https://twitter.com/thesonofbran/status/1756833073734275489

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/taylor-swift-single-women-right-wing/

Bigger scandal is blessing owners of course

And Godamn I wish knew more about ideology to make a cogent argument for it. Because while I’m not a Christian, I can’t help but notice how Jesus basically symbolizes most of what I believe as a socialist.

Really could be my autistic brain stretching some of the minute details, but think about it for a sec. You have two groups of people with a strong belief (sharing art and music with a group of likeminded people and giving praise to something you believe controls your life) and there are these fuckers in both cases selling shit and disturbing the realness of it all

Idk maybe I’m just a hater, but the two situations seem logically the same to me.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/pope-francis-israel-gaza-deaths

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/news/2023-12/in-gaza-israelis-attack-holy-family-parish-two-women-killed.html

Martyrdom

This, the basis for sanctification of many of the most memorable saints, (who, after all, could forget saint bartholemew, immortalized in stone with his skin draped over a shoulder in il Duomo of Milan; Or the over 130 cephalophore saints, appearing in all the visual finery to children's holy visions headless -- yet a divine sight, not a gory one.) and similar sacrifice is present in the deeds of all saints. From a catholic perspective, physical committment to a holy cause is quite a common request. There is a risk of american catholics (especially, not solely,) to conflate the church's call to committment to the point of physical harm with the unholy call of capitalism for us to do the same.

As we inhabit the material world (either in anticipation of eternal life elsewhere or not, -see thoughts on calls to materialism as supported by the bible [not written yet]) and are mortal beings, our physical bodies will be/are being sacrificed continually. We may choose to see this as an opportunity for saintlyness, and to direct our physical impact on the world towards the divine. To be rational with our committment, and choose not to seek death, but to commit completely to being a conduit between heaven and earth. If, like the martyred saints, this means we must be killed, then so be it. But long-term committment will be of the greater impact in many of our cases.

It is therefore crucial to discern between the calls for martyrdom of the holy and of the unholy. To reject the call to sacrifice your physical self at the behest of capitalism and its manifesting of satan on earth. In studying the saints, one must be vigilant, and inform oneself of the social and political attitudes of the sanctifying church. The catholic church that sanctified mother theresa is not the same catholic church who sanctified st francis. Equally one ought to study material and materially-derived causes for worldly conflict, and not allow one's mortal hours to be claimed by the allure (or imposition) of capital's desires.

Very welcome to futher comment and rumination

I'm sorry if this is isn't the appropriate comm, but I'm curious about why the angels sided with Lucifer in a fight they knew they would lose?

Were there things Lucifer said to get angels on his side or did they just follow his example and refuse to subjugate themselves to humanity? Was there any context like that in the Bible?

Inside the Underground Churches Using Mushrooms for a Religious High - There’s a growing movement among religious leaders to use psychedelics like psilocybin to deepen their faith. The author attended a secret ceremony to find out whether it works.

ingrate. my sister is mad at me now.

All the ones I find are marginally better than just reading some randomly selected passage because any accompanying text us the most surface-level liberal interpration imaginable.

>The book suggests that the defining problem driving out most people who leave is … just how American life works in the 21st century. Contemporary America simply isn’t set up to promote mutuality, care, or common life. Rather, it is designed to maximize individual accomplishment as defined by professional and financial success. Such a system leaves precious little time or energy for forms of community that don’t contribute to one’s own professional life or, as one ages, the professional prospects of one’s children. Workism reigns in America, and because of it, community in America, religious community included, is a math problem that doesn’t add up.

Hi everyone, if I may I would like to ask a question about possible progressive interpretations of the events during the beginning of Genesis?

I am confused as to why God was angry enough at Adam and Eve for eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge and gaining knowledge of good and evil to sentence them to lives of suffering? It seems really unfair to me on a surface level so I am curious as to what this means in the context of Christian history and struggle against the romans, for instance.