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I think we should keep something in mind this Christmas/holiday season. As the Christian narrative floats around, the white swaddled newborn plastered on billboards, and the focus on what's "sacred" and "holy" circulating through churches around the western world...

The body being "sacred" has nothing to do with some fucked white European idea of chastity or purity. It has absolutely EVERYTHING to do with making sure people are able to feed themselves and their children, not be straight up poisoned by pollutants, or fetishized and exploited for profit. Holiness has nothing to do with being clean or looking your Sunday best.

It was never actually about "purity" or "virginity" or "cleanliness". If it was, why the hell would Jesus have been crucified? The real historical dude said stuff that pissed off people in power so much they fucking merked him. Nothing pisses off agrarian feudal lords or modern capitalists more than telling the masses that they aren't simply morally justified, but on the side of GOD when they steal medicine and food for their children. If you don't believe me, I highly recommend reading William Herzog's "Parables as subversive speech", read about what theologians actually think historical Jesus was talking about all those years ago. Whether you believe in God or not, think religion is a plague or pray a rosary every night, I think keeping this in mind is like super important.

Christianity becomes dangerous and, in the opinion of this demon girl, blasphemous when it is removed from the context of its social cause, when it's co-opted by those in power and disarmed of the radical rhetoric that it was born from originally. I think that's exactly what we see in broader society. I think that an entirely rational response to this is to equate all of Christianity or even all of religion with evil... But I think there's nuance here.

To be clear, I stand with the satanists who support the fight for separation in church and state by chastising the corrupt institutions who have become the opposite of what they claim to espouse. I stand with the atheists who keep the naive theologians in check, and offer peace to the people who have been ravaged by the monster modern Christianity is to so many. Don't stop doing what you're doing. If Jesus was standing here today he'd be standing with you. You're fighting modern day pherisees out here and I'm for it.

Now, this is not to say there aren't problematic things that were always present in the Christian religion, of course there are. And they're quite abundant. I think Christians need to be very aware of that as well. There's nuance there. What I'm calling for here is a realization that the religion of the oppressed is not the same as the religion of the oppressor, and that the religion of the oppressed, when not stripped of its merit and co-opted by systems of greed, can be a force for good. And when we use that lens to look at this bizarre spectacle we call "Christmas", we can learn some interesting stuff.

What I'm saying is, if you're trans, gay, whatever, for the love of God, literally, please LIVE. Listen to your friendly demon izalith. By existing as who you are, you are sacred. Don't let the people wearing robes and claiming to be on the sides of angels and "God" tell you who you can or can't love, or what you can or can't be. If there is a God out there, and he's with those punks, then he's no god. I spit on his name. Angels are overrated anyways... It's the demons, the poor person who steals from Walmart to feed themselves and their children, the prostitute who is proud of their job and the life they work hard to sustain, the fat trans person who goes to Christmas mass in goth makeup... It's those people who the religion was originally made for. It wasn't made for the rich, the white, the straight, the normative. It was made for us. For all those people who are downtrodden, cold this winter, unable to buy food, scared and tired. Fuck that shit they used to traumatize us and belittle us when growing up. It's all lies and venom anyways. If no one loves and accepts you, this demon will.

This is exactly what I mean about religion being co-opted... This hits hard.

thinking about this today

And I'd go as far as to say that any productive religious movement or theology actually NEEDS the atheism and agnosticism. Granted I may be biased as an agnostic and a theist, but imo without it, you just end up with absolutely absurd traditions that only serve to exploit people. You need those people to keep religion in check. Especially when it involves institutions and capital imo

Like, it's pretty clear that atheism and agnosticism have always been elements of even the most religious societies. Religions are more complex than just "a list of things you believe."

Which is hilarious, because you get things like a centurion getting ritually showered in the blood of a slaughtered cow, only to wonder to himself "You know? This is a bit silly. I'm not sure if Mars is on my side. But I'm not gonna take that chance."

As far as I'm concerned, if your religion doesn't stand with the queers, then your religion doesn't stand at all. It's either just posing or straight up actually the problem.

I can't walk into a church anymore,

For when I do I weep.

Because the god I see there has been shackled

Just like me.

You don't even need to not be Christian to see how deeply fucked imperialist theology is. That kind of Totalitarian Theology (or T-Theology as it is called so by seminal queer theologian Marcella Althaus-Reid) should be the enemy of all compassionate humans, not merely those who are non-christian. It is especially heinous to me when Christians defend the atrocities committed by their own religion. I consider doing so an affront to God, and a heresy of the deepest variety.

In fact, according to Althaus-Reid, it is exactly this kind of theology that is at the heart of many of the most egregious theological shortcomings in Christianity, and in essence, an attack on God itself.

"When the missionary novella, that genre favoured by imperial churches, flourished theology was very aware of the need of eliminating the possibility of a Shadow-God, that is, condemning theology to damn God by a sudden closure of sex and race." (Althaus-Reid, 2003)

Note: the "shadow god" discussed here is all elements of God that are deemed queer, not eminent enough, or too sexual or "indecent". You know, like being poor and dirty? The stuff that Christianity claims it represents... Kinda contradictory, no?

What I'm saying is, even in the framework of our own religion Christians defending this sort of colonial project makes zero sense.

honestly missionaries are evil. the idea of traveling the world to tell people Who Didnt Fucking Ask that their beliefs are wrong in the hopes that theyll adopt your beliefs seems sinister

Do you think Adam and eve still loved each other after the whole apple fiasco?

Or they resented each other for something that was neither of their faults.

So they were stuck together in a loveless marriage, forced to bear a resentment that ran deep in their bones and hearts.

They hated themselves and each other. They hated their children, their flesh and blood, simply because they bore the blood of the other.

They would spend their days, miserable and lonely, never truly sad and never truly happy.

They stay away from the one that was made for them.

A marriage of convenience. A love of convenience.

They watched as their son killed his brother. Adam watching as eve would scream and mourn for a child that he and she loved, but detested at the same time.

And oh, how it would hurt to admit that admist all the hate they found love.

Eve died shortly after.

Adam stood beside her, holding her cold hand. A single lone tear ran from his eyes.

He wiped it away, confused of why he was in so much *pain*.

But how would he know, that he loved her, deeper than the wells of youth.

So he sat beside her, and weeped. Hating her for not Hating him.

.....

Seth buried two bodies that day.