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when crwth gets back he promised he's gonna tell us about our real parentage and also what the mysterious map-shaped birthmarks we have mean
but I agree its important that we have some energy drinks to sip while he does that, so i guess we'll see him in 10-15 minutes or so
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There are a few other religious fundamentalist movements that are comparably bad but honestly a lot of them are just cribbing notes from American Evangelical Protestantism to get there
Funny enough this almost verbatim what Martin Luther said about the church
maybe a frustrated mom trying to give her screaming child a haircut in the kitchen
Most of this come from the first millennia of Christianity being gatekept by the few corrupt assholes that could read being relied upon to tell everyone else what the Bible said (or even what was in it, that’s still a thing and was hugely a thing in the first few centuries after they even began compiling a “bible”)
Nobody could read (in any language, but Latin was the main written language still) or understand Latin mass
So when literacy spread and the Bible started being printed in the vulgar, people started going “wait a minute, Jesus preached the opposite of what all these assholes wearing gold and living in (comparably) palatial comfort told us”
So a big part of organizing the reform movements was embracing the “truth” of the Bible to repudiate the legacy church heirarchy
The church’s history is just a depraved tits and swords and treasure hoards catastrophe
But also I was raised agnostic, I never attended church when I was younger, and I know actually being in those environments makes me viscerally uncomfortable. I can talk to deeply faithful people one-on-one no problem, I am at very least a superstitious person if not a person of direct faith myself. But going to a church service is a white knuckle experience for me, religious weddings can be very uncomfortable, all of that.
So my answer is sort of, or like, a begrudging yes. I wish I were better at it, that I could solidly say no, but at the end of the day, I can't really.
It actually ended up being a very trad ceremony as a result, if you think about it
I also love that it made my mom’s side of the family super squicked out because they all have American-style fash-Catholic brain worms. They’re used to hearing homilies about made up stories of trans people and pronouns and late term abortion and how Francis is a betrayer of his office.
Yeah, something about the formality of it all really makes me uncomfortable. It's not just for religion, any sort of formal ceremony or whatever gives me some anxiety. Some of that might be because those sorts of things tend to have crowds and being in social situations is also deeply uncomfortable for me, but I don't think it's just that because it's a different sort of discomfort than a purely social anxiety. It's a mixture of things, and mixtures are always more fun
Oh a big part of my personal discomfort is that, with a wiiiiiiiide array of personal evidence collected over decades, very religious people are waaaaay likelier to say some weird shit to me about being Native.
My own feelings on spirituality, religion, all that higher-minded stuff, that's... Secondary. I can and have had plenty of interesting conversations about it, it's neat
But my hackles raise because I'm bracing for, like, hearing about The Lost Tribes of Israel, or being breathlessly told about their missionary work to Indigenous spaces, or offers to convert my ancestors, or whatever the fuck.
I ain't the one who makes it weird, is all I'm saying.
The whole fundamentalism version of Christianity is so weird as that particular version is barely a century old. So you have a universal entity known who has been around for billion of years creating an entire universe and it is really concerned with things like gay sex? And the vast majority of humanity has been doomed for all time, because the only teaching that will save your soul has been handed over to a small part of the population and only got spread around a bit in pretty recent times (not going into the versions that don't even belief in free will). Yeah, I guess I can see where "god-fearing" came from, because that type of deity is terrifying.
Then no one asked me probably because they got everything they needed to know from the facts of we’ve been living in sin (unmarried) in a godless hellscape (Chicago) for years.
Anyway, those genz Christians first love seemed to be Taylor swift if the reception is anything to go on, so take that god.
oh yeah the particular weird American "trad" Catholic thing that is in fact its own weird new-school movement (and kinda reads as envy toward Evangelical Protestantism having the easy anti-intellectual populist route to conservatism ngl) absolutely sucks
incidentally I think Midnight Mass is a very interesting response to that movement in particular
like don't get me wrong actual traditional Catholicism has its own litany of issues, but people have been criticizing Catholicism At Large for literally almost two thousand years, and especially the last six hundred or so (even if I think Luther also had some fuckin' issues, whew lad was he antisemitic) whereas the new nascent movements within it are a much less recognized phenomenon
this is one thing I liked about growing up Episcopalian, it was diet Catholic: all the glam of the high church with only a fraction of the guilt, and formally liberal-progressive politics to boot
And I'm just left there nodding along trying to imagine who or what a Typorith is and what that bolts on to the core religion.
A) As someone who grew up without religion, I find it really hard to understand being lightly religious. Like, I flirted with the idea of getting into religion as a rebellious teen, but as an outsider, I couldn't see a path into religion that wasn't going whole hog into it. The idea of C&E Christians didn't make sense to me at that time, I couldn't understand how you could believe in something but not devote your entire life to it. I think this is a pattern that you specifically see with some varieties of born again Christians, people who find religion later in life and feel like they need to become not just religious but devout.