Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

beekeepermarycatherine:

like. I love theology discussions, but I love my brand of theology discussions. highlights include:

• top 5 punishments from back when God was fun
• Jesus and the disciples were a bunch of punk ass kids and that’s awesome 
  
• yes, I fully stand by the fact that I just called Jesus punk. Jesus was totally punk.
• fuck every single author that portrays Satan as a revolutionary. Satan is a child throwing a temper tantrum and I have no patence for him
• let me tell you every single detail of exactly how I think the Christ story would play out in modern day
• reasons why I am crying over Judas Iscariot right now at this exact moment 
• the Bible may not have said Adam and Steve, but it definitely said David and Johnathon 
• the fall of humanity was inevitable and God’s fault for making us so damn curious. it would have happened with or without Eve. leave your sexism at the door.
• I want to bring Peter to a modern Catholic Mass because he would recognize literally nothing about the church he started
• angels are horrifying creatures and I want to have sex with one

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Anonymous asked: do you have feelings about hozier/take me to church/from eden/his whole deal??

sarahtaylorgibson:

Here’s what I wrote about Hozier in 2014

Hozier’s music is this masochistic gospel blues offering to some profane woman-god of whiskey and rough love who probably blows cigarette smoke in the shape of the snake who tempted Eve and I am so here for it.

I essentially stand by it. If we’re going to do the “my significant other is my religion” thing, I want it to be Hozier. He like…gives it a nuance and depth I have hitherto not seen.

From Eden is EXCELLENT and I am very picky about my ficticious depictions of Satan. From Eden is kind of like…the Satan in all of us? The Satan washed up on your front doorstep at 2 am hurting from his own mistakes but not yet ready to ask for forgiveness  Like:

Honey, you’re familiar like my mirror years ago
Idealism sits in prison, chivalry fell on its sword
Innocence died screaming, honey, ask me I should know
I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door

So long and goodnight, what a verse.

kayas-wife:

I’m making latkes on Chanukkah and I’m out of oil.

This is the funniest thing that has ever happened to me.

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Anonymous asked: Okay, so now you've got me thinking about Vision's conversation with the rabbi and whether he counts as a creation of God, and so now I have to ask- I feel like the closest analogue to Vision in Judaism would be a golem? Like, he doesn't fit all the criteria for one but I feel like he's closer to being a golem than to being anything else

YEAH OKAY SAME.

And like I am so curious about whether Vision would even qualify to convert, according to Judaic law.  I mean, okay, by and large I think Vision would work as a golem, with the Mind Stone in place of the shem (although admittedly his creation is a joint effort between Ultron and Tony Stark, so he’s half the direct creation of man and half the creation of a creation of man), but he does break the classic rule of being unable to speak, and he is sentient, which is generally a…questionable thing with regard to golems.  Because, like, the question of the line of life, and creation thereof.  But the Golem of Prague has some conflicting narratives that I suppose could allow some flexibility there maybe?  MY POINT IS that the Vision probably qualifies as a golem, but I don’t think most golems are self-aware enough to attempt to convert formally to Judaism, so???  It’s not like I have any precedent to work with here.  

There WAS a really solid post about this EXACT thing, but because I’m a GODDAMN IDIOT I forgot to reblog it and can’t find it again.  So if someone finds that for me and/or some other information about the exact logistics of a high-tech golem converting to Judaism and an ex-unknowing-weapon-of-Nazis rejoining the faith (given that Wanda is genuinely penitent and has pretty much been used, I feel like that might be a more easily ameliorated situation than otherwise), HIT ME UP.  Or, like, ask your neighborhood rabbi, because I live in a town too tiny to have a synagogue with a full-time rabbi and therefore I have never met them.

trashbaby-nerdlord:

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vikingqueen:

shadowstep-of-bast:

carpeumbra:

No you don’t understand how frustrated I am that we always depicted the Apostles as old men, especially when it comes to during-Jesus-alive stuff.

They were probably late teens to early 20s, given the time and the description and some Biblical passages.

They were not ancient old men with long beards and wrinkles at the Last Supper.

They were young adult rebels with a cause.

where my punk-rock apostles at

I can’t remember where, but the bible says that Jesus was the only one who was old enough to pay the temple tax required by Jewish law, none of the disciples had hit that age. A quick google tells me that Jewish men pay it from the age of 20 - all of the disciples were teenagers.

Not all of them! Matthew 17:24-27 addresses the issue of the temple tax, in which Jesus tells Peter to get a four-drachma piece from a fish’s mouth to account “for my tax and yours”. In addition, Peter is the only person directly mentioned to have a mother-in-law; Jesus heals her in according to three accounts (Matthew 8:14-17, Mark 1:29-31, and Luke 4:38).

So! The “Disciples were ancient old men with long beards and wrinkles" factoid is actually just statistical error. The average disciple was under 20. Simon Peter, who lived with his mother-in-law and his fishing boat and payed the temple tax was an outlier adn should not have been counted.

#did i just see a spiders georg meme backed up with chapter and verse citations 

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