With a philosophical and theological tradition approaching the complexity and intellectual development of like… other major world religions. No half-assed neo-Pagan “whatever works for you so let’s never actually discuss anything so we can improve our ideas” Gardenarian bullcrap.
Also it has to be communist (AND I HAVE THEOLOGICAL REASONING BACKING ME ON THAT)
I think gods are like languages. They’re distinct, but can shade into one another, and split, and merge, and do all sorts of weird things.
They’re not ultimately “All really one” entity, they’re just like… IDK like Amoebas who can also do that shit sort of I guess?
and I am proud of myself.
I convinced him that his desire to have sex with men was okay and that he didn’t have to like stay in an unhappy marriage.
Is agreeing with the shittiest fundies that “ultra shitty fundies are the only real version of this religion” so that you can ignore kind, tolerant, reasonable religious people
Like the Westboro Baptist Church interpretation of the bible ain’t the only valid one (and in fact misses a lot of historical context).
Most Muslims regard ISIS as a hideous and awful perversion of their faith (and actually they’re misreading the text, ignoring a lot of the context giving books of quotation traditionally used to help interpret the Koran and generally twisting it to their own ends.)
And so on and so forth.
Stop validating shithead fundies belief that they’re the true practitioners of their faith, stop putting forward bigoted, violent, awful interpretations as correct, and jeering at people who interpret their faith in a kind and tolerant way along with fundie shitheads. That is not fucking helpful.
Fundies misuse religious texts, often ignoring historical context, allegory and translation errors, and so on to suit their purposes.
I’m an atheist and I am so fucking sick of this utter bullshit.
Because of this passage in genesis “So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.“
Men have six ribs.
I mean even if you believe the passage it doesn’t say how many ribs he had initially so maybe he had seven before one was taken? Also like it says rib, not pair of ribs, so wouldn’t men have an uneven number then?
IDK
anarchists-for-big-government:
“I can’t accept you for being transgender, the bible says it’s a sin.”
Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.Does it say that? Does it really?
Damn son even the bible isn’t transphobic, how about that
Stop trying to make the bible look good:
Deuteronomy 22:5 “A woman shall not wear man’s clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an
abomination to the LORD your God”The bible calls for gender equality, it still says that being transgender is “an abomination”. And to those of you who would defend the new testament, saying Jesus came and reformed that written in the old testament, I present to you, Luke 16:17 and Matthew 5:17-18:
“But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fail.”
“Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest
letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished…”Sorry, but the bible is an evil tool of oppression. Christians who say being transgender is a sin are correct, it is a sin… And so are many other things that shouldn’t be. You cannot look for love and tolerance in the bible, it simply does not exist as one would like it to. Those Christians who would judge transgender people are doing Gods work, and that’s fucked up.
The bible doesn’t call for gender equality. It very explicitly says men are to rule over their wives, that women are to be silent, and that women are cursed because Eve ate the apple first.
The bible is a gigantic mess of different shit from different eras and people, mistranslations, contradictions and things that can be interpreted a whole bunch of directly opposing ways.
Saying it can only be interpreted one way is drinking the fundie koolaid. Like, gnostic interpretations make Eve a messianic figure for delivering humanity from ignorance in opposition to the demiurge, and like what the bible even contains is actually up for grabs unless you accept that the council of Nicea’s highly political (trying to hold an empire together) decisions were 100% correct and the word of god.
Honestly, the bible is so up for grabs in terms of interpretation and what in it you choose to prioritize I think what a person chooses to do with the text says a lot more about them as a person than it does about the text the bible contains. I mean one could interpret
Deuteronomy 22:5 “A woman shall not wear man’s clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God”
as “and trans people must always dress as the gender they are” because hey a trans woman is a woman, and so if you interpret it through that light it’s an abomination for her to wear men’s clothes, or as it’s “a woman’s” or “a man’s” one could also interpret it as “don’t borrow clothes from people who aren’t the same gender as you” or even “Hey mister steals his wife’s panties to wear to jerk off, you need to knock it off”
So… um, yeah, you can read whatever you want into the bible.
Also I keep seeing Gnostic ideas about how Eve is only Adam’s equal if god made her out of clay too, but then it seems contradictory to me that Christ should be his mother’s superior, because Eve is also in a symbolic child of the union of human and god, rather than a base creation of clay, she is a refinement of a refinement, and the daughter of a union between the mortal imperfect material and the true god (much like Christ), she would be less removed from the divine, not more.
God I love rambling about this.
Also if you think about the chicken and the egg question in this particular light, you realize that the rooster (an earthly animal, they almost never symbolize a divine anything) comes first, lays the cosmic symbolically rich egg (which are often symbols for the birth of the universe, fertility in general and basically are clearly divine) and the unnatural liminal state of the rooster being a mother allows for the supernatural and holy nature of the egg (like a virgin birth) which allows the egg to hatch the mystical and life giving universal and original hen, who in turn gives birth to all mundane chickens thereafter.
It’s late and I’m enjoying this too much, but I just love the perfect (and yet utterly unprovable and obviously loopy) internal consistency of the logic.
Ideally fairly serious, academic works, no “cashing in on the Dan Brown thing” nonsense. I need them for research for my story. Specifically the Cainites, Ophites and Sethians.
Please and thank you.
Also happy birthday to me,
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 