#non-christian

[matan4il]

I can't believe it's only Aug 12th and already there's a Xmas post on my dash.

Every single year I have to get through the non-Christian erasure that is Xmas season, the way that everyone acts as if the whole world celebrates Xmas, every year I have to feel like I'm being mean and raining on people's parades when I refuse to join in, or when I try to (as politely as I can) refuse to be greeted with Xmas wishes, every year I have to grit my teeth as every show has a Xmas special, every app and software has festive events and sales, changing into special Xmas versions of their icons, every media outlet wants to tell me about the joys of Xmas shopping and tourism, meanwhile I'm biting my tongue not to blurt out repeatedly that Xmas is when historically my people were targeted, brutalized and sometimes even MURDERED... and apparently Xmas season just keeps getting longer.

I don't mind that people who are religiously or culturally Christian celebrate it. I kinda mind it when non-Christians do, because that strikes me as the effects of commercialism and cultural colonialism, but hey. Other people are independent individuals, it's up to them to make their own choices, even if I personally make a different choice. And I'd never make anyone personally feel bad about their choice, either. What bothers me is that it's basically IMPOSSIBLE to opt out of Xmas celebrations if you're one of the people who don't want to participate. They're everywhere. They're in every place, they're in so many spaces that I otherwise love. And they just keep starting earlier every year. I wanna bang my head against the wall.

This is what religious / cultural coercion feels like. Yeah, even if it's done unintentionally by many.

#xmas #christmas #jewish #jumblr #frumblr #non-christian #non-christians #I may be writing from a Jewish perspective #but I'm sure there are other non-Christians who feel frustrated by this too #religious coercion #cultural colonialism #cultural coercion #cultural erasure #religious erasure #anti xmas #anti christmas #not really but you get the point. anti the coercion of it. not anti the holiday itself #religious intolerance #cultural intolerance #intolerance as in not allowing room for people to opt out

[wisdomfish]

Non-Christians are quick to point out when the lives of Christians do match their words. It is a deep misunderstanding to think that Christians will be perfect, devoid of all hypocrisy and inconsistency, but apologists who avoid separating their arguments from everyday living are more effective evangelists.

Samples, Kenneth Richard. ‘Without a Doubt: Answering the 20 Toughest Faith Questions. p. 257

#non-christian #point blank #hypocrisy #keep it real #apologetics

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

by Geoffrey Grider | People get mad when I say that the Roman Catholic Church is not a Christian Church, and that it does not teach Bible doctrine. But guess what? It’s not, and they don’t. The stunning proof of that occurred this weekend at the Vatican, and it was committed by the man they call the ‘Vicar of Christ’, who is considered to be ‘infallible’ when speaking on matters of...

#Now The End Begins #Geoffrey Grider #Gospel What Gospel? #Pope Francis Entrusts The Soul Of Pope Benedict to the Virgin Mary #Roman Catholic Church #Non-Christian #nowtheendbegins.com

[unadornedmeatbag]

a boy with a complicated relationship with god and his mother

#non-christian

[in-sightpublishing]

Univ. of South Carolina coach’s sectarian remarks indefensible, FFRF says

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#Chris Line #complaint #constitutional misconduct #Dawn Staley #ESPN #Establishment Clause #First Amendment #Freedom From Religion Foundation #gameday devotional #Gen Z #Mellen v. Bunting #Michael Amiridis #non-Christian #nonreligious #pray to play #religious coercion #South Carolina Women’s Basketball #University of South Carolina

[alienbycomics]

Content Warning: religion and transphobia⚠️

Happy Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️ I made a comic reflecting on my church upbringing as an eXvangelical trans person. The Jesus conservative Christians claim to represent looked lot more like many of the LGBTQ+ friends I know and love. Just some food for thought 💖

#cw religion #cw transphobes #trans artist #lgbtq comics #trans comic #transfem #queer comics #indie comics #trans comics #non binary artist #nonbinary #deconstructing christianity #deconstruction #deconversion #exvangelical #ex fundamentalist #trans day of visibility #easter

[juniperandjustice]

I’m being forced to take a Christian theology class (obviously, I’m not Christian).  I had to go to Catholic school from K-11th grade and now, as an adult, there are no non-religious schools offering my desired degree in my area.  I really think it should be illegal even for religious colleges to force theology-related classes.  I hate it. Discussion board response to a prompt that assumed I would agree that humans need to obey God more perfectly and unquestioningly: I think human rebellion, which is a natural part of being human and of how our minds work, seems to be badly received by the God of the Bible. This is really too bad, especially as He is supposed to have made us the way we are. It reminds me of parents or spouses who want total unquestioning obedience and control- they don't want their child/spouse to even think for themselves. This reflects insecurity. Questioning or rebelling earns the child/spouse/mortal punishment- this is a classic example of a narcissistic abusive relationship. I survived one (plus toxic parents). In fact, rebellion or "pushing back"/questioning is considered a really important part of childhood development. It has something to do with becoming an individual and separating oneself from one's parents. It is actually a healthy and necessary thing. If no one ever rebelled, we would never have any progress, new creation, or discovery. We would be serfs or slaves under some kind of monarchy, without education. One cannot have any kind of true belief or original and authentic thought without questioning and testing boundaries in some way.The human condition today is only improved when people protest, unite, fight for change, refuse to conform, refuse to accept inhuman treatment of themselves/others or just "the way things are", and demand better- when people rebel. Silence is not conducive to improvement. Silence is often complicity, as people say. In my experience, I have had to learn the hardest ways over my lifetime that obedient silence and the martyrdom of being a doormat to avoid conflict is actually betraying myself, my soul, and my well-being. It is inauthentic and kills you inside.Examples of this in the Bible include the Adam and Eve story (obviously) in Genesis 3, as well as the story of Lot's wife being changed to a pillar of salt for simply looking back (a very human thing to do- it would be hard not to when you've been told not to!) in Genesis 19, plus things like Leviticus 20: 9, Deuteronomy 21: 18-21, and other stories where people are advised by God or others to kill their disobedient children (some of these have been reworded or removed from modern mainstream Bibles). The misogynistic stories of Lilith (though most are not in modern Christian Bibles), who was actually created as a benevolent Babylonian goddess, could be considered evidence of this, too, as Lilith in the Adam and Eve stories was said to be made equal to Adam and refused to submit/obey him, and so was cast out and called a demon. Thus, Eve was made to be more submissive. (There are many books, blogs, etc out there that discuss this. I had a conversation about it with an orthodox Catholic archbishop once.) Hey, he asked what we thought!  *cackles* Honestly, though, I don’t know how I’m gonna hold my disdain and sarcasm back enough to pass this class.

#non-christian #Christian #Christianity #corruption #tw #abuse #abusive relationship #toxic parents #narcissistic abuse #narcissism #Bible #Old Testament #religion #anti-religion #not religious #conform #conformity #obedience #questioning #rebel #rebellion #punishment #Christian God #God #God of the Bible #silence #doormat #pushover #obey #control

[chronically-chaotic-cryptid]

If you've ever wondering what it's like being a Quaker but specifically being a Quaker in my brain I have a moment about 2-3 times a day minimum where ill be doing something random and probably fun or quiet (or not, maybe it's really loud) and my thoughts and such will stop dead in their tracks and I will take a hard 180° and start to think about how there's this light inside every human that makes them inherently interesting and beautiful and equal and good, or how silence comes from all around us and the joy of just sitting in the sunlight of creation, or how people are some of the most beautiful things to ever exist and how grateful I am to get to experience us, or the importance and wonder of the natural world and all of creation and the necessity of fighting to protect it, or how queer people are holy and sacred in our own little ways or the injustices of the world and how oppressively horrible they are but also that that's why hope and fighting and seeing a better world is so important.

And on and on and on. And then I'll go back to like making brownies or doing maths homework or something.

#quaker #quakerism #hope #hopepunk #non christian quaker #minds

[fictionadventurer]

From what I can see, all the commentary on the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes movie thinks this story is trying to answer its philosopical questions, and completely overlooking the fact that all the answers these characters find are the wrong ones. The right answer is in The Hunger Games and Catching Fire and Mockingjay. You can tell because the main character of this story is the villain in the other ones.

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #the first couple of reviews made me go like 'wow it must be so weird to approach this series from a non-christian viewpoint' #then the christian review was like 'this movie's philosophy's humanist and doesn't mention god' #and i'm like 'no kidding. i wonder if maybe the lack of god in this world is the point' #'and why these characters inhabit a world that will hold the hunger games for another sixty-five years' #'maybe there's another story to be told in this world about what happens when you look beyond that pure humanist viewpoint' #'maybe an entire trilogy'

[thebroadwaybi]

J. HARRISON GHEE A N D ALEX NEWELL WON IN THEIR CATEGORIES AT THE TONY'S TONIGHT

I REPEAT

Both BLACK NON BINARY ACTORS NOMINATED IN THEIR CATEGORIES

WON THE TONY AWARDS IN THE SAME NIGHT

#IM SCREAMING IM SO SO SO SO HAPPY #THEY BOTH ABSOLUTELY DESERVED THIS #NATASHA YVETTE WILLIAMS AND CHRISTIAN BORLE WERE GETTING EMOTIONAL TOO #THEY WERE SO HAPPY FOR THEM IM SCREAMING #j harrison ghee #alex newell #some like it hot musical #shucked musical #tony awards #tony awards 2023 #non binary #non binary actors #black nonbinary #black nonbinary actors #pride month #pride #pride 2023 #queer representation #nb representation #non binary representation

[whereserpentswalk]

As for my newest psychological attack on the church, I will be using he/they pronouns for Joan of Arc.

#196 #my thougts #joan of arc #catholiscism #saints #enby #non binary #nonbinary #anti christianity #fuck the church #queer #transmaculine #transmasc

[wisdomfish]

Why is it true, as Gould also points out, that even among non-Christians who believe in evolution the vast majority don’t wish to face the utter planlessness of Darwin’s theory? Because they would then no longer be able to console themselves with the feeling that there is some sort of plan or purpose to our existence. . . The usual thing vaguely believed in by this majority of people (at the same time as they accept evolution) is some sort of fuzzy, ethereal, oozing god-essence—more like the Star Wars ‘force be with you’ than the personal God of Scripture. They usually obtain some comfort from a vague belief in at least the possibility of some sort of afterlife, which helps explain the success of movies like Flatliners and Ghost.

Carl Wieland

#stephen jay gould #non-christian #evolution #atheism #after-life

[daisy-mooon]

I love you gay Christians. I love you lesbian Christians. I love you bisexual Christians. I love you pansexual Christians. I love you asexual Christians. I love you aromantic Christians. I love you transgender Christians. I love you non-binary Christians. I love you intersex Christians. I love you genderfluid Christians. I love you queer Christians. I love you genderqueer Christians. I love you microlabel Christians. I love you LGBT Christians.

#queer christian #queer #LGBT #gay #bisexual #transgender #lesbian #non binary #genderfluid #pansexual #asexual #aromantic #intersex #sexuality #gender #genderqueer #lgbt #lgbtqia #lgbt christian #gay christian #gay religon #queer religion #lgbt religion #religious #christianity #in light of recent events... #church of England #religion #1k

[unbidden-yidden]

Okay I'm curious: I've seen a lot of Christians use/refer to the phrase "hosanna in the highest!" which is used in the New Testament and I've frequently heard it pronounced "hoh-ZAHN-ah". However, it's a much older liturgical phrase in Hebrew and definitely not pronounced like that. I want to know: (1) were you taught the actual meaning of this word by your community/do you know what it actually means without googling it, (2) what variety of Christian are you, and (3) if, after googling it, were you correct?

Sorry fellow yidden and other non-Christians; this poll is specific to people who identify as Christian and/or who were raised as such. (Edit: gerim who were raised Christian can vote, but you have to base it off of what you were taught as a Christian, not what you know now.)

Christians who answer: if you googled this after voting yes and were taught wrong about it, please let me know in the notes.

(If you're wondering if you "count" as Christian or having been raised as such, for these purposes I would say interpret it broadly to include anyone who views Jesus as the messiah and grew up reading the New Testament as part of your bible.)

#christian #non-Christians please boost but don't vote #I have... a theory about this but am curious to have at least informal data about this first #yes I realize linguistic drift from other languages is probably how ''hozanna'' happened #but the Hebrew is different #this post brought to you by: Sukkot #every hour is theology hour around here apparently

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

The problem with Christian fiction for me and like when people only read it or only recommend it (and this is a personal thing and I am speaking for no one else) is that I'm SO aware of the power of secular fiction. Like yes when I was eighteen a work of fiction caused me to have multiple epiphanies about forgiveness, how it's a choice and a discipline, how it can come before redemption and not after and often needs to, and it changed me truly and that work of fiction was the dumb CW vampire show! So when people only read Christian fiction it's like don't you know??? Don't you know what you're missing out on??!!! Acts of creation mirror God dude! And non-Christians are normal real people too and that means they can say stuff beautiful and true as well!

#and this IS part of how uncomfortable it makes me #when my christian friends talk about non christians like they're some weird Other being #and they struggle to be friends with them #like dude that is SO not the point of it all!!! and I want out!

[givemearmstopraywith]

rape ment / not a huge fan of debates from reactionary atheists who joke about mary lying about cheating or being some sort of first century slut, and then making up a story about god appearing to her to hide the truth because like. that's a girl. that's a child. that's a peasant girl under the age of sixteen. if you take that story at historical face value and agree that the mythological aspect is simply not real, then suddenly this is a story about a girl who was almost certainly raped, cannot remember what happened to her, and tells a story that an angel appeared to her and impregnated her. and that is the basis of christianity. christians also do not like to talk about this and i have also sat in the camp of mary's consent was predetermined, but i've also grown enough as a christian and a theologian to recognize how fucking depressing this story is. maybe the story of christ is one that begins and ends with a miracle, or maybe it's one that begins and ends with being brutalized by men.

#p #rape mention #once i publish my work about how jesus is basically a woman (basically transfem) its over #jane schaberg and more recently blake hereth have both very compelling argued that God's non-disclosure #(which is central to christian theology) automatically negates any possibility of mary's ability to consent #and i just think that's a lot