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thy-lovelylionheart asked:

Hey I've seen you refer to Religious OCD before but could you explain what exactly it is? I don't really know much about OCD in general

@thylovelylionheart Hey Hilary! I provided a short list a little while back of links to resources and articles that explain it all more clearly and succinctly than I can. The one titled OCD Symptoms: Religious and Moral Fears is a good general introduction, while the other articles paint a fuller picture of people’s actual experiences with it.

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I was thoroughly exhausted by mass today, but the homily especially wore me out.

Because today’s reading is that same old one I have a very conflicting relationship with, and the take the deacon had on it is the oldest one in the book. That God gives us His peace that ‘never fails and never leaves.’ That even under horrible circumstances, a truly faithful person can rest easy in God’s love for them. All those things that sound harmless and deep when you’re not struggling. But when you are struggling, it says ‘if you do not feel at peace right now, God has not given you peace because you don’t deserve it. If you were truly faithful, you would feel peaceful. If you were truly faithful, knowing God loved you would be enough for you.’

I can’t latch onto John’s gospel as much as I guess others can. John, the youngest apostle, arguably the most idealistic and naive, describing Jesus as a superhero who always knows what’s going to happen, who’s always one step ahead of everyone else, who doesn’t fall and require help to carry the cross. John, who never questioned his place in God’s service and never wondered if God loved him or not, or whether he should even try.

But this is one of the only verses of his gospel that I can cling to. Not ‘peace I give you.’ My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives it do I give it to you.

And then right after He says ‘do not let your hearts be troubled, nor should you be afraid.’ Like it’s a choice. Anxiety and fear are failures of the Christian.

But for one line, there’s a deeper meaning, maybe. For one line, there’s something that says, maybe it doesn’t look like everyone thinks it does. Maybe there’s more to it than we can understand. Maybe there’s a difference between the world’s peace and God’s peace, that says even if you are tormented and exhausted and drained beyond belief, faithless and bitter, that there is a peace that is for you, too.

And yet all you ever hear talked about is the peace of Christ that surpasses all understanding, like it’s given out to whoever dispenses a coin in the right slot, and like that magical peace just wipes away the effects of pain and suffering and abuse and neglect. And it erases despair by refusing to acknowledge it’s even there.

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senalishia

traditional common-sense approaches to morality are 100% predicated on having incomplete information. you can’t hear about even 1% of the problematic shit in the world and still think that there is a single living person that would qualify as “good” as it is traditionally defined (i.e. they satisfy certain baseline societal obligations, improve the world by their actions, and their daily existence harms no one.)

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freespirit4everlove-deactivated asked:

As an atheist who suffers from Religious OCD, aka Scrupulosity do you have any posts to help others like me?

Sorry to hear that. I’ve never actually heard of it before and had to Google it. And, having done so, wow. Sorry again.

Which should tell you that I don’t have anything specifically on the subject.

I do have a “recovering from religion” tag, which I added my navbar. There may be some resources at those that cover it. However, as a subtype of OCD, you may be better served by OCD resources than (anti-)religion-oriented resources; the religious aspect being more about how it manifests, rather than the underlying problem.

As such, the best I’ve got to offer is a little Google-fu.

Can any readers help here?

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caterjunes

me, reading aloud a post i just saw on a Queen fanblog: okay but Aziraphale and Crowley are ‘car friend/gay who can’t drive’ solidarity

my roommate, Amias: bold of you to say Crowley can drive

me: him having a car is literally critical to the plot of the book

Amias: doesn’t mean he can drive.

me: are you saying Crowley’s belief that he can drive is the only reason he can?

Amias: yes that’s exactly what i’m saying.

me: if he suddenly was deprived of occult powers and got into a car he’d be like “what the fuck is this”? that’s what you’re saying?

Amias: yes!! look, he goes 110 miles an hour in the middle of London and things rearrange themselves around him, he couldn’t pass a traffic test if his life depended on it. crowley can’t actually drive he’s just doing magic constantly

me: …somehow you’ve convinced me

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It’s true and they should say it

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Crowley if he ever got stripped of his demonic powers:

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Aziraphale:

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