#God Likes to Watch: The Blaming and Shaming of #Purity Culture

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3ByZWFrZXIuY29tL3Nob3cvMzI3MDM0Ny9lcGlzb2Rlcy9mZWVk/episode/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcGkuc3ByZWFrZXIuY29tL2VwaXNvZGUvNTY0MjE4Njc?sa=X&ved=0CJsCEM-BB2oXChMIqILa7POkgQMVAAAAAB0AAAAAEAE

Inside and outside of #dogmatic #religions, people are shamed and controlled by #moralists crying "#sin!" Why and how are the #puritans attacking the natural, #sexual person?

#SethAndrews gave a recent speech on #PurityCulture.
https://youtu.be/q_DHYGPIH9Q

#atheism #atheist #abstinence #religion #christianity #virginity

Me acabo de hacer de Los testículos de Jehová

Verdadero creyente de la #religión que me sale de los huevos.

Gesten war 1. Schultag in #BW. Unser Sohn ist absofort in der 3. Klasse. Wieso brauchen wir eigentlich 2 Stunden Unterricht in Hokus Pokos (#religion) wenn wir doch Lehrermangel haben? Was soll das? Das ist Verschwendung wichtiger Schulzeit.. #schule #Unterricht #BadenWurttemberg @KM_BW

“Remember that Supreme Court case about the high school football coach in Washington who won his job back after he got fired for praying with football players? His name is Joe Kennedy, and this week he quit his hard-won job back after just one game.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/tylerhuckabee/p/touchdown-jesus

#uspol #uspolitics #religion #christian

Call to Prayer, #Morocco

by Steven dos Remedios

#photography #culture #travel #religion #Islam

31 years ago, East 17 released "House of Love". It is shocking how much it speaks to current day issues when you actually listen to the #lyrics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41c9Tw3HV-U

Some contemporary reviews were unkind:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nothingelseon/52681275519/
(top right corner)

OK, but for a boy band's dance floor #anthem, this is heavy stuff.

#East17 #Love #war #environment #music #ClimateChange #Religion #conflict

For a number of years I've appreciated the work of Jana Reiss of #Religion News Service. I knew Jana slightly when I was a ThM student at #Princeton Seminary; like me, she was studying for #Protestant #ministry. But instead, shortly afterwards, she found a spiritual home in the #Mormon #church. Life can take us to unexpected places!
(The most active RNS reporter on Mastodon is @jackmjenkins, whose work I also enjoy!)
https://religionnews.com/2023/09/11/on-30-years-of-mormon-belonging-and-not-belonging/

On the Paths of Hugues de Berzé: A Repentant Crusader Knight https://www.medievalists.net/2023/09/on-the-paths-of-hugues-de-berze-a-repentant-crusader-knight/ #medieval #religion

How #Christians Try to Explain Away the #UnforgivableSin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_baPx1pRxT8

(#Blasphemy against the #HolySpirit)
What does this mean? How do you commit it? How do you AVOID committing it? Can you know you haven't already committed it? It's hard to give good answers for any of these questions, because #Jesus only briefly describes it in the vaguest of terms, and then that's it. The #Bible never again says a word about it.

#religion #christianity #hell #holyghost #atheism #atheist

This article and interview do not I feel talk about searching for an identity though it certainly appears framed that way from the start.

The interviewer and subject talk about creating community spaces to explore shared values and learn how to be compassionate, caring people - in a safe space shorn of any dogma, doctrine, or guilt ...

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/10/1198509609/the-search-for-a-church-that-isnt-a-church

#community #prejudice #search #humanity #sharing #Spirituality #religion #values #virtues

#lesbian #lesbians #lesbianics #priest #religion #witch #witchlife #darkarts #woods #forest #kink #kinky #sapphic #saphic #women #womanempowerment #tiktok

#911 #religion #atheist #science #nyc

Why am I interested in Philosophy of Religion? by Davidianhttps://www.answers-in-reason.com/?p=12792?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=Automation&utm_campaign=PAD#Philosophy #Religion #Atheist #Atheism #Morality #Ethics #EthicsandMorality #Moral#Philosophy #Ethicsand#Morality

#science #religion #atheist #911 #moon

Pink News: Are religious people OK? Pastor smashes Barbie Dream House with Bible taped to baseball bat https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/11/pastor-greg-locke-barbie-dream-house-bible-baseball-bat/ #LGBT #LGBTQ #Trans #Lesbian #2SLGBTQ #Tennessee #Religion #Barbie #pastor #News #US

Indulgences.

The idea is simple. You pay us money and all your sins disappear! It's just like purchasing carbon offsets.

#humor #religion #indulgence

#Question: Don't you think that the support from #religion s and #religious teachers is a great help to man in his effort to free himself from all that binds him?

#Krishnamurti: No teacher can give us right values. You may read all the books in the world, but you cannot gather wisdom from them. You may follow all the religious systems of the world and yet remain a slave to them. Only when you stand alone can you find wisdom and be wholly free, liberated. By aloneness I do not mean living apart from humanity. I mean that aloneness which comes from understanding, not from withdrawal. It exists, in other words, when one is utterly individual, not individualistic. You know, we think that by continually practicing the piano under the direction of an instructor we shall become great pianists, creative musicians; and similarly we look to religious teachers for guidance. We say to ourselves, "If I practise daily what they have laid down, I shall have the flame of creative understanding." I say, you can practise it without end, and you will still not have that creative flame. I know many who daily practise certain ideals, but they become only more and more withered in their understanding, because they are merely imitating, they are merely living up to a standard. They have freed themselves from one teacher and have gone to another; they have merely transferred themselves from one cage to another. But if you do not seek comfort, if you continually question - and you can question only when you are in revolt - then you establish freedom from all teachers and all religions; then you are supremely human, belonging neither to a party nor to a religion nor to a cage.

It took me so long to find the language: Belief Systems

Like many people, I was mired in the details of beliefs like Atheism, Christianity, and Buddhism, but when you approach those beliefs from the overarching concept
of a system and the methods used to maintain that system, you can see the underlying similarities, the methods of control.

Our minds are the only thing that are truly our own. We should be free to explore all of the ideas in the world.

#religion #beliefsystems #freethinking

Welp, finally finished my Big Think on the role of "digital media" in polytheist and animist art: https://rotwork.wordpress.com/2023/09/10/on-fossil-media/

#pagan #polytheism #animism #art #religion #theology #Teotecayotl @theology

#Religion @scotus The Supreme Court’s Fake Praying Coach Case Just Got Faker. Joe Kennedy fought for years for the right to return to his old job. Then he quit after one game. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/supreme-court-praying-coach-joe-kennedy-fake.html?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=traffic&utm_source=article&utm_content=twitter_share via @SLATED