Profanity & Prophecy

The most urgent challenge for Christian marital theology has been to prevent the universality of the agapic feast from reaching erotic relationships—how to prevent agapic community from enactment as erotic community.

Christianity is latent polyamory. ...

The old fear of agapic excess shoots through debates over church blessings for same-sex unions, which are fantasized as intrinsically polyamorous.

As pictured by Christian orthodoxies, unrestricted queer desire disrupts the tidy fiction that sex has been managed—has been captured and categorized—by admitting marriage into the Christian church on a kind of perpetual probation. To bless open relationships that will not agree to abide by the fiction would undo the fiction for everyone.

Queer relationships, so far as they are presumed to be “open,” dodestroy Christian marriage in this sense, that they destroy cherished fictions about what it has accomplished.

The chief theological accomplishment of Christian marriage is supposed to be that it settles the ancient enmity between eros and agape by granting a restricted title for eros within the universal field of agape. “You can exercise eros so long as you do so with the minimum number of other people—namely, one.” To increase that minimum number at all throws the truce into doubt.

Traditional Christian marriage theology relies at its core on an ascetic imperative, not a model of procreation or social order. To moderate the imperative is to undermine it. Hence early churches emphasized the rule about one wife over the span of a lifetime. Of course, Christian churches long ago mitigated that principle—by permitting remarriage after the death of a spouse or after annulment or after no-fault divorce or . . . 

The bad conscience of the churches over these incoherent accommodations is projected onto debates over blessing same-sex unions.

As so often in Christian history, queer desire must bear the burdens of desire simply.

Intellectual hygiene, if nothing else, requires greater candor. Christian theologians would think more clearly if they would admit that they have a polyamory problem not just with the patriarchs, but with the Eucharistic table and the Spirit that has been poured out into their hearts (Rom. 5: 5).

Jesus practiced the sharing of meals with disgraced or ritually impure individuals. The special meal that Jesus is remembered as instituting, the meal that became the Christian Eucharist, is table-sharing pushed to the limit.

The feasting table without edges is linked in many Christian liturgies with unsettling claims about the food for the feast. “Take it . . . this is my body.” “This is my blood, the blood of the covenant, poured out for many.”

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Christ is a promiscuous lover.

The promiscuous Christ speaks in radical terms of the 'unconditional grace of God', an eschatological concept so threatening to church leaders, who attempt to control who has access and does not have access to God's grace. Throughout history, they have attempted to regulate and restrict sexual relationships.

Likewise, we must also assert that church leaders have failed miserably in controlling the promiscuous lover, the Christ. The promiscuous Christ is found erotic love; it is the impulse to love human beings and to love God simultaneously. God's love is configured in all sorts of erotic relations. ...

beauty requires openness. it asks you to let things reach you, to soften enough to be moved. it’s not naive to see beauty everywhere—it’s a skill, a form of intelligence, a kind of quiet bravery. because it is so much easier to critique than to create, to detach than to engage, to dismiss than to love.

SuperXLChubBoy is going to be murdered by the Canadian government.

Calling this premeditated murder on the part of the state is not exaggeration at all. They know that people in this level of bariatric care need physical assistance to turn in bed to prevent bedsores. By choosing to withdrawal physical assistance they are intentionally creating a scenario guaranteed to cause a bedsore. That bedsore will be left untreated because it cannot be accessed without turning the patient. And it will quickly become an abscess and lead to sepsis and organ failure within a week or less possibly.

THIS IS MURDER

This is also a moment for our community to stand up and do something. Aside from the obvious legal intervention needed here there are a few other things that can be done.

1. Raising funds to cover legal costs

2. Creating a petition to save Luke’s life

3. Making phone calls to province and even federal (or Canadian equivalent) officials asking them to intervene to save Luke’s life

4. Writing emails to these same officials asking them to intercede.

5. Contacting the media to raise awareness of his planned murder by the state

6. Creating a social media campaign urging people with any level or humanity or care for others to donate, call, or write an email

Whether it is moving him to another facility, getting his care home the proper equipment, or simply legally requiring the people in charge of his care to not murder him via intentional medical neglect. There are ways forward that allow everyone involved to retain their humanity and dignity

I don’t know him closely enough to start most of these. I don’t know the name of the care facility for starters. his full legal name, or how to get him access to funds for legal help. But at minimum I can spread the word about this. So that’s what I’m doing.

"No, I mean-"

Oh, maybe the woman who had to pee in a public park that only had pay toilets, so she tried to hide behind the bushes but got caught? Public urination is a sex crime.

"What? No, I mean-"

Oh, maybe you mean the homeless guy who had to strip down to get his clothes in the laundromat to clean them for the first time in weeks? He tried being subtle, but someone called the cops on him, and now he's on the sex offender registry for public nudity.

"Rapists and pedophiles! Kill rapists and pedophiles!"

Oh, like the trans woman who got called a pedophile groomer for helping a trans kid escape her abusive parents?

Or maybe the black man who got labeled a rapist because he came on to another man's wife, and he decided to get back at him by charging him with rape?

How about the 17 year olds who were fooling around, fully consensually, in one of their bedrooms? That's still technically underage sex and thus rape of a minor.

Oh, or maybe you're talking about the doctor who performed genital reconstructive surgery in a state that just voted to get that classified as rape?

People will do everything they can to get you convinced rape and pedophilia are the worst crimes possible, then accuse whoever they like the least of being either a rapist, a pedophile, or both, counting on you turning on them just for being accused of the crime.

"Oh, so you're saying you don't want to kill a serial rapist?"

That's exactly what I'm goddamn saying.

Once we decide a group is okay to kill, the government will do everything they can to convince you that their political enemies are either part of that group, or just as bad as that group, to get you to kill their enemies for them.

Guys we have Christians joining the military for a college degree. We see people betray Jesus for money everyday. If you are American you live in a country that betrayed Jesus for money and power.

This is not some foreign concept. It’s an action you see on the daily. There might even be a chance you have betrayed Jesus.