post-theist theology and blasphemous hallelujahs
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m.div. at @unitedtheologic
Aug 19, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
my wife is an ER physician in here in the Twin Cities. she told me that at one Minneapolis hospital, the last two ICU beds were filled last night by patients transferred in from Florida and Oklahoma because those beds were the nearest available ICU beds.
abc7chicago.com/us-covid-cases…
May 26, 2021 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
i've noticed that when a Christian person says they are questioning / deconstructing / leaving Church or Christianity, there is often a chorus of voices chiming in to declare that "just because you've left Christianity doesn't mean you've left Jesus"
let's talk about that.
My journey of faith has been a movement of continually transgressing the borders of my comfort zone, crossing the lines thou shalt not cross.
From fundamentalism, to Evangelicalism, to universalism, to vague Christian existentialism, to non-Christian theism, to mystic atheism...
Feb 24, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
there's a lot of reasons why I can't be a Christian anymore, but the one on my mind these days is its utter failure to deliver on its core premises.
if God defeated sin on the cross / resurrection, why is there still so much fuckin sin?
no theological answer satisfies that.
Christianity has had 2000 years to prove that it is uniquely able to reduce sin and spread justice. It has failed.
Oct 4, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
watching @EvolvFaith from afar, I have a lot of bittersweet feelings.
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#EvolvingFaith2020
at EF 2019 I was teetering on the edge of Christianity, pretty sure I didn’t believe it anymore. but being there in North Carolina with you all made me want to hang on a little longer, just to keep being part of it all.
if donald trump recovers from this "deadly wound", it 100% confirms that he is the first beast of revelation 13
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on the first day of the tenth month, donald trump tested postive for corona virus (latin for "crown")
"october corona = "ten crowns"
(revelation 13:1)
Jun 1, 2018 • 27 tweets • 6 min read
I'm gonna do a quick thread here about #Exvangelical and #ChristianAltFacts when it comes to male sexuality. Some folks assume that the fundamentalist patriarchy was all fun and games for people with male bodies. This is not the case. Buckle up, kids.
1.) We were constantly pounded (ha!) with the idea that lust is "every man's battle". It is a battle that is almost impossible to win ("If you have unrestricted internet, you're guaranteed to look at porn!"), but if you loved Jesus you would try anyways.
