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esoteric eastern christian weirdo, ex-calvinist, raised pagan
pray for me
esoteric eastern christian weirdo, ex-calvinist, raised pagan
pray for me
Letting go of the belief in an inerrant Bible was so difficult for me but also so edifying and necessary. It lifted such a burden off my shoulders.
March 24, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Letting go of the belief in an inerrant Bible was so difficult for me but also so edifying and necessary. It lifted such a burden off my shoulders.
With that being said I’m really on the fence about ornate churches. I think both they and humbler looking churches have their place. What matters more is what’s going on inside them. No matter how beautiful or how humble your church is, that won’t please God if ugliness and pride infest its people.
March 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
With that being said I’m really on the fence about ornate churches. I think both they and humbler looking churches have their place. What matters more is what’s going on inside them. No matter how beautiful or how humble your church is, that won’t please God if ugliness and pride infest its people.
“Churches shouldn’t be ornate, you should be using that money on people not on a building” totally valid perspective and I value it, but I’d answer that the building does belong to the people. It’s the one place where luxury is public property and not being hoarded and hidden away.
March 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
“Churches shouldn’t be ornate, you should be using that money on people not on a building” totally valid perspective and I value it, but I’d answer that the building does belong to the people. It’s the one place where luxury is public property and not being hoarded and hidden away.
The infernalist tendency to caricature universalists as naive wishful thinkers who plug their ears whenever they hear scripture VS the universalist tendency to caricature infernalists as fear mongering sadists too afraid to ever question anything they’re taught : FIGHT
February 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The infernalist tendency to caricature universalists as naive wishful thinkers who plug their ears whenever they hear scripture VS the universalist tendency to caricature infernalists as fear mongering sadists too afraid to ever question anything they’re taught : FIGHT
The Living God does not create dead things; there is nothing in Creation without soul.
February 28, 2025 at 6:42 AM
The Living God does not create dead things; there is nothing in Creation without soul.
There is no such thing as too merciful, too loving, too compassionate. Liberal Christians aren't guilty of an excess of these virtues, because that's not possible.
February 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
There is no such thing as too merciful, too loving, too compassionate. Liberal Christians aren't guilty of an excess of these virtues, because that's not possible.
"why stay in a religion full of hypocrites who aren't loving like their faith tells them to be" Because it's true, and PS: if you're angry that the adherents of a particular faith aren't actually living the tenants of the faith then that might indicate that the tenants of the faith are good and true
February 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
"why stay in a religion full of hypocrites who aren't loving like their faith tells them to be" Because it's true, and PS: if you're angry that the adherents of a particular faith aren't actually living the tenants of the faith then that might indicate that the tenants of the faith are good and true
I hope Saint Dymphna was a real person cause I neeeed her. Girl help
February 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I hope Saint Dymphna was a real person cause I neeeed her. Girl help
The mainstream Christian idea of what sin is and what causes it and what it causes is really messed up, but sin still exists. “Human nature is flawed” should not be a controversial idea, we all know it, nobody had to teach us that.
February 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The mainstream Christian idea of what sin is and what causes it and what it causes is really messed up, but sin still exists. “Human nature is flawed” should not be a controversial idea, we all know it, nobody had to teach us that.
“Sin is something Christians made up to control people” is such a wild take. Do you really think pagans didn’t have any concept of sin? Sisyphus is rolling a boulder up a hill for all eternity rn and you think pagans didn’t/don’t believe in sins? Even Buddhism has hells, and people who end up there.
February 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
“Sin is something Christians made up to control people” is such a wild take. Do you really think pagans didn’t have any concept of sin? Sisyphus is rolling a boulder up a hill for all eternity rn and you think pagans didn’t/don’t believe in sins? Even Buddhism has hells, and people who end up there.
Antitheists acting like penal substitutionary atonement is something all Christians believe in frustrates me so bad but I can’t even be angry at them about it because evangelicals sure do make it seem like it is.
January 25, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Antitheists acting like penal substitutionary atonement is something all Christians believe in frustrates me so bad but I can’t even be angry at them about it because evangelicals sure do make it seem like it is.
It’s permissible for us to eat animals but animals weren’t “created to be our food.” God didn’t create them *for* that purpose, He created them for His own delight and out of His own love, same as why He created us.
January 23, 2025 at 4:40 AM
It’s permissible for us to eat animals but animals weren’t “created to be our food.” God didn’t create them *for* that purpose, He created them for His own delight and out of His own love, same as why He created us.
Sorry that I keep posting about this one specific subject btw, I'll try to tone it down, I dunno why I've been so fixated on it lately.
January 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Sorry that I keep posting about this one specific subject btw, I'll try to tone it down, I dunno why I've been so fixated on it lately.
I don't fully disagree w this post but I think something OP's missing is that...they weren't mad bc they *want* Hell to exist. They're mad bc they believe Hell is a real place, are (understandably) scared of ppl going there, believe universalism is false, & believe preaching it endangers ppls souls.
January 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I don't fully disagree w this post but I think something OP's missing is that...they weren't mad bc they *want* Hell to exist. They're mad bc they believe Hell is a real place, are (understandably) scared of ppl going there, believe universalism is false, & believe preaching it endangers ppls souls.
When choosing which faith to follow I examined them on their own w/o considering any history or the behavior of adherents I'd met. If I were getting ready for my first day on earth & was told to pick a faith before starting, I'd pick Xtianity because I love Christ. I don't care about the bad Xtians.
January 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
When choosing which faith to follow I examined them on their own w/o considering any history or the behavior of adherents I'd met. If I were getting ready for my first day on earth & was told to pick a faith before starting, I'd pick Xtianity because I love Christ. I don't care about the bad Xtians.
Trying to remind myself that God never promised earthly prosperity to the righteous. I shouldn’t feel bitter about how many horrible people have been “rewarded” with wealth and success in this life because it’s not a reward at all, that’s not how any of this works.
January 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Trying to remind myself that God never promised earthly prosperity to the righteous. I shouldn’t feel bitter about how many horrible people have been “rewarded” with wealth and success in this life because it’s not a reward at all, that’s not how any of this works.
One possibly concerning reason I'm a big fan of universalism is that I actually do wanna go to Hell (or I guess something like it), I just don't wanna be there forever. I just want God to throw me in the oven till I'm done, yknow?
January 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
One possibly concerning reason I'm a big fan of universalism is that I actually do wanna go to Hell (or I guess something like it), I just don't wanna be there forever. I just want God to throw me in the oven till I'm done, yknow?
Sometimes my prayers to God are more like really long exasperated screams into a pillow
January 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Sometimes my prayers to God are more like really long exasperated screams into a pillow
My fiancé is firmly infernalist and I'm afraid to tell him that I'm not
January 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
My fiancé is firmly infernalist and I'm afraid to tell him that I'm not
The only Calvinists tolerable to me are the universalist ones. Tho even universalist Calvinism is lame to me bc it doesnt allow for the existence of real love. An automaton programmed to “love” you doesnt actually love you. Love requires an Other. In Calvinism there’s just God and God’s marionettes.
January 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The only Calvinists tolerable to me are the universalist ones. Tho even universalist Calvinism is lame to me bc it doesnt allow for the existence of real love. An automaton programmed to “love” you doesnt actually love you. Love requires an Other. In Calvinism there’s just God and God’s marionettes.
I don’t get those people who act like proving determinism would disprove God when there’s (unfortunately) a fairly large subset of Christians who already disbelieve in free will and are pretty vocal about it
January 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I don’t get those people who act like proving determinism would disprove God when there’s (unfortunately) a fairly large subset of Christians who already disbelieve in free will and are pretty vocal about it
You are loved unconditionally by a God who knows what it's like to suffer unjustly at the hands of other people.
January 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
You are loved unconditionally by a God who knows what it's like to suffer unjustly at the hands of other people.
Forcing me to choose between God and science is the cruelest thing you could ever do to me, my life would be so unbearably empty without both of them.
January 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Forcing me to choose between God and science is the cruelest thing you could ever do to me, my life would be so unbearably empty without both of them.
I'm neither a Mormon nor a Muslim but I do think it's kinda wild that both groups are mocked for thinking "hey, maybe we shouldn't be recreationally ingesting literal poison"
January 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I'm neither a Mormon nor a Muslim but I do think it's kinda wild that both groups are mocked for thinking "hey, maybe we shouldn't be recreationally ingesting literal poison"
Blasphemy against The Father: I keep scrolling
Blasphemy against Christ: I keep scrolling
Blasphemy against the Theotokos: instant block
Blasphemy against Christ: I keep scrolling
Blasphemy against the Theotokos: instant block
January 2, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Blasphemy against The Father: I keep scrolling
Blasphemy against Christ: I keep scrolling
Blasphemy against the Theotokos: instant block
Blasphemy against Christ: I keep scrolling
Blasphemy against the Theotokos: instant block