>>40044475
I was raised Catholic. When I was 14 I realized I was attracted to men and after a brief crisis due to being convinced God would smite me for this, I thought about the religion some more and became an atheist. Not that I told my parents about any of that. It wouldn't be another year or two until I realized I wanted to be a girl.

Having matured as a person since then, I feel that sort of hardline rejection of spirituality among queer people is sort of stifling. Like I get that those sort of revisionist churches which repeat over and over that Jesus' only teaching was to love thy neighbor or whatever are kind of shallow, but even outside of organized religion I feel the only acceptable way to express belief in any non-material reality among queer people is ironic /r/atheism satanism/witchcraft. It seems like there's no room for people philosophically engaged with religious modes of thinking because the entire concept has been reduced ideologically to homophobia/transphobia, when really I find it quite easy to imagine a "god" or some karmic force finding our relationships to human social constructs completely irrelevant to our morality. Does anyone else feel like this?