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The real reason you're considered "lapsed catholic" and not an "ex catholic" is because you will always feel the slightest irritation when someone says something blatantly untrue about what catholics believe.

If you start reading books again, you’ll feel at least a little better. I promise.

Lord have mercy on me a sinner for enjoying the thought of nuking the white house and the pentagon

a thousand apologies to my heart and a thousand again to my soul

no more divine feminine/masculine as repackaged gender roles, no more crystals to cure cancer, no more higher self instead of looking at yourself, no more starseeds, no more fear mongering around protection magic, no more calling toxicity "energy vampirism", no more applying new age terms to folk practices, no more anthropomorphizing spirits, no more

God make me more faithful and more queer. Amen.

the “Old Testament God” construction pisses me off because like. that’s my wife. that’s my girl. She’s swift in dealing out justice for the innocent and firm in upholding Her laws, She comforts the slave and the exile and the outcast and brings mighty kingdoms to their knees. She challenges great and ancient pantheons to stand before Her and call themselves worthy of being the gods of their chosen lands and she reveals their inability to keep their promises, by fire and flood and plague. She brings life and death at once. If you’re not in love with that part of Her all I can say is “skill issue”.

The first person to give a name to God was a slave, who called Them, “The One Who Sees Me”

Continuing to be warm and soft and open to the possibilities of life even when it seems hopeless and you’re heartbroken and soul sick does actually work btw. Like there will be love around you again and real recognizes real

did you guys know that there are religions out there where actual, literal belief isn’t all that important? i’ve only ever been around christianity where belief is like, the number one most important thing ever, so i never even considered that there are cultures out there where the question of “is this all real” never comes up because it doesn’t matter

and you can also belong to multiple religions that seem to contradict one another, and you don’t have to come up with some extra lore to tie them together. you can just be both.