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."
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2024/10/23/nazi-shit-intra-ecclesiam-nulla-salus/
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"I read the book. I read the Spire Christian Comics adaptation of the book. And I watched the movie version — from Billy Graham Films — in church, in the sanctuary, where it was shown one Sunday night for our evening service. [...]
The white #Fundamentalist #Christians at that church in that time would still have recognized that 'round them up and put them in camps' is the definition of villainy."
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2024/10/23/nazi-shit-intra-ecclesiam-nulla-salus/
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"I grew up [at] a private fundamentalist Christian school and was baptized at a white fundamentalist Baptist church. Both of those encouraged me to read The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom, a devout spiritual memoir by a Righteous Gentile whose family aided those in occupied Holland who were being round up and sent to the camps and who was, herself, eventually rounded up and sent to the camps."
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2024/10/23/nazi-shit-intra-ecclesiam-nulla-salus/
From #Slacktivist...
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"A new poll [...] finds that half of Americans oppose rounding up millions of their neighbors and putting them in concentration camps.
The same poll shows that nearly half — 47% — support concentration camps.
[...]
This is not ambiguous. [...] These Americans were asked [...] whether or not they supported 'rounding up' people and putting them into militarized camps.' "
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."
Jason Madrid
