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teaboot: Still not Christian but *gestures vaguely around to the six churches within five blocks of my house* Why is it always about Jesus’ Suffering and God's Sacrifice? Where is Mary? Where is the one pure- hearted woman whose reward for goodness and virtue was to have her baby boy tortured and killed as a warning? Do you think Mary the Virgin, Mary the Mother, Mary the human ever regretted being good enough to earn attention of her God? Do you think she ever quietly, privately, resented her faith? Cursed her fate to be raised on a pedestal, carved into history as beautiful, weeping, covered in gold, cradiing the body of her child? How would she feel today, to step into a church and see above the pulpit, larger than life, the glossy painted likeness of her boy, thin and bleeding, looking to the heavens to a Father who would not spare him? Was it terrible for Mary? Did she hate her God, in the end? Or did she stand tall to the last breath, a reluctant but obedient witness, faithful despite everything? Was as she ever torn between her faith and her heart? Her love and her fear? The choice between loss or betrayal? It would be terrible if she was in torment, but would be terrible if she wasnt apocrypals: Every day in every way a new Tumblr user accidentally invents Catholicism