"Unfriending" America: The #Christian right is coming for the enemies of God — like you and me
Feucht's effort to connect young people with what his movement considers William Penn's ancient vision for #Pennsylvania is part of the wider, epochal campaign of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), a movement at the cutting edge of #Pentecostal and #Charismatic#evangelicalism, which is now the second largest Christian faction in the world after the Roman #Catholic Church…
It took the catholic church over 200 years to admit Galileo Galilei was right, and another almost 150 years to apologise and lift the edict of the Inquisition. (in 1992)
You know, about saying the earth rotates around the sun instead of the other way around being formally heretical.
"If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad."
-Attributed to C. S. Lewis #Christian#Christianity#Catholic#OrthodoxChristian
After Trump was found guilty yesterday on charges of sexual abuse and defamation, Diana Butler Bass asks why on earth the Catholic college of St. Anselm is hosting the townhall meeting on CNN that will feature this convicted criminal addressing the world as a presideential candidate.
Especially given the Catholic church's less than stellar record on sexual abuse.
So I am a week into my #Zizek#Lacan#Hegel studies, through Zizek's lens. All good. I think Zizek's #philosophy of looking at Hegel through the Lacanian lens is seductive. That said, where I find the lens of Zizek lacking, and I now wish he'd not talk about these 2(3) things any more are:
I was a serious #catholic half my life, seminarian for minute, and an ordained deacon, still, even after I confessed my #atheism. So I get what he is saying. My atheism has never felt the same as #Dawkins or #Hitchens, whom we adore, and Zizek sneers. Slipping through the profound safety net religion and a transcendent, all powerful, personal god into the #existentialism of nothing was terrifying, it was my first experience of the "#real." This is it. This is all there is. The problem is it appears Zizek commits the #fallacy of #reification (if we understand it correctly). Clearly he knows it is #fiction, even if profound from a #psychoanalytic Hegelian #CriticalAnalysis, we get it we really do, but it is not real. The #event is real, and the fiction caused the event, but the fiction is still fiction. There is no God, IOP, that became an atheist. The #story Zizek emphasizes is powerful, the changing of the cosmos when #Jesus on the cross questions Gods love. Good story and that is all. Some RCC positions from recent popes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlBZy_iu0m8 and https://www.romereports.com/en/2021/09/14/full-homily-of-pope-francis-at/
So please, Zizek, can I say stay in your lane where you are brilliant, please.
“Everything changed with streaming and everybody needs to be compensated for their work. It’s fucking easy. I don’t get it.” Amanda Seyfried at the #MetGala on the possible #WGA#strike. Standing with her #union colleagues. #UnionStrong#MayDay
@Holberg I mean If we’re going all out for the #MetGala, the theme of “Heavenly Bodies: #Fashion and the #Catholic Imagination” (yes I looked up the actual theme title) served. Just a few here and I had a lot to choose from. My mother went to the Met’s exhibit and said it was great - in the Medieval section with organ music throughout
"It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others." st. John Chrysostom #Christian#Christianity#Catholic#OrthodoxChristian
-Attributed to
My first proper word was ‘book’ so expect #Books#Reading - and #ScienceFiction#SciFi because I’ve been hooked since the days of Outer Limits & the Twilight Zone