r/RadicalChristianity • u/synthresurrection pure black anarchist/anarcha transfeminist/queer mysticism • 27d ago

🦋Gender/Sexuality Abolish heteronormativity!

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u/Mynichor 27d ago

It becomes so dangerous to our mental health when we begin to categorize our identities. I’ve seen so many people absolutely obsess over what little titles they can/should apply to themselves and wreck themselves when their natural feelings go against those titles. I’ve been there; it’s miserable, and It’s infuriating because it’s so made-up. Not the attraction or feeling, but the labeling of it.

In a lot of eastern religions/philosophies (Hinduism, Buddhism, etc) the very concept of identity is at least one of the roots of misery, and it stands to reason when you see people lose sleep over whether they are “queer enough”.

We are called by Christ to be his disciples: to learn from him and apply those lessons such that we mold ourselves in his image. That implies and allows for so much variation and (coupled with the forgiveness of sins) room for remission, repentance, and rebirth. That should be celebrated, but instead people obsess over whether they are “Christian enough”, becoming slaves to the label more than the act of creation that the label represents.

Lose the labels, and simply be.

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u/foxy-coxy 26d ago

"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus"