@SteeleMannFS@holland_tom this is like a guy coming back from a California reservoir with a glass of fresh water declaring "we absolutely must NOT get our water from the clouds..." OK...
@SteeleMannFS@holland_tom He imagines his support for gay marriage was cooked up in some Christianity free clean room. I suppose his immune system is so strong because it never met a germ.
@SteeleMannFS@holland_tom In some ways their ignorance of how history works parallels creation ex nihilo. Only someone who doesn't know Voltaire would imagine he said "and let there be godlessness..." and it was evening and morning, the first day.
@SteeleMannFS@holland_tom All of this while they say things like "well religion might disappear in Christendom but not in the rest of the world. They haven't had an enlightenment." But again, the Enlightenment was done in a Judeo/Christian clean room... #reason#logic
@SteeleMannFS@holland_tom This is like saying "Water has nothing to do with life as we know it, but we strangely only seem to find life where we find water..."
@SteeleMannFS@holland_tom So all these things you value are ONLY found downstream from Christianity but that is purely accidental, random and absolutely disconnected.
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Today's video is a massive mess teased by a click-baity title. I also happen to think that the title is true.
The length is obscene which has the beneficial effect of mostly limiting the content of the video to my core audience that usually for vocational reasons can digest VERY LONG video content.
I make these videos not so much for the promotion of ideas but to spur insight, engagement and discussion.
I'm getting so old. I remember in the 1970s the "cutting edge" of "gender equality" was assertion that one's clothing, haircut, and various other lifestyle expressions and choices didn't define you.
Boys could have their hair long, girls could wear pants. Boys could talk about feelings, girls could play sports, that was OK.
There has now been a strange inversion where there's an expressive essentialism. It used to be that the dress didn't make the woman, now it does. I noticed representation in children's animated stories in my news feed.
Thanks to a friend we finally replaced the stolen mailbox with a mail slot here at the church.
Couldn't find what I wanted for a sign so I went to Amazon to figure out how to mark the outside of the slot to help the postal people get delivery right.
This brought me to a world of signage at Amazon I was quite unfamiliar with. Identity through propositional confessional profession appears alive and well and flourishing in the capitalist marketplace.
The realization become increasingly stark of a man who correctly warns of ideology filling in the void left by the removal of religious communities himself does not participate in religious communities. I agree with his thesis. Do his actions exhibit agreement? 2/4
Must he heed his own warning? Did the pressure of the assault upon him by power media corporations yield an ideologization of his manner before the collapse in June 2019? 3/4
@Jonathan_Rowson coined the term "Jordan Petersonitis" to label both the obsessive fascination with him that @fullydavid, myself, and many others had with him 4 years ago while others were repulsed by him out of hand. Now with some distance it's good to do some assessment.
In January 2018 @nytdavidbrooks reported a friend calling him the most influential public intellectual right then. nytimes.com/2018/01/25/opi… A quote attributed a bit ironically to "The New York Times" on the cover of his new book.
I live in all those California tensions @TheRestHistory was talking about. Glorious weather this morning. The wooded hills that ring the valley have not yet started to burn for the summer. There is a drought but we have water for today...
Heading into the office I need to run the familiar gauntlet of homelessness. The pandemic adds the strange iconography of medical masks as part of the normal shopping carts, feces and beer cans...
Because I'm a pastor, and have Jesus' story of Lazarus and the rich man haunting me I can't push it aside as nuisance or social problem. There are people living in and bringing the filth.