This podcast episode is so great 🙌 god bless @robertberens
🗣 Queer subtext
🗣 The Destiel of it all
🗣 Dean sneaking out because he misses his boyfriend
🗣 Romantic story
This conversation goes on for another 5 minutes, youre in for a treat. 💙💚 #SpnThenAndNow#Supernatural
crazy to me how you can be so misunderstanding of media language and lack basic media literacy that you cannot understand how a relationship between two characters can be somewhat romantic without it being explicitly stated or even fully intentional from all parties involved
dean's queer coding in this ep is crazy bc he gets so sad and afraid when ppl perceive him as gay when sam just dgaf bc (just like sam said later in this ep) ppl assume they're gay >bc of dean< he overcompensates and takes it to heart bc to him it has truth in it
many people on spntwt should take a couple minutes to read this, seriously (instead of telling queer fans how they should feel about bordeline homophobia within the fandom 👍🏻) https://t.co/OKVRjn3TpJ
Pastor Kristian A. Smith spoke about the people who say that homosexuality is a sin
“You can't really get through to Christians when talking about sexuality if you don't deal with what they believe about sin. It doesn't matter what you say. You can say, ‘You know, Q+ people—they're the entire music ministry. We wouldn't have a church without them,’ and so on and so forth —all of these valid points. But at the end of the day, it always comes back to ‘but it's sinful.’
So in my theology, I deal with that directly. If the greatest commandment is the core of Jesus's message—because when he was asked, ‘What's the greatest?’ He said, ‘This is it. Everything hinges on this’ —then if love is the greatest commandment (love for God, neighbor, and self), the first rule of love is ‘do no harm.’ If I love you, I'm going to at least commit to not harming you. I can't help everybody—I’m a finite human being—but I can make a commitment to not harm anybody. So if the first commitment of love is ‘do no harm,’ then sin is anything that causes harm. That’s why I barely even use the term "sin" anymore. I talk about harm. Because sin is harm, and harm is sin. If something is not harming anybody, then it’s not a sin.
And if you can reorient your understanding of sin, maybe you can start to think differently about same-gender-loving people and trans people who are just living their lives, not harming anybody. They’re simply trying to live their truth. So then the question becomes: if they’re just trying to live their lives without harming anyone, and you, as a Christian, are condemning them and pushing them down, then you are the one causing harm. Right? So you are the one living in sin.”
🔗 https://t.co/IlIrgHPuqf
Like how I don’t believe Misha when he said he only started playing Cas as in love with Dean in season 14 because absolutely NOTHING changed about how he played Cas with Dean lmao
This is what gets me. If he really truly saw Dean and Cas’ relationship as purely brotherly then why did he write a song about Cas and not Dean’s actual brother who was the most important person in his life?