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vince700 · 2 years ago
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Do we know ourselves like God does
1. Jesus shows the rich young ruler that he does not know himself. Jesus reveals that he is comparing himself with others but not comparing himself with God. The ten commandments only reveal that we all fall short of God’s righteousness. 2. The young rich man did not understand who Jesus the Eternal King of Kings was, so he was not willing to sell all he had and followed Jesus. No one has…
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campgender · 2 months ago
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from A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia Levings (2024)
Dating Allan felt like a plan I was falling into, rather than one I developed. Allan led the way, always a step faster than I expected. My emotions struggled to catch up, always a step behind. But I knew from nine years of lessons that what mattered was what happened—not how I felt about it.
Within a week, we’d been out to dinner three times and onto the Spruance for a tour of the ship. As we stood on the bow next to the giant gun, we watched the portlights and saw two falling stars.
“Here’s another first,” he said, tipping my chin up to his. His kiss was a soft petal on my lips, and a bloom of warmth spread down my neck and across my shoulders. He wrapped his arms around me and breathed into my hair.
I felt my bones collapse like those little skeleton toys. Allan held me up.
Now I knew this was my first kiss. What happened with Troy didn’t count because of how it felt. I’d re-virgined myself with repentance. Sweet kisses in the starlight were God’s reward.
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mothofmany · 1 year ago
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To Train Up a Child is TBMC
To Train Up a Child is TBMC
To Train Up a Child is TBMC
To Train Up a Child is TBMC
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menlove · 1 year ago
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have to do a paper focusing on modern religion instead of religious/cultural history i have suffered more than jesus
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obrother1976 · 1 year ago
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about to read "to train up a child". this blog is gonna be insane soon.
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personal-blog243 · 2 years ago
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Some thoughts about the Duggar documentary:
My childhood was not NEARLY as strict as the Duggars. I was raised in a republican controlled state (Tennessee, near Arkansas where the Duggar’s live) and I am from a republican Christian family; but I was public schooled, my parents used contraception, I was a cheerleader, I was fully vaccinated, they believed in divorce, I wore pants, I watched secular movies, tv, music, etc. as long as it wasn’t rated R.
Arguably the central theme of the documentary is the prevalence of abuse. I have never been raped so I can’t speak on that issue. When these parents say they want to protect their children from sexual abuse I believe them.
However, I think the physical hitting of children is a widespread issue in EVERY society since the dawn of time. Religion does offer a very convenient systemic endorsement of hitting kids, but plenty of non religious parents do it too. Pretty much every parent I know (regardless of religion or politics) believes that hitting kids is an absolutely mandatory basic requirement if you want your children to be good people. If you don’t hit your kids, many people I know will call you a bad, lazy, careless parent. I was not hit nearly as often as many kids I know, but I don’t think I deserved the way I was treated.
I have been at so many gatherings where I knew kids were being hit in the other room and I didn’t know what to do. I am complicit.
(Also please do not make any mean jokes about “white people” or “religious people” or “rural people” being inherently backwards or stupid or abusive or liking incest. Please be respectful when discussing these topics and acknowledge these people are victims of a terrible system and do not make light of incest please.)
Side notes: I think the title is a reference to the song “stained glass masquerade” by casting crowns. If you want the Mormon equivalent of this documentary watch “Keep Sweet, Pray, and Obey” on Netflix.
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angelx1992 · 2 years ago
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an-unanonymous-messenger · 3 days ago
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Here's a little message for all of those who are beginning to evangelise. You may not like it, but it is something to look out for. God bless!
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pastored123 · 12 days ago
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From the Mundane to the Marvelous
Another excerpt from my soon to be released book, Turning Around Christianity. In the winter of 1998, I was privileged to preach at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church in St. Louis, Missouri. The sermon on that Sunday morning was titled: What’s Holding You Back? Ed Schneider Here’s a transcribed excerpt. “Good morning church. Blessings to each and everyone of you. What a wonderful day it is to hear…
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pastorjeremynorton · 6 months ago
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Bridging the Gap Between Discipleship and Leadership Development
Is something missing in your church’s leadership? Discipleship alone isn’t enough. Discover how bridging the gap with mentorship and practical leadership training can transform your church’s future. #ChurchLeadership #Discipleship #Mentorship #Faith
Discovering the Missing Piece in Church Leadership Have you ever felt like something was missing in your church’s approach to leadership? If you were raised in an evangelical church, there was likely Biblical teaching, programs for all ages, and a strong focus on the Gospel—a standard discipleship model in Western Christianity. However, a crucial difference has emerged between discipleship and…
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i-will-not-be-caged · 2 years ago
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Just saw the phrase “take your thoughts captive” and threw up a little in my mouth
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thegreenmeridian · 6 months ago
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Idk lads I think what really makes me insane is like. There are sensible people, who will see a US media article about Black People Do Crime or a British media article about Trans People Are Perverts and think to themselves “hmm, the heavily ingrained societal bias is influencing the media reporting and a lot of these sources are from organisations like Protect the Whites/Radfem-Evangelical Alliance”.
These same people will see articles from Qatari state media or wherever else and go “if this article is using National Jew Murder Society as a source, the reports of Israel committing a genocide and training dogs to rape prisoners must be true and definitely aren’t at all influenced by millennia of the Christian and Muslim world’s most intensely ingrained bigotry”.
There’s just… there’s no thought, no hint of a musing, that maybe, just maybe, the vitriolic hate aimed at the one Jewish nation on earth might possibly be influenced by antisemitism. There’s no thought at all that maybe sources need checking, maybe a country that categorically refuses to extradite known war criminals isn’t the best judge of war crimes, maybe a dictatorship that had “genocide the Jews” as a stated goal might not be a reliable source of statistics.
Not a single bloody thought. Not one brain cell is firing to say “Jew hatred is so deeply ingrained in my culture, maybe this is a factor in what people are saying and what I’m willing to believe”.
There is so much about all this that is making me lose my damn mind but this particular flavour of hypocrisy is one of the worst.
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drdemonprince · 1 month ago
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The New Atheist Movement posited that the greatest source of oppression and needless harm on the planet is the presence of people holding incorrect beliefs -- rather than understanding that structural abuses such as enslavement, assault, and war are caused by capitalist and colonialist incentives, which have often been justified and carried about by The Church, they located the problem in the The Church and its adherents' inaccurate worldviews. Because they lacked a decolonial frame, they had no reason to distinguish between the abuses of, say, the Catholic Church and the actions of a handful of CIA-trained operatives who happened to be Muslim, and blamed everything from the 9/11 attacks to the ritualistic abuses of young women in Evangelical Churches on the adherence to "religion." The damage wasn't the power that the US, its proxies, and its colonialst forebears held, or the greed that drove their plundering of the world; the problem was that people were foolish and superstitious and did harm wantonly because a Sky Man told them to. And so, in this worldview, the only solution to abuse and the only way to set the world straight is for individuals to stop thinking wrongly and to start thinking correctly -- meaning rationally, which of course, as Atheists, they believed they had the best authority to define. And that's what's really wrong with the New Atheist Movement and its offshoots -- because many of the points they make about religion, especially structural religion, actually could have some merit if they were more economically and politically literate when it comes to who wields power and why they wield it the ways they do. But instead of working to dismantle unjust systems of power and decolonize, the New Atheists believed it was their ethical duty to just argue with people and make them think more "rationally" or whatever on an individualistic level, which is more than just useless, it's liberal and often plays out in downright colonial ways itself.
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anexperimentallife · 1 year ago
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The US far right has been working on their plan since AT LEAST the 1960s, when I was a kid listening to evangelicals talking about their plan to take over the US, and eventually the world. It's called "Christian Dominionism," and it's a fascist ideology which goes hand in glove with the GOP's plans.
Although it was not expressed so much to the world at large, this plan was OPENLY and FREQUENTLY discussed in far right circles. We kids, if we asked about it, were told that it was "God's Will." Ask any exvangelical about it, and they'll confirm. (Part of why I know so much about these dangerous and deluded folks is I WAS ONE OF THEM in my youth.)
And where has that plan gotten them? Well, the GOP recently released a hundreds of pages long document filled with their intentions if they win--including a nationwide abortion ban and a repeal of anti-discrimination laws, among other things.
Trump has already signaled his intent to create a military dictatorship if elected, by repealing laws against using the military against US citizens on US soil sp he can deploy them against dissenters, etc., and if the GOP pick up a few more congressional seats, he can do it. The GOP has already pushed to repeal presidential term limits, and Trump has indicated he'd like to be president for life.
So I'm amazed at all the people who think withholding their vote and letting the GOP win is going to somehow fix things and "push the Dems left."
You wanna know how to push US politics leftward? You're not gonna like it, because it takes actual work beyond stomping your foot and pouting and performatively showing everyone how "pure" you are by refusing to vote.
You have to start the same way the far right did (and again, they've been OPENLY talking about and pursuing this plan since I was a kid in the 1960s, AT LEAST)--they started by getting the most extreme right wingers they possibly could into any position they could. Positions like school board member, police chief, sherrif, city prosecuter, city council member, municipal judge, mayor, governor, hell, fucking dog catcher.
They encouraged far right extremists to become police officers and military personnel and work their way up the ranks to the point at which even the famously-racist FBI reported that major city police departments across the nation were pretty much taken over by members of white supremacist organizations.
In formerly reasonable churches, right wingers pushed for the hiring and training of more and more right wing pastors and mire right-wing theology.
More affluent right-wingers bought local papers and broadcasters, and as their political power grew, they changed laws to make it easier for a single entity to control the news--until now a mere handful of entities own nearly every major media outlet in the US.
And then they used every victory as leverage for the next one, and worked their way up. I mean, there's more, like the capitalization on economic and social anxiety and their inentional exacerbation of same so they could take advantage of it, but that's intertwined with the rest.
Essentially, they got this far because they put the work in.
If the US left is going to turn things around (and if it's not already too late), we've got to do the same, but it takes RESEARCHING and PROMOTING your local and state candidates, attending city council and school board meetings, and shit like that. It's actual fucking work to fix a country.
And then, after you've done all that--and after you've shown up to primaries to try to get any non-authoritarian leftist candidate you can nominated--then you vote for the leftest folks you're able to in the general. If there are no remotely leftist candidates, you vote for the centrist or right winger who will do the least damage.
Again, that's what the US far right has been doing for decades. Taking action. Wherever possible, taking new ground, but when they couldn't do that, ceding as little ground as possible. If they couldn't win, they made damn sure to do everything in their power to try to keep actual decent human beings from winning.
Actually doing the work doesn't have the emotional satisfaction of a grand gesture, but it definitely shows who is serious about making a difference and who would rather let everything burn than sully their imagined purity by voting for anything less than perfection.
Listen, Trump is not going to end the genocide in Gaza--in fact he increased tensions between the Israeli occupation and Palestine. And the GOP will never be persuaded. Hell, they want to let Russia take Ukraine and declare open season on asylum seekers.
The Dems suck. But the GOP is far, far worse, and will do MORE damage, and kill FAR MORE innocents. And if allowed to do so, will make it even harder to change the system than it is now. They've already PUBLICLY ADMITTED that their only chance of victory is keeping people from voting. Don't play into their hands.
Under current circumstances, you know what the Dems are going to do if Biden and a bunch of other Dems lose for not being pure enough? You think they'll be all like, "Oh, no! The left sure taught us a lesson by handing the country to the GOP! We'd better shift to the left!"
No. They're going to sip champagne in their multi-million dollar mansions and have meetings about how they need to move FURTHER RIGHT to win elections, because the left doesn't vote.
And if the US becomes a military dictatorship, most of the high ranking ones will simply take their fortunes and leave.
Yup, it'd sure teach ol' Joe a lesson to force him to spend the rest of his days sipping cocktails on the Riviera.
Look beyond the single battle and think strategically. That's how the GOP keeps gaining power. And refusing to act strategically is why the left is losing. We cannot take the hill we want right now. But if we lose the hills we've already taken, we risk losing the entire goddamn war.
So fucking vote. Work to get every leftist you can in any office you can. And if you can't do that, support the one who will do the least harm.
And if it takes voting for that shitbag Biden to keep Trump and the GOP out, hold your fucking nose and pull the goddamn lever.
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libraford · 9 months ago
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Oh.... oh shit.
Maybe they think I'm rude because my voice is lower now.
Because I'm trying to train myself out of the evangelical baby voice that I had to have for retail.
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elbiotipo · 8 months ago
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The US does support Israel for ideological reasons, and there is an evangelical and zionist movement that supports it for ideological and religious reasons this is true, but there are also very clear material interests involved. Israel is an eager and hungry buyer for the US military-industrial complex. The incredibly expensive gold-plated F-35 fighter jets are bought by Israel to bomb defenseless refugee camps and targets all over the Middle East. And those are only the most expensive and notable example. All sorts of weapons, from "crowd control" (read: police brutality) to munitions for all of Israel's extremely expensive military systems are bought from the US and ocassionally other militaries (though the US is by FAR the largest seller) in multi-billion dollar contracts.
There is BIG, BIG money in supporting Israel, big fat contracts, incredibly delicate and complex supply chains with lots of people involved. And of course, these military-industrial corporations get practical testing of their weapons when they're openly used by Israel, which the US can use to refine its own military. There are also a lot of other material benefits the US gets by supporting Israel, from intelligence in the wider Middle East to using it as a base to implement US interests in the region from the economic to the political and access to a high-tech economy completely aligned with their interests (all of course, supported by the US and the Israel apartheid system)
When we see the US bending over backwards to support Israel, it's not that they're controlled by it like dumb anti-semitic conspiracies, in fact, it's Israel which is dependent on the US: Israel is a VERY useful asset to the US, in a very real way a gigantic military base for the US and a way to support with money and "experience" its military-industrial complex which it uses to implement Usamerican interests around the world. Israel even does it too like a tiny United States, selling weapons and training militaries and police around the world.
All Usamerican presidents have in one way or other supported Israel, even if Biden's administration is exceptionally callous and fanatical on its blind support for it. But Biden, Trump or whoever, the material interests I've mentioned are still standing. It will take a lot of effort to dismantle them, but it needs to be done, for the freedom of Palestinians and in that way too, the freedom of the rest of the world, because what is done in Israel is what is later used by the US military and its allies to enforce the current imperial system. Always keep in mind this, behind the suffering we see today there is a lot of racist supremacist ideology and human cruetly, but also and more importantly, geopolitical reasons and hard cash. This is not done because of sheer evil, even if the results are indeed evil by any measure of the word. It's done because of the cold logic of empire, and we must understand it to bring it down.
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