If you’ve been here for a minute, you already know how I feel about this ugly rise of Christian Nationalism. And if you’re still here, I’m guessing I haven’t offended you yet. (Some of my own family have blocked me, so… we’ve already filtered the audience a bit. 😅)
I went on another one of my long-winded rants and this one is so layered, I’ve decided to turn it into a 3-post series I’m calling… “The Gospel According to Curiosity”.
But before I dive into this series, let’s squash a few assumptions people love to make about me…
🌀 “If you don’t believe the Bible is literal, you must not believe in a higher power.”
—> False. I deeply believe in something bigger. I just don’t think it requires a building, a book, or a man at a pulpit to access it.
🌀 “If you don’t go to church, you must be a bad person.” (I’ve literally been told I am going to hell because I don;t attend church…)
—> False. I don’t need a book to tell me to be kind. I don’t need a sermon to remind me to love my neighbor. And I’ll say what I’ve said many times before… I act more “Christ-like” than most so-called Christians I’ve encountered.
🌀 “If you question religion, you must hate religious people.”
—> False. I am blessed to call some absolutely beautiful Christians my friends. The difference? They live their faith, they don’t weaponize it. They love big, hold space, and never once have they made me feel less-than for walking a different path.
Just because I don’t believe the bible is a manual for life, doesn’t mean I don’t hold space for others to do so. That’s the whole point.
What I won’t hold space for is using faith as a weapon. Using scripture to control bodies, silence voices, legislate love, or shame humans for existing authentically. That’s where I draw the line. Every. Single. Fucking. Time.
So if you’re here for curiosity, conversation, and a little soul-level disruption —> buckle up. ✨
This series is going to ask some questions that will rattle a few cages. Not to tear anything down, but to invite you to look at what you’ve been told vs. what you actually believe.
There’s a difference. And the difference matters.
Let’s go… 📖🪄
Chapter 1 ~ What If the Bible Was the Original Harry Potter? (Part 2 of 4)
Genuine question… 🤔
What if the Bible was just the original Harry Potter?
WHOA! I know… Hear me out before you clutch your pearls (OR slap me like the first person I asked did…)
✨ A chosen one with a destiny written in the stars
✨ Prophecies, miracles, and magical signs
✨ Talking animals (yes, that serpent counts)
✨ Wise mentors who die and somehow come back
✨ Epic battles between forces of good and evil
✨ A devoted fandom willing to defend it forever
✨ Sequels, spin-offs, and prequels (the New Testament IS a sequel, friends)
✨ Endless debates about “what really happened”
J.K. Rowling published Harry Potter in 1997. Within a decade —> millions of devoted fans, fan fiction empires, lightning bolt tattoos, theme parks, and full-blown wars over which house is best.
The Bible was written across centuries, by dozens of unknown authors, in languages most of us can’t read, edited and re-edited by men with very specific political agendas, translated 3,000+ times…
…and yet THIS version is “literal truth” while Hogwarts is “make believe”?
Make it make sense.
I’m not knocking the stories. I’m not knocking the believers. I’m just asking the questions nobody wants to ask out loud…
🌀 What makes one story sacred and another silly?
🌀 Who decided?
🌀 When?
🌀 And what did they have to gain from us never asking?
Sit with that for a second. Really sit with it.
Because somewhere along the way, we were taught that questioning the story = questioning God. But what if questioning the story is actually the most spiritual thing you can do?
What if the divine isn’t threatened by your curiosity?
What if the only thing threatened by your curiosity… is the power structure built on top of your obedience?
Hmmm. 🤔
Stay tuned… next we’re talking about the Lord of the Rings era. 📚
Chapter 2 ~ The Fandom Wars (Part 3 of 4)
Okay so… we covered the Harry Potter era. 🤓
Now let’s talk about the Lord of the Rings era.
Because at some point, somebody said, “Yeah, the original was great, but I prefer Tolkien’s version.”
Then someone else said, “Hold my mead… Game of Thrones is the REAL story.”
Then Marvel showed up and gave us a multiverse.
And THAT, my friends, is exactly how religion works.
✨ One source story
✨ Endless reinterpretations
✨ Devoted fans claiming THEIR version is canon
✨ Heated arguments over who got the lore right
✨ Spinoffs, splinter groups, and rival fandoms
3,000+ versions of the Bible.
45,000+ Christian denominations.
5+ million preachers.
That’s not “the truth.” That’s a fandom. 🎭
Catholics vs. Protestants vs. Mormons vs. Evangelicals vs. Baptists vs. Pentecostals vs. whoever just started a new church down the street last Tuesday…
—> That’s the original canon war. (And yes, I mean that both ways. 😉)
Everyone gatekeeping…
Everyone insisting they’re the “real fans”…
Everyone convinced the others got it wrong…
Everyone certain THEIR pastor has the inside scoop…
And here’s the wildest part…
Every single one of them swears their version came directly from God.
Couldn’t have been edited. Couldn’t have been mistranslated. Couldn’t have been shaped by the men in power who really, really benefited from… people staying in line.🤔
Nope. Just a clean download from the heavens straight to their pulpit. 📲
So I’ll ask the questions again…
🌀 If God is one, why are the stories so many?
🌀 If the truth is universal, why does it keep needing rewrites?
🌀 And if your version is THE version… why are 44,999 other denominations equally certain about theirs?
Loving a story is beautiful.
Finding meaning in a story is sacred.
But, insisting your version is the only true version while condemning, excluding, and legislating against everyone else’s…
And the scariest part? Most people never even stop to ask why they believe what they believe.
They just inherited the fandom they were born into and called it truth.
What would happen if you actually asked? 👀
Buckle up… Chapter 3 is the real spicy one… We still haven’t talked about who wrote these stories, and WHY. 🌶️
Chapter 3 ~ The Plot Twist (Part 4 of 4)
Alright. Plot twist time. 🎭
Let’s talk about the most ridiculous part of every dominant “creation story” out there…
Women create life.
Like… literally.
From our bodies. We grow entire human beings out of nothing but cells and time and a kind of biological magic that science STILL can’t fully explain.
It’s miraculous. It’s sacred. It is the closest thing to “creator” that has ever been observed in nature.
And yet…
✨ The dominant creation story has a MALE god making everything.
✨ The first woman? Made from a man’s rib. (I’m sorry, WHAT?)
✨ The first villain? A woman who couldn’t resist a piece of fruit. (Of course.)
✨ The cause of all human suffering? Also her fault, somehow. (And don’t even get me started on the countless murdered “witches”…)
Convenient. 🤔
Now ask yourself…
🌀 Who would write a story like that?
🌀 Who BENEFITS from a story like that?
🌀 Who has been telling and re-telling those stories for thousands of years?
I’ll wait. 🕰️
Here’s the thing… I’m not anti-faith —> I am pro-question.
Every storyteller has an agenda.
Every author has a perspective.
Every “sacred text” was written by humans with hands, biases, and very specific political goals.
When one group writes themselves as the creators, the heroes, the chosen ones… And the other group as the temptress, the cause of suffering, the rib accessory…
For thousands of years…
That’s not divine revelation. That’s branding.
And it’s REALLY good branding. So good we’ve been buying it for millennia.
So good women have been taught to apologize for the very bodies that CREATED the people doing the preaching.
Sit with that. Let it land. 💔
The womb is the original temple.
The mother is the original creator.
And the story we’ve been told was written by men who needed you to forget that.
So here’s my final question… and I want you to actually answer it, even if only to yourself:
🌀 What would your faith look like if it had been written by women? By mothers? By the people who actually create life instead of just the people writing about it?
I bet it would look a whole lot more like love. And a whole lot less like control.
Maybe it’s time we wrote a new chapter… 📖
♥️ Terica
