“X, formerly known as Twitter”
- clunky
- foot in the past and the present
- defeats the benefits of the new name being only 1 character long
“Feat. X FKA Twitz”
- down with the kids
- unsure whether app or grime musician
- emphasis on idiocy of users
Greetings Twittersphere. I have feared being here since LeX Luther took over the space but needs must. Here for reading recs: specifically, pragmatic #socialism. Not interested in ideology so much as implementation. Positive examples & praxis pls! #Socialist#SocialistTwitter
Me: we should stop thinking we’re worthless. God loves us on purpose.
Some o’ y’all: na uh! I SUCK! I’m lucky God even looks at my ugly face!
Like… are y’all okay?
No wonder y’all can’t be nice to nobody. You can’t even be nice to yourself.
I also very badly want people to stop assuming I haven’t heard their version of the Gospel.
I have heard it.
I just reject it.
Emphatically.
Because of the gospel that was fed to my ancestors against their will, I inspect my Good News closely before consuming it.
Bahhhhhh I miss my degree 😭 Fascinating, fabulous stuff! (For context, I focused on Hermann Cohen as part of my BA Cantab dissertation and started an MPhil in Jewish Philosophy of Religion before my chronic pain got too bad to continue. Maybe one day, B’Ezrat Hashem!)
Jewish views of God that aren't the "Old Man in the Sky." A LOOONG 🧵
Lots of people say to me "I don't believe in God." And they are surprised to hear that I, a rabbi, also don't believe in the God they don't believe in. And NEITHER do many of Judaism's greatest thinkers. 1/30
Kaplan brazenly rejected many of traditional Jewish ideas, such as Chosenness, and miracles. And he asserted that God is not a being but rather the sum of the processes in the natural world that make for salvation (meaning) in life. 21/
@FromPaperchase I am sure I have emailed or tweeted to this end a couple of years ago, but it bears repeating. The inflatable Jesus is incredibly offensive. Will you be adding an inflatable Mohammed or Ganesh to the store? I’m not a precious person but this is disrespectful
If you are reading this & are on the fence about the modern evangelical movement, may I share one piece of Scriptural wisdom that really helped me? Judge them by their fruit.
And one thought from me - don’t you think God gave you that brain? So why would it be a sin to use it?
But no one is going to convince me that the Jesus of the Bible & the God He says He represents wanted a bunch of privileged people to design a super-spreader event. Sure, it was an act of faith. But faith in whom? In what? Not loving your neighbour. Not protecting the vulnerable.
#Passion2022: an event organised in the name of Jesus, empowering thousands of young people to join together in worship.
Unmasked.
In a pandemic.
You’re supposed to bring Christ home from these conferences, not Covid; life, not death; healing, not harm.