A call in (and an ironic one I know) but Christian Leftists have GOT to start getting more involved in their community. Especially past their church. You need to walk the walk and talk the talk.

Change and activism doesn’t start on the internet. You need to be in your communities doing good. You need to be feeding your neighbors. You need to be providing for other and showing leftist Christianity. NOT because it strengthens the goal of leftist Christianity but because it’s what you are CALLED to do.

Or we could stop labeling it as liberal and conservative and instead do what the Bible and the Catholic Church calls us to do and help and serve and evangelize others 🥹🤍✝️🇻🇦

I’m so tired of political labels just go out into the world and be a decent kind human being 🤍✨

I think this mindset is very interesting and well meaning so I want to touch on it.

1. This post was specified to Christian leftists because Christian values and leftist values align yet we are often pushed out of both spaces. Which can lead to us distancing ourselves from our community and therefore our values as well.

2. I’m not Catholic, so very sorry but as I have said multiple times on this blog the Catholic Church has no hold on me. (Shout out to Catholics though) So saying that the Catholic Church should be the leading body when there is rampant Christian Nationalism in America mostly started by the evangelical community…. Yeah that just not going to stop anything.

3. This is my longest point, but I think it’s a very privileged take to essentially say “let’s leave Christ out of politics”. Christ has always been political, and he has always been politically used for both-sides arguments. Take slavery, Interracial marriage, and now Queer people. Looking back, it is clear which position is more Christ-like on these issues and I can only hope that Christs love shines through for queer people as well.

So Christianity has been used for political purposes, since the early church. We can’t ignore that politicians are spouting Bible verses to put kids in cages and tear our neighbors apart. We aren’t supposed to stand by and let people be oppressed in Jesus’ name, and we don’t have the luxury to not “politic on the pulpit”

And I am willing to work with conservative Christians but not without boundaries and holding them accountable. I won’t let them transform my God into a God that hates people. Silence on these issues causes people to die. Point. Blank. Period.

Staying silent on people using God to hate others and masking it as politics is causing people to die. Lumping Christianity into one political category under God in the current political climate would mean we are validating these peoples politics and theology.

4. Finally, I do sort of agree with you. My faith is my guide in my politics. It’s why I label myself as a Christian Communist. Not a Maoist or a Marxist, but a person who is communist purely because of their belief in Jesus and I’m not quiet about that. My Faith comes before politics but Christianity is a VERY political faith. You are called to do everything to help your neighbor and that includes being political.

I think we might be talking past each other a bit. I’m not saying faith should be separated from action or that Christians shouldn’t care about injustice. I agree that the Gospel calls us to love our neighbor and that has real social implications.

My point was more that I don’t think Christianity fits neatly into modern political labels like “liberal” or “conservative,” and reducing it to those categories can actually limit how we see our call to evangelize, serve, and live out the Christian faith. “Liberal” or “Conservative” were terms that weren’t around during the time Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior was here on Earth. Jesus also wasn’t a socialist, Marxist, or communist. (Again, these weren’t terms around during the time that Jesus was here on Earth).

I also don’t think disagreement within Christianity automatically means we’re ignoring suffering—sometimes it’s just that people are approaching solutions differently while still trying to be faithful to Christ.

I appreciate your concern for people who are marginalized, though. 🤍

But, I’m a Catholic, and I will always look at things from a Catholic point of view. You just misunderstood what I was saying. ✝️🤍🇻🇦✨

You’re allowed to be Protestant and I’m allowed to be Catholic. ✝️🤝✝️🇻🇦 Catholics are also Christians.

A call in (and an ironic one I know) but Christian Leftists have GOT to start getting more involved in their community. Especially past their church. You need to walk the walk and talk the talk.

Change and activism doesn’t start on the internet. You need to be in your communities doing good. You need to be feeding your neighbors. You need to be providing for other and showing leftist Christianity. NOT because it strengthens the goal of leftist Christianity but because it’s what you are CALLED to do.

Or we could stop labeling it as liberal and conservative and instead do what the Bible and the Catholic Church calls us to do and help and serve and evangelize others 🥹🤍✝️🇻🇦

I’m so tired of political labels just go out into the world and be a decent kind human being 🤍✨

Rant about Catholic Instagram situation

If you’re on Catholic Instagram (as I unfortunately am sometimes) you may know about a dude named catholicsam, who is, frankly, an arrogant and insufferable asshole. And like, I don’t find it useful to make a post ranting about how much I dislike somebody, in general. But guys like him are the problem with modern Catholicism. It’s not progressive Catholics, or Catholics whose primary “progressive” concern is really just basic empathy for the poor and war-torn and calling out systemic injustices and greed. It’s people like catholicsam who find it more useful to bash gay people and debate whether or not KISSING your partner before marriage is a sin than to actually use their faith to lift anyone up or to bring any meaningful kind of unity to Christianity. You can curate your online image and aesthetic around your faith, you can post edits about Jesus and post about how the pope has “aura,” and you can speak authoritatively on Instagram as a layperson, but none of that is worth shit if you’re doing it out of pride instead of compassion. If your “faith-based” content is centered around taking other people’s views (and sometimes jokes) disingenuously so you can exercise some kind of rude superiority over them, you’re not doing what Jesus or the church itself teaches you to do.

I don’t really care about the kissing discourse. It’s pretty apparent at face value how pointless it is to engage with. But as far as catholicsam’s homophobia and transphobia, I know that no one will be able to convince people like him that they’re wrong about “homosexual acts” or “mutilating your body” being sinful, and no pope has actually said that they aren’t; but they have encouraged kindness towards queer individuals, which means that getting online to put them in their place, so to speak, is in itself sinful.

Obviously, I’m a queer Catholic, and I don’t believe there is anything at all sinful about queerness. But there’s no point in giving my arguments as to why because people like catholicsam have decided that being Catholic on the internet is not about kindness or compassion or open-mindedness; it’s about telling people to “submit to Rome” and using the license of Catholicism to voice a deep-rooted egotism.

catholicsam is an asshole that makes Catholicism look bad. 🥰✝️🇻🇦