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They’re probably more orthodox but it usually goes like this: “Oh hey Mariano! Do you have any religious beliefs?” “Yeah, I guess similar to Tom Holland’s approach, my morals and ethics are traditionally found in Christian orthodoxy, but in a social justice + advocating for the poor + gender equality sort of view.” “Oh so…not like American evangelical?” “No more like a Bonhoeffer’s “smoke a pack of cigs a day and participate in assassination attempts towards fascist leaders” type of Christianity.” “…oh…”
Anyways — the whole theologian / spy to help an assassination attempt on Hitler and being put in a concentration camp with his only request being cigs to smoke and fighting against injustice type of Christianity > whatever we’re seeing from the RNC right now. Some would say this is very “unchristian” and “very progressive” and they’d be wrong and uneducated.
Aug 27, 2024

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I was at a party once and someone asked what ~kind~ of Christian I was and I had trouble finding where to start and my non-christian friend shouted from across the room, "NOT THE BIGOTED KIND!" and I just left it at that
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lucius love that the bar for distinction from the standard christian is that low haha
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Christian not in the sense that I know everyone’s name at the potluck and have a constant rotation of Bethel, Hillsong, and [insert problematic, weird, mega church corporation here] playing in my car, but Christian in the sense that I hang out almost exclusively with the last people you would expect to find at a church and cherish, love, serve, and recognize the image of God in their humanity
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royallmonarch YUP! This is it. Also idk if you listen to him already or not but John Mark McMillan might be right up your alley. The Live at the Knight album lives in constant rotation. Incredible mix of songs that walk the line.
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marianoleonczik oh i’m familiar haha. I briefly interned at the management company for Derek Webb who’s a big figure in deconstructionist christian music at the moment, he’s the former frontman of Caedmon’s Call if you know them. got well versed in the christian music counter culture folks I guess you could call them haha
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“Catholic in a Dorothy Day / Catholic Worker / Kingdom without borders kind of way”
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florinegrassenhopper YES! Nailed it. It’s so annoying to have to defend beliefs that were traditionally progressive and (at the time) radical against overly conservative extreme groups that try to hijack them but we must!!!
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marianoleonczik christianity used to be cool 🥺🥺🥺
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florinegrassenhopper still is if you know where to look
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royallmonarch good point good point!
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accidentally joined a group for people interested in gnosticism but i said heck let's see what this is about so i joined their first group seminar... and uhhh sounds like a cult i appreciate spirituality and have beliefs based on psychedelics, crystals and planetary shit that others may find bonkers. i also appreciate using religion and any sort of spirituality as guidance for you to feel better and become a better version of yourself. however the communities like the ones in the seminar are alarming. you should definitely not listen to somebody that claims to know the mysteries of the universe or have some incredible knowledge that they acquired through mysticism. you can learn, meditate and make your own meaning but claiming you're a new prophet of the one true religion, a divine messenger of god, or have any relation to a higher power that is directly communicating + giving directions to the masses through you is wild. this is a pretty basic level ramble, but i see why the in-group quality of a "healing" community is so attractive here. everyone wants to be a part of something especially in this loneliness epidemic, and even more so if it sounds like it's going to improve you mentally or physically. all that is to say just be careful y'all. imma read some climate crisis, psilocybin and sociological substacks now
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1) Recently have become more and more disillusioned with the big three religions 2) Agree with the Satanic Temple’s principles 3) The art of him is beautiful 4) Generally agree with his whole shtick of questioning authority and refusing to blindly follow anyone 5) HE‘S PUNK AS FUCK!!!!
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i've been wrestling with this idea for a little while let me know if you have any insight
i'm fascinated by the idea of true belief. i want it, i admire it, i respect it. i also think it is scary and it can cause so much damage.
lately i've been thinking how everything we see we process through our own perception, so all of reality is subjective. we can interact with nothing as it is, but only as we are. if you think about synchronicity too, all meaning projected onto the world becomes valid and true. everything exists only to confirm what you're experiencing. if you believe the phase of the moon being the same at two points in time holds meaning, it does because it's just another part of your mental map.
but when it comes to religion and politics it can be so destructive. i wasn't raised with religion but i have always felt myself drawn towards it. i am at the same time very critical of it, especially how the human aspect of organized religion tends to be used for control, but i truly admire true belief. but seeing the results of it, like the persecution of trans people in american politics, is scary and sends me back to the critical mindset. but there's still some appeal i can't shake.
what if there were a geocentrist today? someone who worked a normal job, went about an ordinary life, they just happened to believe the earth was at the center of the universe. that's kind of a beautiful thing. if you only draw conclusions from your own experience, of course the earth is at the center. everything seems to orbit around it. and there's still a purity in believing only in what you have found for yourself. the world would live only in their mind, and each world created by each person is all the more precious for being unique and reflective of its individual.
i'm just rambling at this point, but what do you guys think? true belief: yes or no?
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