happy thursday enjoy jinkx monsoon dragging jk rowling to the depths of hell and back
happy thursday enjoy jinkx monsoon dragging jk rowling to the depths of hell and back
Know the story of person on a roof in a flood & someone comes by in a kayak then canoe then helicopter & they refuse b/c they're praying for God's help?
Then they die & ask God why he didn't help & he says I sent a kayak, canoe, & copter!
#GOP owns the canoes & copters & are still just praying.
This is human trafficking
They are having strange men come in to schools to take small children
βI was hungryβ and you cut SNAP.
βI was thirstyβ and you cut funding to ensure clean water.
βI was sickβ and you cut medicaid.
βI was a strangerβ and you deported me.
βI was in prisonβ and you just left me there to rot.
βWhatever you do to the least of these, you do unto me.β-Jesus
It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.
A parable for our time. Pooh and Piglet are convinced they are tracking Woozles with hostile intent, becoming more and more frightened as the tracks multiply. Only when Christopher Robin calls to them from the tree above do they realize theyβve been following their own tracks around and around.
James Baldwin said Black Americans have the advantage of βhaving never believed the collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their ancestors were all freedom-loving heroes, that they were born in the greatest country the world has ever seen.β #cowboyapocalypse exposes this myth.
βIn Godβs kingdom, immigrants and refugees, transgender people, the poor and the marginalized are not at the edges fearful and alone. They are at the center of the Gospel story β¦ They are the bearers of the salvation of the world.β
β Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe
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For all the dreams weβve dreamed
And all the songs weβve sung
And all the hopes weβve held
And all the flags weβve hung,
The millions who have nothing for our payβ
Except the dream thatβs almost dead today.
O, let America be America againβ
Langston Hughes, born Feb. 1, 1901
What we need isnβt more allies. We need co-conspirators. We need people willing to risk their comfort, create tension and make the comfortable uncomfortable until justice is achieved.β
Patron Saint of Violets // I Want From 'The Vanishing Song' By Jay Hulme They say I died a virgin, but then they say every martyred woman was a virgin. I want to tell them how wrong the hagiographies have me - to call up the Vatican and list every woman I loved. I want to tell them how, one night, we went out into the desert; how mouth touched skin in the cooling air, and we cried, Oh, God! like saints at prayer.
"They say I died a virgin, but
then they say every martyred
woman was a virgin. I want"
From 'The Vanishing Song'
A carving of a man being burned at the stake with the caption "lord open the king of England's eyes"
I will note that pulpit from which the Bishop gave her sermon is not only the one from which Martin Luther King Jr gave his last sermon on the Sunday before he was killed, it also contains a panel of a man being martyred, paired with an exhortation for God to open the eyes of a tyrannical leader.
Image from X saying basically, "Your neighbor is your family."
Since this is making the rounds. Just.... no. After Jesus says, "Love your Neighbor," someone asks, "And who is my neighbor?" Jesus responds with the Parable of the Good Samaritan, in which he tells the audience that the ethnic group they hate the most are their neighbors. β #ActuallyReadTheBible
Love this quote!
Resistance
Just in case I forgot to post Daniel Hunter's fantastic guide here. wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-t...