In this tweet is the Cliff Notes for the thread I put out this morning. I do believe it’s important to understand where these people are coming from b/c right now we have preachers saying gays should be put to death and men hauled like cargo to a Pride event to do violence.

https://twitter.com/shindoverse/status/1538555709159198720

All your arguing about shrimp and tattoos and mixed fiber clothes is useless because this is the foundation. They’re only picking and choosing from the Old Testament and may go on about how gays should put to death while enjoying some barbecue ribs or a cheeseburger.

Romans 1: Paul’s Tossed Word Salad: The Root 🧵

Since it’s still Pride Month and today is Sunday, let’s take a look at St Paul’s hot mess of a homophobic text in his intro.

CW: Christianity, Bible, New Testament, anti-gay text, religious homophobia, Bible “clobber passages” First, a few things:

The Epistle to the Romans like other writing attributed to the Apostle Paul, is in the form of a letter to a church somewhere in the Roman Empire, in this case, Rome.

In these letters are a greeting, thoughts and addresses and acknowledgements.

The problem with civility as I see if is you are civil to bigots, fundamentalists, Nazis is that they’ll interpret your behavior towards them as what they do is OK.

What other problems are there with being civil towards violently toxic people? Conversely, if you ridicule them or show hostility to them, especially for their beliefs, there is the risk of pushing them further into their beliefs.

I remember being taught in American evangelicalism that non Christians being hostile was evidence…

WWJD? A couple of things Jesus would say about jobs. 🧵

Consider this is an ex-tradesman (according to tradition, a carpenter in the family business) who for much of the Gospels narrative held no job but had at least one sugar daddy (Nicodemus) & perhaps a couple of sugar mamas. It sounds like he’d condemn holding more than one job or say you shouldn’t have a side hustle.

And his overall point is you shouldn’t focus on your money, think about your survival, but focus on God.

But what if you’re a slave who wants to buy your own manumission?

Autistic Pride 🧵

This was never, ever supposed to happen. Here it is:

First photo: BA, English, 2001, San Diego State University
Second Photo: MFA Creative Writing (Fiction), 2005, San Diego State University

#AutisticPrideDay2022 #AutisticPride #Neurodivergent I mentioned this before, even a week ago: I wasn’t even supposed to had had to had the chance to graduate from high school, let alone ever get through first grade. Psychiatrist wrote a disabled child as should be institutionalized

#AutisticPrideDay2022 #AutisticPride

Vulcan hairdos vs Celebrity hair. 🧵

Syrran’s outgrown shag vs Liam Ghallagher’s Britpop hair. 1/#startrek #vulcans T’Pol’s short haircut vs Mia Farrow’s pixie made famous by an infamous filmmaker. 2/

#startrek #vulcans