My mom said that today in church her pastor said in the sermon that Jesus told us to help the poor, and taking money away from public schools to give to charter schools only widens the gap between the rich and the poor. She then added that Jesus spoke against adultery and lust and would not have approved of bragging about sexually assaulting women. According to my mom, people got up and walked out.
The pastor also started the sermon by noting that she’d heard of another minister who read the entirety of the Sermon on the Mount at the pulpit, to be told by the so-called Christian parishioners after the service that it was offensive and they didn’t agree.
The Sermon on the Mount is straight up the words of Jesus.
I recently read an article that said, hypocritical Christians in America don’t actually worship Jesus. They worship America, and even then, it’s a very specific, self-centered idea of America.
YES. EXACTLY.
My mom’s church talks almost every Sunday about how Christians are called to welcome strangers and foreigners and does tons of stuff to help refugees because HELLO, IT’S RIGHT THERE. IN THE RED TEXT, NO LESS.
I don’t believe everything they believe, but I REALLY like those people.
What a lot of these people are is idolators.
Not in terms of the realness or unrealness of who they worship, but in terms of how they’ve warped their focus away from the reality and turned it towards a fantasy of their own construction.
By definition, an idol is an image with no god behind it.
What they have done is taken the idea of Jesus and created a false image of him, nothing like the reality, to carry around in their back pocket, or to wave around on signs, and pull out and shove in people’s faces to justify all manner of unChristlike behavior.
It is a “worship” that is fundamentally self-centered rather than deity-centered, wherein the deity in question is more of a pocketbook get-out-of-jail-free card than directive to live by, and more of a status symbol than a guiding light.
That people will, without a shred of self-awareness, rest themselves assured that Jesus would want them to tip their waitress with a Jesus pamphlet made to look like folded-up money (to take only one example out of many) is the ultimate dismissal of everything the original stood for.
There is a line in the Bible about Jesus meeting his false worshipers and saying “I do not know you.” It seems like plenty of so-called Christians have beaten him to the punch with how quick they are to say they don’t know him.
A lot of churches and organizations in America that call themselves Christian churches are in fact Christianist cults. They no more represent Christianity than Daesh represents Islam. In addition to the usual nonsense of so-called Christians being pro-war, anti-immigrant, racist, and so forth, there are a lot of sects/movements that are just completely toxic and not Christian at all, even though they use that label. If you are Christian and want to have some fucking nightmares, google “christian dominionist,” or “prosperity gospel.”
Still think this is the most realistic diagram of the difference between the theological Jesus and the Comfortable Reinterpretation of Jesus.
There won’t be any Jesus’s 2nd coming, because the man is wise enough to know that those who yell his name the loudest and are his biggest fans, would crucify him again as a heretic.
As someone that has grown up surrounded by beaches and done surf life saving, I know how the sea works. Lots of people dont. Every summer multiple tourists die here because they don’t respect the sea, if you’re going to the coast, here’s a thing I saw on Facebook.
Shout out to bi people who are attracted to all genders ✨
Shout out to bi people who are constantly told bi means two and they “should actually” identify as pan ✨
Shout out to bi people who have struggled to find the correct label ✨
Shout ✨ out ✨ to ✨ bi ✨ people
Honest question. Under what definitions is this correct???
If they’re attracted to all genders, for me, that’s being pan. The name says it: pan, attraction to all genders. Bisexuality is attraction to two genders as far as I know. Two or more would be polisexual. And all three things, and many others, are under the plurisexual spectrum.
So, I really don’t want to bother, but I’ve been there too. I started out thinking I was bi? But I’m not? I’m pan. I know what this is about. And I think it is important to use the name more fitting, not the one that sounds better or is more socially accepted. You gotta learn to accept yourself. Even if it’s difficult.
I’ve had troubles accepting I was pan. I have fights and encounters at least once a week explaining to other people what being pan means. And I could avoid all that mess calling myself bi, it’s similar, after all, isn’t it? Except for the fact that I’m not bi, and I don’t have to hide it. I have absolutely no reasons to lie or hide who I am, I don’t need other people’s acceptance. I need just my acceptance, and their respect. I need to be able to be happy being myself. That’s all.
If you’re not sure, you don’t need to call yourself bi, or les, or anything else, “questioning” is always acceptable. And no one can tell you otherwise.
The definition of bisexual has been adapted alongside gender theory; the formal definition is “Attraction to two or more genders”. It doesnt necessarily mean all genders, but that you can be bi and attracted to genders A, and/or B, C, D, E, etc. Pansexual is more commonly adapted as “attraction regardless of gender”, however “attraction to all genders” is equally acceptable.
What matters the most is how the definition you feel fits you best; and yes, questioning is very definitely an acceptable title to take.
🍁 language changes. bisexuality was first officially ‘defined’ by a (presumably cishet) white male academic in the 19th century. it was initially described as the attraction to “both sexes”. at the time “official” sexuality terminologies were very much sex orientated and did not accomodate the gender spectrum. but, as this was a general term used by certain people who had multiple gender attraction, it has continued to mean the attraction to multiple genders, not just always limited to two genders or specifically men and women. I use bi and I’m attracted to all genders as once the definition could and did mean, despite language changes and education on sex and gender. 🍁
