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From Richard Rohr's The Universal Christ
Reading this really changed everything for me.
It is far more fulfilling to think of Jesus dying on the cross as an act of solidarity, rather than one of sacrifice.
In this essay, I will...
#christian#christianity#yeshua#jesus christ#richard rohr#the universal christ#christian universalism
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"Through God, the world around us—everything that is—seems to be in dialogue with us, whether we enjoy it or not, whether we trust it or not. I hope that is as helpful to you as it is to me. Even when our lives feel meaningless, we can still trust and be confident that Someone is talking, and that Someone is also listening when we talk. To be outside of that constant interface is probably what it means to not believe. Every time you choose love or positively connect with someone or something, you are in touch with the Divine Personality. You do not even need to call it “God”—God does not seem to care at all. It is equally important to say that to negatively connect, to hate, fear, or oppose, is not to meet the Divine Personality. Thus we are strongly warned against such negativity in every way, and such things are called “sin” or even the state of “hell,” which is not really a geographical place but a very real state of consciousness. All rewards and punishments must primarily be seen as first of all now—and inherent in good and bad behavior."
-Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ
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I guess the real glorious evolution was the homoerotic yearning we made along the way
#arcane season 2#arcane season 2 spoilers#arcane#caitvi#jayvik#someone sedate right now#what do you mean they had each other in every universe?#literally the show cannot start and end without them jesus christ someone sedate me right now#at least my lesbians are happy
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I can never be separate from god, except in my own mind
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I recommend reading The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr!
It speaks of Jesus dying on the cross as an act of solidarity with the human experience, more so than a sacrifice.
God came down onto earth and allowed Himself to be poor, so we don't have to try so hard to be rich.
God came down onto earth and allowed Himself to not be liked by people, so that we don't have to try so hard to be liked by people.
He persevered through human pain - physical and emotional - so that we know we can persevere it to.
i often found the framing of 'God sacrificed his Son for the world' frustrating when I was younger - even though it obviously is true and biblical - because I thought the way it gets spouted ignores the far more interesting and compelling truth that God (the Son) sacrificed himself for the world.
but i think both perspectives are important - not just because the Trinity necessitates both that God is the sacrificer and the one sacrificed - but because they shine complementary light on the kind of love present in the crucifixion.
In Jesus we see God sacrificing himself; giving up power and glory and riches in helplessness. God chooses to un-God himself (in the sense of suffering pain and death, the very antithesis of divinity - not in the sense Jesus isn't God) for us.
And in the Father we see God sacrificing the very person he loves most. i think if there's one thing that the popularity of Pieta scenes, with Mary cradling her dead son, shows is that this kind of sacrificial love is also something that resonates with people. There is nothing in the cosmos which is more precious to God the Father, nothing as beautiful or wonderful - and yet that doesn't get in the way of his love. There's a kind of interesting paradox; God loves us so much, he will give up the one he loves most for us.
And that makes God's sacrifice on the cross so much richer - not just the pain of death, but the pain of loss; not just the pain of abandonment, but the pain of watching the horrors unfold.
(now if someone else can shed light on whether the Holy Spirit adds an extra dimension to this I'd love to hear it)
#christianity#christian#religion#christian universalism#yeshua#deconstructing christianity#the universal christ#richard rohr
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obligatory beach divorce doodling
bonus rough cover redraw of x-men #41 (1995) But Beach Divorce below cut
#mcu#marvel cinematic universe#xmen#xmen movies#xmen first class#cherik#charles xavier#erik lehnsherr#professor x#magneto#snap sketches#'snap i thought you were drawing old cherik this weekend' so did i but i was inflicted with visions sorry </3#i have my lil 92 comic sketched so ill do that tomorrow. not finish it but ill work on it 💀#i wsa just gonna draw the first thing but then i figureed i might as well draw Most of the beach-divorce-related things i want to#just so i could put it all on one post. however this is a lie and i know ill wanna doodle more beach stuff#the first drawing Unsurprisingly was motivated BY the xmen 41 legion quest cover- at the very least the total blackout of erik's face#i wanna draw more of erik using his powers .. i wanna figure out how i wanna draw the effect etc etc#i was just gonna redraw the cover but i already liked the sketch i did of the first thing so. here we are#plus i figure someones already done a redraw of the cover but if anyone cares ill finish my version ig LOL#as for the comic ermmm it was just an excuse to draw erik with glowing eyes </3 and fading-glowing eyes </3#thats why i didnt draw the whole. Choking Moira bit. but i wouldve if i was redrawing the whole scene#kinda wish i did now that i think of it cause it coulda looked cooler prob but oh well maybe in like. three months when i redraw this#for exactly five cents ill redraw the whole beach divorce erlkjealkaje i can see it so clearly in my mind#what if first class was a comic drawn by a freak thatd be wild#but yeah thats why everything look rough as christ these were just supposed to be silly lil thangs#'silly things' and its beach divorce OK.#ok bye im gonna do my homework
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mr president, a second toxic ship by rebecca sugar has hit the steven universe fandom
this woman is a menace
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The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe
By Richard Rohr.
Design by Sarah Horgan.
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if magneto knew what the internet was then he would post to r/aita as often as possible and all his posts would be the top posts of the year. thats the kind of drama hes going through. he also gets permabanned from r/mutants for advocating violence
#.din#.txt#marvel#x men#GD I FORGOT HOW OFTEN XAVIER USED HIS GO GO GADGET PTSD ON MAGNETO IN THIS SERIES. JESUS CHRIST.#im scared of getting gwenpool'd into the marvel universe cause thatd be the first thing id think of if i met professor x#and like what if he hadnt used his go go gadget ptsd telepathy yet in that universe?#would i be responsible for teaching him how to give magneto war flashbacks?#would he be offended that i thought about it? might be worse if he wasnt honestly.#that would be my first five questions but my hand would be covering my mouth so hed be reading my mind.#< as in the go go gadget war flashbacks would be my first five questions i mean
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[ID: Fanart of darklordofawesomeness's Cat Stan AU.
The first drawing is labelled 'Chapter 58 - Cat Mania' and has a lineup of Stan, Mabel, Wendy, Dipper, and Soos as cats. Stan is fluffy and dark brown with white markings. Mabel and Dipper are nearly-identical brown kittens, with white markings on their face. Wendy is a fluffy mostly-red calico, and is in the leggy stage of being a kitten. Soos is a fat light brown tabby, with a short tail.
In the next image: cat Stan carries kitten Mabel by the scruff of her neck while kitten Dipper marches behind them; Stan as a human holds up a pissed off kitten Wendy; Ford lies on his stomach holding a camera and kicking his feet; cat Soos lies on his back.
In the third image: cat Stan gives kitten Dipper a cat bath while Soos lies behind them and Mabel crawls all on Stan's back; in the same pose, Stan looks up but holds down Dipper while he tries to escape, and Mabel sits on Stan's head, posing cutely.
In the fourth, cat Stan brings kitten Mabel and Dipper over to Ford, who is lying in bed looking tired. He pets Stan and says " Am I supposed to be giving you more cat socialization? Shit." In the second drawing, Ford, now a cat, stands over cat Stan. Stan says "What the fuck" and Ford says "I had an idea." Then Ford bites Stan's ear.
In the last two images, cat Stan leaps off of Ford's back; and kitten Wendy bites Manly Dan's hand. End ID]
More cats from @dark-lord-of-awesomeness's Cat Stan series! This time from Chapter 58 of Cat Stan Shorts, in which the kids and Soos accidentally turn themselves into cats and, as with all things, it's entirely Ford's fault
#gravity falls#my art#and not my au#stanley pines#dipper pines#mabel pines#stanford pines#soos ramirez#wendy corduroy#manly dan's hand is present but i dont think that counts enough for the tag#i dont think ive drawn cat-stan-universe manly dan. sorry dan!#i havent posted shifty either but i HAVE drawn shifty. so there#i NEED to stop posting compilations. writing the IDs gets so unwieldy so quickly#12 IDs in one post?? CHRIST#also dear tua people im sorry i know im neglecting you#im working on a big tua project and doing little gravity falls doodles in between.... so the gravity falls doodles are what gets posted
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Does anyone have good book recommendations?
I've recently read The Hidden Gospel by Neil Douglas Klotz and The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr.
#book recommendations#christianity#christian universalism#religion#yeshua#queer christian#the universal christ#richard rohr#neil douglas klotz
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When Saint Augustine said “evil and sin doesn’t exist, it’s just an absence of good” and when Saint Julian of Norwich said “sin doesn’t exist, everything is love and charity, we just struggle to perceive and embody that love and thus suffer pain and despair” and when Jesus Christ said to be perfect as god is perfect means to love everyone and when Saint Hildegard said all are sick and feeble and rotting and inherently worthy of love and care and do you see the connections love is everything love is all there is, sin is what happens when we suffer because we do not love and do not allow ourselves to be loved and it’s fixed by restoration of the sinner to the love which never leaves them it just lingers there until they are ready to accept it. The great commandment is love. We are loved and we ought to love. Care community charity affection support interdependence THESE are holy and these are what constitute everything and our oneness in god who is love. The attributes of God aren’t separate. God’s justice is love, his holiness is love, his righteousness is love, his power is love, his knowledge is love. He loved us so much he became us so that we could become one with him in a way creation never could otherwise. That’s why sin entered the world. That’s why the cross happened. So that creator and creation could become one in love through the remedying unification of the passion, like when you have to cut a section out of a tree and cut a branch in order to graft it on so that they become one and begin producing fruit.
The body of Christ is like Van Aken’s tree, which grows forty different types of fruit after a process of careful grafting, tending and growth. Look at it—it’s beautiful. That is our relationship to God through Christ.

#catholicism#catholic saints#catholic#mary mother of god#mary mother of jesus#virgin mary#folk catholicism#folk practitioner#jesus christ#queer catholic#queer christian#progressive christianity#julian of norwich#st augustine#augustine of hippo#st Julian of Norwich#st hildegard von bingen#st hildegard of bingen#hildegard of bingen#hildegard von bingen#universalism
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A belief in Nominative Determinsim
#mira & isa sitting at the other side of the room: oh that cannot be a healthy rationalisation. someone should deconstruct that QUICKLY...#change's strongest soldiers VERSUS one guy echo chambering themselves about a susperstition-based retributive model of the world. GO!!!#isat spoilers#isat#isat fanart#isat siffrin#isat loop#sifloop#sloops#in stars and time#in stars and time fanart#lucabyteart#hey look now. this is softer than usual isnt it? ignore the. ignore the subtle damnation of blame unto the self. its fine. theyre fine#this is in fact a slight adaptation of that headcanon of mine i linked! yep! turns out the way to comic-ise it was to. make it like#90% speech bubble and get kinda weird with the formatting. it's clunky and experimental but hey. im experimenting.#the next ones gonna have even more fucking speech bubbles if it goes how im planning. christ#then its gonna get followed up with something wordless so. all things in perfect balance.#DISCLAIMER: i like to write loop and siffrin displaying the maybe not so great logic-holes their seeming fear of 'retribution for not#sticking to (the script) what the universe intends for them' entails. i do not agree with their weird philosophising.#i in fact think this is . bad for them. and am exploring how fucking unhealthy their mindset seems to be even when 'mundane'#OCD siffrin real as hell whats with the doing arbitrary actions in specific ways lest Something Nebulously Bad Happen little dude?#anyway if you caught the extremely blunt symbolism of kissing a hand with a knife in it you win a prize! it's called self-satisfaction 🎉🎉#hmm. do people realise i kept calling this type of back and forth between siffrin and loop a socratic dialogue bc socrates was also just#arguing with himself? like he was just making up the other guys. complete thought experiment. i also call them that because theyre WORDY!!!
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I am most impressed by my own beauty. More than anything in the world I love my mind. I am the whole world. The whole world is me. Nothing needs to confirm it. I have always known.
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Bruce Wayne's biggest reasons to crash-out or whatever
#these masks are not entirely similiar#but you see i think Bruce saw his prodigal son looking like this and got freaked out#the staple of Bruce's depression#his ex husband and his prodigal son#wait until Bruce learns that Jason killed his teachers back in LoA........#jason todd#red hood#batman#dcu#dcu comics#dc universe#batfamily#bruce wayne#batfam#minhkhoa khan#ghostmaker#ghostbat#for a legal reason all of this is a J O K E#— lie's rambling#also jesus christ khoa is so fucking hot
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it's the year of our lord 2023 and I'm only now learning about Phoenix's and Maya's baker era

pov: you're living your best life making bread and a Lego figurine bursts into your bakery and now you have to prevent a girl from being burned alive as a witch
#phoenix beating the shit out of the bread offscreen while maya is trying to maintain a professional behaviour is HILARIOUS#avec le chat qui spam petris moi la pate phoenix mdrrrr#yeah i'm finally catching up on the layton vs phoenix crossover game#thank you antoine daniel i owe you my life#i'm kinda sad it's not canon in both universes can you imagine#hey edgeworth have i told you about the time i was a baker with maya FOR FIVE YEARS#jesus christ i'm only realising now phoenix spent more time playing poker and being a baker than being a LAWYER#at this point being a lawyer is more like a hobby#dounart#phoenix wright#ace attorney#ace attorney fanart#miles edgeworth#hershel layton#professor layton#maya fey#professor layton vs phoenix wright#plvspw#narumitsu#if you squint#art#fanart
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