclaim your righteousness. If you don't have anything to hide why would you be worried? Privacy is suspicious. You Must Speak on everything they deem important or else you obviously agree with the Bad People. There is no room for discussion or healthy debate. There are no loopholes or subclauses or other points of view to consider. You're with us or against us. If you don't constantly go around saying you're with us, you're probably secretly against us. The only way to convince your neighbors, whom you inherently distrust, that you're one of the Good Ones, is to perform righteousness, parrot righteous words. The only way to redeem yourself is by grandiose acts of self flagellation, perhaps being the right demographic, or by accusing others of Heresy.

The goal is not to bring good into the world, it's to recruit more people into the same thought patterns (that's kind of all Christian denominations though). Because if you can convince your community that you're one of the Elect, that means G-d preselected you for Heaven, and you're golden. No repercussions or consequences baby. The only material benefit for you is that you "get" to proclaim you're going to Heaven and everyone has to agree with you. If anyone doesn't they're probably going to Hell anyway. You're on the right side (of history), so why should you ever self reflect or grow? Why should you question anything? Why should nuance or empathy exist? This is about Right and Wrong. We know where we stand, where do you stand?

Every single aspect of American culture and politics, right and "left" alike, was planted by the pilgrims, and it is so fundamentally antithetical to true Leftist thought. Remember all the actually successful Western Leftist movements were started in Europe (and Israel cough cough)... because they kicked all their fucking psychotic Calvinists out. Those people went to America and that's a big big big reason why we don't have any near as much of a robust Leftist movement as even socially conservative European countries (and Israel cough cough). And what's funny is I still find myself slipping into these thought patterns, which is so not compatible with Jewish philosophy or theology. It's been years and I'm still not done.

It's a hell of a drug to kick, so I definitely don't trust white goysiche college kids who've been antitheists for about 6 months since they left their Republican parents' homes to have any great success in unlearning and unprogramming from this. Which is kind of obvious in that I see them acting just like their conservative Christian parents every day on every social media platform, swap out a gun toting white Jesus with some noble savage idea of Palestine, absolving the West of its sins against the Global South.

It is a cult structured around spiritual isolation, antisocial behavior, and it is inherently against any kind of political movement that centers and celebrates the Community. It is designed to tear communities apart and foster obedience to whatever authority can force itself on them. And this has been going on for almost 500 years, there is nothing we can do about it.

Thank you for the insightful look. Their "purity culture" approach definitely had to come from somewhere.

#Leftist antisemitism #Christian antisemitism

[jesusinstilettos]

Trauma is not the same for everyone and everyone‘s bodies will internalize traumas differently. (read “When Religion Hurts You” by Laura E Anderson) So just because you didn’t think being taught that you deserve to go to hell wasn’t harmful/traumatizing doesn’t mean it’s not a traumatizing teaching for someone else. Just because you didn’t think being taught that you’re inherently sinful and broken wasn’t harmful/traumatizing doesn’t mean it’s not a traumatizing teaching for someone else. Be empathetic to those leaving Christianity due to trauma even if you don’t understand their hurt.

For me the teaching that I’m broken and sinful and dirty was traumatizing, while the teaching of hell was not. I exist in constant anxiety and panic because my entire life I had to police myself for threats to my goodness to survive in an abusive church environment. I know people who after religion live in constant anxiety of hell because their body spent so many years in fight or flight afraid they are going to go to hell. I know people who are traumatized from the teachings of “thought sins” because they couldn’t safely exist inside their own minds and bodies without being under threat. These teachings affect people differently, and if they didn’t hurt you then I’m glad. But they did hurt thousands of us.

#deconstruction #ex christian #ex evangelical #agnosticatheist #agnostic #deconstructing christianity #ex religious #exevangelical #leftist #religious trauma