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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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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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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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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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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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It’s so funny when liberals lecture communists about not knowing how anything works, that we need to grow up and face the real world etc, while publicly demonstrating that their political imagination is so deeply impoverished that they genuinely believe the only thing the leader of the most powerful country on the planet in all of human history can do is block a slightly more fascist guy from taking his place every four years
#one of the reasons I am a communist is because I believe in the wondrous power of a state in the hands of the working class! like it is#legitimately moving to learn about the transformative ways socialists use a proletarian state to direct a socialist society#what boer calls god-building and newton calls demiurgical. the state has a universe-building potential to it#and even setting aside socialist history the idea that the president of the US is unable to affect any local or state policy within his own#borders or foreign policy without is so baldly laughable it shouldn’t even be worth considering#except for the fact that so many people profess to genuinely believe that#whether they actually do is another story but christ alive man.
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Oh my god Uzi you can't just ask people about their fnaf cosplay
Little artwork intermission for my Synemy FanFiction! Uzi asking Cyn the important questions
Find Synemy on AO3
#murder drones#uzi doorman#cyn#synemy#fanfiction#my art#shitpost#fnaf#william afton#murder drones fanart#murder drones fanfiction#murder drones meme#meme#jesus christ uzi#you dont ask that on the first occasion that opens up#fnaf is canon in the MD universe#get fnaf'd
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"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." The Universal Christ, Richard Rohr
#the universal christ#richard rohr#christian mysticism#christian deconstructionist#christian universalism#christianity#religion#wisdom
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#In a hundred universes in a hundred lifetimes in any version of reality#Chris Kent#superman#clark kent#The forgotten first son#Thanks anon#superfam#Flight#Is he like the super fam version of the anti christ??
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you know what I'm forever sad never became a really really compelling arc in twelve's time (or at least not to my knowledge)?
an acknowledgement that peter capaldi already played a very notable character in the doctor who universe--in torchwood: children of earth. an acknowledgement that twelve's face already belonged to a forgettable, mediocre nobody of a tragic man, john frobisher.
an average, milquetoast man who shot his wife, his children, point blank, and then committed suicide himself, because he could and would not sacrifice his kids to the 456 to be tortured and drained alive to make the aliens' fucking recreational drug, even though he was a cog-in-the-machine part of the government that had just very comfortably decided to sacrifice "the undesirable's" children. That had decided that "well the government has to be seen in the future to have also made sacrifices. and instead of picking our own children, we have picked yours, john frobisher. a forgettable, acceptable sacrifice that none of us will feel."
and he decided no. no, you don't get my children. and I won't live with the horror of what we've done and are about to do.
Of course, with horribly personal, terrible sacrifices, torchwood wins in the end. john and his family didn't have to die. but they did. was it a cowardly move? a heroic one, given the only options he thought he had? i don't think anyone could make that judgement without being in his shoes.
now imagine...imagine if twelve was canonically acknowledged to have had this man's face. The time vortex decided john frobisher needed to be heard, to be seen once more, to teach the doctor some kind of lesson that needed to be deeply learned. give the doctor the face of a deeply imperfect, desperate, trapped father who did not know how to do the right thing.
and then fucking play with it.
#THINGS I AM THINKING ABOUT#john frobisher#torchwood#twelve#the twelfth doctor#doctor who#doctor who universe#chatting into the void#john frobisher was a good man scene has haunted my thoughts since i saw that shit in high school like jesus fucking christ
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DOOMED YURI ❗️❗️
#JESUS CHRIST I WAS JUST READING YURI MANGA WHEN THIS DROPPED#DOES REBECCA SUGAR WANT ME TO DIE#steven universe#bismuth#rose quartz#rosemuth#rebecca talks
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The Transformers wiki feels like it was written by aliens who only know Earth through Transformers media
#transformers universe#transformers fandom#transformers lore#transformers#transformers comics#transformers marvel#marvel comics#marvel uk#starscream#transformers starscream#sam witwicky#transformers bayverse#bayverse transformers#christmas#jesus christ#jesus#screen shots#fan wiki#tfwiki#funny to me#i think its funny#i find it funny#feels like it#alien#extraterrestrial
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