@bisexumel's Threads
When I observe the world around me with “all of my heart, soul, and mind,” and those painstaking assessments are vastly incongruent with what religion taught me — then I am not “disobeying God” by acknowledging reality. I am disobeying a religion and the people who represent it.
If God is real then God would *have to* be consistent with reality. God would be present in the blood, sweat, and tears of humanity. Or do Christians just not believe Psalms where it says that God “founded the world and all that is in it?” I see no exceptions to “all” there.
If “all good comes from God,” and the goodness of God’s love is witnessed in gay bars and poly relationships and other religious communities, then that love can simply not be denied or dismissed or erased — not even by dusty old men in expensive suits with mDiv’s.
Evangelicals be like “no, I’m calling transgender people by their BIRTH NAME” then they’ll go and jack off over Paul’s writings 🤔 Interesting how you never hear them call him Saul
Oh and what about the ABRAHAMIC COVENANT, huh??? I’ve never heard it called the AMBRAMIC covenant?? Shocking how easy it is to change names for a dead ancient patriarch but not for living trans people I guess
Y’all can’t even use the “birth name” of the main author of the New Testament LMAO. Atleast exercise some iota of consistency if you’re gonna be a bigot
People ask me all the time, “How are you charismatic? How are you queer/leftist/universalist and still retain those aspects of your faith?” To be honest: I don’t know. It’s not like I try — I just do. To me, they aren’t diametrically opposed. They are all one in the same.
Charismatic evangelicalidm taught us the world in black-and-white; that certain aspects of us need to be spliced & chopped & separated like wheat from chaff. But that’s not true. We’re a kaleidoscope of unique traits that all coexist beautifully in tandem with one another.
I still believe in dream interpretation the same way that I believe in the abolishment of capitalism so that everybody has a chance at reaching their dreams. I still believe in glossolalia the same way that I believe the societal obsession w English is white supremacist as fuck.
