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Demons are usually depicted as red to indicate that they’re heavily seasoned with paprika and chili powder, like a chorizo.

i can fix him *traumatizes him*

that case about that man drugging his wife, raping her and recruiting 72 men to rape her as well will always stick with me. 30% of men approached by the man offering to give them an opportunity to rape Gisèle turned him down, but 0% turned him in.

“natural protectors.” that’s what we’re supposed to believe men are. we are supposed to keep ourselves small and weak and helpless, perpetual damsels in distress, all so that some fictional big strong man can feel really good about himself if he protects us from a bad situation.

but if that’s true - if men really are biologically wired to feel a desire to protect people more physically vulnerable than them - how is it possible that you can get that many men to agree to rape a woman? how can the men who were approached to take part in it, but declined, not report him to the police?

how many of the men who took part in it have daughters, wives, sisters, mothers that they’ve hurt?

they get so fucking mad whenever we suggest we feel unsafe around them rather than protected, but they never have that same level of vitriol for the men who make it clear that they are our predators, not our protectors.

I used to volunteer for a Christian homeless outreach program. Giving out food donations, gently used clothes, prepping and giving out hot meals, such and such. The leader would also preach to the people waiting in lines for their next meal, before they were allowed to get it. Some people would come later when the sermons were basically over. And, I remember him essentially shaming them for it, bc how could you just come for your physical nourishment and not your spiritual nourishment?

That’s manipulation. That’s guilt tripping. No one should be forced to listen to your drawn out babble about God when they and their children are starving.

"Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us, only sky

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Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion, too"

--- Excerpt from Imagine by John Lennon

Christians being totally normal about their religion

Someone i know even admitted that the only reason he’s a zionist is out of fear of “God’s Wrath”.

Listen, i dont mean to sound like a reddit atheist, but... You ever think about how evangelical Chriatians very literally believe that there will be a genocide in which billions of humans, mostly just innocent everyday people, are condemned to suffer in hell?

And, like, that's the end. That's the finale. Of everything they believe. That's their solution for the world. A final one, if you will.

And they don't rebel. They don't say "hey, wait, that's a bit much" and appeal to their God to maybe reconsider. They don't even seem to really mind.

Instead, they worship. They conjure up an image of a genocidal maniac, and they worship it. The word "praise" is bandied about a lot. Praise. For a leader whose endgoal, very transparently, is genocide.

Suddenly a lot of history makes a little more sense.

My least favorite kind of reply to posts with valid criticism of organized religion is "Don't say "religion" when you mean Christianity!!" like...

Even if transgender people were all just delusional and mentally ill people who refused to accept scientific reality, they'd still deserve to be 100% accepted.

God isn't a scientific reality, but people who believe in God are accepted. They're even allowed to force their beliefs on children. Many even use their God as an excuse to hate. They frequently teach children that anyone who doesn't worship them goes to hell. Religious people are also regularly caught sexually abusing children.

Meanwhile, transgender people just want to exist and not be bullied for it. If you can accept religious people whose beliefs are much more farfetched, then you can easily accept transgender people. You're choosing not to.

Just like how criticizing Christianity is not Christophobia;

Criticizing Judaism is not Antisemitism,

Criticizing Islam is not Islamophobia

Criticizing Hinduism is not Hinduphobia

Criticizing Buddhism is not Buddhophobia

Criticizing other religions/spiritualities is not Anti-Theism

Criticism is not discrimination