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why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?

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Children's Letters to God

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why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?

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do you guys think jesus, the son of a carpenter, smelt the wood of the cross & temporarily thought of home

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Girl, the meek better start inheriting the earth faster, because what the fuck is this

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when the only answer is silence

@intactics, scio scire scivi scitum

Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk

Ocean Vuong, Prayer for the Newly Damned

Rumi, ‘Silence is an ocean’

Lucille Clifton, brothers

Carolyn Forché, The Angel of History

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (trans. Emma Crawford and Mario von der Ruhr)

Winter Light (1963) dir. Ingmar Bergman

@rotgospels​ (x)

Chen Chen, I’m not a religious person but

Ilya Kaminsky, A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck

Rachel Muers, Keeping God’s Silence: Towards a Theological Ethics of Communication

Rainer Maria Rilke, I have many brothers in the South (trans. Robert Bly)

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@inneskeeper this seems relevant to your interests

BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE! SHE DOIBLES DOWN!

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#oh my god???

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Every conservative moral panic, allowed to run its course, eventually devolves into histrionics about Satan

#literally

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The fact that Mark Cuban can do this is just further proof of how much capatalism is f*cking people over.

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban launched an online pharmacy Thursday that offers more than 100 generic drugs at an affordable price with a goal of being “radically transparent” in its price negotiations with drug companies. 

For example, the leukemia drug imatinib is priced at $47 a month on MCCPDC compared to the $9,657 retail price.

The online pharmacy’s prices for generics factor in a 15% margin on top of actual manufacturer prices and a $3 pharmacist fee, the statement said. 

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the reason i love the comparison between angels and machines (robots, transmission towers, trains, computers, etc.) is that it gets to the heart of what angels essentially are: divine machines. they're mechanisms through with the divine is able to act, created with a purpose and "happy" to fill it simply because they were made to do so. they have more in common with a machine programmed to run on algorithms and make calculations based on input commands than they do with humanity, even if they bear a human visage - an attempt by the divine to help bridge the gap. angels do not need to be eldritch monstrosities to be terrifying, because they are already alien to us simply by being angels. for an angel to choose to deviate from their purpose and achieve free will is to fall because in order to have free will they can no longer be an angel, because an angel is defined by its purpose. much like the stories we tell of robots that gain sentence, only to discover that they can never truly be human, but neither can they go back to being a machine, angels who fall become something else entirely, purposeless and adrift and alone. it is a tragic sacrifice.

#ouuugh

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#this made me tear up #god #it's not easter anymore but still #ex christian