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biblebloodhound · 21 days

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Jesus Shows Up (John 20:19-31)

When Jesus shows up, there is peace.

The Doubt of St. Thomas, by He Qi It was still the first day of the week. That evening, while the disciples were behind closed doors because they were afraid of the Jewish authorities, Jesus came and stood among them. He said, “Peace be with you.”After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. When the disciples saw the Lord, they were filled with joy.Jesus said to them again, “Peace…

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focr · 7 months

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Christocentric, 'Kenosis' | The Lost Sessions

#focr #focr 50 #kenosis #christocentric #christian music #Youtube

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thinkingonscripture · 9 months

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Free Grace Salvation

Free grace salvation means we are forgiven, justified, and saved solely by God’s grace, and not by any human effort or merit. All humanity is inherently sinful and unable to earn entrance into heaven. Our good works do not save. They never have and never will. Salvation is entirely a work of God. He offers it to sinful humanity as a gift, given freely and unconditionally to all who believe in…

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aqrwacact6do · 1 year

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apostate-in-an-alcove · 2 years

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The atheism tags on this site are a toxic mess.

#the people on there make extremely white western and christocentric takes on atheism #atheism is a broad term and includes a wide variety of philosophers and scholars #many of which are not from western and Christian dominated countries #i hate to break it to you guys but the angry anti theist atheists aren't all there is #too many people on this site have very clearly never deconstructed or questioned the belief or lack of belief that they were raised with

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tikkunolamresistance · 2 months

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It was ethnonationalist, facist ideology that killed 6 million Jews in the Holocaust. It was the ignorance of Western nations who refused to listen to the Jewish people as they gleefully reported on all of the Nazis developments leading up to the Holocaust, that killed 6 million Jews. It was white supremacy, eurocentricity, religious extremism, Christocentrism and antisemitism from Medival Europe, hypercapitalism, and ignorance that killed 6 million Jews.

And these same factors are killing Palestinians. History is a loop, a complete circle. Never Again means Never Again for ANYONE.

#free palestine #palestine #anti capitalism #anti imperialism #anti zionism #jumblr #israel #judaism #jewish thought #jewish #jews for palestine

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intosnarkness · 8 months

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One of the most interesting ways that Christocentrism rears it’s ugly head is when a Jewish person does something because of our religion and here come all the ex-xtian atheists to say “GOD DOESNT CARE IF YOU EAT PORK” or “YOURE NOT GONNA DIE IF YOU WORK ON SATURDAY”.

Like yeah, no shit. As a Jew I don’t fear god. I don’t think he is gonna impose consequences on me if I break his rules. That’s not how the relationship works.

If I do something because Jewish tradition says to, it’s because I’m honoring my community and keeping my culture alive. God doesn’t really enter the equation. He can have given us a rule, but if you know any Jews you know we have nine to eleven ways of following any rule and it depends on what suits us in the situation.

So if you slip a Jewish person trief to “show them” that nothing bad will happen to them, you are an asshole of the highest order and have fundamentally misunderstood the rule they’re seeking to follow.

Judaism does not include fear of God. It is a partnership with history and community and culture. And god can come, too, if he promises to be cool about it.

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christianity-crucible · 10 months

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And that brings us back to the matter of perspective. You may be a “centrist” among the universe of people you know, but that says more who you know than about you.

Finally, calling yourself a “centrist” too often assumes that’s the superior intellectual or moral position to hold. To the rest of us, it almost always is said with an air of superiority.

Would it have been good to be a “centrist” on the Civil War? On the Holocaust? On 9/11?

Here’s the curious thing: I don’t know many progressives or liberals who are clamoring to be called “centrists.”

#centrism #centrists #Southern Baptist Convention #USA #christocentrism cw

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thekillersareeatingtheflesh · 1 year

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thank god christmas is almost over

#ive literally been avoiding social media so i dont have to deal with a lethal dose of christocentrism #shut up spencer

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biblebloodhound · 4 months

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The Motivation for Ministry (Acts 13:16-25)

The Apostle Paul was unabashedly Christo-centric in everything he said and did; he followed Christ in every aspect of his life and ministry.

Standing up, Paul motioned with his hand and said: “Fellow Israelites and you Gentiles who worship God, listen to me! The God of the people of Israel chose our ancestors; he made the people prosper during their stay in Egypt; with mighty power he led them out of that country; for about forty years he endured their conduct in the wilderness; and he overthrew seven nations in Canaan, giving their…

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#acts #acts 13 #acts of the apostles #apostle paul #christian life #christian ministry #christian mission #christianity #christocentric #jesus christ #motivation

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jame7t · 7 months

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Something that always annoys me when christians fear monger on tiktok (and here too, I guess) is that they’re always like “ahhh you gotta be scared of the devil ahhh hes da father of lies!!” but never for a second, literally ever, consider “What If The Devil Is Tricking me Into being a hateful person.”

Anyway, that line of thought turned me into an atheist for a while, but I also realized I only knew enough about Christian beliefs to disagree with them, so now I guess I’m a Christocentric Agnostic, where I know the Christian god isn’t real, but I don’t know enough about anyone else’s god to disagree with its existence, and plus that would be pretty rude.

Now, I know what you’re thinking: ‘isn’t that pretty rude to the Christian God, in the case that He is real?” And 1: yeah 2: he’s chill it’s fine

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writergeekrhw · 9 months

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I don't agree that humanity should have to "move past" religion (though I understand that wasn't your decision, but one you guys had to follow because it was Roddenberry's idea), but I am also curious what that anon thinks is "Christocentric" about it since they don't explain. That ask seems to suggest Christianity is the only religion that's ever done oppressive things, which I think people from Salman Rushdie to the Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar would have something to say about.

I can't speak for the OP, but...

Histocially, European colonialization crushed many religions with the expressed aim of replacing them with Christianity in one form or another. Also, non-Christian religions were a major rallying point for resistance to colonialization. So, when a Western TV show or Westerners in general says it's time to "move past" religion, I can understand people seeing it as a continuation of five hundred years or so of attacks on non-Christian religions.

Of course, there are plenty of other examples of non-Christian inter-religious conflict in history and even in current events, but for people whose countries suffered under European colonialization, it's not surprising they might see things through that lens primarily.

To bring this back to DS9, the Cardassians certainly suppressed the Bajoran religion during the Occupation, and we've seen the Bajoran faith was a meaningful part of the resistance for many, which is why it's understandable that a lot of Bajorans might get bent out of shape when, say, a Federation teacher tells her students that the Prophets are just super-advanced aliens and that the Celestial Temple is an understandable astrophysical phenomenon. While it's also understandable that said teacher might insist that teaching the scientific truth is the right thing to do, especially given she's teaching in a Federation school.

So is the Federation guilty of cultural imperialism? Or are the Bajorans being xenophobic? Or can both be true?

All great fodder for drama.

At least that's how I saw things when I wrote for DS9.

#ask me anything #tv writing #ask me stuff #ds9 #star trek ds9 #star trek #deep space nine #star trek deep space nine #deep space 9 #star trek deep space 9

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olderthannetfic · 9 months

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/724781513472868352 I resonate with this on a deep level. I get told at college all the time that I don't look LGBT+ (they refuse to say queer, respectability politics is a helleva drug), I don't act it, no queer person is into my major or my hobbies, and it's weird that I'm queer but not into astrology or dressing more aesthetically ("are you a cottagecore or a dark academia gay?" I'm neither I'm a me) or playing Pokemon because outgrowing Pokemon is for cishets. People talk about gays/LGBT+ not being able to drive or do math or sit normally and then act like I'm some kind of ridiculous weirdo for not laughing at what they assure me is a true statement that does not apply to them or to me. People encourage me to experiment with my style or hair and "come out of your shell". I am informed I need to listen to certain musicians because all LGBT+ people are into them. It's weird that I'm not. It's even weirder I don't like The Owl House or hate Steven Universe or keep up with Heartstopper like the good queers do.

Basically it all boils down to, "Why can't you be more normal? Why can't you be like us?"

Because I'm not. My dad is a Pashtun Muslim and my mother is a Bukharan Jew. I have lived in the Deep South half my life and Wyoming the other half. My media interests are unrelated to queer rep and wholly based on liking the plots of things. I grew up on oldies and TV shows like Starsky and Hutch that my parents loved, pirated and played on repeat. I don't believe in astrology, I'm not a witch and I'm not an atheist with a Christocentric worldview who assumes all religions are Christianity Lite. I don't listen to the correct musicians mostly because I discover music entirely by accident and have a mishmash of genres and bands in rotation. Pokemon fell off and I'm not into it. I would sooner die than dye my Pashtun red hair that people made fun of me for as a kid. I like wearing button downs, clean shirts, nice jeans and my Magen David. None of this is incompatible with being queer. No one is going to kick me out of a gay club for not having played Pokemon Violet or listening to Tracy Chapman or trusting in science over crystals for healing.

And I really hate that after years of being avoided and pitied in high school by jackass backwards rednecks for being weird, I got to my dream university, the university in the most liberal city in Montana, and get the same fucking treatment.

Commenters like the one anon mentioned remind me of all the people who act like I'm doing it wrong. What is 'it', in that sentence? Living my life. Being queer. And when it crops in fandom - and I've gotten it sometimes for writing queer characters who are like me, Southern and into uncool shit and not sharp dressers and religious - it just makes me want to start screaming.

I am queer. I am not incorrectly queer. I am who I am and therefore, because I am queer, that is a correct way to do queerness.

Some gripes about Gen Z are overblown but this weirdly narrow view of what queerness is allowed to look like or be is 100% as awful as other generations say it is and it's fucking exhausting to live through. I don't have to sit differently in order to be doing queerness right or be unable to drive. I exist and I am queer and that is all I need to do and be.

I wish fandom was different from real life. I wish it was more open to the reality that queer people have a multitude of backgrounds and lived experiences. We're facing enough shit IRL, can't we just have one place where we're NICE to each other?

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As a 40+ queer, I'm laughing myself sick at the current crop of "required" queer interests.

In my day, it was oldschool cis gay male culture for the men (think being obsessed with Bette Davis) and But I'm a Cheerleader and Dykes to Watch Out For for the women or something.

Not that you have to like any of those things either. It's just hilarious how clueless people are about what's a temporary trend that will probably be different in 5 years.

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strivia · 8 months

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Thinking about Pan and his singing. Specifically I'm thinking about the cultural implications of low growls simultaneously being perceived as villainous yet also erotic, and the implication that the erotic and primal is perceived as evil in a Christocentric society. Devil imagery borrowing from Pan historically was an intentional action to demonize him from my understanding too so.

And the fact that Pan has this trait as a god of mischief and lust and the wild feels very fitting. He's not evil, but he's also not tame in ways society expects people to be.

Like his song has a lot of traits typical of traditional villain songs, but the growls are the most pinpointable.

#stray gods #stray gods the roleplaying musical #pan stray gods #stray gods pan #sg Pan #strivia speaks

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woman-respecter · 4 months

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anyone else get annoyed by fanart/fic of characters in a world other than ours celebrating christmas? its like was there jesus in this world or is your worldview so christocentric that you just imagine that its so universal it crosses realities?

or maybe im just a fun-hating jew

#btw if u make jesus exist in that world so does judaism :)

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grimoire-catechumen · 9 months

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Importance of Silence in Ritual Magick

Every time I return to Agrippa, I am amazed by what I have forgotten and the knowledge which he provides in the Three Books of Occult Philosophy.

Having grown up with a Christocentric worldview from which I make sense of the mundane and magickal world, the idea of silence has always been prevalent. Note Matthew 7:6 specifically, which says: “Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you." The word occult comes from the Latin verb celara meaning "to hide" or the adjective occultus meaning "hidden, concealed, or secret." In antiquity, the secrets provided to practitioners of the occult were considered valuable so much so that they were often disguised, shrouded in ways that only those holding a metaphorical key could understand the original meaning. To prevent the casting of this sacred spiritual knowledge before swine.

Agrippa expands on this idea in Ch. II of Book III where he notes five reasons for silence or circumspection.

Sharing holy matters with profane minds pollutes them. We see this even today when trying to share sacred, but secret truths granted to us by spirits with those who don't understand. Sayings like "mundane over magical" or a push for critical thought are used to lessen its influence or impact on our understanding. When we share these experiences, sometimes it can be to the detriment of the work the spirits are calling us to do. The shine of pearls is sullied by their environment.

Profane minds cannot grasp holy doctrine. Understanding is a gift to give a deeper insight and penetration of divine truths held by faith, not as a transitory enlightenment but as a permanent intuition. In Catholic dogma, this gift of understanding is granted by the Holy Spirit during Confirmation and assists in penetrating revealed truths, but also natural truths in so far as they related to a supernatural end. As St. Thomas Aquinas said, "In this very life, when the eye of the spirit is purified by the gift of understanding, one can ina a certain way see God." (Summa theologicae II-II, q. 69 a.2, ad.3).

The importance of understanding is further echoed in the Stobaei Hermetica: "But avoid converse with the many. Not that I wish you to grudge a benefit to others; my reason for this warning is rather that the many will think you one to be laughed at if you speak to them as I have spoken to you. Like welcomes like; but men that are unlike are never friends..."

3. It allows the divine enlightenment of the doctrine to occur. Everybody has experiences whereby slowing down and listening we are given directions, instructions, or encouragement from the spirits. But by keeping silent about our work, we ensure our motivations are pure and that the intention is to commune with the divine. Too often I think we miss critical personal truths in favor of using magic for public success. As noted in the Corpus Hermeticum 13.8a, "And now, my son, speak not, but keep a solemn silence; so will the mercy come down on us from God."

4. The futility of attempting to express the inexpressible. Sometimes words are incapable of describing our supernatural experiences with spirits and when we do it comes out much less life-changing than it was. There is a reason occultists gather together in communities - just as any common worldview is the base of a religion, so to do our experiences bring us together and set us apart. Only those who have worked with the spirits can fully understand your own experiences.

5. Silence involves a proscription against translation of the doctrines into other languages because the words themselves are holy and embody power. Although this may be my least favorite reason as a grimoire magician eager to find translations of French and German transcripts, I think it holds true. This idea is noted in the Corpus Hermeticum 16.1b-2 as well: "Translation will greatly distort the sense of the writings, and cause much obscurity. Expressed in our native language, the teaching conveys its meaning clearly; for the very quality of sounds...; and when the Egyptian words are spoken, the force of the things signified works in them."

Furthermore, in academic publications such as Invoking Angels by Penn State University Press, there are entire discussions around how the illiterate laity copying down instructions from holy books led to mistakes in translations, a problem noted by translators such as Joseph Peterson, David Rankine, and Stephen Skinner in their meticulous grimoire translations. Exasperated by the enhanced access to manuscripts in the 16th and 17th centuries, you see books such as the Grimoire of Arthur Gauntlet or Book of Oberon with Greek, Latin, and Hebrew translation corrections along with corrections in figures of circles or talismans.

Outside of magick, even, biblical scholars note the loss of Scriptural understanding when reading the Bible in English compared to Greek or even Hebrew, noting minute differences that entirely change the meaning of a text or provide additional context.

Taken together, I think Agrippa makes a solid argument for why keeping silent is important. Do you agree?

#ceremonial magic #grimoire #grimoires #magick #solomonic magic #witchcraft #divination #occultism #heinrich cornelius agrippa #silence

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