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if you’re going to talk about the mass starvation of Palestinians (which thank you) and the long term epigenetic affects please don’t forget about Sudan. the Sudani people are going through one of the worst starvations in history. more than 24 Million are facing acute hunger, with an estimated 500,000 children alone already dead from starvation. please be vocal about the horrors happening in Sudan right now. they will feel it for generations to come as well and it is just as heartbreaking and anger at the world inducing and important to speak on it especially in the context of the dangers of forced famine
Sudan Funds
Khartoum Aid Kitchen
Also here is a link to a post by Tumblr user @/fairuzfan with MANY more links to how you can help aid the people of Sudan.
if you generally profess non-violence, I promise you don't need to come up with convoluted arguments to justify why violence is okay when it's against specific kinds of people. you don't need to do that.
you can just say that violence is against your ideals but you also have other values and ideals in addition to non-violence, and you're relieved when a person is killed who had been causing a lot of harm, because no more people will be harmed by them. AND at the same time you wish that harm would have been prevented without violence being used.
it's that simple. you're a complex human being and tension can exist between your different feelings, values and ideals. it's okay. please don't do a "I know I always say I don't support violence but here's why violence is actually okay against people I don't like. I know more about non-violence than you"
what is THE worst thing you've ever drank. all liquids acceptable. please tell me what it was, bonus points for why
my friends and I would do something called the soup where we would play some other game but if you failed in some agreed upon way you'd have to drink out of a cup of like fifteen different liquids that we all put in there
i dont remember the contents of any one specific soup but some ingredients I can remember just from when we used to do it were like lemon juice, mustard, barbeque sauce, pickle juice, mayo, jalapeño juice, ketchup, olive oil, fanta, diet coke, and chocolate syrup
Art with Jesus having the kindest eyes and the scruffiest beard gets me every time. Like he purposefully didn’t look ‘holy’ or ‘regal’ he was your neighbor. He was your carpenter.
Yay an excuse to share my favorite paintings by Henryk Hector Siemiradzki!

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Theology without practice is nothing. You must do more than realize that Jesus stood in support of the marginalized. You must also stand with him. That means feeding the hungry, giving to the needy, believing women and queer people, supporting the lives and security of Black and brown people, standing against violence and cruelty, opposing state enforced abuse + capitalism, and being willing to give yourself to others when you know you are able to help.
biking drunk is so much fun that I can only imagine how fun it is to drink and drive
I'm a leftist politically but sometimes I think it's really silly how scared some progressive christians are to make any level of a truth claim about our faith.
Like no- all religious paths don't lead back to God. I feel like that's a pretty explicit part of Christianity.
I'm a (purgatorial) universalist so I believe everyone will be saved regardless of their (lack of) religion in this life but I also do believe that salvation is necessarily through Christ. I believe in the truth of Jesus Christ the Risen Savior who conquered death by death.
in progressive Christian circles you hear a lot of "oh but we can't possible say we have exclusive access to the truth, God is such a mystery!" and this is true about many aspects of religious belief. but there is one rather significant exception that Christianity claims: the complete revelation of God in the person of Jesus Christ. if you believe in this, then Christianity does uniquely profess a major truth about God. this doesn't mean we are a special in-group with exclusive access to the truth, and it definitely doesn't mean we are right about everything - it simply means we have uniquely recognized the truth of Jesus Christ.
does this mean I think everyone should be a Christian, or that everyone who isn't a Christian is fundamentally wrong? no. I'm sure there are some truths about the divine that are better recognized and taught in other religions. I'm sure (almost) all Christians, including me, are wrong about certain things.
and I think Christ has His reasons for not calling all of us to follow Him in this life, though we will all be saved through Him in the end. some of us are called to live Christian lives and some of us are called to live different kinds of lives, I do believe that. I think my friends who follow different religions are on the right path for them, and I believe those religions have a lot of value and beauty and different pieces of the truth.
and I also believe that in the end, it is Christ who will come to judge the living and the dead, and it is through Christ that we are saved - all of us.
and it feels like this is controversial in online progressive Christian spaces, which honestly surprised me. I think my perspective is very much defined by the fact that I came to the faith because Christ revealed Himself to me. this happened when I had never even been to church, had barely read any scripture, and barely even knew the basics of the gospels. so my faith is really built on that revelation
you need to memorize a psalm. you need to have one to recite on notice. right now, pick one
I do think having bad vision predisposed me to be more religious because at a very formative point in my life I got glasses and suddenly everything lit up and was more beautiful than I could have imagined so of course when you tell me there's something even more beautiful out there and I just need eyes to see I'm bound to believe you
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there is no longer based or cringe; there is no longer alpha or beta; there is no longer chad and virgin, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus
Everyday I mourn what the Christian Community could look like if we actually followed what Jesus said.
There would be no Christians in the military.
There would be no homeless in Christian majority countries.
There would be universal healthcare in majority Christian countries,
There would be equality across the board. There would be heaven on earth FOR EVERYONE.
But no, the capital C Church had to value power and bloodshed.
This whole thing about scanning your face to prove tour age is making me remember, in 2018 while out in paris we got our wallet stolen during a particularly busy night at a lesbian bar. It was very late and with no money to buy metro tickets we were effectively stranded, but some people helped us and we ended up staying the night at a really sweet older man's place. His face was deeply scarred and he was missing an eye. We chatted on our way and he told me about his life, probably to help calm me down. He explained he had been stuck in a house fire 20 years ago and had had multiple rounds of facial reconstruction and a skin graft, but there's only so much surgery can do so he just learned to live with it. I remember he said he liked the queer bars because they're the only place people don't really stare at him.
At some point I took out my phone, and at the time I was using face unlock. This prompted him to tell me all the ways this technology doesn't work on him. How his phone selfie camera doesn't focus right because it's not detecting a face. How he had to update his ID the old fashioned way, because the website kept rejecting his photos. And how it was becoming more and more common, and how it was making his life way harder.
This was 7 years ago, and now whenever I see this sort of technology I think of how that guy can't use it. And how house fires are pretty common, and how anything from being born this way to a skin condition to heavy tattooing can probably cause the same issue. Can these people get age verified ? Will they just lose access to all social media, which are increasingly necessary in society, if this becomes the norm ? These are people who are already driven out of public spaces due to how they look, and they're getting pushed out online too all in the interest of companies wanting more money.
Heterosexual relationship culture is so alien to me and I don’t know if it’s the fact I’m not cishet or the fact I’m autistic but I hear so many things that make me go “Am I insane or are they?”
There’s a lot of hate on widowers and I saw a woman say “You cannot compete with a dead woman.” which is perhaps a reasonable statement to say if he’s constantly comparing you to his dead partner but that wasn’t what the post was about. And I realized “Oh my God, these people genuinely feel like they’re constantly in competition with their spouse’s exes and the ex being dead makes them feel insecure that they cannot best her.”
There’s also been an uptick in the ‘men and women cannot be ‘just’ friends’ rhetoric which I feel like is extremely dangerous and reflects the rise of fascism and sexism. Some of these stories of women feeling threatened by their husband’s female best friend have some merit and others are like “I feel angry that my husband still talks to the girl he grew up next door to and she and her wife are invited to family gatherings and included in family photos sometimes. Am I right to be suspicious?” No. No you’re not. I cannot imagine being you and living with that high level of stress and paranoia and constant torment and jealousy about your husband having a positive relationship with anyone who isn’t you.
'trusting God' is something i found facile for a while because it seemed to basically translate to 'believe that good things will happen exactly on your terms and they will', but it's been a lot more real to me recently as like 'accept there are things out of your control, that bad things will happen but they don't destroy all goodness forever, and that God is there with you'
and i was thinking about abraham during the binding of isaac, who is not just an extreme edge case of trust in God, but actually a good role model all around, imo, because he models acceptance of bad things alongside a trust in God (not getting into the ethical side of child sacrifice; he is not a good role model in that regard)
by agreeing to sacrifice Isaac, in a way abraham has already lost him; he not only accepts the possibility of losing his son, but commits to making it a reality. but on the other hand, obviously, abraham has a huge reason to trust God, because of the promise he made through isaac.
so abraham is simultaneously accepting his son's loss even as he trusts that this isn't the whole story. but he's allowed neither a prosperity gospel luxury that actually this whole thing is just going through the motions and playing pretend for a big reward at the end, but nor does he sink into assuming he's been played for a sucker this whole time by a capricious cosmic prankster.
that can be encouraging for people who feel as if God is opening promising doors only to immediately slam them, or that signs of hope are turning out to be sources of despair, or that 'trusting God' means holding on to empty cope long after it's useful, or that faith is law of attraction style positive thinking. abraham feels like someone else who felt that tension between being realistic and being hopeful - and for whom trusting God looked simultaneously like letting go of your deepest hopes while trusting that they would ultimately be fulfilled
(i think this is probably what Kierkegaard meant by his knight of infinite faith, which is finally clicking for me like 5 years later)

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I never expect any new person I meet to have the faintest idea about what contemporary poetry is like. When a direct question from a stranger forces me to say what I do "for a living," in response to what I tell them I often hear something like this: "Oh, poetry. I studied that in high school (or college) and the teacher was so terrible and the poetry so boring, I've never read a word of it since." Well, in the contemporary, secular world of the fine arts, being a Christian is like being a poet in the nonliterary environment. When my peers in the arts become aware that I am a churchgoer, they often say, "When I was a teenager, the nuns (or some fundamentalist relative or preacher) made me so angry with their ranting about sin and damnation, as soon as I could get away from religion I did, and I've never set foot in church since." To both groups, those who in their teens were once turned against poetry, and those who were made to despise religion, I offer this suggestion: Since you are no longer seventeen years old, why be content with the version of religion or poetry that was presented to you decades ago, often by insufficiently trained persons or teachers who had no special interest in the subject? Why not spend some time exploring what religion and poetry are not in particular books or particular congregations here in the 1990s? Both religious faith and the art of poetry have always constituted a way of being and a subject that many people who were, after all, not fools have considered supremely important.
from "What is the Sexual Orientation of a Christian?" by Alfred Corn, in Wrestling with the Angel: Faith and Religion in the Lives of Gay Men (1995), ed. Brian Bouldrey
do your bones become relics if you get an organ donated from a saint or does the transitive property not work like that