#queer saint

After all, we stopped bowing down and looking up a long time ago. We have been worshiping God in the the bodies of people our whole tribal life. Strangers, friends, partners, God is in the flesh of all our lovers and our devotion has been pure.

But if you find God in the bodies of human beings instead of up in the sky where a God belongs, if you worship God by worshipping the life-stained skin of those human beings, if your Eucharist leaves the taste of salt and sweat instead of bland bread on your tongue, if your devotion to God is best done away from the pomp of temple crowds, you’re likely to find yourself on the wrong side of an angry religious mob, shot full of arrows and loved only by God