so i might be stepping out of line making this post but i feel it needs to be made so yolo i guess.
i know a lot of millenials have a sort of knee-jerk negative reaction towards abrahamic religions (really mostly christianity and judaism) and i understand. really, i get it. my dad is a pastor, and he used his religon to abuse, demean, and control me at every opportunity. he regularly tells my sisters that he’s “so sad im going to hell” and other sundry passive aggressive nonsense, so trust me i get it. i understand how a certain religion can be triggering to someone.
but there is a very important point here, and i really hope you understand this.
you cannot let it make you prejudiced, and, let me be clear here, im talking specifically about antisemitism.
i know exactly whats going on in your head, because for a long time it was what was going on in my head. you hear the word “judaism” and you have flashbacks to sunday school and the old testament and all the times you sat in a church and felt personally attacked, and you associate that with judaism and jewish people because most of the things that upset you were in the old testament.
you can have your triggers, but you can’t let those triggers become an excuse to further marginalize a minority thats already attacked from literally every position of power there is. every major religion has leaders who are antisemitic, every country has a history of marginalizing jewish people, every person on the planet grows up in an inherently antisemitic world and has to unlearn that sort of toxic mindset.
and maybe this post should have been made by a jewish person, or somebody with more education on the subject than me but i think its really important that people don’t let their personal experiences with organized religion turn them into the kind of prejudiced person that hurt them in the first place.
as a romni i have a shared tragedy with jewish people, so i feel like it was easier for me to step back and be like “woah, your thought process here is super toxic and you need to stop” but i feel like a lot of white christian-raised people don’t really have that touchstone and need somebody to be like “wake up, what you are doing is wrong”
I can remove this if you want but I feel a strong need to reblog
as a jew, i’m gonna add to this.
first of all. we don’t have a lot of allies speaking for us genuinely, instead of because of some sort of twisted “jesus was jewish” or “i can secretly defend my faith or politics using jews as pawns” so when y’all do it means a lot. we don’t see it much, so don’t feel bad for making this post.
second of all, the part that you didn’t know, through no real fault of your own, is that the version you learn in sunday school or from non-jewish sources? that isn’t even remotely how jews understand that source.
jews have a totally different relationship with our holy text than christians do. every jewish person is expected to know the “old testament” cover to cover then to freely access and participate in millennia of commentary and debate on it. the core book of jewish law is just a book of debates and discussions, many of which don’t even come with firm answers. and whenever it’s printed, it’s printed with centuries worth of commentary in the margins.
if you have and issue with or felt personally attacked by any part of the “old testament” i can guarantee that there are pages and pages of jewish commentary about that from the point of view you were looking for and several dozen you haven’t even considered. jews have never stopped questioning and arguing about this thing.
so when non-jews make the assumption that our religion is some sort of backwards or primitive thing based on a text they don’t care for, they are doing jews a double disservice.
i guarantee you some 1st century BCE judaen made the point that not eating shrimp because a book says to is kinda silly far more eloquently than you did, pal. heck. there’s a rabbi in the talmud who just straight up becomes a heretic.
judaism has been around and has been evolving as a culture and a religion longer than christianity has existed. it’s one of the oldest living traditions on the planet and its still growing and evolving.
This is a decidedly unfriendly reminder that I don’t want you following me or liking/reblogging my posts if you are a Trump supporter, neo-Confederate, TERF, neo-Nazi, or a supporter of any other sort of white supremacist or fascist movement. Get the fuck out. I don’t want you here.
Yess! Already 25 people unfollowed me. Feels so good to take the garbage out.
Urbain Grandier was a French Catholic priest who was burned at the stake after being convicted of witchcraft, following the events of the so-called “Loudun Possessions.”
One of the documents introduced as evidence during Grandier’s trial was a diabolical pact written in backward Latin and apparently signed by several demons with their seals, as well as by Satan himself.
Deciphered and translated to English, it reads:
“We, the influential Lucifer, the young Satan, Beelzebub, Leviathan, Elimi, and Astaroth, together with others, have today accepted the covenant pact of Urbain Grandier, who is ours. And him do we promise the love of women, the flower of virgins, the respect of monarchs, honors, lusts and powers. He will go whoring three days long; the carousal will be dear to him. He offers us once in the year a seal of blood, under the feet he will trample the holy things of the church and he will ask us many questions; with this pact he will live twenty years happy on the earth of men, and will later join us to sin against God. Bound in hell, in the council of demons.”
The Loudun possessions were WILD, but also definitely a giant hoax. I recommend “The Devils of Loudun” by Aldous Huxley. There is so much to this story. “The Devil’s Bride” by Martin Ebon also has a great chapter on this.
I think that’s one of the nice things about being a Luciferian, you know? You can mix sex and religion freely. The sacred and the profane are comfortable next to each other. You don’t have to do this– sexuality doesn’t mix in the practices of every Luciferian or Satanist– but it’s an option that is very open. There is literally nothing in my religion against it, and a lot that is arguably for it.
One of the reasons I am a Luciferian is that I am, to put it bluntly, a gay transsexual sadomasochistic slut. A lot of those things are more difficult to fit comfily into other religions, although it’s certainly possible– and may their God bless the sadmasochistic, transsexual, gay, and or slutty folks of stricter faiths who bravely make room for themselves in their seemingly inflexible religions!
Personally, I really like having a religion where my gender and sexuality fit right in.
There is a lot about S&M in particular that is stereotypically “diabolical.” And there is a lot about my relationship with Lucifer that feels, quite frankly, sadomasochistic. Sometimes there seems to be a wicked glee in the way he teaches me hard lessons– but there is also genuine love and care for me. It feels familiar, because it feels like interacting with leather folks.
Oh look, this is suddenly making the rounds again.
My relationships have changed a lot since I last wrote this– the mentorship is over, and I broke up with my Master. I’m exclusively a Dom now– at least with human partners, I only submit to demons these days.
I’ve also come a lot farther in figuring out how to incorporate religion, magic and kink. For example, one time I dressed my submissive as Jesus and beat him so hard that he astral projected and had a mystical vision.
I’ve found ways to relate to the demons I work with sexually and through kink, sometimes via astral, sometimes by having my partner channel them.
I also wrote a script for a Black Mass which I have yet to perform which is essentially a combination of consensual SM with ritualistic blasphemy.
Church of the Morningstar 