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“Many of those who oppose the full inclusion of sexual minorities in the sacramental life of the church understand themselves as defenders of the Christian tradition. ​There’s dignity to a theological tradition, but there’s greater dignity in every human being.”

“The populist mode of democracy is a politics of arousal more than of reason, but also a politics of diversion from serious concerns that need settling in either a liberal democratic or civic republican manner.”

“When the civil war broke out, conservative opinion all over Europe had said, ‘Told ya so.’ Democracy would result in anarchy. But the victory of the North, the emancipation of the slaves, economic strength of Northen industry, the patriotism of citizen armies, & the speeches of Lincoln gave them an answer: a democratic, capitalist society had triumphed over the agrarian cottonnocracy of plantation owners.”

“Increasingly confronted of distant lands and images of exotic “others,” Europeans and their migrant descendants on other continents took it upon themselves to assume the role of the world’s guardians of civilization and morality.”

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“When Europeans were still worshipping Odin and Thor, African Christians in Egypt, North African Africa, Ethiopia, and Nubia were worshipping Jesus as Lord and Savior before Islam ever existed.”

Wow, been several months since my last Tsuge read and I’d already forgotten how disorienting and meta his manga his 😦😵‍💫

“Seeds of feeling. That’s where we came from. What are we made of? It’s all those sensations that people felt all stacked up together. Alpha-San…we are people’s children.”

Reading this tale of robots from the 90s in the age of A.I. is very interesting.

What is good Christian public theology in relation to Israel-Palestine? Good historical realism. Good modern respect for the rule of law. Good love of the God who makes each life sacred. Good love of each sacred individual life and each sacred people. Good, skillful, just peacemaking- so that soon there will be a just peace in the land between the Jordan and the Mediterranean.
— Dr. David P. Gushee

“The divide between subjects that are self-determining and those that are not is racialized. In other words, I know who I am because I am not you. But Indigenous epistemologies understand the self as being in radical relationality to all other selves: I know who I am because of my relationships with all humanity and all of creation.”
— Dr. Andrea Lee Smith, Essay #9: Land and People

“Do not fear him. He is terrible in his greatness, awful in his sublimity, but infinitely merciful. He has made himself like into us from love and rejoiced with us. He is changing water into wine so that the gladness of the guests may not be cut short. He is expecting new guests; he is calling new ones unceasingly forever and ever…” — Father Zossima

“My brothers are destroying themselves. My father too. And they are destroying others with them. It’s the primitive force of the Karamazovs, as Father Piece said the other day. A crude, unbridled, earthly force. Does the Spirit of God move above that force? Even that I don’t know. I only know that, I too, am a Karamazov. Me, a monk, a monk.”

“Above of all, avoid falsehood. Every kind of falsehood. Especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself. What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of your observing it in yourself.” — Elder Zosima

“Are cats divine? Most certainly. But so is all life.”

“How does one hate a country? Or love one? I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks. But what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that? Giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply. What is love of one’s country? Is it hate of one’s uncountry? Then it’s not a good thing.“

Starting my spooky season reads!

“Christian Nationalism is not a politically enthusiastic version of Christianity nor is it a religiously informed patriotism. It’s a prosperity gospel for nation states, a liberation theology for white people.”

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