Sinful-skeptic - Minerva

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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.

For me it was moral perfectionism, i would constantly feel like i'm evil and immoral. I would sometimes become a doormat and let others push me around for the sake of that sweet, sweet, moral high ground. And back when i was religious, i would cope with others pushing me around by thinking "they'll be going to hell anyways".

Open discussion: has anyone dealt with perfectionism that most likely came from years of religious trauma?

working in customer service makes you really see how small the microagressions towards women can be. i usually pick up takeout calls, and the first thing i notice is a man’s tone of voice.

why do you sound so condescending the moment you realize i am a woman?

why am i a “stupid bitch” the moment i tell you that our restaurant is not doing takeout at the moment?

why is the only way to deescalate a conflict getting my male coworker on the phone?

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...

Jeanie Tomanek, Assumptions

Religious conservatives love talking about trans people “mutilating their genitals” and then go off to circumcise their children without their consent 😇