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Our Moloch

#culture #religion | It was the sacrifice we as a culture made, and continually make, to our demonic god. We guarantee that crazed man after crazed man will have a flood of killing power readily supplied him. We have to make that offering, out of devotion to our Moloch, our god. The gun is our Moloch. We sacrifice children to him daily—sometimes, as at Sandy Hook, by directly throwing them into the fire-hose of bullets from our protected private killing machines, sometimes by blighting our children’s lives by the death of a parent, a schoolmate, a teacher, a protector. Sometimes this is done by mass killings (eight this year), sometimes by private offerings to the god (thousands this year).

2 years ago | View Shared by tei

The Story of Noah’s Ark, Retold | The New Yorker

#religion #art | God’s love of her creations had eroded imperceptibly over time. But the way she felt about Noah- it was a new way to feel.

2 years ago | View Shared by tei

Mormon visits: Episode 8 - The Rationalizer

#religion | How about this then?” I continued, “You don’t know what the Holy Spirit is or is not going to tell you to do. So how about you take them with you. Don’t read them, but just don’t throw them away. If one day the Holy Spirit says to look at them then they are there for you.” “In that case I can just look on the Internet” USA guy said. “No, I don’t think that’s a good idea,” I told him. “There are a lot of emotional people on the Internet making arguments from their emotions. Not only is this not a good way to decide what is true you will find that there are people out there who will be outright offensive. I don’t want you to be put off by it, and I wouldn’t want you to get upset either. So why not take it, and if the Holy Spirit tells you to, then read it.”

3 years ago | View Shared by tei

Hilary Mantel · Some girls want out: spectacular saintliness · LRB 4 March 2004

#religion #eatingdisorders | I don’t think holy anorexia is very different from secular anorexia. I wish it were. It ought to be possible to live and thrive, without conforming, complying, giving in, but also without imitating a man, even Christ: it should be possible to live without constant falsification. It should be possible for a woman to live – without feeling that she is starving on the doorstep of plenty – as light, remarkable, strong and free. As an evolved fish: in her element, and without scales.

3 years ago | View Shared by tei

Heidi Thompson on Twitter: "Pastors on the steps of #StJohnsChurch calling for end to police brutality, solidarity with #DCProtests. “God is always on the side of the oppressed. Mr. President, I promise your hands are too small to box with God.” https

#religion #justice | "Mr. President, I promise your hands are too small to box with God.”

4 years ago | View Shared by tei

This Is a Prayer for Imbolc. This Is a Prayer for Resistance. | hecatedemeter

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4 years ago | View Shared by tei

rosefox | "Come in, you and your heart sit down"

#religion | "Like all basic politenesses (please, thank you, excuse me, etc.), it's fundamentally about recognizing that other people are real people whose thoughts and feelings and bodies matter. "Please" means "I realize you may not want what I want"; "thank you" means "I realize you didn't have to do what you just did"; "excuse me" means "I realize your time/attention/personal space are currently taken up with something that isn't me". Politeness requires even extremely solipsistic people to at least pretend that other people are real. If you make a habit of it, you might come to believe it, which in turn makes society a nicer place to be. But this idea of knocking on one's own heart, hoping to be let in, reminds me that we are not always aware of ourselves as real people whose thoughts and feelings and bodies matter. That there are a lot of times when we shut ourselves down, shut ourselves out, don't even think to seek out and spend time with ourselves."

4 years ago | View Shared by tei

Migrant Children Are Suffering. Christians Can Help. - The Atlantic

#religion #activism | We know exactly where Christ is, because he told us. He’s with the sick and the jailed and the hungry. He’s in those camps with those suffering children. And we need to be there, too.

4 years ago | View Shared by tei

Church, Christianity, and the long shadow of “hot Jesus” - Vox

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5 years ago | View Shared by tei

Behold, The Millennial Nuns | HuffPost Highline

#religion | An article about the resurgence of young women becoming nuns (or briefly thinking they want to be nuns.)

5 years ago | View Shared by tei

Hebrew Roots/Holy Days/Passover/Service - Wikibooks, open books for an open world

#religion | I was looking for the song we sang at the passover seder so here it is

5 years ago | View Shared by tei

James 5:1-6 - Warning to Rich Oppressors - Now - Bible Gateway

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6 years ago | View Shared by tei

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