This thread just made me think.
Has anyone done a Serenity cosplay?

>>4912939
Nevermind that he's a demon creature. Trololol

>Be at anime convention
>Fundamentalist Christians from nearby church have set up outside of the convention telling convention goers that they're going to hell if they don't consider Christ their savior.
>Never laugh more in my life when I see a Inuyasha, Pokemon Trainer, and a Haruhi cosplayer in a prayer circle

>>4912957
>Haruhi
Isn't she god
>Pokemon
Evolution
>Inuyasha
Demon

OH GOD WHAT.

It's... not quite to do with any fandom in particular, and they'd be only very vaguely /cgl/ related, but I have a few general crazy religious people stories if that would be acceptable?

>>4912973
As long as they have /cgl/ content, I'm sure it would be fine.

>Walk out of Hentai room after a night of drinking with friends
>There's these three really angry looking ugly fat girls standing outside as we leave
>They tell us we're going to burn in hell
>We tell them that's cool, they're still fat.
>My buddy goes "OHHHHHHH" like Mordecai from Regular Show

>At convention
>Hanging out with two of my Les-bros
>Two girls from our school walk up and tell them that they're lifestyle will lead to nothing
>My les-bros shrug it off and start making out hardcore.
>I laugh uncontrollably.

My grandmother actually.

>High school student
> Grandparents know about me liking anime after I explain it to them as Japanese cartoons and stuff.
> Grandmother in the car one day brings the subject up.
> Tells me she looked it up online and found awful images.
> Entire twenty minute drive is awkward.
> Her going on about how it's sinful and I shouldn't watch it because of what she found.
> Me trying to explain it's just Japanese kid cartoons and there's nothing demonic or sexual about it.
> She finally relents and stops mentioning it.

To this day I still wonder what she found online but I reaaaaally didn't want to ask her.

This is also the same religious grandmother that worked at the local library around the same time and when Harry Potter got big, she took me aside at the check-out desk and made me promise her I wouldn't believe in any of the satanic content about dark magic and wizards and no god existing in the books before she would allow me to check the series out of the library.

>>4913008
I ran "Anime" on the image search on google with no filter.
There's some suggestive things.

I like to think she found Night Shift Nurses.

My mom calls cosplay and lolita kinky ageplay bullshit.

>>4913011
Hahahahaha.
WHAT.

Unrelated but I get really annoyed when people start making out with other people of the same gender right in front of christfag protesters. I'm personally all in favor of homos, but you're really not doing homokind any favors by confirming the fears and anger of people who are motivated enough to stand around with signs shouting. They "know" that "all homos are full of sin and lust" so why do you want to go and prove them right? They want a reaction from you, the worst insult you can throw them is just completely ignoring them, pretending they are not there.

It's like how /cgl/ just HAS to respond to every fucking troll thread.
>trollsan u are wrong! let me try to convince you!

>>4913011
I'm surprised my family didn't think cosplay was something sexual either. If they did, they never said anything.

>>4913018
Eh. As a lesbian, it does make me roll my eyes. All you're doing is pissing them off more and that'll just make them louder and more reluctant to leave. If you just ignored them, they'd shut up and take their beliefs elsewhere in a hour or two.

>>4912989
Well, okej, I'm a terrible story teller, but I'll give it a shot.

>Raised in a rather Christian household
>Things were always a bit on the iffy side, we weren't allowed to play games with any mentions of "Potions", we weren't allowed to play magic-using classes in the games we did play, weren't allowed to watch many shows because they were "too aggressive" or something of the sort, but it was normal enough apart from that.
>One day, my sister claims to have seen a ghost in her room
>Mother's response is to call in a priest to cleanse the house.

>>4913032

At this point things start to get kind of weird. We aren't allowed on the second level of our house ((where all of our rooms are)) and spend about a week sleeping on the floors downstairs. After this, we're kicked out of our house and forced to live with our grandmother for the next few weeks, taking nothing but the clothes we had been wearing with us.
This continues until the end of the school year, at which point our parents finally return to pick us up, there had been no contact between us for the weeks that we had been with my grandma, so none of us knew what was going on.
In any case, I come home from school last, and as I enter my grandma's house I'm greeted by my mother.
>"Omen, we're having a family meeting upstairs"

>>4913013
The school uniforms or magical girl outfits, and then just look at lolita. When I wear ero-gothic, she says I look like a 18th century whore, and then sweet is creepy baby clothes WORD FOR WORD.

IDFGI.

>>4913022
Count yourself lucky. My family thinks I'm some kind of fetishist for ageplay. That's not true. I'm a fetishist because I have a thing for traps.

>>4913033

Once she has all of us gathered she sits us down and goes through what happened while we were gone. Now, I was just getting out of my weeb phase at this point, so my room was riddled with various animu and manga and Asian-related decorations, along with some video games and card games... The first thing that she told us was that she did us a favour and got rid of it all.
My obvious response was to freak out a bit and ask why.
Her answer was that it was all a tool to bring Satan into the house. Everything with Asian writing of any sort was an incantation to summon demons, anime and manga drew us away from Jesus and taught us to love evil spirits, video games were training us to accept evil into our lives, every time we played card games we were summoning demons to do our bidding...
I was stunned. I had no idea how to react to this, every aspect of it was entirely ridiculous.
We went home that day to find our rooms almost entirely barren, crosses hung on every wall, salt sprinkled in every corner, and a basin of holy water in the middle of our dining room.

>>4913038
...my mother did this to me when I went through my weeb phase. Admittedly she didn't kick us out to live with our grandparents, but she systematically went through my room, took all my Harry Potter books, all my manga, CDs, diaries....all fucking ridiculous. Sorry you had to go through that. I know how utterly balls it is.

>>4913011
>lolita

Well she's half right with that one at least.

>>4913038
did you murder your family that night?

>>4913038

We finally got back some of our privileges though, we're allowed to play Pokemon again, I can draw my monsters in almost-peace, we're allowed to eat Asian foods...

If she were to find out that any of us were into cosplay or anything of the sort, we'd be slaughtered. I mean, she tried to keep us in the house on Hallowe'en because she didn't want our souls to be stolen by witches, and all of our costumes had to be approved by her first. Cosplaying as a serious hobby, especially from an anime or something of the sort, would be sacrilege of the highest order.

There are a few other little things, like not being allowed to say "evil" in the house, or her constant rants about how we should hold another crusade to kill all of the Muslims... And how she thinks that she's had visions from God and the like, but...

I'm... I'm kind of glad I moved out

>>4913053
My mother sounds eerily like your mother. Holy frack. I offer non-creepy e-hugs?

>>4913038
Some people really need to realize that a great way to get your kids to worship satan and the devil is to take all their fucking toys away.

I hope you didn't pay for any of that stuff with your own money.

>>4913056
>>4913049

Man, it feels bad to know that other people had to go through the same type of thing. Non-creepy e-hugs all around?

>>4913052
No, I didn't, I think I blame the shock.
She became a progressively worse parent after that point too, right up until it came close to the time I graduated and moved out. Not fun times at all.

>Go to Christian summer camp (I was young, it looked fun)
>Bring Yu-Gi-Oh manga
>Constant sex talk from the girls and boys
>They see my manga
>I'm labeled the impure one
>Soon, lots of girls are trying to "fix me"
>They cake makeup on my face and try to shave my hairless legs
>I have paranoid-type schizophrenia, so I tell them that and try to walk away.
>They try to threaten me.
>I flip out.
>For the rest of the week, they tell everyone that I am possessed. Like, literally.

>>4913061

I paid for the majority of it with my own money, but it was mostly from allowance, so I didn't really hold the monetary value against her.

>>4913053
>>4913056

how old are your parents? I always thought people that were like that were over exaggerated holloywood bs.

>>4913071
That's still really....yeah. I assume you didn't get any of your stuff back then? When I went to do work experience at my dad's workplace, I realised he'd kept all of my stuff and let me have it back a few years after it'd happened. Which was nice of him, considering he hadn't bothered to stand up for us against our mother back then, so. Ugh.

>>4913070
I had a similar experience when I went to church (forced, I might add) with a rock music magazine and my yugioh cards to keep me company whilst I waited for the youth service. Tried to pull them off me, threatened to tell the youth leaders (but didn't actually have the balls to do it), to tell my parents and told me it was all wrong and subsequently left me out of all conversations ever after that. I didn't really care, but it was annoying.

I was about 15 at the time, my mother was 45? Idk if it makes a difference, but we're an indian household (although my siblings and I only speak English) and she's the strongarmed Christian in the house. She throws a fit whenever I have my hair cut to above my shoulder too, so I tend not to listen to what she says and says all gays are going to burn in hell. (Well done for having a lesbian daughter, mother...)

>>4913082
My mother is about 40 now, so she would've been around 34 at the time...?

>>4913093
I got two of my wall-fans back because they didn't have any writing on them... Years later... Because she took them out of hiding to try and sell them
She literally burnt most of the stuff that was too far gone and kept what was only mildly iffy and potentially valuable to sell later on.
I can't think of anything else I managed to get back though.

LOL RELIGION... is the cancer that is killing everything...

I should consider myself lucky it seems, my parents while catholics, they never tried to force me into religion, hell I havent even baptised my son (hes 4 now), and I dont plan to, I usually lol at the zealoty ppl that tries to convice you their ways are the best, but I always respect other peoples beliefs

you know, dont fuck with ppl and they wont fuck with you

>>4913114
religion is designed to keep the poor and ignorant poor and ignorant, supplicating to those with money and education.

don't try to improve your own situation, don't try to do things for yourself, just pray and if god says it should be then HE will provide for you.

>>4913113
jeez, I'm really sorry. My mother said she'd burn everything, but clearly all she did was pass it on to dad to be burnt, and he kept it all instead.

>>4913133
theologythread.jpeg

I bought a death note on ebay back in my weaboo days, and when it came in my mom looked at it threw it out because it was satanic and evil.
Although looking back now, I guess I can understand why she would freak out from reading the inside.
I just wanted it for cosplay and had used my own money so I was really pissed at her for throwing it away.

this thread makes me glad that my mom let me buy books on fucking Wicca and even gave me a set of Tarot cards as a teenager.

Grew up with a religious psycho of a mother. We were Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, Protestant, Baptist again and then she married some asshole who converted her (and me, unwillingly) to Mormonism.

>was never allowed to watch Sailor Moon because crystals and girls in short skirts were evil
>was never allowed to watch Pokemon because "Pokemon" was Japanese for "kill your family"
>was never allowed to read Harry Potter for obvious but bullshit reasons
>did all of this shit anyways behind her back, had to hide it like I was hiding hard drugs

I remember going to church and meeting up with friends afterwords to secretly trade Pokemon cards, and some mother found out and flipped tables, told the preacher and a few weeks later we literally had to sit through a sermon that consisted of nothing but "the evils of today's world". Half the sermon was about fucking Pokemon cards and how evil they were.

Pokemon cards. Pieces of cardboard with pictures printed on them.

Needless to say, I grew up resisting my mother's religious bullshit by the time I was a teenager after years of her telling me I can't like anime (but I had been watching Sailor Moon secretly since I was 8)

Then a few years ago she gave every last one of my Pokemon cards to some snot-nosed fucking brat the probably never took care of them.

Yeah, I mad.

>>4913139
Now that I'm out of the house and not constantly affected by my mother's crazy whims, I can appreciate the situation for how utterly ridiculous it was, nothing to feel sorry for me over.
I'm glad things worked out a bit better in your case though!

>>4913114

loads of rich famous people are religious.
itt: don't believe everything you read

I never knew how predominate the whole "POKEMON IS EVIL." thing was in churches.

Agnostic family is best family.

>>4913154
>was never allowed to watch Pokemon because "Pokemon" was Japanese for "kill your family"
...

>>4913154

>Half the sermon was about fucking Pokemon cards and how evil they were.

lolll god I wish i was there to hear it

>pun intended

If my parents were this crazy and threw out all of my shit/sold it and kept the cash, I probably would have slapped them. And I've never slapped/punched anyone (unless you count play fighting)

>Mom asks what pokemon stands for
>Tell her "pocket monsters"
>She thinks it means penis
>NO MORE POKEMON FOR YOU MISTER.

>>4913163
I'm not sure if she actually believed it or if some preacher said it on TV so it must be true or some shit, but yep.

>>4913168
It was horrible. And LOL "fucking Pokemon", I didn't realize I typed it out in that context while I was raging.

I wasn't allowed to watch Power Rangers when I was 4-5. My Christian mom thought it was too violent and they used special powers. So... I just watched it at my friends house which was 2 houses away!

Mom thinks Muslims should all be 'converted' and that they are wrong, and whenever I am worried about something she just says "Don't worry, God's will will be done!". She doesn't mind anime and actually watches it with me. She will however correct anything that she sees as 'wrong'. Like I dunno some character will talk about some different elemental gods or some shit and she'll say "Nope! There is only ONE GOD!" out loud. She watched Death Note, but she'd always make sure to make it clear there are no "death gods". I guess it's not that bad at all.

>>4913018
Oh man this.

I was at Fanime this year and those Christian protester dudes were there. I found this fascinating so I decided to lean against a pole a ways back and watch. There were a lot of people 'trolling' them, but that's a given. Anyway, I was cosplaying as Heero Yuy at the time and some girl walks up to me. Short hair with a fringe cut, probably underage. Ruh roh.
She says "These guys are so dumb. It makes me wanna just make out with a girl right infront of them."
I say "Oh really? Yeah I'm sure they'd get pretty mad eh?"
Her "Yeah. I just need to find a girl to do it with."
Me "Oh, well uhh good luck with that and all. There are a lot around here haha"
She came up to me another couple times mentioning it again. I was just like naaaaw man. On top of not being gay, and despite how shitty those protesters were being, I wouldn't go make out with anyone just to rub it in people's faces. It's kinda petty.

>>4913169

all jokes aside, no matter what your parents do (unless they intentionally hurt you), they do it because they love you and it's not right to hit/slap them.

>>4913172

seriously? what makes parents this dense? does something about procreating just make people retarded?

>>4913172

Okay, that made me giggle.

>>4913181

>she'll say "Nope! There is only ONE GOD!" out loud.

this cracks me up. like she has to reassert it to herself or something.

>>4913172
>>4913172

>pocket monsters
>penis

I can see that connection :o

>>4913181
Augh, sorry, jumping in again to say that the whole "Don't worry about anything, everything happens because God wants it to" is rather infuriating.
Watching anime with your mom sounds like an... entertaining experience though, Crimson

>>4913156
Mmm, only because she's overseas studying medicine right now- the minute she gets back from her studies I'm out of the house for good. Can't take her bullshit for much longer. sage for offtopic.

It's time I tell you all about a Sophmore girl I dealt with in my computer and art classes. She seemed nice at first, a tiny little thing on the weeb side but seemingly harmless. We'll call her Sarah. This isn't all she's done but I've only got 4 hours of sleep so I can't remember as correctly.

>Reads the Manga Bible everyday during class.
>Claims Sailor Moon & Co. are Christians
>Claims to be writing a series similar to Sailor Moon and Tokyo Mew Mew where they're all Christian and fallen angels and shit
>Obsessed with Alvin the Chipmunk, claims Alvin and the rest of the Chipmunks live with her and go to church together
>Has an OC neko with "the mind of an eight year old" that's somehow Alvin's cousin
>Spent most of Graphic Design (ie Photoshop Class) recoloring characters to make them into Chibi Usa, her favorite character

And then there's another girl who I met during my personal weeb phase because she had a Kakashi blanket during Fourth of July. Also very Christian, but not as crazy. Her mother let her cosplay (though her stepdad was drunkenly against it) and her grandmother helped sew. Her other sister was pretty obsessed with anime too, especially Death Note and L.

>Allowed to watch/read Death Note, Naruto, FMA
>Not allowed to watch/read Bleach because it isn't Christian or some shit like that
>Her stepdad asks what if he ran around dressed as Bugs Bunny
>Took all of my strength not to say that would make him a furry

>>4913184
I don't know, an argument over cardboard is retarded. I liked the "pokemon means kill your family"
I grew up with all of these things, the only "impure" thing I've done is have sex whilst in a long term relationship

I'm all for believing in what you want, but if you're lying and or promoting hate to get what you want, you're probably being a hypocrite to your own belief and in general not being a very good person at that point in time

>>4913192
Yeah, I'm half afraid to play El Shaddai with her in the vicinity. From the demo she was already 'correcting' things. I'd hate to see her if she finds out Lucifel talks to God on a cellphone so casually. She was very interested in the game though. Every time she hear's Enoch's name she wants to tell me about the Biblical story of Enoch.

>>4913212

oh my god, I'd be afraid to play that in front of a Christian too.

>>4913205
>FMA
if anything it's agnostic and against christianity
Ed is anything but religious. Sure there's christian/catholic themes, does not mean it's promoting it

>>4913207
>>4913207

I have no clue what you're talking about anon and I have no interest in your sex life.

>>4913229
I wondered that too, and the best thing I could come up with was her parents watched the Leto part and how Ed went against a false god or something like that so they let them watch it. I never asked though.

>>4913233
>most of the issues these parents had are pointless and silly.
>plenty of people have grown up fine with this stuff(if anything kids raised in an enviroment like these ones may lash out in some way)
>overly religious people tend to be hypocritical to get what they want(ex: promoting hate for the gay community at the conventions)

>>4913238
maybe, I'm sure they would approve of the original manga where greed gets boiled in oil strapped to a cross, or how ling gets "possessed"
I mean the religious people in the show are all "evil"

>mfw my mom is wiccan and doesn't give a fuck about me running around in costumes and has never forbade me from anime or anything

This thread has made me feel more thankful for her, honestly.

Mom always spouts shit about god and etc. Does crack in her free time.
Mother in law does same, smokes all day.
Dad doesn't give a shit.

I'm an atheist, dealwithit.

>Dad's Catholic and the unofficial Deacon for our local Church.
>Loves conventions and seeing all the costumes, thinks it's awesome.

Anyhow, is it common for protesters to show up outside cons to berate people?
That just seems... pathetic.

>>4913205
>Drunkenly against it
Like, would drink away the idea of his daughter dressing up as a cartoon?

I remember in Elementary School when Pokemon was new and huge, everyone had the cards but my only friend at the time had to hide them under her mattress from her religious mother and one day got on the bus and told me that her mother had found them and burned them all.

>>4913269
No, he would just complain about it after he got drunk. When sober (which was seldom) he just didn't give a fuck.

>>4913243

>most of the issues these parents had are pointless and silly.

It's more silly to argue/slap your parents just because they threw away you pokemon cards i.e parents > a fad

>plenty of people have grown up fine with this stuff(if anything kids raised in an enviroment like these ones may lash out in some way)

your point would be valid if I was against ppl watching anime, but I never brought it up and besides I love pokemon.

>overly religious people tend to be hypocritical to get what they want(ex: promoting hate for the gay community at the conventions)

you're spouting a lot of nonsense anon, which makes it confusing to read. I never said I was pro religion. btw why does promoting hate for the gay community make them hypocrites? well you know unless they were gay themselves, which would be weird.

>>4913212

Have you ever tried playing SMT Nocturne in front of her?

>>4913282
how about, lover everyone as you love thineself or
In front of god everyone is equal or
No hate?

>>4913282
Different Anon but for the last one, it's because one of the biggest messages preached (at least for us Southern Baptists) is to love thy neighbor. If someone is sinning, you guide them over to Christ but never hate.

>>4913282
>ppl

I was with you until that happened.

Parents gotta parent. Though some of these stories are just. Just great.

The next time I hit on someone I'm going to request to see their pocket monster.

Sage for non-contributory giggles.

>>4913293

ohic, I don't go to church so I wouldn't know.

>Be Christfag srsbusiness
>Don't shove it into people's faces
>Respect others and love them regardless
>Hear about retarded people blindly following shit without even studying things for themselves and generally making life harder for random people around them that they don't even know.
>mfw now I look like an asshole because of them


...I WILL LOOK LIKE AN ASSHOLE ON MY OWN TERMS DAMNIT!

>>4913295

dude if I were a guy and a chick hit on me with that line, I'd probably propose on the spot. right before I die of adorable overdose.

>>4913298

I feel really bad for the religious people (of all creeds) who keep it to themselves because these crazy fucks reflect really poorly on you guys...they're probably more bothersome to you than to agnostics and atheists.

>>4913296
I haven't gone to church in years but I was forced to for over half my life so it's easy to remember every time I've heard one thing preached but seen those same church members (especially my grandmother) do the exact opposite during the week and then go to church on Sunday and act like the perfect church lady.

>>4913305
They actually are, at least agnostics and atheists are open minded enough to hear me out if I have something to say. It's been my experience that these weirdos generally have no idea what they're talking about and always have sheit arguments because of it.

But uhhh, I've got no real horror stories to share.

Hell, my youth pastor was the total opposite of these people. Read all 7 HP books, big video game nerd, even plays Magic the Gathering.

So uhhh, fuckyeah?

I'd like to note here that any religious talk makes me really uncomfortable

>Friend invites me and another friend to a furry con
>Neither of us is furry but decide it might be interesting
>"LOL roadtrip" 12+ drive
>Get there, end up volunteering for the art show
>"eh, nothing else to do"
>Standing guard, checking for badges
>Notice old lady come up and start looking through the door
>"Urm, you need a badge to come it..."
>"Would you like to know the true name of God?"
>"I'm kinda busy here-"
>"He can save you."
>Say "I'm Catholic, so I think I'm good..." hoping she'll go away
>Goes on for another minute
>hands me pamphlet and walks off
>Show it to friend inside the art room
>Gets the guy in charge to call con staff
>Give the them a description and they find her just down the hall
>They kick her out the hotel

Fairly uneventful really, I just find it hilarious that someone would try to solicit someone AT A FURRY CONVENTION.

>sit in train with friend, wearing toned-down gothic lolita/country lolita
>a hobo-ish looking young woman asks us why we're dressed that way and says "they will get us"
>we ask her what she means
>she starts screaming some gibberish about demons and monsters and the devil and how they're all following her
>points at us and yells YOU'RE GOING TO DRAG ME TO HELL DON'T LIE
>suddenly she's quiet and starts rocking back and forth and silently chants Hare Krishna (wtf).
>it's our station and just as we're about to leave the train the screams "WHORES, TWO WHORES FROM THE UNDERWORLD! WHOOOOORES!!!"

I don't know either.

>>4913319

out of all the people I know, the woman who knew the most about Christianity was an atheist, going for her PhD in Anthropology. She owns about 4-6 different editions of the Bible.

your youth pastor sounds like a total bro!

>>4913283
Not an SMT fan, but I know of it and yeah THAT would be a fun experience.

>>4913298
I know how sucky that is. I'm the Southern Baptist anon a few posts above and below you. Being forced to go to church and seeing the very person that was so hellbent on it being an open hypocrite was just too much for me honestly. I stopped going to church and now I'm just casual "Hm? Oh yeah, God." type of person. Doesn't help that I'm a lesbian as well, my entire mother's side is Southern Baptist with quite a few of them being Deacons (one is a Pastor) and such so religious fear is pretty much why I haven't seen them face to face in over two years.

>>4913323

well sure, that's where all the heathens are.

>>4913033 We aren't allowed on the second level of our house
That's bullshit. Ghosts can't climb stairs, they cannot leave earth, literally

>>4913295

normally I would type it out when I'm trying to play the smart ass but I was too lazy to backspace. I replied to that anon because I was passing time. So have fun knowing you were "with me" on a false ideal. I don't care what you do in your family but ijs that I don't hit my parents; like at all. btw you know who nobody likes? Nobody likes the internet grammar nazi, so to you I say. fuck ur c0uch.

>>4913342

aw sweet, so you mean being on the second floor means I'm safe from ghosts?

>>4913342
Ghosts can haunt the upper floors of places. There are some that haunt hotels and those have multiple floors.

>>4913344

>>4913298
it's ok anon, I may not be religious at all. But I don't think all religious people are bad. Some of my good friends are christian and muslim, I may disagree with certain things in said religion(like the being gay is a sin, something in the koran about lying and violence if it means the word of god is installed)<--though those are the extremists but they aren't and they keep it to themselves(aside from traditions which I usually love to hear about) and I do as well.
not all religious people are batshit insane

the only story I have(that I remember in detail) isn't too exciting:
>be in gr.10 social studies
>have this christian girl from the states in class
>teacher starts talking about evolution(it did have something to do with the lesson)
>she stands up "Nope I'm not listening to this" covers her ears and storms out
Sure she didn't have to listen to it, but it was a bit of an over reaction
When I went to this catholic school in grade 5, there was this girl who ate tissue paper. Other than that they were all nice there, though my friend hacked into my neopets and stole all of my codstones. little bastard.

these dudes were at PAX this weekend promoting how gamers can still be christian and play all the games they want. werent forcing religion down anyones throat, nice dudes, funny, bro as fuck, and took pictures of and with cosplayers. everythingwentbetterthanexpected.jpeg

>>4913342

do tell me about your ghost friends. cause it seems to me like you seen a couple since you're pretty sure that they can't climb stairs, like literally.

Daniel 7:13-14 [13] On the first day of christmas adam shouted his creator's name JESUSSSS in hopes that his enemies would repent for their sins.

if you have any ghost friends anon it's not to late to repent. god is forgiving, but you must turn in those demons. all it take is for you to pick up that phone. so anon I ask you, who are you gonna call?

>>4913324
That's why I think they should re-open public institutions ... no joke.

My family is all non-religious and crazy religious people scare me.

> Mennonite grandmother loves my loli, says it's modest
>doesn't have a tv, can't work anymore (ovarian cancer)
>sits around knitting, baking, drinking tea all day
>wears dresses with petticoats and a weird (I think religious) headdress erryday
>bitch is the loliest lifestyler you've ever seen
I wish she wasn't going to die :(

Oh and
>cousins when they were little were raised VERY STRICTLY mennonite/christian parents are fanatics
>wore grey what-would-be-considered-"classic" jumperskirts with white blouses every time I saw them
>wasn't allowed in their house without a dress on

>>4913412
At first I aw'd then I sad'd

Your grandmother sounds adorable, I hope you spend as much time as possible with her.

I have a friend who was really offended by Bayonetta and the fact that you kill angels and gods, but LOVES Devil May Cry.
I tried to explain to her they were basically the same game and that she'd love Bayonetta, and that the gods and angels in Bayonetta are not based in real life in the slightest.

She still refused but then a friend of hers came in the conversation (this was on facebook) and started yelling about how he hates people butting in on his superior christian values, and went on to say how much he hates God of War for including sex minigames.

He then said his favorite game was Dead Space, I nearly facepalmed my head off.

Their collective reasoning seemed to be unless you were saving the world from evil, the game wasn't Christian enough and thus not worth playing. lol.

>>4913345
Yup
>>4913348
these stories aren't true
>>4913395
no, let me keep my ghost friends man! I need those

>>4913351
>>4913351

reaction images w/o words are like letting someone speak for you when the interview is about you. It just shows how mad you really are. tis ok tho at least you still got ur cheese.

>>4913038
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Shiiiiit

>>4913449
but anon
believing in ghosts is just as asinine as believing in god

>>4913361
Joke's on them because now those things are super cheap. Less than 1k for most of them.

>>4913298
I love this post so much.

Oh god, I used to sing the songs from the Sailor Moon musical under my breath when at school, just kinda when I was drawing or by myself or in art, and the christians thought I was hexing them or some shit. It was hilarious and I think I fell over laughing at the dean when she told me this.

Christian schools are shit, got out of there so fast man.

I have a fun one.
>only white girl (or non-asian) in a chinese church I went to with a friend
>taught songs about jesus to the kids because my english was the best in the church
>played pokemon and yu-gi-oh with the kids
>pastor loved pokemon and just making people happy in general
>in my experience, only old white people have bothered me about religion/said i'm going to hell/telling me I need me some jesus in my life
>fuck white people

>>4913476
I don't believe in ghosts, I'm just interested in supernatural stuff. I make some money by reading from hands and cards and cleaning people's houses from evil spirits (=I make stuff up).

>>4913497
I'd agree with this, except the craziest/most unreasonable/most superstitious Christians I've ever met have been Korean and have far surpassed the craziness I've witnessed from white people.

>>4913501
exploiting paranoid idiots.... i like it.

Live in Britain and the only religious wankers I've come across have been american / middle eastern. JW are no trouble in reality, just say youd on't give a shit and they move on.

/cgl/ relation of the following story: Halloween is costume fun time.

I had cultish religious neighbors who were up our ass every year for quite a while around Halloween. My family does a big Halloween set up, we get a ton of people at our house, it's all fun. They eventually got their 'church' to speak out against us.
They call us names, tell people we're Satan's henchmen, the daughter claimed our old black cat was trying to steal her soul, one year they held a protest outside our house to ward people away, professing about damnation and the evils of our family. That backfired on them because they got more people to show up at our house to see what the big deal was.
Now they hold a 'Harvest Party' where kids can play games and get all the candy they could ever want and then some, with the occasional 'join our church' message, to compete with our haunted house. Another backfire on their part, since kids will just go there for candy, then hit up our place for a quick scare.

I call them a cult because they aren't typical Christians, they have their own group and from what a few former members have told me they do crazy ass shit. Their preacher wears a crown and huge Mardi Gras like necklaces and robes, their beliefs are a weird mix of the Warren Jeffs Mormons and extreme Evangelical Christians, and they see seizures as 'talking with God'.

You know.. I haven't had any really weird shit happen to me involving religious people.

The only thing I can think of is when I was with a friend and his mother (who happens to be christian) and was quoting Firefly. Eventually I let slip a certain one of Kaylee's lines from the movie (you know the one). She got mildly upset.

That's really about it. Interestingly enough, my friend's mother is also our DM.

>>4913428
Thanks :) She's pulling through so far, getting chemo. Fucking strong lady she is. If you can survive the nazi regime, you can surely get through some crazy cells.

>>4913507
Another weird thing in my neighbourhood: white boys, mormon, who go around on the buses/in the malls and try to convert you. The weird thing: they speak in fluent mandarin to each other - only speak english to the convertee. It's the freakiest thing because they are at least a dozen young men whose job this is.

Any stories for me about crazy Christian Koreans?

>>4913507
Korean here. I absolutely don't know why most the KorAms I come across are Christian ... majority of native Kors are non religious.

Though the most common crazy Xtian I've met are the ones that protest at Planned Parenthood. Oh, Irish people.

>>4913501
>>4913501

rofl asshole, but hey I guess you're helping them sleep at night.

>>4913328
A God-tier bro

...see what I did there?

>>4913333
I was raised with it as well, Christian school, whole nine...hated it all, didn't even want to learn about it. Brotastic pastor previously mentioned got me back into it with a Halo tournament of all things.

Oh, I do have a story about a crazy homeless lady that claims God talked to her and dropped the moon to ground level though.

>walking towards car in church lot
>lady walks up to me and friends claiming the moon is following her
>says God told her the moon isn't millions of miles away and then dropped it to ground level in front of her
>then asks us if she can borrow a couple dollars

During my childhood, my Father was a very conservative Southern Methodist minster. Luckily for me, I was his 9th kid and he pretty much let me do what I want because he was in his 60's and tired of all that "being a parent" bullshit.

That being said, for years the entire congregation of our choice singled me out and preached to me for years. I had to sit through a an hour sermon at Sunday School because I happened to be reading Harry Potter.

I also had one lady from Church actually take my copy of Mortal Kombat from my room while she was watching me and refused to give it back because "it was violent and filled with Satan's influences." And because girls weren't suppose to play videogames.

I'm so glad I stopped going to church before I got into my weeb stage.

>be athiest since age 10
>hid it from my religious mom for almost 5 years
>she found one of my diarys
>oh shit y'all

I was "on restriction" for over a year but about 3 months or so into it i was "lol fuck that" and started blatently climbing out my room window. Eventually I made her sit down and listen to me explain myelf but shes still furious at me years later.

I found out about a week ago that shes never even read the story of genesis. allmyfury.tor

>>4913709
aaaaaaaaand i just realized i forgot to include the /cgl/ side of that story.

She found one of my diarys which was hidden with all my manga and a few Gothic and Lolita bibles. After that she claimed that all lolita's are pedophile ageplay sluts who sleep around for money and that the manga was corrupting my soul.

1.mom didnt let me bring my harry potter book to christian camp cause she thought it was full of magic/devil and would be confiscated

shes not against harry potter, shes seen all of the movies and read all of the books.

2. i have to go to church a few times every year even though ive stopped going regularly a few years ago. sometimes i keep going because we go to the asian supermarket afterwards.

3. superbitch who did the "ill look at you from a couple tables away, point, whisper and all of my friends will give a blank judgmental/laugh look at you" bullshit. last i heard, shes at a baptist university studying something like "church music". the craziest shit ever is that we look alike

>>4912994

Your buddy is my hero

>>4913709
>"on restriction"
ohhh my god. i had a friend who came from a very religious family (harry potter is the devil, halloween is the devil, yugioh is the devil)
and instead of getting grounded, she would be put "on restriction"
i never understood why the phrased it like that

also, i was always bummed that that same friend was never allowed to carve pumpkins with me or go trick or treating.
but instead she was allowed to draw on pumpkins and go to a "harvest festival" at her church and wear a costume and get candy from people there.
i never understood that. it's all the same thing, they're just calling it something different and slapping a big cross on it. how does that make it any less "satanic"

This thread made me grateful for my family. My dad was raised Catholic but didn't practice and my mom is "spiritual" but does not practice any organized Christianity. No pressure on either side, but if I ask they will tell me about it. Christian friends are nice, not pushy. Feels good, man.

Reading these stories really made me uncomfortable.

Pic Related to this thread.

Sweet and sour jesus, OP's picture makes me so scared for some reason....

>The only other manga he read was the Bible Manga and Serenity.
Oh wow, remember when /b/ was good and Serenity a meme?

>>4913771
'Harvest' and 'Fall' festivals are taking hold in schools to replace Halloween celebrations.
Just though I'd let you know.

>>4913874
I agree, anon... there's something that look so, so wrong about this picture and I don't even know why, but I can't look away...

>>4913917
/b/ was never good

>>4913917
WHOOPS CAN'T SHOW THAT IN A CHRISTIAN MANGA

>>4913874
>>4913927
I think because the tears and the pose of two of them sort of reminds me of some horrible Sonic porn I was exposed to on DA.

>>4913944
Quick! Someone photoshop Jesus behind them in a sexual way. Brings all new meaning to "Gods Love"

>>4913917
that was when /b/ was already shit but yes, I remember it. fun times

>Mom is super "MUST GO TO CHURCH" Christian.
> Dad's catholic, but doesn't go to church. Nascar>Church.
>Forced to go to church for years until I'm 16
>Mom causes a shitstorm for years because I like anime/manga and still wont go to church.
>Dad (who at this time lived in a different house because of divorce) encurages me to watch/read Anime/manga. Keep up with Pokemon/Digimon/ Adult swim.
>Years later I come out of the closet about being Trans.
>Mom is totally a bro about it, supports my choices, helps me with therapy.
>Dad doesn't get it, deny's it at all, says I need to go to church.

Yea. My parents are pretty screwed up. ._.

>>4913771
>>4913919
When I first heard about Harvest festivals I thought it was some kind of PC bullshit (must not offend our non-Christian brethrens). Yet it was Christianists giving it a secular name! The irony overloads my hipster circuits.