I said some time with tears, "Ah me, I'm loath to die!"
Lord, silence thou these fears. My life's with thee on high.
Sweet truth to me: I shall arise, and with these eyes my savior see.
Neither Andrewes (!), Hooker, Bramhall, Cosin, Beveridge, Hall, and most of the 16th-17th century divines would deign to unchurch a Presbyterian minister from France, Germany, or the Netherlands.
I enjoy this because it alternates between being gleefully offensive & head-scratching.
The tangent point of Adventists.
The apparent claim that zero Anglo-Catholics are real Christians.
The inexplicable spikiness of the Mormon blob.
The fundamental Baptists being in rainbow.
One month until America’s 250th.
Here’s my closing script for our American Revolution unit, for 5- to 12-year-olds at Montessorium.
This is as morally didactic as I will ever be in a classroom.
Sending muh kids to [public | fancy experimental private] school, but also blocking off time to teach them the actual complicated story in addition to the [anti-government | pro-government] civics preaching they get in class. 😄
The sum of my beliefs about animal cruelty:
1. It’s fine to farm/predate animals.
2. We should have consideration for animals’ feelings in proportion to their ability to have feelings. Ants < chickens < horses < pigs. 1/
3. Wanton cruelty from a human harms the human even if the critter doesn’t notice.
#3 is why I tell my 4yo not to stomp ants just for the hell of it, even though random ant death is happening constantly.
if he just happened to hold those beliefs it would be less bad, they're trying to use it as his main selling point which is insulting. likewise with Tim Walz, being told that you have to conform to him because he's in the "male" identity group drives people crazy
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Man, people be out there genuinely believing that all religions are the same thing which just happens to be “Unitarian universalism plus croutons (superstitious details).”
Not that Christian traditions are beyond critique (especially from scripture)! But, as with the dudes concluding that All Religions Are Universalism With Bits...if you don't first understand the thing you critique, you are at risk of totally missing the important points and just reifying what you thought before you picked up the Book.