Sincerely: A Former Catholic - Tumblr Posts
something i haven’t seen ppl talking about is the “‘you’re telling me you’ve never had a drink with friends after a tough day?’ ‘we don’t have tough days in heaven’” and “i’ve never made a mistake in my fucking life” lines we get from adam cause i feel like they highlight so much about heavens injustice
if they are holding sinners in literal HELL to the same standards as they hold for themselves in heaven, who’s to say they don’t hold the desperate and needy, those who did wrong because they were threatened or in danger, to the same standards as the rich, powerful, well-off, and strong? a mother stealing in a desperate attempt to ward off starvation for her children has committed the same crime as a upper class white dick-head stealing a car for the fun of it.
(which also brings me to one of my biggest issues with real life christianity/catholismand the idea of original sin but that’s another post)
“the rules are black and white” and they meant that LITERALLY, they don’t care about circumstances, there is no elaboration, if you tick the box, you go to hell, no questions asked
and then adam saying he’s never made a mistake??? he lost his wife to the literal devil cause he was such a dick?? and he literally ALSO ATE THE APPLE????? THE VERY THIBG THAT DAMNED HUMANITY?? i don’t know exactly what direction the show will take in s2 but i am hoping we see more elaboration of the blatant bigotry and bias in heaven. the system that empowered men and demonized women from the beginning of humanity.
sick of the notion religious trauma is just about sexuality. it’s being told that your heart is sinful from the moment you are born, being told human nature (7 deadly sins) is a crime, being told you can’t love anything or anyone more than god, including yourself, being told every white lie you tell is another crown of thorns on jesus’s head, not having blind faith is disrespectful.
being a young girl and hearing over and over that you can’t have an important position in the church, but you can be a nun. being told every little thing you do will hurt the man who loves you so much, and he’ll send you to hell if you disappoint him, and even though you are damned for all eternity and he sent you there, he’ll be full of nothing but sadness
being told free will is a gift but if you choose wrong you’ll suffer so choose whatever you want but don’t choose sin, and jesus loves you so you should pray every morning and every night and before every meal and don’t be ashamed of your love for god but don’t flaunt it. he is the one true god but don’t worship other gods cause they are a threat to him
god is perfect but he made us imperfect and he made the universe so we should cherish human life but if you’ve lost someone it was gods plan and he wanted them to die but he won’t interview with human affairs but he also flooded the world because people stopped worshipping him but you can’t be prideful
i could probably go on but i have to go to work
growing up catholic is traumatizing in so many ways, not just because some christian’s are bad people, but because the religion itself is corrupt and founded on misogyny and built up by racist imperialism. and this post is just about my own experience as a middle class white person, there is so much wrong with the church and it’s devastating but we still use it to form our laws and morals and who gets to kill and conquer who.
fuck the catholic church and fuck anybody who helps in perpetuating it, from the pope to the volunteers in the faith formation classrooms