okay, time to wind down.

incidentally we've been watching the 2006 documentary film "Jesus Camp" intermittently today. we've only watched forty minutes so far; it's upsetting material. right-wing #Christianity is an upsetting thing to deal with; just ask the *victims*.

(1/x)
@dalepartridge, whom I've given special attention this day (the feast day of St. Agnes—but that's just a coincidence; also it's #NationalHuggingDay) might be attempting to console himself with imagining that I'm a mere vengeful *victim* of right-wing Christianity. I'm not.

(2/x)
I'm an apostate #Catholic whose personal experience of Catholicism was in fact rather mild and not without its positive qualities...though there was also a lot of sadness and disappointment. I wanted to reach out to God. I reached out and felt...a void. mournful emptiness.

(3/x)
it's like I could feel only the broken hearts of all the parishioners who'd knelt in the same pews, looked up at the same altar, and felt...let down. abandoned. they reached for God, and God wasn't there to help them, only impenetrable ritual and an indifferent priesthood.

(4/x)
but I've never been *wounded* the way a lot of #Christianity's victims have been wounded. I suffer wounds, yes, but they were inflicted by parents and doctors and teachers, not ministers of God. so I have no _personal_ animus for corrupt #Christians like @dalepartridge.

(5/x)
indeed I feel it's my duty *as* a baptized #Christian to hurl challenges, not merely at individual Christian malefactors like @dalepartridge or @PastorMark but at Christendom itself—who else can do such a thing but a Christian? Partridge and I are supposed to be *fellows*.

(6/x)
we are not. @dalepartridge is merely terrified of me and is doing the equivalent of closing his eyes and shouting prayers at top volume, waiting for the awful shouty stranger to *go away* (and I will.)

meanwhile I look at this man and ask: what does he *actually believe*?

(7/x)
has @dalepartridge seen the same Beatiful Vision that I _think_ I've seen? it seems almost impossible to believe that Partridge and I have any beliefs or principles in common at all, but surely we must have *some* common ground, even if Partridge hates my everloving guts.

(8/x)
#Christians haven't had the courage to do what I've been trying.

#Christianity, especially right-wing American Christianity, is a such an unholy mess in part because other Christians have simply shut their eyes and said, "they're not 'real' Christians, they don't count."

(9/x)
#NotAllChristians, these timid Christians once wished to protest; there's a reason the hashtag no longer gets used.

Christianity had better try to *analyze* itself, for once. the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. I refuse to let the Rapture Ready folks win this one.

(10/x)
it's time for Christians, *all* Christians, to work out once and for all what they really believe in. for a while a significant chunk of American Christendom seemed to believe that @realDonaldTrump was the Second Coming; now maybe they think it's @RonDeSantisFL. it's BAD.

(11/x)
the Christians who *don't* place their faith in fascıst politicians can't evade their spiritual duty any longer. they have a debt to pay, a collective responsibility: Christianity has been one of the most destructive forces on Earth, and all Christians share in the blame.

(12/x)
that includes me, and my sibling Frisk—unlike me they *never* practiced #Christianity but they were baptized (Lutheran, curiously enough, and in infancy) so they're involved too. there's over two billion of us...and we're all stained with crime.

all of us.

~Chara of Pnictogen

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Jan 22
oh right. I was going to say something about "God"—the being whom right-wing Christians seem to worship, the "God" who seems like so much *smaller* a thing than a truly omnipotent Creator—and how He's a demonstrably loyal friend to authoritarians and bloodstained tyrants.

(1/x)
#Christianity was permanently warped by its growth medium—the authoritarian and bureaucratic structures of Roman rule. Rome was a harsh and brutal state; "Western civilization", #Christian civilization, continues to imitate the tyrannical Roman model to this very day.

(2/x)
not once has "the West" ever lost its fondness for rule by absolute monarchy. right-wing blowhards like @DouthatNYT and @MattWalshBlog reflexively fall at the feet of every military strongman or corporate dictator or @GOP politician in whom they sense Great Man potential.

(3/x)
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Jan 22
we've played this music a few times a day, routinely, for a long while now. Kajiura Yuki's theme music for #FateZero: "Back to Zero". it's one of my favorite pieces.

we've used it for grounding ourselves—it is, after all, right there in the name.



(1/x)
"Fate/Zero" is fiction. our present-day world may have magic in it, for surely magic is as eternal as anything that's woven into the Beatific Vision; magic, I tell myself in hope, can never completely die. but it has no magic like that of the mages of the "Fate/" universe.

(2/x)
it is perhaps well that this is so. one of the lessons of the "Fate/" universe ought to be that humanity perhaps ought *not* to have magic, because magical crimes are truly nightmarish in scope and scale. a little handful of mages almost bring about the end of the world...

(3/x)
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Jan 22
so let's talk a bit more about this "God".

"God" falls easily from the lips of the world's worst human beings. @MattWalshBlog thirsts to impregnate children, and perhaps has actually done that—and he's a "man of God". his child rapist friend @joshduggar—a "man of God".

(1/x)
@dalepartridge is a grifter, a confidence trickster, a squalid grasping man of #business consumed by avarice and pride—but, a "man of God". @laurenboebert habitually embezzles public money for her private use—but she's "faithful" to "God".

it's an astonishing phenomenon.

(2/x)
clearly "God" is something different from what @dalepartridge &c. all pretend He's about, i.e. infinite everything. all power, all knowledge, all love, etc. etc. etc.

in fact this "God" is defined by the *absence of definite qualities*. omnipotence is void, featureless.

(3/x)
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Jan 21
this may alarm some of my readers, so I feel like I ought to explain and qualify my words somewhat.

it is my considered opinion that a *certain conception of God* must be laid to rest. I've loosely termed this conception of God "the #Christian God", but that's tricky...

(1/x)
...since #Christianity is such a fearfully atomized and scattered assortment of different cults, all of them centered in some way on the #Bible and the spiritual event known to Christians as the Incarnation, that the very word "#Christian" no longer has a certain meaning.

(2/x)
it cannot be denied, however, that there is a #Christian mainstream in Western society; its American manifestation is particularly noisy, very well-funded from money trickling down from wealthy capitalists like the Koch Brothers, and fascıstic in its political inclination.

(3/x)
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Jan 21
and really this is what the failure of #capitalism boils down to: capitalists hate *equilibrium*. a healthy planet full of life is a physical system—one of profound complexity, but still, a system in dynamic equilibrium, maintaining an approximately steady state over time.

(1/x)
"steady state", in economic terms, would mean a #business that continues to provide approximately the same services or products over time to a steady clientele—not a *constant* number of clients but one that varies up and down with time, oscillating about a steady average.

(2/x)
and this #business would continue over time to charge about the same for its products or services, and the profit rakeoff going towards workforce and #management pay would also remain about the same. this approximately stable state would be a business at equilibrium.

(3/x)
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Jan 21
@jordanbpeterson a sure sign @jordanbpeterson is really a dunce, is that he *talks* like a dunce about science. this muddled, profoundly ignorant man—who undoubtedly pretends, like all #Christian fanatics do these days, to be a champion and guardian of science—*makes fun* of science.

~Chara
@jordanbpeterson global warming isn't tough to grasp if you know a few basic things about science. @jordanbpeterson could learn these things, if he weren't dedicated to *remaining* the dunce that he is.

the _carbon cycle_ of the Earth involves the interchange of carbon between physical phases.
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