Thread by @owenbroadcast

these people live to hate christianity. when i go back home i see even the most dead dreary people get an electric hate in their eyes when it comes up. i did all manner of weird religion stuff, the only negative reaction i ever got from people there is for not hating christianity

same people who would try to get u fired from ur job because you have negative things to say about other religions stay up late for hours laughing about how stupid the eucharist is and making “zombie jesus” jokes. the immense level of satisfaction this derision brings is palpable

they tie everything back to a hatred of christianity + color any discussion of any religious phenomenon being bad with this lens. i was with my uncle a few weeks ago and something about L ron hubbard came up and he says “really, hes no different than paul and his church”

that was his first reaction. not even cherry picking. it always comes back to that. even before i became christian i realized how much of an eschatological anchor this was for the people around me and got kind of creeped out by it.

used this anecdote before but i did all kinds of spiritual things, read crazy books, tibetan buddhist work, occult stuff, went into the woods with a literal cult for a week of not eating, etc., the people in new york act like im a full on fucking freak for being christian now

this is all kind of cliche but just reporting for people who i think are unaware of how extreme it is in some places. even when i reached a stage of “just not thinking christianity is 100% bad” people at bars, at my jobs, family, everyone around me, was obviously disturbed by it

theres certain family members i have where i havent told them im christian yet, i just dont really see them, i moved like a thousand miles away for a reason, but im 100% sure that when i tell them it will be the last blow severing our already distant and weird relationships

if it wasnt for certain things i cant entirely bail on i would swear an oath to never return to such cursed places. i unironically have nightmares about it sometimes, with lots of weird biblical symbolism like snakes. its kind of weird, tbh

just last night i had a dream that my parents were standing in this hallway holding this snake and i had to walk past them but they were holding the snake in such a way that when i went by them it would obviously bite me. i was trying to explain this to them and they didnt get it

then later in the dream someone i knew from new york put a huge snake into my bed that i was in (irl) with my gf, i woke up at like 5 am so panicked i couldnt go back to sleep. my dreams are usually random but the ones with snakes or venomous creatures are always symbolic

had a dream once that i was in this cabin in a jungle with people i used to do psychedelics with + all these snakes were pouring in through the cracks in the walls. they were sleeping on the floor but i was in an elevated bed with my gf, this elevation let me fight the snakes off

had a dream once where i met this community of really awesome people at a church but to join the church this monk wanted me to take on the job of moving venomous animals around to different tanks so they could teach the kids about them, said the job was chosen for me specifically

dreamt once i was sick in a castle, like i was dying or something, then i got out. then i was in this group of people heading away from the castle. they chose the direction i knew was incorrect, tried to tell them to go the other way, but i went with them and a huge snake bit me

so many dreams like this that stand out from the sheer randomness of my “normal” dreams. just thought some people might find it interesting but also im wondering if anyone else has this. random dreams but then if a snake or venomous creature is involved its obviously symbolic?

yeah, it doesnt bother me too much yet because i feel like im being told something (maybe just by my brain, idk), but the weird thing is that in the beginning it would only happen when i prayed before bed, every time, which just makes it weirder.

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