Letting go of the belief in an inerrant Bible was so difficult for me but also so edifying and necessary. It lifted such a burden off my shoulders.

With that being said I’m really on the fence about ornate churches. I think both they and humbler looking churches have their place. What matters more is what’s going on inside them. No matter how beautiful or how humble your church is, that won’t please God if ugliness and pride infest its people.

“Churches shouldn’t be ornate, you should be using that money on people not on a building” totally valid perspective and I value it, but I’d answer that the building does belong to the people. It’s the one place where luxury is public property and not being hoarded and hidden away.

The infernalist tendency to caricature universalists as naive wishful thinkers who plug their ears whenever they hear scripture VS the universalist tendency to caricature infernalists as fear mongering sadists too afraid to ever question anything they’re taught : FIGHT

The Living God does not create dead things; there is nothing in Creation without soul.

There is no such thing as too merciful, too loving, too compassionate. Liberal Christians aren't guilty of an excess of these virtues, because that's not possible.

I was so close to posting this on main

"why stay in a religion full of hypocrites who aren't loving like their faith tells them to be" Because it's true, and PS: if you're angry that the adherents of a particular faith aren't actually living the tenants of the faith then that might indicate that the tenants of the faith are good and true

I hope Saint Dymphna was a real person cause I neeeed her. Girl help

The mainstream Christian idea of what sin is and what causes it and what it causes is really messed up, but sin still exists. “Human nature is flawed” should not be a controversial idea, we all know it, nobody had to teach us that.

“Sin is something Christians made up to control people” is such a wild take. Do you really think pagans didn’t have any concept of sin? Sisyphus is rolling a boulder up a hill for all eternity rn and you think pagans didn’t/don’t believe in sins? Even Buddhism has hells, and people who end up there.

Antitheists acting like penal substitutionary atonement is something all Christians believe in frustrates me so bad but I can’t even be angry at them about it because evangelicals sure do make it seem like it is.

It’s permissible for us to eat animals but animals weren’t “created to be our food.” God didn’t create them *for* that purpose, He created them for His own delight and out of His own love, same as why He created us.

Sorry that I keep posting about this one specific subject btw, I'll try to tone it down, I dunno why I've been so fixated on it lately.

A lot of bad Xtian behavior that's attributed to malice is really just fear. Those people weren't sadists, they were scared. They were angry bc they were scared. To have any hope of understanding their behavior you have to remember that eternal Hell is a very real place to them, not a hypothetical.

A screenshot of a Tumblr post by a user named vexwerewolf. It reads: "I genuinely think there was no greater insight into the modern Christian mindset than when the Pope said he very much hoped Hell was empty and he was absolutely hounded by both Catholics and Protestants outraged at the idea of a man who wanted a place of infinite suffering to have nobody in it."

I don't fully disagree w this post but I think something OP's missing is that...they weren't mad bc they *want* Hell to exist. They're mad bc they believe Hell is a real place, are (understandably) scared of ppl going there, believe universalism is false, & believe preaching it endangers ppls souls.

I mean I care in the sense that it breaks my heart, and I think their bad behavior should be vocally opposed and impeded whenever possible. But none of it impacts the truth of Christ. It may make me embarrassed but none of it makes me want to abandon Him.

When choosing which faith to follow I examined them on their own w/o considering any history or the behavior of adherents I'd met. If I were getting ready for my first day on earth & was told to pick a faith before starting, I'd pick Xtianity because I love Christ. I don't care about the bad Xtians.

Trying to remind myself that God never promised earthly prosperity to the righteous. I shouldn’t feel bitter about how many horrible people have been “rewarded” with wealth and success in this life because it’s not a reward at all, that’s not how any of this works.

One possibly concerning reason I'm a big fan of universalism is that I actually do wanna go to Hell (or I guess something like it), I just don't wanna be there forever. I just want God to throw me in the oven till I'm done, yknow?

Sometimes my prayers to God are more like really long exasperated screams into a pillow

My fiancé is firmly infernalist and I'm afraid to tell him that I'm not

Universalist Calvinism allows for God’s love— God’s love for His toys, I guess comparable to a writer’s love for their characters— but that’s not enough for me, I need to believe in two-way love.

The only Calvinists tolerable to me are the universalist ones. Tho even universalist Calvinism is lame to me bc it doesnt allow for the existence of real love. An automaton programmed to “love” you doesnt actually love you. Love requires an Other. In Calvinism there’s just God and God’s marionettes.

I don’t get those people who act like proving determinism would disprove God when there’s (unfortunately) a fairly large subset of Christians who already disbelieve in free will and are pretty vocal about it

You are loved unconditionally by a God who knows what it's like to suffer unjustly at the hands of other people.

I've taken a vow of temperance and I've realized the same thing basically. I recognize that alcohol will always be a part of human society but we truly would all be better off without it.

Forcing me to choose between God and science is the cruelest thing you could ever do to me, my life would be so unbearably empty without both of them.

I'm neither a Mormon nor a Muslim but I do think it's kinda wild that both groups are mocked for thinking "hey, maybe we shouldn't be recreationally ingesting literal poison"

Blasphemy against The Father: I keep scrolling

Blasphemy against Christ: I keep scrolling

Blasphemy against the Theotokos: instant block