#religious dogma

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid." -- Christopher Hitchens

#Christopher Hitchens #dogma #religious dogma #faith #faith is not a virtue #religion #religion is a mental illness

[riosid]

Any parent who subject's their child to the thought that they are born in sin is abusing their child mentally. if they genuinely believe what they preach, they are still enabling abuse unconsciously. Religious trauma is real and Abrahamic religion are inherently abusive and traumatic.

#atheist #lgbtqia+ #gay #atheism #anti theism #theism #the invisible man #christianity #islamic #islam #skeptic #religious dogma #religious abuse #religious trauma

[obsessedwithbabyyoda]

I don’t normally post stuff like this. But it’s been a couple hours and I’m still damn baffled. My husband and I were coming home from work when we ran across a very.. strange.. scene.

First, we saw a sign. It said something about hell. Since this abortion ban shit has been going on, I very much roll my eyes about religious dogma bullshit. But still, I’m interested to see what fucking bullshit the crazy Christian’s have came up with this time. Just to clarify, I don’t dislike all Christian’s. Just the ones who are ridiculously conservative.

Just a few feet away, there was Jesus on his knees meanwhile a man in gold armor is whooping Jesus’s with a whip. Roman centurion vs Jesus I’m assuming. Clearly the centurion is winning this round.

Still baffled. And I was so shocked by the scene, I’ve forgotten what the sign I saw originally even said.

#jesus fucking christ #Jesus getting his ass beat #Roman centurion #religious dogma #christianity #christians are weird #torture porn?

[oh-dear-so-queer]

From his genetic hypothesis of homosexuality he inferred that homosexuals ought not to be discriminated against "on the basis of a religious dogma supported by the unlikely assumption that they are biologically unnatural."

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles

#book quote #in the name of eugenics #daniel j kevles #nonfiction #edward o wilson #genetics #heredity #hypothesis #homosexuality #homosexual #gay #lesbian #discrimination #religion #dogma #religious dogma #unnatural #assumption

[nando161mando]

#atheist #atheism #science #proscience #religion #dogma #bible nonsense #religious #religious trauma #religious art #religious imagery #religión #ex religious #tw religious themes #religion is a mental illness #religion is bullshit #religion is toxic #anti religion #religion is a scam #religion is stupid #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government

[helloyesamwoman]

Blasphemy

#digital arwork #digital drawing #fanart #digital art #indie game fanart #digital artwork #horror #the binding of issac repentance #the binding of isaac #tboi fanart #tboi #binding of isaac #tboi dogma #the binding of isaac dogma #dogma #static #creepy #creepy art #religious imagery #religious art #religious themes #angelic #angelic aesthetic #angel wings #wings #fetus #living in the light goes fucking hard man #love dogma he so silly

[annasinthewalls]

Oppressive religious dogma is like the instinct of some animals to eat their young in an attempt to protect them. You will destroy the parts of your children that you fear they would be divinely punished for. But in the end they are still destroyed.

#i just woke up at 3 am. im listening to hozier. im crying. #guess its one of those moments #recovering catholic #catholicism #deconstructing christianity #deconstruction #religious deconstruction #religion #dogma #ex catholic #ex christian #deconstructing catholicism

[charmophron]

thinking about how fatphobia has dug its claws so deeply into my mother

that she cant see it in herself and has instead combined it with wellness guru advice to remove Harmful foods until shes having one tiny meal a day and insisting shes just not hungry!!! mostly drinking wine and being so proud of herself for only nibbling on some cheese amongst her piles of weird ~ natural ~ powders and colloidal silver water and not considering it disordered eating that she's talked herself into... just cant believe her that its about the Health Benefits while shes also smoking cigarettes lots...

wish this was new behaviour but truly its just gotten worse and more self justified the older shes getting

#fatphobia tw #disordered eating tw #sigh #weird combination of mum who is resentful of choosing to have kids and losing large chunks of her life to that plus being prone #to magical thinking/religious dogma #plus weird attachment issues due to her own family/adoption issues #im glad she knows better than to fat shame me directly but it is just so deep in there #personal junk

[kalopsic-lagomorph]

gamzee was so silly and chill at first. Shame about the. Serial. Killing.

#Bro had a peridigm shift or whatever #It's literally a story of dogma and religious obsession #ro talks #Homestuck #gamzee makara

[ladsofsorrow24]

if we're really going full blown religious imagery here, rem's actually pretty correct on knives and vash being angels because if it wasn't for the independents, humanity will never truly be able to communicate with plants

yes independents might be "useless" when it comes to producing any kind of important resources, but them being able to exist like humans yet still interlinked with the other plants' conscious is truly something revolutionary when it comes to humans-plants communication

heck, independents being born might actually be from the plants' collective desire to communicate with humans, their creator but also the one who ended up exploiting them

so it's not so much as independence meaning total annihilation of other species, but more so independence in a sense of giving them a voice to tell their truths

#no wonder they sided so much with vash yet also ended up mentally overloaded knives with their memories and thoughts #they want to communicate with humans so much #yet knives robbed them off their desire for communication by making them accept his dogma #then comes vash who give them opportunity to actually do what they have always wished for #to be connected to their maker #oooff nightow actually make this pretty fking religious huh #tmi tag #trigun

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

#islam #religion #apostasy #apostates #death threats #cult #religious lies #religious dogma #cult dynamics #religion is a mental illness

[anarchonist]

I really need liberals and other non-violence advocates to understand the main problem with their position on non-violence: proclaiming that you're never going to resort to violence is an invitation for violent people to escalate their violence against you or the people you claim to defend.

Moralizing people for not being 100 % openly and proudly anti-violence is not only a tone-deaf, but an actively dangerous thing to do. A person might in their heart of hearts be fully against violence of any kind, but by trying to get them to openly assume a hard pacifist stance in order to claim some intangible moral high ground, you are putting them in a dangerous position: now fascists and bullies will assume that the person is an easy target.

It's a tough pill to swallow for the "marketplace of ideas" crowd, but people don't always treat you the same way you treat them. You assume that if you openly declare your intention to not resort to violence under any circumstances, your opponent will automatically respect that - or if they don't, there will be some kind of consequence from above. From authorities, from the public, hell, from God himself. But that isn't a given. What you're doing is throwing yourself at the opponent's mercy and telling them to do whatever they like. You're assuming a lot about their humanity, which might not even exist.

And that's what this is about. When I keep saying that violence is the only language fascists and bullies understand, it isn't out of some deep immoral desire to hurt people and just trying to find "acceptable targets". It's not even always about the violence against fascists itself. It's about keeping that threat looming, keeping the people who would like nothing more than to hurt you guessing: "If I start escalating violence against this person, will they fight back? Perhaps I shouldn't risk it, I could get hurt. And violence is only fun when it's one-sided in my favor."

Violence is ugly. Violence is brutal. Violence causes damage that may never heal. You maybe shouldn't find violence in itself fun - if you do, then you might be close to the kind of person who's just looking for an acceptable target (like fascists are) - but violence is sometimes necessary. And since fascists, like all bullies, are cowards, even the slightest chance that they might get hurt themselves might deter them, might keep them from more violence.

So no, proclamations of non-violence do not help in deescalating violence, they do the opposite. They are an incredibly dangerous thing to do when confronted with violent fascists who would like nothing better than having a non-resistant punching bag. You do not even always have to openly assume a pro-violence stance, sometimes simply keeping the bully in the dark about whether or not you're going to fight back might make them hesitate.

#nonviolence #pacifism #fascism #liberals #violence #tbf i don't think that all people who advocate for 100 percent non-violence are simply well-meaning but clueless liberals #the whole 'so much for the tolerant left' shtick was always an open admission from fascists that they wanted different rules #and i'm not convinced that liberalism wasn't conceived by ur-fascists to trap people in weird universals and keep them docile #kind of like a thinly veiled secular version of religious dogma

[cantspelldragoonwithoutgoon]

Day 23

Hobbies

Eclaire is fond of making things, especially textile crafts, clothes, and food.

She's nowhere near an expert in any of it but she's doing well enough to make pretty wearable outfits and tasty meals. Her absolute favorite things to make are traditional coerthan pastries.

Also old habits die hard and she's still committing tax fraud for fun, like she did ever since first setting foot into Limsa Lominsa. (bonding experience with Tataru when she joined the Scions probably)

#she would be perfectly content with being the perfect ishgardian housewife (tm) if there wasn't the whole war against dragons thing going on #with everything that entails including but not limited to religious dogma #but alas she's also a drama queen and The Events only enhance that #gpose #junelezen #junelezen 2023 #eclaire yes like the dessert

[dilfdarthvader]

returning from whatever impromptu hiatus I've been on to drop this meme and bounce

#pls just let anakin leave the order like PLEASE #the jedi are not wrong for their beliefs! even if you disagree with them! #say it with me: they are a religious order with a religious dogma #and anakin swore an oath and then broke that oath

[nando161mando]

#religious #religion #dogma #science #church #bible nonsense #anti religion #catholic church #catholic #anti catholic #pro science #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #religion is a mental illness #religion is bullshit #religion is toxic #religion is a scam #religion is stupid #spirituality #bible verse #bible scripture #bible quote

[attonrand]

One time when I was teaching Sunday school, one of my students asked me if god was a man or a woman. Before I could even answer, one of my other kids says in the most bossy little girl voice you could imagine:

“Um, god is gender neutral, James.”

#teaching third grade is a wild time #and if you’re wondering why a they them bisexual is teaching Catholic Sunday school #the answer is because after this interaction I went #yep she’s right #instead of forcing religious dogma down their throats #kelt speaks