Tag: god

Pan’s Labyrinth – The Funeral Prayer

The eulogy from Pan's Labyrinth: Because the paths to the Lord are inscrutable. Because the essence of His forgiveness lies in His word and in His mystery. Because although God sends us the message, it is our task to decipher it. Because when we open our arms the earth takes in only a hollow and … Continue reading Pan’s Labyrinth – The Funeral Prayer

A Fat Man, Medusa, and a Sculptor Walk Into a Bar: Unfair Spiritual Questions for the Age of Idolatry

36 And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDjo1oIPAPI "If I dried his feet, with my dirty hair... would he make me clean again?" 37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew … Continue reading A Fat Man, Medusa, and a Sculptor Walk Into a Bar: Unfair Spiritual Questions for the Age of Idolatry

Youth Missionaries In Training, Taught Suffering For Jesus is the Highest Virtue, Are Struggling With Issues of Jealousy and Fear-Of-Missing-Out As They Watch News of Kidnapped Haitian Missionaires

What use is my faith to our crucified Lord if I am comfortable here in this Starbucks with my youth group friends and not currently being forced into the back of a cab somewhere, to be taken to a dingy shack where I can be bound and gagged and possibly tortured, so that God can … Continue reading Youth Missionaries In Training, Taught Suffering For Jesus is the Highest Virtue, Are Struggling With Issues of Jealousy and Fear-Of-Missing-Out As They Watch News of Kidnapped Haitian Missionaires

Character Sketch – Riley Marie Seibold – A Mental Patient in Imatatio Christi

It's the nineties. Riley is one of the people in the mental institution during my main character Adolai Shungyosai's stay. She is the main secondary character in addition to Micah, aka 'The Regular'. 'The Regular' is a frequent visitor to the inpatient ward, he finds it more comforting than the outside world. Riley has apparently … Continue reading Character Sketch – Riley Marie Seibold – A Mental Patient in Imatatio Christi

People Claim God Makes Them Anti-Abortion – But God Has Killed Every Human Being In History That’s Ever Been Born – How Can You Reckon The Universal Death Penalty On Humanity With Being Against the Death of the Unborn? – #IMMORTALISM

How can you support a God who is arguably the ultimate mass murderer of humanity? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dD7upKpLks Time to ask the real questions, Christians. The future is up for grabs and the theocratic push in the States leads me to have to ask where you really stand on this God of yours. For me, God is … Continue reading People Claim God Makes Them Anti-Abortion – But God Has Killed Every Human Being In History That’s Ever Been Born – How Can You Reckon The Universal Death Penalty On Humanity With Being Against the Death of the Unborn? – #IMMORTALISM

Brett Kavanaugh has Covid. There Appears to be No Philosophical Difference Between Praying to God He Dies So Woman Don’t Suffer Forced Birth Torture, and the Idea of Forcing Women to Carry Children they Don’t Want To Make The World Better.

"The truth shall set you free. But not until it is done with you." - David Foster Wallace, Suicide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qVPNONdF58

The Right Wing’s Agenda Seems to Have No Interest in Plans to Abate Human Misery, But Only To Outlaw One’s Ability To Voice It. The Response to This ‘Polit-ical Agenda’ is Strategic Rational Rudeness.

I can't believe itThe way you look sometimesLike a trampled flag on a city streetOh yeahAnd I don't want itThe things you're offering meSymbolized barcode, quick I.DOh yeah'Cause I'm a twenty-first century digital boyI don't know how to live but I got a lot of toysMy daddy's a lazy middle-class intellectualMy mommy's on Valium, so … Continue reading The Right Wing’s Agenda Seems to Have No Interest in Plans to Abate Human Misery, But Only To Outlaw One’s Ability To Voice It. The Response to This ‘Polit-ical Agenda’ is Strategic Rational Rudeness.

A Prayer to the Devil, And Sympathy

My advice to anyone newly born to this planet Try your best to keep the shit out of your eyes If you want to be Lord don't compromise (The Flies) They panic when you relativize In the attic, where children play dungeons and dragons they see satan in the maneuvers to outwit authority's bland magic … Continue reading A Prayer to the Devil, And Sympathy