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I keep thinking about this podcast that started by explaining how the idea that Mary was an unwed mother is wrong, and ended with a cool theological point.

Ancient Jewish wedding ceremonies had two separate parts.

After the first ceremony, the couple is officially married. Any children they have will be legitimate. If you want to end the relationship, you need to go through divorce proceedings.

But at this point, the couple does not live together. The woman remains in her father's household, and in the three to twelve months before the second part of the ceremony, the husband is supposed to be preparing a home for his wife.

After the second part of the ceremony is when the wife moves in with her husband and officially lives under his protection instead of her father's.

The Annunciation happens after Mary and Joseph have completed the first wedding ceremony, but before they've completed the second. This is why Joseph considers divorce proceedings when he learns of Mary's pregnancy--they're already married--but after he's reassured by the angel, he takes Mary into his home--they complete the second part of the wedding ceremony.

The cool thing is that this ceremony makes sense of the analogy of Jesus as the Bridegroom who is "going to prepare a place for you".

The Church is the Bride of Christ. Jesus and the Church are already married. We just don't live together yet.

The end of time is going to be the completion of the "wedding of the Lamb", where the Church officially lives in the same place as Christ the Bridegroom.

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GRRM may write more women than Tolkien, but as a woman I would feel much safer in Tolkien's world, and around the author himself

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Isn’t it just the coolest thing that we can talk to Jesus directly? Like… we don’t need temples or blood sacrifices or offerings or idols.. we can just go the creator of the whole universe and tell Him everything on our hearts and minds. How amazing is that?

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CS Lewis was actually so real for depicting Hell as a place with neither music nor silence filled only discordant Noise. i have no clue where he got that concept from. i'm drawing a blank

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One of my favourite things about The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe is that CS Lewis very obviously knew that kids were going to go hunting in cupboards and wardrobes for Narnia because multiple times he very clearly states that the kids did not close the door behind them when they climbed in the wardrobe because that would be stupid and dangerous. He knew some kid would lock themselves in the closet and he obviously didn’t want to be responsible for that.

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absolutely flabbergasting to see people who have so enthusiastically succumbed to despair. like okay denethor, but some of us are gonna actually face the armies of mordor in battle nonetheless.

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I know that a lot of you are banking on having little to do with your nephews/neices as children and then becoming their "cool aunt" once they become teenagers, but I think that you will find, upon analysis, that a random middle-aged woman stepping into a whole-ass teenager's life and arbitrarily declaring herself to be a "cool aunt" is, in fact, the least cool thing it's possible to do.

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It's cool how the last 4 years have been a nonstop orchestra of "Orange Man Fascist" but all but 14 Democrats in the Senate voted to let the FBI access your internet history without a warrant lol

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State sanctioned murder is always wrong and that includes euthanasia. No amount of safeguards to prevent it from being used for eugenics will change the fact that it's state sanctioned murder. A single wrongful death is one death too many.

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I keep seeing all this stuff about how "veggiestales is good, actually, if you ignore the unfortunate Christian propaganda" and I don't know how to tell you this, but the fact that it is Christian is what makes it good, actually. Hope this helps ����✌️

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unpopular opinion maybe but waking up to rain on a quiet weekend is quite literally the most magical thing in the world

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𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔩𝔲𝔩𝔩 𝔬𝔣 𝔪𝔦𝔡-𝔰𝔢𝔭𝔱𝔢𝔪𝔟𝔢𝔯

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— Donte Collins

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"not all men" you're right. Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the son of God, would never treat me like this