My favorite book: "Famous People Who Were Produced by Gay Sex". Oh, wait, not written yet.
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DriveInDriveOut
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wut
El Correcto
god is dead
https://bigthink.com/stephen-johnson/the-us-is-losing-its-religion-and-faster-than-you-may-think
Guess people aren’t interested in a gay bashing cult that branched off of a baby genital mutilation cult.
Guess people aren’t interested in a gay bashing cult that branched off of a baby genital mutilation cult.
When everyone is doing anything and everything it's hard to be against something in particular.
BrownArmy
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Wow.
Old Man Jingles
Rat out of a cage
I didn't get it either but I like More so I just quickly shook my head and moved on.
The Heresy of White Christianity
“People cannot bear very much reality,” T.S. Eliot
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Of the biblical story of Cain’s murder of Abel, Cone writes: “… [T]he Lord said to Cain, ‘Where is your brother Abel?’ He said, ‘I don’t know; am I my brother’s keeper?’ And the Lord said, ‘What have you done? Listen: your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!’ ” Cain, in Cone’s eyes, symbolizes white people, as Abel symbolizes black people.
“God is asking white Americans, especially Christians, ‘Where are your black brothers and sisters?’ ” Cone writes. “And whites respond, ‘We don’t know. Are we their keepers?’ And the Lord says, ‘What have you done to them for four centuries?’ ”
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“Christianity is essentially a religion of liberation,” Cone writes. “The function of theology is that of analyzing the meaning of that liberation for the oppressed community so they can know that their struggle for political, social, and economic justice is consistent with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Any message that is not related to the liberation of the poor is not Christ’s message. Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology.
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Cone blasted churches, including black churches that emphasize personal piety and the prosperity gospel, as “the worst place to learn about Christianity.”
....“I would rather be a part of the culture that resisted lynching than the one that lynched,” Cone writes at the end of the book. “I would rather be the one who suffered wrong than the one who did wrong. The one who suffered wrong is stronger than the one who did wrong.
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There will come difficult moments in our own lives, moments when we are faced with an impulse, driven by fear or self-interest or simple expediency, to turn away at the sight of suffering and injustice. We will hear the cries of the oppressed and want to shut them out. We will count the cost to our careers, our reputations and perhaps our security, for to truly stand with the oppressed is to be treated like the oppressed. But a force greater than our own will compel us to kneel down and pick up the cross. The weight will cut into our shoulders. Our step will slow. Our breathing will become labored. We will be condemned by the powerful and ignored or reviled by the indifferent. But we will demand justice."
“People cannot bear very much reality,” T.S. Eliot
...
Of the biblical story of Cain’s murder of Abel, Cone writes: “… [T]he Lord said to Cain, ‘Where is your brother Abel?’ He said, ‘I don’t know; am I my brother’s keeper?’ And the Lord said, ‘What have you done? Listen: your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!’ ” Cain, in Cone’s eyes, symbolizes white people, as Abel symbolizes black people.
“God is asking white Americans, especially Christians, ‘Where are your black brothers and sisters?’ ” Cone writes. “And whites respond, ‘We don’t know. Are we their keepers?’ And the Lord says, ‘What have you done to them for four centuries?’ ”
...
“Christianity is essentially a religion of liberation,” Cone writes. “The function of theology is that of analyzing the meaning of that liberation for the oppressed community so they can know that their struggle for political, social, and economic justice is consistent with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Any message that is not related to the liberation of the poor is not Christ’s message. Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology.
...
Cone blasted churches, including black churches that emphasize personal piety and the prosperity gospel, as “the worst place to learn about Christianity.”
....“I would rather be a part of the culture that resisted lynching than the one that lynched,” Cone writes at the end of the book. “I would rather be the one who suffered wrong than the one who did wrong. The one who suffered wrong is stronger than the one who did wrong.
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There will come difficult moments in our own lives, moments when we are faced with an impulse, driven by fear or self-interest or simple expediency, to turn away at the sight of suffering and injustice. We will hear the cries of the oppressed and want to shut them out. We will count the cost to our careers, our reputations and perhaps our security, for to truly stand with the oppressed is to be treated like the oppressed. But a force greater than our own will compel us to kneel down and pick up the cross. The weight will cut into our shoulders. Our step will slow. Our breathing will become labored. We will be condemned by the powerful and ignored or reviled by the indifferent. But we will demand justice."
BrownFlush
Woke Racist Reigning Ban King
DriveInDriveOut
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I guess you never got the birds and the bees talk.
bottomups
Bad Moon Risen'
Can't have sex education in a conservative world.
BrownFlush
Woke Racist Reigning Ban King
Got it the same time you got the something came from nothing talk.
I liked the irony of snowflakes in the meme.
DriveInDriveOut
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"Something came from nothing" is the common viewpoint of most Christians actually, not mine.
BrownFlush
Woke Racist Reigning Ban King
God is far from nothing.
DriveInDriveOut
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and your god came from.....
BrownFlush
Woke Racist Reigning Ban King
Same place yours did.
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
You deflect because an honest answer about your belief would prove my point. Thanks for playing.
BrownFlush
Woke Racist Reigning Ban King
No deflect. That is a stated fact.
You have no point. Never played.
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
So what made your god?
BrownFlush
Woke Racist Reigning Ban King
What? Nothing . Who? Nobody.
I'll go with the evidence.
Something from nothing, or something from some- thing?
Order from disorder, or order by design and intelligence?
Life from non-life (rocks, chemicals), or life from other life?
Intelligent life from non-intelligent life or intelligent life from intelligence?
For me, from what is evident, it is more reasonable to believe in God than not.
Since you're a no God guy, can you prove He doesn't exist?
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