trenchcoatedly: ✪<lj user=tsavorite_icons> (power † the angel of thursdays)
[personal profile] trenchcoatedly
[Castiel is in his room. It looks extremely sparse and unused, with a neatly made bed and otherwise very little else. By the way, the walls are his room are scrawled with mysterious symbols in both black and blood-red. Ignore the handsome gentleman in the screen. He is not in Castiel's room.]

I've located a prayer room on the ship. I'm curious if anyone would be interested in a service or a sermon? Bear in mind this would be to my Heavenly Father, the Holy Lord, He Who Watches, and no other gods that are worshiped. I'll also try to answer any questions about His Everlasting Majesty, though I can't promise my answers will be sufficient.

Interruptions and blasphemy will not be permitted.

It will be on Friday, and there may be a Sunday service.

[LOCKED to DEAN (and bcc'd to BUFFY)]

My recent actions were tainted by the flood. I apologize if I disturbed you.

[LOCKED to BUFFY]

Have you heard of the "shadow barge"?


[OPEN - added later]

The service will be moved. Does anyone have a particular place, or should the deck suffice?

(no subject)

Date: 2012-02-22 01:50 am (UTC)
scarlet_discord: (Default)
From: [personal profile] scarlet_discord
What I want is to be able to hold services in my own religion without monotheist assbags kicking up huge amounts of resistance. That chapel should be interfaith in a real way and treated as such. The gods who actually intercede and care about us should have equal rights within it. But if I were to make an announcement like you just did all you Jesus freaks and your friends would flip out. Why the hell do you think I've been holding ritual alone in my room or out in the cold the entire time I have been here?

(no subject)

Date: 2012-02-22 02:07 am (UTC)
scarlet_discord: (do not wannnt)
From: [personal profile] scarlet_discord
Some difficulty...? Look. Maybe you come from a world where Pagans can build and run a temple without their Christian neighbors going nuts and trying to block the project, but I don't. Maybe you've never had some idiot after you trying to break your faith to "save your soul", but I have dealt with people like that my entire free life. You have no clue what it is like to be a religious minority. It's clear from your attitude.

When I came here the only thing the chapel was used for was Christian service. The people who ran and tended it? Christian. The services offered? Christian. The rest of us weren't exactly forbidden, but we weren't on the staff or the schedule either. It's always been uncomfortable. Now you want to just trumpet all over the place about the latest service aimed at Christians only.

And you wonder why I'm pissed off?

(no subject)

Date: 2012-02-22 03:48 am (UTC)
scarlet_discord: (ok what now?)
From: [personal profile] scarlet_discord
Of course it confuses you. You probably see nothing wrong with the way that the rest of us are marginalized even on the fucking Barge. And to be honest it could have been anyone pushing yet another Christian ritual in your private clubhouse of a chapel. I have simply hit my limit. So sorry if you were the one who got to hear about it. But you have the luxury of practicing your faith on this nightmare factory in a nice little chapel instead of out in the cold, and I don't. And it pisses me off.

You say I could hold any service in the chapel I wanted, and I'm telling you that no, that is not the case. If I went in and took down the crosses and put up an altar to my gods, even if the people running the chapel let me get that far, it would be game over the moment I announced the ritual was happening in the Christians' private clubhouse. There are reasons that nobody has done that, and it's not because Christians are such tolerant and charitable people.

But feel free to keep telling yourself that I have no reason to complain, and that I'm praying in the snow because I like it.

(no subject)

Date: 2012-02-22 03:27 pm (UTC)
scarlet_discord: (Default)
From: [personal profile] scarlet_discord
I don't have a problem with your using the chapel, OK? I have a problem with Christians in this place not sharing enough. [At least she seems to have calmed down.]

And I don't pray to people. Even when Loki was here I didn't pray to him. What I really need, neither he nor you nor your god would give me anyway.

(no subject)

Date: 2012-02-22 04:34 pm (UTC)
scarlet_discord: (hmmm)
From: [personal profile] scarlet_discord
[She's a bit taken aback, and the dismay behind the anger shows through more.]

All I want is what a lot of other people get to take for granted. Like freedom.

(no subject)

Date: 2012-02-22 09:18 pm (UTC)
scarlet_discord: (Default)
From: [personal profile] scarlet_discord
Of course not. Those who would, can't, and those who can, won't.

[Private]

Date: 2012-02-22 04:02 am (UTC)
truth_is_cold: (rhade - bitch. plz.)
From: [personal profile] truth_is_cold
Her displeasure isn't unjustified. One of the individuals that requested the chapel used particularly oppressive language toward anyone that didn't share his beliefs.

[Private]

Date: 2012-02-22 04:17 am (UTC)
truth_is_cold: (rhade - thoughtful)
From: [personal profile] truth_is_cold
No. But she comes from a culture of oppression and discrimination. Not only has her religion brought her difficulty, but the very genes she was born with. She lives a life of fear.

She's reacting harshly, but all I'm asking is to be careful with her. She's very young, and has been exposed to more subjugation than anyone in her time rightfully should. You're in a position of authority over her and she's one of the people that needs help.

[Private]

Date: 2012-02-22 04:25 am (UTC)
truth_is_cold: (rhade - clasped hands)
From: [personal profile] truth_is_cold
I didn't suspect that you did and I believe you only wanted to share your faith. I'm only specifying the reasons behind her reactions. Mostly she wants respect, and to have her difficulties noticed. Her history on the Barge has included many personally demeaning experiences.

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