I keep thinking about @LilNasX’s video and how his journey to hell is actually more accessible to me than many Christians’ idea of getting into heaven.
He slid down a pole to hell rather than take the steps to heaven. It’s an excellent metaphor for disability & faith.
A thread:
He slid down a pole to hell rather than take the steps to heaven. It’s an excellent metaphor for disability & faith.
A thread:
Many people know I don’t often talk about my faith on here and it’s with good reason. I’ve spent my life being told by complete strangers that either.
A) if I actually had the right amount of faith, I wouldn’t be disabled.
B) my disability was a direct result of sin
A) if I actually had the right amount of faith, I wouldn’t be disabled.
B) my disability was a direct result of sin
C) I would be healed and perfect once I got into heaven.
None of that sat right with me, but it’s what I had always been told.
I used to work for a religious organization and one day, the subject of heaven came up, and being the sarcastic ass that I am, I made a flippant
None of that sat right with me, but it’s what I had always been told.
I used to work for a religious organization and one day, the subject of heaven came up, and being the sarcastic ass that I am, I made a flippant
Comment about how heaven is where I really will be able to run (or some such nonsense). Everyone laughed except for one man who sat quiet. Everyone filtered out the room.
“Who told you that?” He asked.
“Everyone.” I replied.
He shook his head and said:
“Who told you that?” He asked.
“Everyone.” I replied.
He shook his head and said:
“You were made in the image of God as you are, not as man wants you to be. In heaven you would be the most perfect version of yourself as god designed you, not as man imagines.”
Thou was shooketh.
My entire life I was told that my only path towards heaven was through the
Thou was shooketh.
My entire life I was told that my only path towards heaven was through the
Transformation of a piece of myself that is fundamental to who I am. I could never be in God’s presence as I am.
I had been lied to.
This is the entire point of #CallMeByYourName. @LilNasX basically turned the church’s words against them and said if heaven is only accepting
I had been lied to.
This is the entire point of #CallMeByYourName. @LilNasX basically turned the church’s words against them and said if heaven is only accepting
According to the discriminatory vision of man. Then off to hell I go, because I would rather be accepted for who I am than compromise myself for the conditional acceptance of Christians.
And that’s why that video makes me grin every time a Christian loses their shit over it.
And that’s why that video makes me grin every time a Christian loses their shit over it.
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