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Amasis

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2023 3:56 am


"Jealousy is generally bad, yeah, but not one of the unforgivable sins." He glanced briefly to the ground under their feet in contemplation of her question. Jealousy was normal, human. It was more what came out of it that mattered. No one ever improved from thinking themselves fundamentally a bad person.

Not honestly.

Not healthily.

There was something about the way some priests and others considered the concept of human nature as innately, irrevocably sinful and damned--irredeemable in every aspect except through Christ--that had never sat right with him.

"You're not awful," was his prompt response, as quick as it was heartfelt. An echo of his train of thought, "you're human. And what matters is that you know better now." But for her actual question, "you can greet God, yes. There are..." a vague waving gesture with one hand, "technically rules and procedures for it, but I've always been more of a 'earnest prayer in the closet'-supporting kind of priest, if that's more comfortable for you."

She would probably appreciate some guidance, however--

"Prayer is between you and God. The amount of formality you use is ultimately up to you. God is above petty things like caring how you greet Him. You could say 'yo, God, it's me, your bestie', and I don't think it'd matter to Him as much as the fact that you're talking to Him."

stari_maga
PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2023 6:37 pm


“There’s unforgivable sins?”

Oh. She couldn’t hide the disappointment on her face. “Starseeding’s gotta be up there, right?” She asked. At the very least, it was murder, and if you considered starseeds to be souls? She wasn’t sure that they were, but that could get even dicier.

She sighed through her nose, looking up at the sky like she’d see God with all the answers standing there in the stars.

“Hi, God my bestie?”

Might as well try to talk to him anyway. She could ask for forgiveness, and see how it went.

“I mean I guess you’re kinda a new friend but that’s okay. I have lots of new friends that end up as my besties really quick, you could be one too. I mean, especially since you’re always around or whatever.”

She glanced at Ransomite for guidance, raising her eyebrows just enough to show that she had no idea what she was doing.

“I’m not gonna like grovel about being a terrible person cause that’s unhelpful,” she shot Ransomite a thumbs up, since she’d heard him, although she still looked very confused, “but I’ve done some messed up stuff. Like, really messed up. And like, I’m working really hard to turn it around and become a better person, and now I’m still messing up and I hate it. If you really know everything, you know what I’m talking about.”

A moment passed. Nectaris’s shoulders dropped a little bit. The lines relaxed out of her brows. She felt very small and very young, and a little bit alone for all that she wasn’t. Still, she meant every word when she whispered, “And I’m sorry. I want to do better. I’ll do everything I can to try and be better.”

Even if she didn’t feel forgiven, she felt a little bit lighter laying it all out like that.

“Okay. I tried it,” she told Ransomite, like that wasn’t obvious.


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Amasis

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 24, 2023 4:22 am


"And you did a good job." Ransomite's response was prompt, earnest, and honest. "God doesn't care about formality the way the Church does." He had offered her an encouraging thumbs-up earlier, when she'd given him one. Seeing her shoulders droop like that made him wish he had his own stash of tea and snacks to offer her, instead, but he'd do what he could.

'I've done some messed up stuff'.

She wasn't the only one.

"And for what it's worth." A pause. "Starseeding isn't one of the unforgiveable sins, and breaking a Commandment like theft or murder doesn't mean you've committed one of them. The unforgivable sins are really one sin broken down into parts, the sum of which is rejection of the Holy Spirit." He took a deep breath. The topic of Unrepentantable Sin was surprisingly hotly debated. "Blasphemy, rejection of the offer of salvation, that sort of thing."

stari_maga
PostPosted: Sat Jun 24, 2023 8:59 am


Oh. Blasphemy and stuff. Nectaris did actually breathe out a sigh of relief hearing that, since that didn't sound like the kind of thing that she'd done.

Murder and corruption still had to be pretty up there, but she'd done it. She'd asked to be forgiven. Now it was all up in God's court, she guessed.

Which, like, left her and Rasomite down here on Earth, together.

"Thanks for talking to me about this stuff," she told him. "You make it seem more, like, personal than some of the stuff I was reading."

Which made sense. There was only so much that websites could do.

"But, like, before I run off into the shadows, you sure you don't want me to see if I can get you purified?" She wasn't trying to be pushy about it, but she also thought it'd be weird not to offer, at this point. They'd just been talking about how the Negaverse was bad, about how it made you sin.

"You know a lot about being a good person. You're nice. You don't deserve to be caught up in all this Chaos crap."


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