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4 Popular Eco-Crisis Denial Memes
Several memes that are popular “so what?” responses of those who push back against the idea that there is any serious Ecological Crisis going on. 1. It hurts the poor 2. New technologies will make it all better. 3. The U.S. is doing better than other nations. 4. Addressing the Ecological Crisis will harm the economy. 1. What Industrialized nations Continue Reading
AOC ‘s intelligence spooks/enrages the right wing
This is an awesome post on AOC, and how she puts Trump and Ryan to shame on intellectual/academic creds. Just listening to her, it is clearly apparent that she is not only credentialed, but gifted and articulate.
reading yourself interpreting the Bible
Indeed. Ironic that those most unconscious of this are those most strongly insisting that “this is what God says in His Word”. They insist that “they have no choice” but to obey “His Word”, all the while being unable to distinguish “reading one’s self interpreting the Bible” from “The Word”. Duke McCall’s words in his sermon in chapel at Southern Continue Reading
Why they kneel
This ( HT Deen Thompson)
a politico-spiritually charged transformation (HT Catherine Keller)
The empty continuity of chronotime is interrupted by a messianic contraction, in a decisive “now” growing from the radical gospel teaching of the “kingdom of God”—that is, of a politico-spiritually charged transformation, immanent to the event of the kairos.12 So then Paul’s point will not have been to menace the community at Corinth with the end of the world. The Continue Reading
Which “time” is running out? Thoughts from C. Keller
This piece of the quote: ” “After the political shift, however, the window seemed to be slamming shut. Not on all of life, not on the earth, not necessarily even on our species. But on historic human civilization as it flows into its future. ” is the best articulation of the answer to those who keep repeating the meme : Continue Reading
The disjointed blindness of the right wing rage over @AOC
The right wing uproar and energy seeking to laugh at @AOC is , itself, a gas. The “she lacks brains” line, and others like it, are the rage on right wing comments, including a UM Facebook group that is frequented mostly by right wing conservatives. LOL Anyone with some quality education can recognize articulate passion and vision. She’s not only Continue Reading
Creation mediates the “Thou” in God
“The man who believes things are there only by chance cannot give things a real intrinsic value. But for the Christian, there is an intrinsic value. The value of a thing is not in itself autonomously, but because God made it. It deserves this respect as something which was created by God, as man himself has been created by God.”— Continue Reading
“If it takes deficit spending to save the earth, so be it”
The Republicans believe in frivolous tax cut deficits to reward billionaires. The Green New Deal will take deficit spending to save the earth. It's a national effort that's a patriotic duty. If it takes deficit spending to save the earth, so be it. Everything else is a footnote. — Frank-STOP-Christian-Nationalists-Schaeffer (@Frank_Schaeffer) February 8, 2019
Writing (via James Baldwin)
“You write in order to change the world. If you can alter, even by a millimeter, the way people see reality, then you can change it.” —James Baldwin (quoted at the start of https://buff.ly/2MX2o8G Mary Annaïse Heglar on Medium )