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I love British mystery shows set in beautiful peaceful quaint idyllic towns full of simple happy folk who are constantly murdering the shit out of each other.

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Thus is your sign to become Catholic ☺

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The fact that the Doctor never finds out that Jenny's alive kills me.

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most important thing to remember about being a woman is if youre married you have to go under the covers with your husband and laugh cutely and play wrestle so when you die to progress the narrative he can remember it in slow motion montages

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Notre-Dame-du-Port, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

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@magitekconveyor

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POV: your friend is an ecology major and has beef with random animals

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glass study follow me on twitter / instagram / patreon / shop / leave a tip

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I mean if we're really getting into it, most problems with people creating stories to critique Christianity boil down to either a. They do absolutely zero research and think "why do bad things happen" is unanswerable for anyone who believes in a fundamentally good deity, b. They assume that the religious beliefs of two churches in Missouri run by an abusive pastor are the religious beliefs of 3 billion people, or c. They're actually critiquing cultural systems which utilize Christianity to uphold oppression (good! Critique that!) but they conflate that with the religion itself which often leads back to the first two points, meaning they make factually incorrect statements about actual religious teachings and approach faith as inherently evil (wrong! Read the Book!)

I do believe you can write a story critiquing faith or religious systems or religion and do it well but unfortunately 90% of the time this is how people do it. Which is poorly done and useless.

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"𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐧, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐦... 𝐌𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭, 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝, 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞. 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨𝐨."

- St. Cosmas of Aetolia

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Helen Breznik Art

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Finally some good critique of the Jedi Order that isn’t “the jedi were the really the bad guys and deserved it”

Here's a take no one asked for but I just realized --

I think the "no attachments" thing in the Jedi Order bothers me so much because, well, God created us (in part) FOR ATTACHMENT. For relationship. Community. Eve was created because Adam was lonely -- he wanted a partner. It is not good for man to be alone, God said. God is love also -- He's a relational God, so He desires a relationship with us. And He wove His love into us, enabling us to love each other.

And I know what you're thinking! Adi, that's love, not attachment!

Okay, valid, but I raise you that fundamentally we're not supposed to HAVE to let people go. Like, in life, sure, sometimes you put other people first and they go on to things that take them away from you, but first of all, that doesn't mean the relationship ENDS. Long distance is and should be a thing, especially if people really love each other. And secondly, there are people -- husband, children, siblings -- that you generally make an effort to stay connected with. That's how family works. You value people and you value closeness with them over other things.

Attachments. The threads tying you to me. Your hand in mine.

And on existential, spiritual terms, we're not supposed to HAVE to say goodbye to people in death either. Love wasn't built to be put in the grave, so the idea of letting someone go in death is actually fundamentally against God's intentions. Which is, FYI, why we hate it so much. It's not how things are supposed to be.

In fact, God Himself is so attached to us, so unwilling to let us go, that Jesus came down to earth to become our Savior so that He could tear the veil between God and us! Christ makes it so we never /have/ to say goodbye. He's made a place for His children in heaven because He wants to be with us eternally so badly! The family of God, in one big heavenly mansion (John 14, I think).

So. My point here is that I think "no attachments" bothers me because (and I understand there are other interpretations of this, pro Jedi mutuals, I see you and I love you, and just to be extra clear I'm not sitting here going THE JEDI DESERVED TO DIE BECAUSE OF THIS. Absolutely not, I'm just disagreeing with them) it strikes me as the antithesis of what God wants for us. Family. Community. Attachments we don't have to relinquish because heaven is a thing!

I mean, God Himself says He will never let us go -- that nothing can snatch us out of His hand.

Sounds pretty attached to me.

And, additionally, if we have Christ's love dwelling in our hearts, He's going to work towards perfecting our love so we don't make the selfish decisions that sometimes sully relationships -- the ones the Jedi also seem to want to avoid.

Idk, I just wanted to add this to the conversation because a lot of the Jedi critical takes come from an atheist position, but I wanted to explain why my faith is actually what makes me not jive with how the Jedi doctrine is presented.

Thoughts?

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dune has the best women characters because there's no fake girl power hand-holding trying to over-justify their unethical decisions or make them badass. instead they're all mask-off cringe fail bioengineers and deranged cult leaders, in some cases before they're even born

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If you think you have a cool new question for Christianity which is going to tear this shit wide open and prove it's false I promise you some random person already fully addressed the issue six hundred years ago and came up with four arguments for your point and proceeded to debunk them.