Thy Mother's Lover

Is there a word for a specific brand of Christians who use toxic positivity? I’m tired of being told I lack faith whenever I’m being realistic about a bad situation. Yes through God all things are possible but that doesn’t mean God will give you the results you want 🙄🙄🙄

'Prosperity Gospel,' more or less.

Right, I kind of rushed some things because tumblr (and I had to get to my hair appointment), but when I'm talking about synergism I'm talking in the realm of Justification, i.e. "On the last day, how will you be judged? Will you be in the new creation, or will you be left in the eternal fires?" What you're asking about I would more classify as being part of sanctification, literally "holy making", or the process by which we grow in faith to become less like ourselves and more like Christ. And a key part of that is to reject sin. Something that yes, does require effort, but effort that is only possible through the strength granted by the Holy Spirit. We are called to put away things of the flesh consistently throughout scripture. But we are flesh. Our very nature is corrupted, fallen, and sinful. So only through the power of God are we able to do this. And these good works, this rejection of sin, this is not really even our own doing in as much as it is God's doing. You might imagine it like trying to take scissors away from a toddler. The only role the toddler really plays is whether he clings tightly or lets go.

Is there a word for a specific brand of Christians who use toxic positivity? I’m tired of being told I lack faith whenever I’m being realistic about a bad situation. Yes through God all things are possible but that doesn’t mean God will give you the results you want 🙄🙄🙄

'Prosperity Gospel,' more or less.

I'll be honest, I've been using the AIs for some of these searches anyway because regular keyword search hasn't been working right for the past 5 years. If you want actual information on something, you're just going to get dozens of blogs saying inane surface level nonsense, pinterest listings, amazon listings, etc. I wanted to find narrow metal bands I could use for sewing recently, but searches like "1/8 inch wide metal strip" or "steel flat wire" didn't give any relevant results. Just a bunch of results for bar stock, sheet metal, or braided wire. This has happened other times with more egregious issues where it gets too aggressive with trying to assume that what you want is the popular thing, making niche things almost impossible to search unless you use the *exact* right wording, and if you're searching for something you probably don't have all the right wording.

genuinely one of my favourite details about Bram Stokers Dracula that isn't really transferred to the pop culture is that vampires have irridescent eyes, they appear brown at a glance, however when light is reflected on them they seem to go red!

also like the cowboy part can we please stop omitting the fact that there is a real ass cowboy in Bram Stokers Dracula and hes from real ass Texas and he has a fucking gun and he tries to fucking shoot Dracula

They bought me an American Girl book about puberty and let me learn the rest in school (I went to a private Christian school that they trusted, it was decent)

I don't know how "gave me an age appropriate book detailing the mechanics, and then had various scattered discussions over the course of my upbringing about sexual ethics" counts. There was never a "The Talk" because it was sort of just... baked into being raised to not be a promiscuous rake?