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I’m leaving Montheistic beliefs amidst a discovery of my own beliefs. Over the course of my life I’ve always noticed how connected I felt to nature, it felt as though I physically was submerged within the earth itself.

The sound of the ocean crashing and the waves submerging spoke to me like a language. The trees felt as though they were consciously
living and could experience sentience and emotions.

The love I felt for nature was beyond anything else I have experienced, it felt so natural and like loving and caring and being apart of nature was my sole purpose in life.

When I told my family about this they said that believing that the Earth is divine and living is demonic and blatant paganism. I’d often argue with them about the logic behind their monotheistic beliefs and express how deeply connected I am with accepting the Earths divinity and wanting to submerge myself in its ecosystems.

I sought help from a professor of mine who was Native American, I spoke to her about my troubles and what I was experiencing I explained to her how I felt about the planet and the Earth, I told her that I felt as though the Earth is a woman, and I often referred to God as Mother Nature in our conversations.

She asked me what faith I resonated with and I told her that I did not know, I told her that I often worshipped the Earth by expressing my love for it but have no concept of how to actually worship and display reverence for Mother Nature.

She told me her faith is rooted in Animism the idea that everything has a spirit from rocks to trees to the water to animals and beyond, and that she shows reverence and respect to those spirits.

I have no clue on how to actually worship her what sects that align with what I truly believe, and how I can practice worship to not only Mother Nature but her creations as well.

I’m a black woman and hear how certain practices and traditions are closed and I don’t want to poke my head in spiritual ancestral plains that I don’t belong in, Can someone help me please?

I recently got into a debate over whether or not a Christian can be a democratic socialist, (if you separate Democrat and Socialist this doesn’t apply to you.) But the basis of my consensus was that Christian moral does not align with socialist moral for instance. the basis of democratic socialism?

They advocate for more than just universal basic necessities like free health care a tax on the rich. It’s based on freedom of choice as well as the separation of church and state. Freedom of choice EA, gender affirmation not saying they primarily built the foundation of freedom on gender affirmation surgery but it being an option. Or women’s rights socialists advocate for that. Or LGBTQIA socialism also advocates for, socialism is about freedom.

How exactly are you a Christian with biblical moral and then a socialist with socialist moral? Being intentionally obtuse about the way Christianity indoctrinates certain freedoms like freedom of access birth control or abortion access, lgbtq rights, the stance a lot of Christian politicians as well as institutionalized monotheistic religions have on climate change, is not socialism.

The bible demands autonomy over mind and body and governs complete sovereignty being involved in politics and having an opinion on worldly things and than those things being grounded in socialism is a direct contradiction to your Religion. Then a lot of Christians complain about not having a voice in politics even though their texts literally are written to be against it.

By definition and scripture taken out of your bible you marginalize YOURSELF, 1 John 2:15-16:"Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life comes not from the Father but from the world.” You cannot agree with free will when free will is non existent in aspects of Christian text, those who Know god are not condemned those who don’t know of God are condemned. Either you’re a Christian with no political world view meaning you can be neutral and live life solely by merit in which your religion allows or your a Socialist with multiple world views and can advocate for these world views and the religion you follow can be in alignment with that. The bible is the one book that you cannot choose to cherry pick.

You do not have to believe in Christianity in order to believe in God, find a sect that aligns with your world views. The problem comes when people try to cherry pick religious texts on the basis of how outdated it is and than choose to disregard other scriptures that don’t align with the way they want to live based on they’re personal world views, religion is strict in the things you allow within yourself, Malachi 3:6: "For I the Lord do not change". Psalm 33:11: "The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations".
Christianity in itself can be considered a religious political group. Since being involved in politics in a grandeur way, they’ve actively combatted access to birth control, access to abortion care.

They’re fighting against gender identity and equality, and are pushing to have Biblical doctrine taught in schools.

When you have a society majority monotheistic Christianity having such a large influence on society and then justifying it using religious texts you logically cannot be a democratic socialist. Simply based on the fact that socialism is based on freedom and the bible very easily contradicts those freedoms wanted by society with a few biblical texts. How are you a Christian and a socialist?