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wh3nd01want1t · 1 year
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so,
my current relationship with God is complicated.
I may be being rebellious. Am I naive to aay that I'm going through a phase and that I'll come back later? Like I can have the best of both worlds? God's love is unconditional, but does it include His salvation? I know that God will always have me on a leash, have a hand on me wherever I go in my life. I can't turn against God. I am a sinner by nature, but I am a lover more strongly than anything. I'll work myself to death out of my love for people. I don't like having to not be nice. I love being nice. I wish we could all get along and be nice, especially to God. Even if God doesn't make a lot of sense sometimes, I have the love that he blessed me with to overlook it. Even if my wordly body and activities disagree with how my body feels, my soul is eagerly awaiting for Heaven to meet the ultimate creator.
My mom has really been struggling with homosexuality and transgenderism lately. She is disturbed and has a hard time processing it. She does not enjoy it. My soul that is with God does not enjoy it, either, but my body is at unrest because it is in the world and it feels uncomfortable with both sides. So much tension. So much confusion. My brain is in the middle of my soul and body, and how I cope is to put on a mask of neutrality at best, along with wanting what's good for people. I have to take a step back for my heart to not break every time I see something that happens so often. I can't just reject it all entirely. I just have to make the most of the situation God has put me in.
It is said that everyone is trying their best. I hope God can stretch His mercy and understanding to my situation, and of others that are similar.
God, help me to be a vessel of love and understanding. Help me to be the best version of myself with my wonderful qualities shining through.
I'm sorry that I have been avoiding you. I just feel guilty. I don't want to be rude to people and just feel uncomfortable all the time. I know it's a small price to pay in the face of eternity, but this is how I feel. My brain and body, especially, don't understand the concept of eternity well, so it's hard for me to be more serious about it. There are a lot of distractions here. You have made me human and allowed sin to enter the world. What do you expect from me? That's my question. I am a sheep and I need a fence. 🐑 And, I need a little pet and snuggle, too. Thanks.
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samvents · 1 year
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[ID text — i begged God to save me and he shoved more torment down my throat to keep me quiet]
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nothing0fnothing · 2 months
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As a young girl in the church I was taught to "respect myself."
We were told it from every angle. Our teachers, our preachers, our parents. "As a woman you have to respect yourselves." "How can men respect you if you're not respectful of yourself?"
I'm not sure why an 11 year old girl needed tips on how to make men respect her, but they felt it was important nonetheless.
So I educated myself and spoke my mind. I wanted to be respected for how clever I was. I asked questions that were thoughtful and well reasoned, I corrected elders when they were wrong and I focused on knowing as much as I could.
They didn't like that.
So I put all that aside, and instead I learned about feminism. I decided I should be respected for how firm I was. I said no loudly and clearly. I made my boundaries known and I reacted loudly when they were crossed.
They didn't mean like that either.
So instead, I put myself in therapy. I wanted to be respected for how self assured I was. I started caring for myself and putting me first. I healed from my trauma and learned how to not repeat old cycles, and everyone who I could, I brought them up with me.
They didn't like that at all.
No, apparently the type of self respect they wanted me to learn was the type where I beleived lies at face value, said nothing to those who crossed my boundaries and wallowed in depression and toxic cycles. But also like, while keeping my shoulders covered or something.
Silly me.
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fragmented-artist · 22 days
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Blaine
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cupcakeshakesnake · 8 months
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Do not pray for me, for your god denied me and I denied him
I killed your god and he killed me
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ddogdeath · 5 months
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did you make me this way just so you could abandon me?
“God Turn Me Into a Flower” by Weyes Blood // credit unknown // credit unknown// E.Doe on Flickr // Thomas Daggett, The Prophecy // Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us // Karen Hunnicutt on Flickr // @/notbecauseofvictories, “from chrysopoetics” // credit unknown
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melodicmelancholia · 3 months
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hulahoopsoupgroup · 5 months
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last night i reached a real turning point with my views on evangelical christianity.
i overheard my mother whispering to my father from the other room, telling him that i ruined her life by being gay. that i ruined everything for her and i had the "audacity" to ask for therapy to help my mental health (which i cant afford).
and i just kinda snapped internally. it was like this rockslide came crashing down on the road behind me and prevented me from ever turning back.
before, i was fed up with christianity, but that kind of sealed the deal that im never going to put up with anything to do with evangelical christianity, not holidays, not a single worship song, nothing.
it just felt like, idk, like a became a new person. it felt like the old me just fuckin, died. i renamed myself. i just, dont feel like my old self anymore. and idk how to feel about that
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wildfeather5002 · 12 days
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I hate it when xtians reduce my religious trauma to "a religious person said something mean to you once so now you're mad at religion".
Like, shut the fuck up. My trauma isn't just someone being a little rude to me once, it was systematic, deliberate manipulation with the threat of possible eternity of suffering in Hell if I didn't obey religious rules and "keep Christ in my heart". It was "Nonbelievers burn in a lake of eternal fire. Tell your friends to convert to our faith or they'll be damned for eternity".
I have suffered from anxiety, ocd and other mental health issues for several fucking years because of this shit. I've suppressed my sexuality and felt terrible guilt just for the 'sin' of having sexual thoughts. I've feared for my loved one's souls, genuinely believing they would go to Hell for simply not being xtians and that I'd never see them again in the afterlife.
These beliefs are sick and twisted. What I went through was sick and twisted.
I seriously don't know what to say to you if you still think telling anyone, let alone a child, that they're going to be damned for eternity if they disobey 'God's word' is totally fine and not abusive.
Know your fucking place and stop speaking over trauma survivors who have been hurt by your shitty religion.
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ragamuffinmox · 8 months
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she just like me fr
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diamondwolfart · 2 months
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Quite a personal doodle with Fyodor because yes
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toashesireturn · 3 months
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absolutely insane take from the priest this past sunday but apparently he doesn't consider marriages only carried out at the courthouse and not through the church as real marriages so if you got married and didnt get a specifically catholic marriage then having sex is still a sin. absolutely baffling take along with the rest of the purity culture bs he was spouting
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fragmented-artist · 22 days
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Grace
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writterings · 2 months
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man i hate how you can't escape christianity anywhere like even just walking outside your house, you'll see something undeniably christian.
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Sometimes I wish that Christians who aren't extremists could just fucking shut up about it. Like we GET IT. You're sorry us traumatized folks went through shit. You think the extremists that hurt us are doing Christianity wrong. That's GREAT. You think everyone deserves god's love. That's GREAT. Please stop apologizing for people who don't love us. Please stop trying to justify why you still follow Christianity knowing its flaws. And for the LOVE OF GOD please stop saying "God loves everyone" or shit like that because WE FUCKING KNOW. We know and that's NOT reassuring, if it was we would have stayed.
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samvents · 1 year
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[ID text — The moral of the story is, I will gut you if I need to. I will carve my way out with only my teeth.]
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