Lent makes the stomach wander
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1954925/lent-makes-the-stomach-wander
I also like this book 📖 "The Contradictory Christ" (by Jc Beall): https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-contradictory-christ-9780198852360
In this ground-breaking study, Jc Beall shows that the fundamental problem of Christology is simple to see from the role that Christ occupies: the Christ figure is to have the divine and essentially limitless properties of the one and only God but Christ is equally to have the human, essentially limit-imposing properties involved in human nature, limits essentially involved in being human.
43 ancient sources. Most were excluded from the Bible by committee vote in the 4th century.
What did Jesus actually sound like before 2,000 years of institutional editing?
"Here at least we shall be free; the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence.
Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."
- John Milton, "Paradise Lost"
🎨 Gustave Doré
#BookWormSat #Mythology #Folklore #Christianity #Religion #Theology #Demon #Devil #Literature #Poetry #JohnMilton #ParadiseLost
"I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of 'Admin.' The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid 'dens of crime' that Dickens loved to paint.... My symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."
- C. S. Lewis, "The Screwtape Letters"
🎨 Tiffany Pai
#BookWormSat #Mythology #Folklore #Demon #Devil #Theology #Philosophy #Fiction #Literature #CSLewis
Erfurt University Library: “Theologie der Gegenwart” journals now available open access. “Theology needs public debate. Today, the digital space is particularly suitable for this. That is why the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the university is now taking a new approach: Its journals ‘Theologie der Gegenwart’ (ThG) are now available free of charge in open access.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/04/erfurt-university-library-theologie-der-gegenwart-journals-now-available-open-access/Graham Challenges Papal War Stance, Invokes King David
Franklin Graham argues God can support fighters, using King David as an example, challenging Pope Leo XIV's view on war prayers.
#FranklinGraham, #PopeLeoXIV, #KingDavid, #Theology, #WarPrayers
https://newsletter.tf/graham-challenges-papal-war-stance-king-david/
Franklin Graham's view on God in war differs from Pope Leo XIV. Graham believes God can 'take sides' in conflict, unlike the Pope's stance.
#FranklinGraham, #PopeLeoXIV, #KingDavid, #Theology, #WarPrayers
https://newsletter.tf/graham-challenges-papal-war-stance-king-david/