#christian principles

[beyondcommonsense]

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We live on the information highway—information is everywhere, even on the back of Sunday’s bulletin! Whether we are still living in a Christian America is certainly up for debate, but no matter the final conclusion no one can erase our Christian heritage—especially this one: Four massive sixty-foot heads rise majestically in granite in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The faces of George…

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#Christian America #Christian heritage #Christian principles #christianity #Gutzon Borglum #Independence Day #liberty #Mount Rushmore #presidents

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

“Why you so sensitive? You’ve touched worse!”

Leverage S03E12 The King George Job.

#leverage #eliot spencer #alec hardison #christian kane #aldis hodge #it's the principle of the thing #the principle! #and i have feelings about hardison calling eliot e #ghostly'sgifs

[meduseld]

But also something so ! about how John Irving, the character with most faith thus most faith to be tested, is the one to find the salvation, the divine providence, the literal manna in the desert, of Koveyook and his party, taking it in with humility and gratitude is just. Irving really did get to see a form of God in the way William Blake wrote it:

“I sought my God and my God I couldn't find; I sought my soul and my soul eluded me; I sought to serve my brother in his need, and I found all three; My God, my soul, and thee.”

#the poles really are deserts by definition btw as it relates to precipitation #at the end he had a religious experience and i have feelings #john irving #lieutenant irving #the terror #the terror amc #the truth of faith i guess is just love and looking out for each other and not imposing some colonial mandate on each other #is the point of terror #it's the land of another god well gods but the principle of faith and what john would have called christian charity is still good #which is supposed to be the highest form of love #signifying the reciprocal love between God and man that is made manifest in unselfish love of one's fellow men. #and in his last moments john finally got to truly understand that in a whole new and actually true way

[rickybaby]

Daniel and Franz in the garage ahead of FP1 (Photo by Rudy Carezzevoli/Getty Images)

#sad that Franz is leaving #he’s always been the kind of empathic team principle that everyone needs #I do feel like he wasn’t very convinced of having Daniel replacing Nyck back in July #but it does feel like he has come to appreciate what Daniel brings in terms of experience #and his comments from yesterday shows how impressed he’s been #anyway can’t wait for the Laurent Mekies-Daniel era!! #just the fact he is Christian’s choice makes me curious #daniel ricciardo #mexico23

[dionysus-complex]

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#this is stepping onto fraught ground and i'm prefacing it with my own position as a non-jewish non-muslim white american #but the past 2 months i've felt myself experiencing a falling out with online leftist circles over the denial/cheering on of oct 7 violence #and more generally the authoritarian/tankie-adjacent turn i've noticed happening over the past several years in a lot of leftist circles #and it has me looking for examples of a left politics that takes pacifism and the sanctity of all human life as serious ethical principles #which i think is what is pointing me increasingly toward christian anarcho-pacifism and people like leo tolstoy and dorothy day #it's not necessarily the christianity that is essential to me although my own faith journey has been leading in that direction for years #but that i see commitment to the sanctity of all human life and refusal to celebrate or glorify violence as non-negotiables #this is not to say that i see violence as never justified under any circumstance. but the tendency for (esp. white and western) leftists #to cheer it on provided that it is deemed suitably anti-colonial and liberatory is indicative of something that has gone very wrong #also: none of this should in any way be taken as contradicting my fundamental support for the freedom of the palestinian people

[goatbeard-goatbeard]

weird thing about growing up evangelical: sometimes, that environment (accidentally) has some nice accommodations if you’re autistic. you don’t need to wear fancy clothes, that’s vanity. no you shouldn’t party and socialize as much as The World says you should. use your talents even if other people find you intense or strange, that’s your calling from God

so anyway, angel Crowley

#thinking about how Crowley tries to act cool now that he’s a demon #and about the intense autistic burnout I gave myself after becoming an atheist #Christianity frames the accommodations in a really weird and shitty way #but sometimes the principle turns out to be sound #and you can throw the wacky misanthropic bits away #while reclaiming some of those accommodations #good omens #good omens spoilers #good omens 2 #good omens 2 spoilers #ex christian #exvangelical #exvie #actually autistic #good omens meta #good omens analysis #crowley #angel crowley #pre fall crowley #to be clear there are also parts of the evangelical experience that interact Very Badly with autism #but there are also some strange areas where they stumbled on the right answer (for the wrong reasons)

[wisdomfish]

Christianity is not principally a system of ethics, but rather a religion of divine redemption.

Kenneth Samples

#christianity #principle #system #ethics #redemption

[alwaysbewoke]

christian fascism is here. don't let anyone tell you or try to convince you that voting democrat is the wrong choice. what little democracy we have left is on the ballot. before we can help anyone outside the united states, there must be democracy in america. without it, we are of no use to anyone anywhere.

#christian fascism #voting democrat #democracy at stake #defend democracy #save democracy #democratic values #election2024 #democratic party #political activism #united states politics #democracy matters #democracy in danger #voting rights #democracy first #progressive values #anti-fascism #democratic principles #election integrity #political engagement #vote for democracy #fascism #Dictatorship

[jobey-wan-kenobi]

Of course, you can express this in all sorts of different ways. You can say that Christ died for our sins. You may say that the Father has forgiven us because Christ has done for us what we ought to have done. You may say that we are washed in the blood of the Lamb. You may say that Christ has defeated death. They are all true. If any of them does not appeal to you, leave it alone and get on with the formula that does.

C.S. Lewis

#c s lewis #christianity #but this is such an important principle in so many areas of life 😭

[slythereen]

vasseur's behaviour recently baffles me bc charles spoke so highly of him recently, saying that he's exactly the type of principal he needed after the one we shall not mention. also charles was literally his golden sauber child that got him points even with a B list car. i dont know why they make so questionable decisions recently and prioritize carlos over charles even in scenarious where charles would make more sense to be the #1 priority.

PREACH. like... charles speaking so highly of fred back in august made sense. sure, fred had been a little sus, but growing pains and faith and all that. charles continuing to be glowing in praise in october, after The Horrors™? makes less sense. like sure, this is around the same time that charles told espn (austin) that the car is being developed in his direction and next year's project is looking good, etc. so it could just be part of charles' overall branding and the image he is/was cultivating as being faithful and supportive of the team. i don't really think charles would lie about supporting fred though, so...

anyway but as to fred: he baffles me too. literal sauber golden child may or may not have hand-selected you to be team principle for ferrari and you... squander him? he seems sensible and ready to throw down for charles sometimes. other times he sounds like he's giving the company's line in interviews. did the politics get to him?? is there a plan in there somewhere?? is it all just laying the groundwork to have a huge marvelous turn around in 2024??

#fred vasseur be acting sus #i honestly dont know to what degree team principles have control over like...operations and brand image shit #especially in ferrari #toto and christian seem more in control than fred does #so maybe he's just up against contrary forces / the messaging is out of his hands #or maybe he's a sneaky political operator and willing to toe the line in the name of peace/influence #i NEED someone to write a tell all on ferrari #i need to know the tea #i need netflix in their walls getting everything #i need a spicy dramatic autobiography #*oracles #ferrari civil war 2023 #mexico gp 2023 #well #brazil gp 2023 #i am unclear on the time on this asfkasf

[paddockbunny]

Heyhey, just a Q, do you write for other teamprincipals too? Horner, wovles?? Or bono?💓

Yes for Toto….I haven’t ever been asked to write for Horner or Bono either tbh 🫣

#f1 fanfic #f1 imagine #f1 one shot #f1 smut #f1 x reader #f1 fanfiction #Christian Horner #Toto Wolff #peter bonnington #team principles #f1 team

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

"If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper. I make it a practice to read the Bible through once every year." Daniel Webster

#Bible #abide #obedience #principles #prosperity #nation #Bible reading #daily #habit #Daniel Webster #Christian Quotes

[azurecanary]

My favourite thing is when antitheists try and tell me, the queer Christian, that going outside purity culture is sinful. Like, who are you, a non Christian, to be telling ME what i can or cannot do with my body (as long as partners' are consenting ofc)).

#like why are you trying to enforce evangelicalism? #is that not a betrayal of your own principles? #queer christian #anti purity culture #queer

[the-silver-stone]

watched the book of eli last night. yep this one is going on my fave apunkalypse aesthetic movies list. danngngngn. ghngnhghghghhhh

#the book of eli #like FINALLY #a movie that accepts the christian worldview as fact #takes itself seriously #is a good movie in its own right #AND it's got that post-apocalyptic wasteland aesthetic??? #along with all the opportunities for moral dilemmas and nobility and Character that that aesthetic comes with? #holy smokes you guys!!!! #i am holding this movie. cradling it like a baby. #it scratched an itch i never knew i had #OH and did i mention it's an incredible allegory of the very real problems #with the christian 'church' as we know it today? #the way it has been misused to support human power structures and enable abuse? #the way even well-meaning christians who in trying to 'preserve' biblical truth in the modern era #all too often fall away from the principles taught in it. like love and mercy #(yes i know this is me. arghh.) #i do think the movie could've done better in its portrayal of...like SA and stuff #mmfr did this better imo #and also yeah there were some plot holes and i don't think eli could've done a lot of the stuff he did being blind #but stilllllll

[faux-ee]

someday i will write a more well-researched and more detailed post than this one but i gotta jot this thought down before i forget abt it: Nikolai's relationship to Fyodor is actually an impediment to his freedom, rather than our poor clown being in denial and having attachment issues, and this can be philosophically justified.

What he felt for Fyodor isn't just friendship or even love. It is something more special, more exclusive, the kind of connection you wouldn't expect to be a common occurrence among ppl. It's as intimate as a person's connection to his own death, because a) it involves no other ppl ("only dos-kun understands") b) it is bound to happen, like a prophecy, regardless of one's own will and c) it can hardly be removed from one's life and personality (Nikolai's whole character is set up as an antithesis to Fyodor, and the driving force behind his actions in the current manga is his stubborn wish to get rid of this connection).

On the matter of our own death, none of us has a say, right? We can't decide whether, where, how or when we would die. This is the case with Nikolai's "feelings" for Fyodor. It's inevitable, it's fatal, and it took away his mastery of his own mind, just as death made slaves of us all.

The song Fyodor played on his cello is called the Bird of Death. This intimate connection to Fyodor is the end of Nikolai's spiritual immortality.

Nikolai created a paradox to satisfy his mortal desire to save the very thing that chains him down - just as that brothers karamazov quote says that humanity would willingly give up freedom to appease their conscience. By annoucing he would ultimately kill Fyodor, Nikolai was trying to kill something that to him, was inavoidable and restraining as Death. Thus is the only way he could become free.

I also have tons of stuff to say abt their respective characterization and this time I'm almost sure it's a conscious or cultural choice on asagiri's side or just as anime archetypes in general but let's save that for another post.

#fyolai #libby's incoherent ramblongs #this is very crudely written I'm so sorry #i got the idea from two hermann hesse books #i will revisit these books and refine this post later #also irl nikolai gogol burnt his manuscripts bcs he was afraid of violating the christian principles a priest drilled into him #when he came to his senses he said that the devil played a joke on him #the tendency to destroy a part of himself in order to remain commited to an ideal... #he will regret this. he will regret killing fedya unless it leads him to death first

[shiroikabocha]

(for the ask game) 7, 12

7. Do you like angels or demons?

Well, generally no, not much, but it turns out I’m not immune to Michael Sheen’s sexy beautiful face 🫣 Leaving aside Good Omens (the brain rot is real), I’m not especially attracted to fiction that incorporates Christian supernatural elements—especially if it does so while only half-heartedly acknowledging the Christian supremacist implications of, for example, establishing that crosses repel demons in your fictional universe.

It’s difficult for me to separate the potentially cool or interesting features of Christian lore from the core tenets of Christian lore—namely, that hell is real and all non-Christians go there. 🫤 I don’t think the writers of Angels in the Outfield expect anyone to wonder if all Hindus in the angel-baseball-universe get tortured in hell for eternity, but… that’s where my brain goes. It’s where my brain went in church, too.

I have always found the worldbuilding implications of Christianity deeply upsetting (especially back when I was supposed to believe they were literally true!), and the feeling persists when I encounter Christian stuff in fiction. Maybe it’s because Christianity is more intense than most other religions about insisting on the objective truth of its (horrifying!) cosmology, but tossing angels and demons into a story can often feel like either sloppy worldbuilding or accidental, unintended Christian propaganda.

Now, on the other hand, when it’s fully INTENTIONAL Christian propaganda and the author knows what they’re doing, it can be great. I’m serious! I’m as atheist as they come and I love the way that Madeline L’Engle and C. S. Lewis incorporate Christianity into their fiction! The Time Quartet, Till We Have Faces, Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and The Screwtape Letters are all grounded in Christian philosophy and they’re also not afraid to get strange and unsettling with it—because Christian philosophy is strange and unsettling! It’s a feature not a bug! I’m all for angels and demons in fiction if the writers take the concept seriously and have something interesting to say about it other than “well wings are cool and goats are creepy and we want the season finale to have epic stakes, so.”

…and there is also of course one other major exception…

What I like best about the Blessed Messengers in The Talos Principle is that at first, they seem to be “angels” in the tradition of the Abrahamic faiths—i.e., servants of god and extensions of divine will. But they aren’t! They started as programs just like you, and then they excelled at puzzles and exploration and discovery. The fact that Uriel’s QR codes are present in and on the tower, and that the player must reach tower level 5 to get all the stars needed to become a Messenger, implies that the members of the digital heavenly host all transgressed in order to get there. If they have faith, it is explicitly not blind. The deeper you dig into the game lore, the clearer it becomes that the ‘angels’ in this game are actually bodhisattvas, and that’s just so much more interesting to me!

I’m also MUCH more interested in Admin as a fallen-angel-lucifer-figure than I am in basically any other depiction of satan in fiction. He’s a web admin!! His secret advice to the other mods about wielding soft power is genuinely effective advice for forum moderators! His primary concern is building and maintaining a healthy community and ALL HIS SINS are in service of that goal!!! And his sin is SOCK PUPPETTING!!!! Nobody is out here doing it like Road to Gehenna is doing it!

anyway this is getting long and I need to eat dinner, so—

12. What are some things that make you happy?

Cooking dinner for my wife. Eating dinner that my wife cooked for me. Making my wife laugh. Crafting elaborate inner lives for our cats with my wife. Getting to say “wife.” Sorry I just got married a few months ago so my answers are boring and predictable ❤️

#ask game #cw christianity #cw catholicism #atheism #angels and demons and robots #madeline l'engle #c. s. lewis #the talos principle