Religious/Spiritual Sideblog

Hello! Welcome to our blog :) This a place for us to discuss our religious journey, beliefs, etc.

We are omnitheist, pantheist, and converting to Judaism. We also participate in the pagan traditions of our own ancestors in an effort to preserve our cultural heritage (you can therefore think of us as allegorical/cultural pagans). Some of us (Tektite & Larimar) are also members of a fictoreligon* and will be blogging about that as well. We want all of these faiths to be treated with equal respect and seriousness.

We prefer to be referred to by it/they/he/she pronouns or neopronouns. Nonhuman, neutral, & masculine terms preferred.

No DNI but please follow your own. We are a mixed origin median system. We are also staunchly antizionist. Any anti-theist sentiment is not welcome on this blog. We are also bodily 16 years old.

The folks who run this (not our actual names)

Spinel/🩷🍭

Jade/🌱🍏

Onyx/⚡️🎼

Tourmaline/🪼☁️

Garnet/⚔️♥️

Bixbite/♠️🥩

Sapphire/🦋♦️

Beryl/⚠️♟️

Aventurine/☣️⚾️

Tektite/💫⏳

Larimar/🌊🌦️

*This is the closest word we have so far found to describe this spiritual belief, but the headmates who practice it don’t see it as actually fictional.

Heyyyy, Jade here. I want to talk about my pantheism for a minute. If you’re reading this and don’t know what that is, basically it just means that I believe G_d and the universe are one and the same. I like to think about it sort of like the force in Star Wars: G_d is in everything, and exists as the natural world itself. This has sort of always been how I’ve conceptualized things ever since I was old enough to think about religion.

I was raised in a certain religious group which I personally consider to be a cult of sorts. I was taught to think of G_d in a very specific way, as my literal spiritual father, but for some reason (neurodivergence?) I never really latched on to it. I distinctly remember I once discussed my idea of G_d with my grandmother. I don’t think she got it, but it was the first time I put those thoughts to words.

I didn’t have a name for this until very recently. I wasn’t taught a lot about other religions and spiritual practices growing up, and pantheism is particularly niche, so I hadn’t ever heard of it. However, when I finally did look up what the name was for what I believed, I connected with the term instantly. It was like it had been waiting for me to find it.

I think about this a lot. The universe is so beautiful and so full of the most amazing things that I don’t see how it couldn’t be G_d. The fact that everything in nature works together in some way and that there are patterns we can find in everything is proof enough to me that it is. I’m so happy to not be limited by this paternalistic idea of G_d anymore; both my love for the world and for myself have grown immensely because of this understanding of G_d as the universe. I’ve always thought that I was here to be a steward of this planet, and I know now that not only was I right about that, but that I am deeply connected to this world and this universe, and that taking care of myself is devotion in it’s own right.