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Monthly Archives: December 2014
The Handbook: Knowing What a Claim Looks Like.
There is a book. The book details everything people need to know. Everything. But especially it tells us about The Place. It tells us where The Place is. Who gets to go there. Who the owner decides to invite. Where … Continue reading
The Handbook: It. Gets. Better.
It starts, for many of us, with a crystal-clear OHMYGOSH moment where we suddenly see something that simply will never be unseen. A light shines in a dark corner for the first time, and we see what lurks there and can never forget or even ignore it. Exactly what that light illuminates varies by the person, but that’s what it feels like. Suddenly something we thought for maybe our whole lives turns out to maybe be not quite what we thought it was. Continue reading
It’s Everybody’s Holiday. (And link love.)
I’ve always loved Christmas. This time of year in general is an important one for me–almost everybody in my family has birthdays in the three months of winter, and most of the anniversaries happen around then as well–and most of the important deaths (“light a candle for me every year,” she asked, and I always do, always, always). So I want to talk about Christmas today, and at the end there’ll be some link love to some posts written elsewhere by me and other folks in case you need something to keep you busy. Continue reading
Joyce Meyer and The Double Standards of Christian Derpitude.
We’ve talked about Joyce Meyer before in this space. She’s an easy target, low-hanging fruit, even a piñata, so to speak. She’s a shrewd businesswoman who knows her target audience and panders to that audience shamefully and completely. I can’t even really blame her for finding her niche and tailoring her approach to it as well as she has; if it weren’t her, then it’d be someone else there in her place.
And who is that audience? Middle-aged Christian women who just want to feel a little assurance that they’re doing the right thing, women who believe that their faith will be rewarded if they comply and who need reassurance that that reward is still in the offing. Continue reading
Moral Failings.
I saw this image recently (h/t Godless in Dixie) and it just about made me do a spit-take: “It was good for the Israelites to slaughter the Canaanite children for two reasons: 1) God wanted it, and 2) If they … Continue reading
Human Dignity Flutters Free, Again.
(Content note: Religious extremism and terrorism.) It was such an ugly, ugly story–and all the uglier for being so painfully familiar. A Muslim radical, newly arrived to Australia, took the most effective tool of communication he had–a gun–into a nice … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, Dr. Martin Luther King, Islam, Islamophobia, Love, Martin Luther King, Martin Place, Middle Eastern, Muslim, Racism, Religious extremism, SCA, Social media, Society for Creative Anachronism, Sydney, terrorism, Twitter, Women
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How the Purity Myth Destroys Lives.
(Content Note: Discussion of sex and pornography, and also some NSFW links.) We’ve talked about the Purity Myth off and on here, and even knowing what I know about it I still get completely blindsided sometimes by the dramatic examples … Continue reading
Roll to Disbelieve 