SPOILER ALERT
Don't read if you'll hear my wife preach tomorrow
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To you who think the Parable of the Talents is about how we should make the best use of what God gave us, I ask…
Is God a harsh slave master who reaps where he did not sow and gathers what he did not scatter?
Does the God you serve think of any person as worthless?
Does your Father in Heaven cast any of his children into the outer darkness for being lazy and wicked?
Do you worship a God who gives more to those who have, and takes from those who have nothing?
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Is it possible that the Standard Interpretation of the Parable of the Talents is a lie created and perpetuated by landlords and slave owners, profiteers of the labor of others, who have spent the last millenium or two casting themselves in the role of God?
Is it possible that in the phrase "it is like", "it is" refers to the present world, standing in contrast what "the kingdom of heaven will be like"?
Is it possible that the King James Bible, translated and authorized by rich & powerful men, accidentally altered v14 on purpose, assuming something not present in either the Koine or Vulgata? And the New International Version, among others, have perpetuated that error?
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I keep finding out that what most people think parables are about is wrong
In other words
Often, the Standard & Obvious Plain Meaning of the Story, is directly the opposite to what Jesus probably meant or how his first listeners probably would have understood it
OMG A THREAD
PARABLE OF THE TALENTS
(this Sunday in the RCL)
Master gives three slaves money. Two of them make more money. One buries it. The one who buries it is punished.
Moral of the story:
Use the gifts that God gave you. Don't bury your talent in the dirt. #BestLife#Blessed
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Or...
So, 1st of all, Nikky was reading Herzog on parables as Pedagogy of the Oppressed, and in that framework the master is NOT GOD, but rather the present system of economic injustice in which landlords & slave owners profit by the work of others, "reaping what [they] did not sow...
I lived at a seminary for five years. I know a lot of priests.
Of the three most incompetent, immature I have known, two are at least late 40s. The other is mid 30s. (All white men who fucking sailed through ordination process.)
2 of 3 should NEVER have been ordained.
(The 3rd is a good guy who could be a good priest with better formation, mentorship, and therapy. Which he has not gotten.)
Of the two most competent, mature priests I know personally. one is 34 and the other is late 40s or (maybe?) early 50s.
BTW
"should NEVER be ordained" isnt IMHO from my own theology of priesthood
The 2 are -in the opinion of MANY mutual acquaintances- faithless, narcissistic, incompetent, & potentially abusive
that parish&dio committees & TWO FUCKING BISHOPS let them through is a srs failure