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David Dark
"The same reason we make babies participate in active shooter drills at their schools: because conservative white Christians have betrayed their baptism and the gospel of Jesus in order to give their full-throated allegiance to an idolatrous death cult."
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"When I label people, I no longer have to deal with them thoughtfully. I no longer have to feel overwhelmed by their complexity, the lives they live, the dreams they have. I know exactly where they are inside - or forever outside - my field of care, because they've been taken care of. The mystery of their existence has been solved and filed away before I've had a chance to be moved by them or even begun to catch a glimpse of who they might be. They've been neutralized. There's hardly any action quite so undemanding, so utterly unimaginative, as the affixing of a label. It's the costliest of mental shortcuts." ~David Dark
It's as near as the story, song or image you can't get out of your head.
"The voice, the tale, the image, the parable that gets through to you - that wins your heart - religiously is the one that makes it past your defenses. You've been won over, and you probably didn't see it coming. You've been enlisted into a drama, whether positively or negatively, and it shouldn't be controversial to note that it happens all the time. When you really think about it, there's one waiting around every corner. It's as near as the story, song or image you can't get out of your head. Religion happens when we get pulled in, moved, called out or compelled by something outside ourselves. It could be a car commercial, a lyric, a painting, a theatrical performance or the magnetic pull of an Apple store. The calls to worship are everywhere."
- David Dark, Life’s Too Short to Pretend You’re Not Religious ( IVP Books, February 13, 2016)
“[We …] have to resist the temptation to read the scriptures flatly, as if any verse can be extracted and deployed to say ‘what God says,’ as if there is no ethical progression or moral development or widening eschatology within the collection. If we do read it flatly, if we use accounts of slaying Canaanites to diminish the ethical demands of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, we will be reading it wrongly. Ironically enough, we’ll be using the scriptures to minimize what the word of God is saying. We might even be corralling particular verses (and ignoring others) to more effectively avoid the difficult questions put to us by the Jesus we otherwise call Lord. We might swear by it, quote it, read excerpts on a daily basis, and post particular verses on billboards, but we will have yet to appropriate the biblical witness well or interpret it faithfully. We will have yet to take it seriously.”
-David Dark, The Sacredness of Questioning Everything (Nashville: Zondervan, 2009), 155-156
When I label people, I no longer have to deal with them thoughtfully. I no longer have to feel overwhelmed by their complexity, the lives they live, the dreams they have. I know exactly where they are inside—or forever outside—my field of care, because they’ve been taken care of. The mystery of their existence has been solved and filed away before I’ve had a chance to be moved by them or even begun to catch a glimpse of who they might be. They’ve been neutralized. There’s hardly any action quite so undemanding, so utterly unimaginative, as the affixing of a label. It’s the costliest of mental shortcuts.
― David Dark
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There are so many ways to love God. Thank you, @brotherjones_ , for your witness.
(David Dark and Justin Jones)
The FEMA search and rescue chief is resigning, apparently over the fact that Kristi Noem waited three days to authorize the deployment of search and rescue teams into the Texas floods. DHS responds:
“It is laughable that a career public employee, who claims to serve the American people, would choose to resign over our refusal to hastily approve a six-figure deployment contract without basic financial oversight,” another DHS spokesman said in a statement about Pagurek’s resignation. “We’re being responsible with taxpayer dollars, that’s our job.”
So if your child is lost and floodwaters are rising, be aware that the federal government is first and foremost worried about “financial oversight.”
(David Dark)
Another Vonnegut gem as it’s his birthday.
(Letters of Note and David Dark)
