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asherwentinsanelol · 3 days
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i'm really sorry but you're gonna find god in the Other Stuff, too. religious trappings are nice. so is tradition. it's good to have buildings to go to and things to wear and holy texts to read and prescripted songs to sing. it's comforting to have lineage and instructions. bless the treasure map.
but god's Elsewhere, too: out on the tips of skinny branches and wading in the weeds, left of center, left field.
so if you decide to test this theory and go rambling around calling out innumerable, unpronounceable names, know that you won't have to look too hard. divinity does a terrible job concealing itself. god willing you will take a shine to the idea that god happens everywhere, in everything, all the time.
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jewishboricua · 5 months
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every time i see someone exclude, mock or ignore queer religious people's existence (whether from bigoted religious people or bigoted queer people) i think it should be perfectly acceptable for us to punch them in the face for that
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agender93discordian · 6 months
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I really do quite like Christians so long as: a. they get a little weird with it and also b. are gay
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daisy-mooon · 2 months
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A reminder that some of you guys only use LGBT activism to shit on religious people and do exactly no activism whatsoever if you can't use it to be anti-theist. Some of you will have no problems harassing and being racist and homophobic to queer people if they're religious.
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daisymooonart · 10 months
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Pride flag idea for LGBT Christians! (If you tilt the flag, you see a cross!)
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Feel free to use them!
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beloved-of-john · 9 days
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So. This is a personal life update of sorts.
Hello everyone, I'm trying to think of how to word what I need to say. I'm going through a big life transition of the spiritual kind, and it's forced me to think more deeply about where I am in my religious journey and where I want to be. As such, the content of this blog is likely going to change a little.
That is to say, there's probably going to be a lot less queer Christian specific content for a while. Don't panic! I'm still here and I'm still queer! But I want to avoid confining myself and my spiritual growth and understanding.
When I look around spaces like this, most of the people I see are queer people who have been raised religious and are deconstructing that framework to find a more liberating path, and that's amazing and empowering. However, I'm walking down this road from the opposite direction. I'm constructing. I'm completely acclimatized to being queer and out and loud about it, but it's being Christian that's the new frontier for me. At the moment, that's what I need to learn how to do. I know that my Christianity will always be inextricable from my queerness, but now I want to get to the stage where my queerness is inextricable from my Christianity. I want to grow and develop that part of myself and deepen my understanding of Christianity before I talk any more about its relationship to queerness and lgbtq+ experience. I need to learn what it means to me to be a Christian in its own right.
This blog will unequivocally remain a space of safety and solidarity for queer people and queer Christians though. I love all of you and I will always believe wholeheartedly that God does too. ❤️
I'll still do my best to answer any lgbtq related asks or comments and offer my support to anyone who needs it, just bear in mind that there's a good chance I don't know what I'm doing anymore than you.
If you've read this far without judgement, thank you for your patience and understanding. I'm going through this struggle right now, but I have faith that I will come out the other side of this a better rounded person.
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holyandhaunted · 6 months
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being a queer and progressive christian, for me at least, can sometimes be very lonely because a lot of times i feel unwelcome in both queer and christian spaces, for different and partially even understandable reasons
on one hand (and this is entirely not understandable and not something i have sympathy for) there are christians, christian spaces or churches that do not welcome me because i am queer. they tell me that my being and my love are wrong or sinful even. they want me to believe i am not one of God's loved children, that i am not His. This hurts, because i know it to be untrue. I know His love. I know He made me in His image, i know He loves me. And He loves me for being queer, not despite of it. My queerness is not a sin. And it hurts because these people, these churches pretend to speak in God's name yet they denounce His unconditional love.
and then on the other hand (and this i have understanding for) are queer people who do not welcome christianity. This i can understand. I know too many queer people have religious trauma, know of the damage christians and churches have done to queer people (and others). They have experienced, perhaps, what i have just described within christian spaces. They associate christianity with hate, shame, abuse, rejection. And i am not mad at them for it. They have every right to. But often they project those values onto me and tell me i am wrong. I am wrong for being christian, for believing in God. They tell me again how God doesn't love me, repeat the hateful, harmful things that have been said to them. Or they tell me outright that my faith is bad, or stupid. I have been mocked for it too many times. Even though my faith is a part of me, it is shaping my queerness and has brought me so much love and hope and joy. Even though i never expect anyone to understand, or relate, or convert or whatever.
This can become quite tiring. I feel like i belong in neither community. Both sides tell me i am wrong for being the way i am. I tend to avoid talking about my queerness in christian spaces, and about my faith in queer spaces. Which feels so lonely sometimes. Both of these are part of me, both of them bring me such great joy that i would love to be able to share. I have a few queer friends that i can share my christian joy and faith with- they listen, they try to understand, they are happy with me. But often I have this feeling that i belong nowhere, that i am not welcome. And sometimes that gets to me.
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the-dance-of-italy · 1 year
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Jesus draped with the queer pride flag, just in time to start off the holy week.
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aviesnapkindoodles · 6 months
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Ways (that I have tried) to try to make a church/religious community more inclusive:
(This is more my religion/Christian centered, but can be applied to any kind of organization really)
Refer to to all presidents of organizations as president regardless of gender (Relief Society President, Young Women's President, etc.)
Use all inclusive language in scripture / doctrine/talk reading (even if you have to replace a word) (replace son or daughter or gendered language with child, people, or all. 'Children of God vs Sons and Daughters of God).
Don't be afraid to speak up for and add perspective of marginalized people in church community. This doesn't just have to be ethnic or queer minorities, it can extend to divorced, widowed, childless, disabled or converted members.
Recognize biases in self and religious thinking, and try to self-correct in words and deeds.
Reframe conversations that may be hurtful in a 'Love One Another' and Christ and/or God centered way.
(feel free to add on!!)
Edit: Realized in church that making sure we are clarifying all "churchy" language, whenever possible. Like not just saying 'MTC' (Missionary Training Center, to prepare to serve missions), or 'deacon' (young men who hold the first level of the Priesthood).
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Welcome to our religious queer experience!
A place to talk about both being queer/a member of the S2LGBTQIA+ community- and being religious in some way, something that a lot of people - both from the queer and from the religious community - think is "contradictory", or exclusive to one another.
I sincerely apologize if anyone reading this is uncomfortable with the word queer in reference to the community as a whole - so feel free to immediately block this blog, in case it makes you overly uncomfortable, as the word will probably be used quite often!
The person running this blog may not understand all types of experiences encompassing all religions and all queer identities, but I'll try my best to understand. I hope this can be a safe place for anyone to either vent, or build a community in which they can talk about their experiences safely.
Welcome for all religious people, as well as atheists to talk about their own experiences! As long as you aren't hateful of others, and choose not to spread falsehoods, you are welcome to speak. (That sounded unnecessary lol)
Blog is quite obviously inspired by @our-queer-experience , and was made for i couldn't find a blog like exactly this.
So have fun ig!
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odielikefromgarfield · 2 months
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of course you have an obsession with love songs that use religious imagery, it came free with being queer
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gay-otlc · 2 years
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I love religious queer people so much especially non-Christian religious queer people. I know it can be hard to be queer in religious spaces and hard to be religious in queer spaces but your existence as both religious and queer makes the world better.
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rainbow-sheeps · 1 year
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shout out to neurodivergent queer people, queer people of color, queer systems and religious queers. we all deserve love
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daisy-mooon · 10 months
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Being a gay Christian is so powerful. I can use rainbows for whatever I want and no one can stop me.
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snailcat69 · 2 months
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thinking alot ab queer spaces in religion 4 tonite.
not sure why but a vision of like. queer churches popped into my head. like for example a church sunday but its all queer people praying and singing and being thankful and sharing life moments and organizing community support. augh. man
if this is real i want in but i like havent been invested in christianity any more than when i was taken to church semi-regularly up to my tweens. but now after taking a bunch of queer studies and intro level anthropology im like damnnnn being in a religious ceremony centered around queerness would do so much for me
i feel like queer community bonding would be so strong too with the structure of support involved in churches tbh !!!! like from what i remember and what i hear from my grandparents it just sounds so. togetherly
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