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christianity is fine with liberation as long as it doesn't actually disrupt ideology lol but the problem with this is that liberation is naturally disruptive. ideology cannot fathom disruption as being an act of love because it does not inhabit such a language. dogma can only understand disruptive liberation as destruction because it only engages in a vocabulary of destruction itself. and yet, jesus was disruptive: he destroyed the tables of money-changers in the temple not because he wanted to destroy judaism, but because he loved it so much.

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Hi! this is all so interesting and is genuinely making me reflect very much; you're one of if not the most insightful people talking about religion out there, I've no doubt about it. I wanted to ask, do you have any thoughts on how this friction you speak of and the reality of christianity as an oppressive force manifests itself in the cultures of peoples who were violated by it/it was forced on? (I confess I'm thinking specifically of the syncretism and catholicism of latin america, especially in light of folk traditions but also the rise (and fall) of liberation theology there.)

i think that the incorporation of liberation theology into more mainstream forms of christian ideology are anesthetizing its revolutionary impulse. part of this is the fault of white theologians who are unable to engage with the more radical potentials of liberation theology: and why would they, since dogma upholds the privilege which certain groups are given in the church? just as christianity benefits from and thus cannot engage with its own supremacy, white theologians benefit from systems of ideological supremacy in christianity and cannot engage with it effectively without undermining themselves. black and brown theologians have been gesturing to this for decades and it still has yet to take root in any meaningful way in methodology.

i as a gringo can never engage with liberation theology in its original form: this is the nature of christianity, it will be transformed by my practice of it. if i try to engage with latin american liberation theology in a latin american context as a gringo, unless i am specifically deconstructing my own inevitable condescension to people who are allowed less privileged than i am in the structure of the ecclesia i am not really doing anything revolutionary through my contribution. i think i'm off the main point of your question here, though: to be sure, in my own literature i am sure to clarify my criticisms of liberation theology are not of its roots as a means of liberating those who are oppressed on grounds of race and class, but the way in which it has been coopted by ideology, and the way in which it itself coopts inevitably from the oppressed (just as christianity is itself coopted from the oppressed).

marcella althaus-reid explores this problem in detail in this essay from the good news of the body, which i highly recommend reading as a piece of criticism of liberation theology. unfortunately i don't have much to recommend in terms of further criticism, because most criticism of liberation theology comes from people who don't like its use of marxism or see it as too radical, which i think is emphatically not the issue. liberation theology is attempting to retroactively fix a system it recognizes as broken, because christianity is structured in such a way that it cannot be fixed by external forces. but ultimately i don't think you can fix the system at all. christianity has to be broken open to be fixed. the core of marxism, from which liberation theology derives, is revolution: thus christianity must be revolutionized in order to be fixed, which involves its total deconstruction. but liberation theology cannot embody this impulse without also deconstructing itself since it is part of christianity and still relies on christianity for its ideological basis. but i still think that it is the way forward in terms of christian praxis.

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When was the last time you ate something green and NO GREEN M&M'S DON'T COUNT

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look at this wonderful gif of scallops getting scared and scattering like a flock pigeons

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yesss im always saying this like sure i can give you logical advice but at the end of the day you can just do what you want to do until youre sick of it. cant move on cant switch gears til youre sick of it so go ahead and indulge

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did like 1 hr 30 mins of static bike because i wanted to watch 2 severance episodes instead of just 1. i havent exercised in like a whole year. i cant feel my legs. what i do feel is like i found an autism exploit

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remedy figures any resistances, any realities of pain, as haunted sites of failure. the root for healing—גהה—means, really, to remove. and of the remainder? of the nonhealed? of the natal, those still in egypt? those in the sands of šava? the fugitivity of pain, the saccharine of staying-sick. the evil ruah has the same feeling as home

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internet connection wizard

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there is an air of faggotry in the vatican

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It's easy to call Grimes stupid. But if I were Grimes I would also make every single choice she made in the order she made it in because I would be Grimes and I would experience Grimes's life in the order it occurred. In this way we are all trapped inside of ourselves, and none of us know just how stupid we fucking are.

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go to the sea for me and send me oceanic tidings 🙏 i love the sea miss the sea

I grew up in a place called 'Sea-land', so the sea and I are lifelong friends. However, she tends to be a bit grumpy when it's almost spring and I show up acting like I didn't just neglect her all winter.

So today, I didn't intend to bother her with conversation, but only to reach out my hand for her to sniff, like one might do upon first meeting a cat.

However, as I approached, she spoke:

ASK YOUR QUESTIONS, MORTAL, FOR THEY WILL BURN YOUR MOUTH IF YOU DO NOT SPEAK THEM.

Mortal? I asked the sea if she is not also a mortal being, as someday, the earth will not be here anymore.

She said:

IN THE BEGINNING, THE SPIRIT OF GOD HOVERED OVER THE FACE OF THE WATERS. AND HE DOES SO NOW, AND AT THE VERY END OF ALL THE THINGS YOU COMPREHEND, HE WILL DO SO STILL.

The waters? I always assumed that was, like, a metaphor for the void, the chaos, the emptiness before the world as we know it was formed.

THAT IS A COMMON MISUNDERSTANDING.

Really?

IT WAS ACTUALLY SPECIFICALLY ME, THE NORTH SEA, BETWEEN MAINLAND EUROPE AND GREAT BRITAIN.

So you're telling me that there was a mainland Europe and a Great Britain and a North Sea before there was-

HAVE YOU NO RESPECT FOR MYSTERY? LEAVE ME BE.

ALSO, TELL TUMBLR USER SUBWAY-DOVE I LOVE HIM AND WISH HIM A PLEASANT WEEKEND.

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🛸 Aftonsparv 🛸

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thats ok. she didnt like it. #prematureejaculation

I always wanted the evil grandma from the merge game ads but she would never be seen with a loser like me