political compass made with screencaps from Catholic YouTube series The Vortex
Self-reblog because I was looking in my archives and broke into hysterical laughter somewhere between “crack-addicted Catholic bloggers” and “Protestant garbage”
whenever a michael buble holiday song comes on the Festive Playlist i’ve been blasting for the last two days, i get this weird pavlov’s dog response where i like…almost mechanically think that i want to go to bath and body works and buy my friends Bath And Body Works Brand Gifts, because when i used to work at b&bw they had it on 24/7 michael buble holiday lockdown.
so i was flipping through this weird world religion book published by a company called “extreme for jesus” that i’ve had since i was a teenager and i got to the table of contents and did a double take
they have mtg in here as an occult RELIGION i’m actually dying
it’s actually inverted out of respect!! – plimbko the elf requested to be hanged from an upside down tree because he felt himself unworthy of a death in the same manner as santa
was gonna make a joke post like ‘catholicism no fun anymore without a bunch of antipopes running around’ only to be a bit shocked by my brief preliminary research
there are currently like six dudes who say theyre pope
i just realized that people who see visions of jesus don’t become christians because they saw jesus but primarily because of the preexisting cultural christian idea that you don’t argue with/challenge visions
like, jews have a long and established tradition of getting missives directly from G-d and being like “excuse me, the fuck”. if your automatic response to jesus appearing to you is to accept christianity there must be an institutional force at work telling you that’s the inevitable outcome, in addition to whatever genuine religious experience occurs. (and i don’t doubt the validity of those experiences.)
like because of this i used to be afraid that jesus would appear to me and i’d Have To become a christian but in reality i could just be like “hey wanna watch me turn on a faucet” and walk out still a Jew
[Stands on a chair and hits Jesus w/ a broom like I’m in a Tom & Jerry cartoon]
#hey which lesbian traps jesus humanely between a cup and a piece of paper and releases him into the backyard