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Many conservative Christians are willing to acknowledge that the Scripture reflects the cultures of its time when it comes to social and economic issues, but seem to be unable to see the same influence of long-gone culture on attitudes towards sex and sexuality. They will sometimes find ingenious ways of sheltering the latter from a social or cultural critique or amendment, such as asserting that some things are creation ordinances while others are mere management of human weakness — which doesn’t hold up well on examination, since some of the commands issued at creation have since been eliminated or ignored; or by claiming that the Law of Moses can neatly be divided between “civil” and “sacred” matters — a notion the theocrat Moses would have found to be very odd indeed.

It is fine to say that the church should not bend to the culture of this age, but also fair to point out that the church need not bend to the culture of some former age, merely on the grounds that the culture in question was dominant at the time the scriptures were recorded.
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— Tobias Stanislas Haller BSG (via affcath)

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2 weeks ago 110 notes

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musicahumana:

You know it’s one of the last papers of your college career when you copy and paste entire papers you wrote for another class into another paper on a similar topic….

heads up: if you turned in any of those papers onto a dropbox with plagarism check enabled (or turnitin.com), it will have your old papers in the system and will let your prof know. if you’re actually quoting yourself and citing those papers, or if your uni hasn’t utilized that technology/it’s not turned in online, rock on.

2 weeks ago 7 notes

this is my “to read” pile. not pictured: Rob Bell’s “Love Wins” (finally getting around to reading it now that the internet isn’t exploding in controversy about it), Jim Wallis’ “God’s Politics”, Shane Claiborne’s “Common Prayer,” and Daphne Oz’s “Relish”. no idea when I’m gonna read them since I’m gonna be a full-time student again this summer for the first time in two years, but yeah.

most of the ones pictured I got just so I can understand whatchu talkin’ bout, glit. and cause this stuff is actually interesting to me now. who knew?

glittecclesia why are you guys so smart and cool?books no1curr
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darkenedanddazzled:

Let me be clear.

I did not go to school make myself more marketable. I did not go to school to learn how to make money. I did not go to school and earn a degree to use it as a weapon in the fight for a job.

I went to school because I love learning. I went to school because I constantly wonder, question, and think. I went to school to explore, get lost, and find my way intellectually and spiritually.

And I studied philosophy because I like it. It allowed me to wonder, question, think; to think about thinking, to feel about feeling; to explore, get lost, face the absurd, face the sublime, and find my way in my mind and in the world.

Some people learn because they like learning.

I will never. ever. use learning as means to a monetary end.

Do not be surprised at my answer when you ask me “what are you going to do with your degree?”

My answer will be “continue learning,” because I refuse to live an inauthentic life and perpetuate the poisonous belief that education is a business, and that an education is a product.

Literally the most inspiring thing I’ve read in a long time.