Are our moral #values shaped by divine love or are they a result of biological requirements of human life?
THIS WEDNESDAY April 17 at #UniversityOfTexas#Austin, #philosophers Ben Bayer and Adam Lloyd Johnson #debate the origins and interpretation of #morality, focusing on differences between secular, scientific interpretations, and theological views.
Ever since its inception by means of ethnic cleansing, #Israel has remained by far the most dangerous place on Earth for #Jews to live, at least insofar as the Zionist settler-colony remains in tact (I will literally immigrate to the State of Palestine when its dismantled, the sooner the better). #German insistence that without colonizing #Palestine we're in danger of another #Holocaust is the most pernicious veiled threat I can imagine to come from those who committed some of the worst crimes in all of human history against us.
In what remains imo the deepest reflections in the field of Holocaust #Theology[1], #Satmar Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum reminds us that we were exiled from #Yerushalayim not because of Roman antisemitism, but as a punishment by G-D for becoming the perpetrators of שנאת חנם (shinayt khinaym, baseless hatred) as sovereigns. Our entire religion after #SecondTempleJudaism is predicated on an eventual messianic return, which was never really about a return to the land where the children of Yishroelites once lived, but a return to a life where we're no longer defined by hate, either as perpetrators or as a dispersed minority religion. Which is precisely why Rabbi Akiva tells us that in the messianic everything is as it is now -- yet different; if you believe you're waiting for a return to a place rather than redemption, that is placing your will in the place of the will of HaShem, and it is always ultimately peace and mutual respect for the stranger that is willed by HaShem. The messianic is not a state in Palestine, but the universal recognition of HaShem as the singular sovereign, the surrender of the world to divine law. Thats the whole of our Toyrah HaKoydesh, the rest is just exegesis.
Satmar Rebbe elaborates on this by demonstrating that the #Zionist project is in fact Avodah Zarah (usually translated as "idol worship" but really its more "serving the obscure"), the practice of the "avodei hakovachim" (star worshippers) where Zarah in the Talmud is evoked specifically in discussions of how to conduct one's self in relation to the Roman and Babylonian empires. "Star worshippers" was literal (and a telling analogy; even if you serve the highest being that appears in your world, you're still serving things rather than the ineffable truth of the Name). Teitelbaum shows, through a comparative study of the invented language of Israeli Hebrew, that it is in fact a vehicle for the Romanization of Hebrew, a kind of deep imperial strategy to replace the symbolic apparatus of our lashoyn hakoydesh and its entire universe of meaning with the language of war, nationalism (goyish) and hatred.
And to what effect? Satmar Rebbe tells us that the tachlis of the state is to ensure the lives of the population remain in perpetual danger in order to methodically affirm the necessity of its military apparatus wrt to protection. And that has been so-called #Israel's entire game since day 1.
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@quakers I want to speak in a discussion group about the topic of "Hell". Do you have any ideas for the #Quaker perspective on the topic? #theology#quakerism
"I mean what is the deal with doctrinal theology? There are thousands of web sites and forums locked in endless pedantic debate, analyzing the arbitrary threads of theories far and wide. Like whether that wizard headmaster is gay, whether it’s kinda weird for hundred-year-old vampires to be dating school girls, and whether portrayals of counter-predatory sexual submissiveness are empowering or denigrating. Theology is the same. Just wanking over fan-fiction. "
New instance, new #introduction: Hello! I'm Abdi 👋🏾 Software engineer/data scientist in NYC. Former #refugee. Lover of greenery/gardens, board games, #movies, #cycling, autumn, Japanese food, and #tea. Fortunate to have done a lot of #travel
Is literature/music/art that doesn’t involve humans or human emotions relatable? Yes. Humans are great at making stuff up that isn’t there.Humans call them illusions.
When Tlaozolteol presents the beheaded corn snake, a metaphor for desire - She is showing us its sacredness. Even the corn snake bleeds the sacred fluid.
In opening the snake, She reveals its inner divinity.
In opening the snake, She makes us and our desires whole.
For those seeking to understand the uncritical pro-Israel, anti-Palestine bias of many US leaders, Steve Rabey points to Timothy P. Weber's On the Road to Armageddon, which tracks the religious beliefs among US Christians feeding this political stance. He writes,
Seems the local church has been infiltrated by some kind of heretics. The communion table is outside the chancel arch, in the nave?! Anabaptists, Cathars, Satanists, Thelemites?
(I am here to support my wife and ex who are both in the choir.)
@quakers im deutschsprachigem wir manchmal von "nontheistisch" gesprochen, wenn liberale Quäker keinen Bezug mehr zur Bibel haben. Ich frage mich gerade, ob es vielleicht auch ein "säkulares Quäkertum" unter den Liberalen gibt? #Quaker#quakerism#theologie
@quakers In German-speaking countries we sometimes speak of "nontheistic" when liberal Quakers no longer have any reference to the Bible. I'm just wondering whether there is perhaps also a "secular Quakerism" among liberals? But wouldn't that just be a "Quaker historical society"? #Quaker#quakerism#theology
A religious colleague of mine told me today that he had once emailed James Maffie, asking if his 500-page tome, "Aztec Philosophy" was meant to be a definitive work of historical scholarship or speculative conjecture - and Maffie admitted it was the latter.
I am without words, because he said nothing to this effect anywhere in the book... /
God the Father, God the Son, it could be said: God our Father, God our brother.
And the Holy Spirit? God our consolation? Our strength? Our support? Our help? Our impetus?
Thinking about this makes me feel that the way the Holy Spirit is usually talked about seems poor. Some churches talk too little, others focus on the least important.
The Holy Spirit IS Emmanuel.
Today is the feast of St John the Apostle, seen here with eagle and palm in the silver seal matrix of #ClareCollege (the half-figure is 8mm high), & in the sumptuous Breviary of Marie de St Pol, best friend of the #LadyOfClare. 🧵 1/3
Until this year, the only published photo was so fuzzy that there were debates as to whether there was a bird, and interpretation of the palm. Even with the RTI image, discussion continues. Falconer friends think this most resembles a #GoldenEagle, scaled to speak comfortably to St John, while… standing on his fist? as raptors usually do… or on his open palm? as a trusted messenger of God? 🧵 2/3 #StJohn#theology#interpretation#StoneCarving#illustration