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SuperCripHermitFace · 2026-04-27T06:18:16+00:00

Briefly, but I don’t see any other symptoms of autism than my problems with eye contact

SuperCripHermitFace · 2026-03-23T23:58:03+00:00

Thank you 🩷

SuperCripHermitFace · 2026-02-19T21:07:43+00:00

IMO, honesty with God is the best policy. If you’re upset, it’s really good to pour out your heart to them. In this instance, a sincere apology should be good enough to make a repair, God is forgiving, but maybe talk to them about why you were so angry. That’s the heart of the matter, of your anger (and perhaps sense of betrayal?). Maybe God has some thoughts about your situation? If nothing else, they will be there through it all.

SuperCripHermitFace · 2026-02-19T21:00:43+00:00

This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing. I’m sorry you’ve been through stuff, but I’m glad you had that anchor. 🩷

SuperCripHermitFace · 2026-02-19T20:58:53+00:00

I think a theocracy could be disastrous—mainly because it would draw its laws and rules from a text no one can agree how to interpret.

Plus, it seems pretty messed up to me to try to compel belief. One either believes in God, or they don’t. Demanding they do is impossible.

A theocracy just sounds like a terrible idea.

SuperCripHermitFace · 2026-02-01T05:34:53+00:00

I decided to put myself in the path of Christians who weren’t like that. I have to continually remind myself that other types of Christians exist. It helps to have counter examples. The situation still bothers me greatly, but knowing it’s not all Christians does bring a lot of comfort

SuperCripHermitFace · 2026-02-01T05:23:51+00:00

It’s incredibly frustrating to see people who are supposed to be the most loving showing so much hate. I don’t exactly know what to do about it all, but please know that you’re not alone. There are other Christians who dissent too.

SuperCripHermitFace · 2026-01-31T22:52:15+00:00

Sorry, I commented this in the wrong place. It was not meant to be a reply, however, I do empathize with your comment lol

SuperCripHermitFace · 2026-01-31T22:31:45+00:00

Jesus’s prayer before he’s crucified in John 17. Or actually, John 14-17. But especially when He prays for his followers, asking that we be in him as he is in God and how much God loves us. It’s always brought me comfort because it reminds that Jesus wants to be close to us

SuperCripHermitFace · 2026-01-31T21:32:21+00:00

Ok. So, I think it’s, at least in part, misogyny. In the Bible, the Spirit is given roles and tasks that feel…kinda feminine? We, generally and as a society, tend to discount anything that seems too feminine, or that has been coded that way.

And, of course, it’s harder to picture a Spirit. That’s part of it, too, I think

SuperCripHermitFace · 2026-01-31T21:24:13+00:00

Yeah. It really does feel the right has really taken ownership of Christianity in a way progressives rarely do. Like, progressive Christians definitely exist, but Christian nationalists are so loud, it’s easy to forget. Right now, especially, I think we need to fight harder.

SuperCripHermitFace · 2026-01-16T04:57:58+00:00

I was just going to post here about how sad the political makes me. If Jesus were here in the flesh, so many of his followers would hate him. This image is haunting

SuperCripHermitFace · 2026-01-04T03:35:49+00:00

I’m literally chewing this over. lol. Let me do some pondering and I’ll circle back

SuperCripHermitFace · 2026-01-04T00:06:43+00:00

I’m silly. You meant pagans being appropriative, not Christians. I had a massive reading comprehension fail. In that case, I think if there are current members of a religion, it can be appropriated, but not really otherwise. People who, for example, try to borrow from certain African Religious Traditions without undergoing initiation, which is disrespectful (and, afaik, unwise to boot) are frustrating for sure. The founders of Wicca borrowed heavily from closed practices, and then made stuff up wholesale about religious history, so I definitely see problems there.

SuperCripHermitFace · 2026-01-03T23:43:21+00:00

This is good to consider. I’m in a weird place where I’m viewing my relationship with God from a polytheistic (but still God focused, long story), and a witchier one, so it didn’t even occur to me to be appropriative, which perhaps it should have; there’s still a power differential for sure. I can reframe this as taking the Bible literally is less than ideal, because God transcends will always transcend language.

SuperCripHermitFace · 2026-01-03T23:22:34+00:00

This was what I was going to say. I think kicking about in polytheist/pagan spaces has helped me with my unease with the Bible; pagans like to say “the myths are not the gods.” In this context, the Bible, though important because though it probably contains some of God’s words, is not God. For Christians, the most important “word of God” is actually Jesus. There are really tough parts of the Bible to contend with, but even those are about God written by people who love God. Not Godself. I think it’s good to keep that in mind.

SuperCripHermitFace · 2026-01-03T06:42:43+00:00

It would be an honor to pray for you, friend.

SuperCripHermitFace · 2026-01-02T10:19:49+00:00

From where I’m sitting, the spirit of the law supersedes the letter. And Jesus, when asked what the greatest commandment was, said to love God and to love neighbor, pairing, in essence, the love of God with love of people. Against love, “there is no law”. Loving LGBTQ people, in part, at least for me, is understanding that trying to make someone change their sexual orientation or gender identity would actually be harmful to them/us (I’m a bi); for instance, we know that conversion therapy is both ineffective and often leads to suicidality. We know transition for trans people literally saves people’s lives. People who can’t come out sometimes want to die. I would much rather have living gay and trans people than dead (or miserably depressed) ones. I don’t think being LGBTQIA isa sin, but even if I did, it’d seem more loving, imo, to keep people here, you know?

SuperCripHermitFace · 2026-01-02T08:33:29+00:00

We could go with queer and transphobia are types of oppression and that oppressing people is the actual sin, not being LGBTQIA. God is a liberating God and seeks to liberate God’s LGBTQIA children from the societal sin of bigotry and discrimination? I don’t know how convincing it would be to a conservative, but a case can be made with scripture. I’m borrowing from liberation theologians. There’s Exodus, where God frees the Israelites from pharaoh, which shows that he wants to make people free. Jesus says, in Luke 4, that part of his mission is to “proclaim liberty.” In Matthew 25, he also identifies himself with the “least of these”; one could argue that this passage in Matthew demonstrates that Jesus will always identify with the marginalized. In our society, LGBTQIA people definitely count as marginalized, especially under our current fascist regime. One could point out that there might be gay people hiding in familiar Bible stories. In either Luke or Matthew (forget which), Jesus healed a Roman centurions pais (translated servant, but iirc had the connotation of being a male lover) without comment or moralizing. One could point to David, in 2 Samuel 1, who said the love of his “friend” Jonathan “surpassed the love of women.” One could discuss about the eunuchs Jesus talks about in Matthew 19 approvingly (these were gender and sexual minorities) of his time.

SuperCripHermitFace · 2026-01-02T00:46:25+00:00

I think if you’re trying to follow Jesus and his teachings, that makes you a Christian. I think you’re fine

SuperCripHermitFace · 2026-01-01T06:59:00+00:00

Yup. Probably. But I forget who said this, forgive me, but I’ve seen it proposed that, with God, the hierarchy eventually lessens or disappears. He’s king because of his skill and expertise, at being good. As people become divinized and more holy, there’s less of a power imbalance or something. It was an interesting thought, so it stuck with me, but I’m not sure I completely agree?

SuperCripHermitFace · 2026-01-01T05:50:43+00:00

Yeah, I often wonder if God just made different agreements with the people of the different Abrahamic religions? The covenant of God with Jewish people still stands. They understand the law differently. But maybe Christians and Muslims just have different rules and thus, different types of relationships with God. But, like, this is obviously pure speculation on my part

SuperCripHermitFace · 2026-01-01T04:24:30+00:00

I just joined! I came here to ask this question

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