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This is the best modern, non-academic Christian essay that I have ever read before, in my life.
Trump administration seems like it may be walking headfirst into this one, as predicted.
Excited about this one! Drops March 26!!
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One last drag. I flick the butt into the side alley, yeah, fucking arrest me, and walk into the belly of the force that rules the world.
Wells Fargo at my six. The El Portal, a vaudeville relic on my right, the paint faded and peeling under a relentless sun. Martin Luther would rip his ninety-five theses off the Wittenberg church door and…
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Ester, thanks for the welcome! I will do what I can in the time left to me and I am encouraged by your too kind sentiments.
Interesting essay, as always. One phrase comes to my mind as the most pertinent one about sacrifice ; it comes from Allegri's "Miserere" which I listen to often. The text must be very old, and I don't know who is speaking, but it is not essential. The speaker says at one point that the sacrifice that (the Christian) God wants is a repentant heart. That speaks to me radically. The repentant heart was meant to blot out a great deal of those smoking, bloody animal sacrifices in various temples all…
I like the idea of Dionysos being one of our modern gods. That makes sense too.
Have you read "The Immortality Key" by the Jesuit lawyer Brian Muraresku? He has some fascinating arguments around the influence of Dionysian mythologies on Christianity. Drugs too. Loads of drugs.