(3/24/22) #Delafina777-Christianity #Delafina777-Judaism #Delafina777-religion
Not surprising Christian atheists loudly proclaiming they studied other religions still think all work like Xianity bc that’s lit how comparative religion is taught in schools.
Come with me on a magical chart journey.
Not surprising Christian atheists loudly proclaiming they studied other religions still think all work like Xianity bc that’s lit how comparative religion is taught in schools.
Come with me on a magical chart journey.
December 22, 2024 at 7:26 PM
(3/24/22) #Delafina777-Christianity #Delafina777-Judaism #Delafina777-religion
Not surprising Christian atheists loudly proclaiming they studied other religions still think all work like Xianity bc that’s lit how comparative religion is taught in schools.
Come with me on a magical chart journey.
Not surprising Christian atheists loudly proclaiming they studied other religions still think all work like Xianity bc that’s lit how comparative religion is taught in schools.
Come with me on a magical chart journey.
(8/16/32) #Delafina777-Judaism #Delafina777-Christianity #Delafina777-religion
There’s also an element of power differences in Western gentile atheists criticizing Judaism.
There’s also an element of power differences in Western gentile atheists criticizing Judaism.
December 21, 2024 at 6:06 AM
(8/16/32) #Delafina777-Judaism #Delafina777-Christianity #Delafina777-religion
There’s also an element of power differences in Western gentile atheists criticizing Judaism.
There’s also an element of power differences in Western gentile atheists criticizing Judaism.
(1/31/20) #Delafina777-Christianity #Delafina777-Judaism
Inherent in reducing Judaism & Christianity to simply both equal "daughter" religions of the religion of 1st-century Judea is erasure of Jewish peoplehood: reducing Jewishness to merely religion is long-standing genocidal Christian strategy.
Inherent in reducing Judaism & Christianity to simply both equal "daughter" religions of the religion of 1st-century Judea is erasure of Jewish peoplehood: reducing Jewishness to merely religion is long-standing genocidal Christian strategy.
December 22, 2024 at 6:58 AM
(1/31/20) #Delafina777-Christianity #Delafina777-Judaism
Inherent in reducing Judaism & Christianity to simply both equal "daughter" religions of the religion of 1st-century Judea is erasure of Jewish peoplehood: reducing Jewishness to merely religion is long-standing genocidal Christian strategy.
Inherent in reducing Judaism & Christianity to simply both equal "daughter" religions of the religion of 1st-century Judea is erasure of Jewish peoplehood: reducing Jewishness to merely religion is long-standing genocidal Christian strategy.
(6/21/23) #Delafina777-religion #Delafina777-Christianity
re: the idea that European Christians “appropriated” their own pre-Christian traditions by continuing to practice them after becoming Christian: If Bob has a bike, and changes his name to Tim, Tim did not steal Bob’s bike
re: the idea that European Christians “appropriated” their own pre-Christian traditions by continuing to practice them after becoming Christian: If Bob has a bike, and changes his name to Tim, Tim did not steal Bob’s bike
December 21, 2024 at 4:25 AM
(6/21/23) #Delafina777-religion #Delafina777-Christianity
re: the idea that European Christians “appropriated” their own pre-Christian traditions by continuing to practice them after becoming Christian: If Bob has a bike, and changes his name to Tim, Tim did not steal Bob’s bike
re: the idea that European Christians “appropriated” their own pre-Christian traditions by continuing to practice them after becoming Christian: If Bob has a bike, and changes his name to Tim, Tim did not steal Bob’s bike
(10/9/22) #Delafina777-Judaism #Delafina777-Christianity
I wish supposedly progressive Christians understood that very little about 1st-century, Roman-occupied Judaea maps directly to 21st-century America in politics/religion/economics/etc & attempts to equate them end up villainizing the victims.
I wish supposedly progressive Christians understood that very little about 1st-century, Roman-occupied Judaea maps directly to 21st-century America in politics/religion/economics/etc & attempts to equate them end up villainizing the victims.
December 24, 2024 at 2:50 AM
(10/9/22) #Delafina777-Judaism #Delafina777-Christianity
I wish supposedly progressive Christians understood that very little about 1st-century, Roman-occupied Judaea maps directly to 21st-century America in politics/religion/economics/etc & attempts to equate them end up villainizing the victims.
I wish supposedly progressive Christians understood that very little about 1st-century, Roman-occupied Judaea maps directly to 21st-century America in politics/religion/economics/etc & attempts to equate them end up villainizing the victims.
(9/6/21) #Delafina777-Christianity #Delafina777-Judaism
if you're thinking of how to do some sort of Christian Rosh Hashanah thing: don't.
Not only is it appropriative, it's also theologically unsound! Your religion has a whole different system (Jesus) for dealing with repentance/renewal.
if you're thinking of how to do some sort of Christian Rosh Hashanah thing: don't.
Not only is it appropriative, it's also theologically unsound! Your religion has a whole different system (Jesus) for dealing with repentance/renewal.
December 24, 2024 at 1:20 AM
(9/6/21) #Delafina777-Christianity #Delafina777-Judaism
if you're thinking of how to do some sort of Christian Rosh Hashanah thing: don't.
Not only is it appropriative, it's also theologically unsound! Your religion has a whole different system (Jesus) for dealing with repentance/renewal.
if you're thinking of how to do some sort of Christian Rosh Hashanah thing: don't.
Not only is it appropriative, it's also theologically unsound! Your religion has a whole different system (Jesus) for dealing with repentance/renewal.
And as people like @delafina777.bsky.social point out on the regular, most "leftist" atheism is actually Christian atheism that spends more time reinforcing Christian notions of what religion "must be" than anything else
September 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
And as people like @delafina777.bsky.social point out on the regular, most "leftist" atheism is actually Christian atheism that spends more time reinforcing Christian notions of what religion "must be" than anything else
(12/21/21) #Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-religion
maybe we could talk abt the things we know religion often *provides* that lead to happiness & ask how we can provide those things to more people
e.g. community, social safety net, sense of purpose, ritual, celebration of life milestones, etc.
maybe we could talk abt the things we know religion often *provides* that lead to happiness & ask how we can provide those things to more people
e.g. community, social safety net, sense of purpose, ritual, celebration of life milestones, etc.
December 24, 2024 at 2:07 AM
(12/21/21) #Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-religion
maybe we could talk abt the things we know religion often *provides* that lead to happiness & ask how we can provide those things to more people
e.g. community, social safety net, sense of purpose, ritual, celebration of life milestones, etc.
maybe we could talk abt the things we know religion often *provides* that lead to happiness & ask how we can provide those things to more people
e.g. community, social safety net, sense of purpose, ritual, celebration of life milestones, etc.
would be NICE if ~academics listened to people about their own culture so they don't spend 3 centuries reverse-engineering indigenous ethnoreligion and ways of being that aren't just "whatever looks like Protestant Christianity=religion"
cc @delafina777.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=irZt...
cc @delafina777.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=irZt...
Are Animals Religious?
YouTube video by ReligionForBreakfast
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
would be NICE if ~academics listened to people about their own culture so they don't spend 3 centuries reverse-engineering indigenous ethnoreligion and ways of being that aren't just "whatever looks like Protestant Christianity=religion"
cc @delafina777.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=irZt...
cc @delafina777.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=irZt...
(12/21/21) #Delafina777-religion #Delafina777-Christianity
(Context was a reply to Chrissy Stroop's excellent piece, which I'll link, in which a guy was like "but religion is good, actually")
I'm going to talk about why deconstruction is important when leaving abusive environments
(Context was a reply to Chrissy Stroop's excellent piece, which I'll link, in which a guy was like "but religion is good, actually")
I'm going to talk about why deconstruction is important when leaving abusive environments
December 25, 2024 at 5:35 AM
(12/21/21) #Delafina777-religion #Delafina777-Christianity
(Context was a reply to Chrissy Stroop's excellent piece, which I'll link, in which a guy was like "but religion is good, actually")
I'm going to talk about why deconstruction is important when leaving abusive environments
(Context was a reply to Chrissy Stroop's excellent piece, which I'll link, in which a guy was like "but religion is good, actually")
I'm going to talk about why deconstruction is important when leaving abusive environments
(10/10/21) #Delafina777-religion (reupping for BlueSky)
Ex-Christians:
What are some of the normative Christian worldviews/assumptions prevalent in society (even outside explicitly Christian spaces) that you've noticed since leaving Christianity?
Ex-Christians:
What are some of the normative Christian worldviews/assumptions prevalent in society (even outside explicitly Christian spaces) that you've noticed since leaving Christianity?
December 24, 2024 at 2:37 AM
(10/10/21) #Delafina777-religion (reupping for BlueSky)
Ex-Christians:
What are some of the normative Christian worldviews/assumptions prevalent in society (even outside explicitly Christian spaces) that you've noticed since leaving Christianity?
Ex-Christians:
What are some of the normative Christian worldviews/assumptions prevalent in society (even outside explicitly Christian spaces) that you've noticed since leaving Christianity?
December 21, 2024 at 1:48 AM
(10/10/21) #Delafina777-religion (reupping this Q on BlueSky)
People from non-Christian traditions (who have never been Christian, cultural or practicing):
What are some of the normative assumptions/worldviews/ways of thinking/etc. that you see in society that strike you as Christian?
People from non-Christian traditions (who have never been Christian, cultural or practicing):
What are some of the normative assumptions/worldviews/ways of thinking/etc. that you see in society that strike you as Christian?
December 24, 2024 at 2:33 AM
(10/10/21) #Delafina777-religion (reupping this Q on BlueSky)
People from non-Christian traditions (who have never been Christian, cultural or practicing):
What are some of the normative assumptions/worldviews/ways of thinking/etc. that you see in society that strike you as Christian?
People from non-Christian traditions (who have never been Christian, cultural or practicing):
What are some of the normative assumptions/worldviews/ways of thinking/etc. that you see in society that strike you as Christian?
Something that has struck me more and more as I've deconstructed the fundamentalism I was raised in and more closely embraced my ethnic Judaism (with prods from @delafina777.bsky.social tweets) is just how totally Christianity captured "what a religion must look like" in the West
March 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Something that has struck me more and more as I've deconstructed the fundamentalism I was raised in and more closely embraced my ethnic Judaism (with prods from @delafina777.bsky.social tweets) is just how totally Christianity captured "what a religion must look like" in the West
As Jessica Price has noted spectacularly, Westerners tend to view religion as a modular, mental set of beliefs/opinions that can be switched out at will without fundamentally changing the identities of that person.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1420057533968904192.html
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1420057533968904192.html
Thread by @Delafina777 on Thread Reader App
Thread by @Delafina777: Another big part of why Christian atheists have trouble seeing how Christian they still are is that Christianity advertises itself as being modular, which is not how belief sys...
threadreaderapp.com
July 13, 2023 at 2:01 AM
As Jessica Price has noted spectacularly, Westerners tend to view religion as a modular, mental set of beliefs/opinions that can be switched out at will without fundamentally changing the identities of that person.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1420057533968904192.html
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1420057533968904192.html
(7/29/19)
#Delafina777-religion #Delafina777-Judaism #Delafina777-Christianity
Okay, since Twitter makes it very easy to ask questions and get answers about different traditions and cultures, let's talk about Krister Stendahl's 3 rules for approaching another spiritual tradition...
#Delafina777-religion #Delafina777-Judaism #Delafina777-Christianity
Okay, since Twitter makes it very easy to ask questions and get answers about different traditions and cultures, let's talk about Krister Stendahl's 3 rules for approaching another spiritual tradition...
December 19, 2024 at 10:50 PM
(7/29/19)
#Delafina777-religion #Delafina777-Judaism #Delafina777-Christianity
Okay, since Twitter makes it very easy to ask questions and get answers about different traditions and cultures, let's talk about Krister Stendahl's 3 rules for approaching another spiritual tradition...
#Delafina777-religion #Delafina777-Judaism #Delafina777-Christianity
Okay, since Twitter makes it very easy to ask questions and get answers about different traditions and cultures, let's talk about Krister Stendahl's 3 rules for approaching another spiritual tradition...
I appreciate the hell out of folks like you and @delafina777.bsky.social for doing so much work to get folks like me educated on whole-ass systems of morality that don't rely on being perfect once and forever. Not even religion, but moral philosophy teaching is too thin on that idea.
December 26, 2024 at 6:30 PM
I appreciate the hell out of folks like you and @delafina777.bsky.social for doing so much work to get folks like me educated on whole-ass systems of morality that don't rely on being perfect once and forever. Not even religion, but moral philosophy teaching is too thin on that idea.
@delafina777.bsky.social has done a lot of writing on why atheist Jews are no less "religious" than theist ones, and why the very idea of contrasting religion and ethnicity doesn't work bc Judaism is a people, and its tradition orthopraxic.
October 23, 2023 at 4:06 AM
@delafina777.bsky.social has done a lot of writing on why atheist Jews are no less "religious" than theist ones, and why the very idea of contrasting religion and ethnicity doesn't work bc Judaism is a people, and its tradition orthopraxic.
#Delafina777-Christianity #Delafina777-religion (secular societies)
December 21, 2024 at 3:40 AM
#Delafina777-Christianity #Delafina777-religion (secular societies)
#Delafina777-Christianity #Delafina777-religion (hegemony)
December 21, 2024 at 3:40 AM
#Delafina777-Christianity #Delafina777-religion (hegemony)
December 21, 2024 at 3:37 AM
December 21, 2024 at 3:34 AM
December 21, 2024 at 3:28 AM
#Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-religion (persecution)
December 21, 2024 at 3:25 AM
#Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-religion (persecution)
December 21, 2024 at 3:04 AM