From #Slacktivist...
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"The vulgar expression of Trump’s racism [...] is something Moore is right to criticize, but the vulgarity isn’t the biggest problem there. [...]
In Simpsons terms, the important thing about 'Hi-diddly-ho, neighbor!' is not the 'Hi-diddly-ho,' but the 'neighbor.' That’s the difference between #MAGA #evangelicals and Ned Flanders.
Ned views and greets everyone he encounters as his neighbor."
It's been a minute since I've posted some #Slacktivist on here.
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"What does 'missionally aligned' mean? No one knows. No one is able to know, because it could change at any moment. And when it changes, you must change[.] [...]
So just to be extra safe, they busy themselves directing the leopards’ attention to other peoples faces. They become informers, suck-ups, toadies, narcs."
#LeopardsAteMyFace #ConservativeCulture #USPol #ChristianCulture #HigherEd
Some light(-ish) reading for the weekend.
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https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2024/02/27/for-buffy-and-carl-so-loved-the-world/
More from #Slacktivist...
"It is [...] the Bad Guys who want to see the world destroyed. The rest of us, you see, like the world. We grew up there. It’s where all our friends live and where all of our favorite restaurants are. [...]
So if you are cheering for the end of everywhere and everyone the rest of us have ever loved, that does, unambiguously, make you the Bad Guy in any story."
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2024/02/08/stick-it-to-the-man/
In which #Slacktivist (a.k.a., Fred Clark) discusses the (mis)translation of #Bible scripture.
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" 'The wicked man' is a literal translation of the name given to this 'ominously archetypal figure' the Gospels describe. But I think a more colloquial translation using 20th-century slang might better communicate the full meaning[...]..
He’s 'The Man.' As in the way that Shaft and Cool Hand Luke and Heavenly Blues all used that term."
More from Fred Clark (a.k.a., #Slacktivist).
TL;DR: If #HenryKissinger didn't want people dancing on his grave, he shouldn't have spent his whole life writing the song that we would all dance to.
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https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2023/11/20/never-meant-to-cause-you-any-sorrow/
Also, here's some more links and Tales of Interest(™) from Fred Clark, a.k.a. #Slacktivist.
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https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2018/01/01/unbalanced-butchering-first-amendment/
Additional thoughts from Fred Clark (a.k.a., #Slacktivist), over at #Patheos (teaching us how to use our reading comprehension skills).
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"These are not competing clauses requiring some difficult 'balance,' but each is the necessary complement and consequence of the other. The no establishment clause can and must be derived from the free exercise clause. [...] Get rid of one and [...] you cause both of them to shrivel and disappear."
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2023/09/18/these-two-stories-are-the-same-story/
More from Fred Clark, a.k.a. #Slacktivist.
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"1) ‘The Great Dechurching’ explores America’s religious exodus.'
2) 'Sweeping study finds 1,000 cases of sexual abuse in Swiss Catholic Church since mid-20th century'
[You've] read these stories before.
'America’s religious exodus' is obviously and inextricably tied up with the massive, global, transdenominational scandal of clergy sex abuse and cover-up. How could it not be?"
Been a while since I've posted #Slacktivist on here.
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"Jumping off of Washington’s nose on Mount Rushmore would be fatal. [...] But Bloom did not jump off anything when the band played the Mount Rushmore festival [...] because no band has ever played the Mount Rushmore festival...
...because it does not exist." (emphasis mine)
"Yet [...] fans over the years told Bloom they remembered seeing him make that leap."
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https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2023/09/01/and-well-be-together-in-just-a-little-while/
(Quick sidenote to previous post: Fred Clark (a.k.a. #Slacktivist) brought me there.)
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2023/08/25/the-whole-world-looks-upon-the-sight/
The latest from #FredClark (a.k.a., #Slacktivist) over at #Patheos.
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"A school principal and her husband, an electrical engineer, bought a house in the suburbs. That should be unremarkable and boring. It shouldn’t be a pioneering moment in #BlackHistory or a courageous milestone.
But their purchase of that home was greeted by a mass freakout of white people who vandalized their property and engaged in harassment and mob violence for weeks."
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2023/08/11/ragged-dick/
(Resist... urge... to laugh... at... title...)
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"Hard work and clean living will lead to riches and success. [...]
The ones who achieved success only managed to do so because they were assisted by older, wealthy, unmarried men who took those boys off the streets and into their homes.
If you think there might be a creepy subtext to that, you’re wrong. It’s not a subtext at all.
Horatio Alger was a pedophile."
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2023/07/31/the-riots-of-udolpho/
Some lunch time reading from #Slacktivist over at #Patheos.
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"This is what happens after you realize that you’ve stooped to barbaric violence of the sort that forces women and children to flee and hide. [...]
Imagine: You’ve just burned down a school. A boarding school [...] at night when all the children and the nuns who teach them are asleep in their beds.[...] What could possibly be worse then burning down a school full of nuns and children?
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2022/12/31/12-31-flashback-zealish/ Every day I keep remembering that I have this bookmarked for a *reason*.
"There’s no way to distinguish fairly between people who are genuinely fired up about Jesus and people who are performatively On Fire For Jesus™, but a culture that promotes zeal as a value in and of itself creates a lot of pressure to put your piety on display for others."
- Morgan Guyton, "The #Evangelical Zeal for Zeal"
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2023/06/30/amos-and-acts/
More from Fred Clark, a.k.a. #Slacktivist, over at #Patheos.
TL;DR (quote):
"At the simplest level, this is the lesson Mister Rogers taught us: That you are precious and special and infinitely loved. And that so is everyone else."
Slightly longer version:
*cracks knuckles, opens #Bible* "'So anyway, in the book of Amos..."
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2021/11/12/living-together-in-two-separate-worlds/
More from #FredClark, a.k.a. #Slacktivist (this one dates from 2021):
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"George Marsden, contending with the difficulty of defining a perpetually contended category like 'evangelical,' once joked that an #Evangelical is anyone who likes Billy Graham. In the current usage, [...] #ProgressiveChristian refers to anyone who does *not* like Franklin Graham."
