It's very difficult to defend the concept that a young child could be so evil, that he or she deserves to be eliminated. And any religion that teaches such is well worth abandoning to the trash heap.
Children -- though mischievous -- are innocent, requiring the protection of the entire adult world, not its hostility.
Looking from the altar towards the organ, which is high overhead and has open panels with religious scenes that cover the pipes when closed. Below it is a roundel window. The walls and ceiling are the familiar white with prominent brown ribbing/vaulting, and there are two rows of pews running from the foreground almost to the (organ) wall.
Curved wall of a Lady Chapel with wallpaper with crosses and seals and four tall stained glass windows, two on each side of an inset shrine at center with a statue of the Virgin holding the Christ child. The ceiling is a deep-perspective view into a cloud/heaven with the saints, martyrs, bishops, etc. standing and looking on within the cloud. On the floor at center, below the Virgin statue, is a gold altar in the shape of a spoked wheel that has a blue-green curtain behind it. In front of the altar is a small nativity scene (photo from December).
Good morning, my buddies and beauties! Miss Dee Jay here.
This one... I get into religion, specifically Christianity. This one goes into Christian belief, what it means to be a responsible Christian, how this influences art, and how it affected Christian rock performers in the 90s and 00s... eventually leading to some of them walking away from Christianity altogether.
And so, I give you the most recent post of Trans Pirate Radio: "All Your Heart, All Your Soul, All Your Mind."
I realize that Christianity can be triggering for a lot of people, in particular LGBTQ+ folks. If so, at least scroll quickly to the end and listen to the music; it's amazing, and so affirming to the queer community.
Headline: DOJ investigating after protesters disrupt service at St. Paul church where ICE field director is pastor.
Me: An ICE field director is a pastor. A wafer-thin veil of love & kindness over a soul filled with hate, bigotry, and hypocrisy. Christianity in a nutshell.
peefectly sane response from an alleged catholic who made very non pope aligned comments in regards to trump's pedophilia. lmaooooo how droll. #uspol#maga#catholicism#christianity
screenshot of a cxomment saying "scotty marinara you will have an encounter with jesus all in capslock.
Christian sect investigated by the FBI under pressure to reveal wealth
By Tobi Loftus
Survivors of a secretive Christian sect, under investigation by the FBI, say it is hiding wealth through trusts, blocking access to abuse compensation.
I found the photo above as an interesting place to start a discussion about the birth of Jesus and how he is viewed in Islam and in Judaism. Anti-Muslim propaganda in the West, especially in the United States, paints a picture of Muslims as intolerant fanatics who threaten Christians with death if they don’t convert. But then there is the photo above… The fact is that in Muslim Iran, Christians are able to celebrate Christmas openly and without interference. I also note that Tehran is still home to one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world. The supposedly intolerant Islamists ain’t killing them either.
I went to Christmas Vigil Mass with my family this evening.
My relationship with Catholicism is best described as “estranged” at this point. That said, not going to Mass isn’t an option in this case - not if any sort of peace is expected among family for the holiday - so I went. I offered my silent protests in attending, though - my skirt was a kilt with a pattern designed to memorialize witches that had been prosecuted and burned in Scotland, and I wore a hairpin designed by a friend - one with meanings the Church would not approve of.
Whenever I go to Church, I notice something that confirms that leaving the church was a good idea. In this case, it was in the prayers offered. So… while the prayers are being offered, the following is said:
“For the oppressed.”
I was mildly surprised and intrigued at this point. What would the Catholic Church have to give for the oppressed? Allyship and advocacy to their cause? Aid? Liberation? Mercy?
“That they may be given the strength to endure.”
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What?
Just… what?!?
In that moment, I realized I had chosen my wardrobe well. Praying that oppressed people be given the strength to endure is like praying that those persecuted as witches had the strength to endure the flames.
Oppressed people don’t need your prayers. Oppressed people need action; oppressed people need your help.
As a friend of mine put it, Love is a verb.
And that “prayer” was as far from love as a church could get - literal performative prayer to justify their own indifference.
As #Christmas rolls around, I once again post this timeless illustration by Everett Patterson from 2014, titled “José y Maria”. Ever more poignant today.
Comic illustration: a Hispanic couple outside a convenience store, on a rainy night. The image is filled with references to the Nativity in the Gospels. The man is on a payphone with a phone book in his hand, while the woman sits on a coin-operated donkey ride. Posters on the convenience store advertise “Weisman” cigarettes, “Starr” beer, and “Good News” candy. Round and starburst stickers form halos around the couple’s heads. A neon sign in the background reads “Dave’s City Motel—No Vacancy”.
In 1899 a group of radical Christian pacifists who had broken away from the Russian Orthodox church many years before, known as the Doukhobors, began emigrating to western Canada to escape Tsarist persecution. Under the influence of Leo Tolstoy and the more mystical-visionary pronouncements of their leader back in Russia, an even more radical minority of the group - know as Svobodniki or "Freedomites" - attempted to create a new Eden in western Canada.
The Freedomites in 1902-03 began adopting an often raw Vegan or Fruitrarian diet, releasing their draught animals "to the grace of God" so that they would no longer be dominated by human oppression, destroyed their own property to protest luxury and vanity, rejected the institution of marriage, and began marching naked and engaging in religious communal nudity to be more like Adam and Eve before the Fall.
Rev. Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston, was shot in the leg with a pepper ball by state police while protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility, Illinois. He writes for Religion News Service about why he continues to show up at Broadview, the atmosphere at protests there, and religious leaders' obligation to resist tyranny. "It is important for my neighbors who were abducted to know that we will not stop fighting for their release," he writes. "By my estimation, our country is somewhere in 1930s Germany. Fascism is growing in power, but we still have opportunities to resist."
The Formula.
Now, are you going to get yourself into the Fire? Who or what are you defeating? Are you getting revenge upon yourself? You are submitting to the Humiliation of Authority until Death losing Existence, which produces you Existential Anguish. This is the Fire you are fleeing from and towards which you run.
As easy as eliminating Money in the entire Planet at once, going into Freedom (regarding Authority). Global Direct Democracy, chaotic, without Presidency.
Everything is laid out and displayed on the reference website. Accept Life or commit suicide individually. Don't suicide me with you because Almightism belongs to Death, not to you, and your Cowardice would be Eternal. Hence your Infinite Rage. Isn't it that way? Well, forward it, because it is. www.nuevaera.info
Yesterday, Pope Leo posted the statement below (it's from his Dilexi te) on Twitter (aka X), and MAGA went wild plastering the posting with enraged comments. Someone shared this tweet in a Reddit posting devoted to Christianity and enraged MAGA posted so many hateful comments that Reddit took the posting down.
MAGA wants to wrap the cruelty of denying food to children in Jesus. Leo begs to differ.
"Performative Jesus washing is everywhere, and it seems to work. You can cover anything, the most bigoted, misogynist, hate-filled speech, any falsehood, and cover it with glitter, and flash, and CCM, make it acceptable, and even worshipped."
~ Rev. Rob Christ
N.B. My sharing of material from any -platform does not = endorsement of the platform.
"MAGA Catholic influencers are cheering the cutoff of food stamps — even as Catholic bishops, backed by Pope Leo XIV, plead for a restoration of benefits and mobilize the Church to feed those in need."
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#Christianity #rituals
Cardinal Pizzaballa Visits Gaza’s Catholic Parish ( www.telesurenglish.net )
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