Sinful-skeptic - Minerva

The nonbinary urge to sink my teeth into the divine and Eat God.

In my personal experience, i’ve heard of women around me with undiagnosed disorders get called “possessed” and sent to priests and other religious figures, meanwhile men get the luxury of mental healthcare more often.

"No one cares about men's mental health" is such a lie when women are massively underdiagnosed with just about everything else except "hysteric" cluster B disorders and everyone's up in arms when men go rape kids in war and come back with PTSD but no one has cared about prostituted and abused women's trauma since the beginning of time and there's so many girls and women with ADHD and autism who never get diagnosed because they don't fit into the male-centric diagnostic traits

Hopefully this isn’t something that happens outside of the internet, but i wanna say that no matter how much you’ve been hurt by religion or religious people, do NOT sexualize women who practice modesty for religious purposes, even if it’s out of spite. I saw this going around online and their excuses are always related to their religious trauma regarding purity culture.

I know they have a grudge and many of us do, but sexualizing them only causes harm and does absolutely nothing to criticize religion. I’ve seen (mostly male) atheists who would edit photos of modest religious women (including hijabis and nuns) to put them in clothing that they would never be comfortable in. The sexualization is misogyny disguised as criticism of religion.

Do you know how many witches the Inquisition burned?

None of them.

witches don't exist

It wasn't witches who burned, it was women.

Beautiful, cultured and intelligent women. Women accused of having water in the well or for cultivating and caring for their beautiful plantation. They were convicted of having a birthmark, for being skillful with herbal medicine, for being tall, black or red-haired.

They condemned those who showed a strong connection to nature, those who danced or sang. The ones who looked happy. To those who looked independent and powerful.

For the Holy Inquisition and many other groups throughout history, any free-spirited woman should have been burned or thrown into the water. If it floated it was guilty and executed. If she was sinking and drowning she was declared innocent and then her soul would go to heaven.

Many, thousands of them were thrown off cliffs or placed in deep holes in the ground by beings who felt superior to them, almost gods.

Why am I even writing this?

Because knowing history is important when it comes to building a new society and a new world. It is urgent to give voice to all women in honor of those who were humiliated, beaten, tortured and massacred. Long live to independent, strong and powerful women.

It wasn't witches who burned, it was... women.

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

No tags because what the actual fuck?

I don't really do breakup songs since I'm aspec and don't really get it, but "Somebody That I Used To Know" from an ex cult perspective hits so hard oh my god

photography by AJ Hamilton ✧

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