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How long, O Lord?
Two people dead and at least one wounded in a shooting at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Vestavia Hills, Birmingham, Alabama. Why? Anger? Derangement? Hatred? Personal? Targeted? Random? Nothing makes sense anymore except the clarity that about half the American population are enablers, complicit, culpable, obsessed with rights and, morally irresponsible, oblivious that with rights come responsibilities.
Where to run?
No right is absolute. Rights can be abused and lost.
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Yesterday's interest in the Progressive Christian movement intrigues me. What is it anyway? My +Time blog is no forum, but I've shown here, along with the creedal substitute used by an Episcopal parish that self-identifies as part of Progressive Christianity, this proclamation:
Which interestingly relates to the post shared yesterday from "Episcopalians on Facebook" and its posting of a statement by the Rev Jim Palmer. Quoting,
"Here is Palmer’s post:
10 things about Christianity that Jesus would not be happy about if he returned:
1. That his vision for a transformed society, got twisted into an afterlife fantasy about heaven.
2. That a religion was formed to worship his name, instead of a movement to advance his message.
3. That the gospel says his death solved the problem of humankind's separation from God, instead of accepting that his life revealed the truth that there is no separation from God.
4. That the religion bearing his name was conceived by the theories and doctrines of Paul, instead of the truth Jesus lived and demonstrated.
5. That he was said to exclusively be God in the flesh, putting his example out of reach, rather than teaching that we all share in the same spirit that empowered his character and life.
6. That the religion that claims his name, teaches that his wisdom and teachings are the only legitimate way to know truth and God.
7. The idea that humankind stands condemned before God and deserving of Divine wrath and eternal conscious judgement, requiring the death of Jesus to fix it.
8. That people are waiting on Jesus to return to save the world and end suffering, rather than taking responsibility for saving the world and solving suffering ourselves.
9. That people think there is magical potency in uttering the name of Jesus, rather than accessing our own natural powers and capabilities to effect change.
10. That people have come to associate Jesus with church, theology, politics and power, rather than courage, justice, humanity, beauty and love."
Unquoting.
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Interesting.
It can be extended to "the problem of theodicy" that so intrigues me, the unmentionable possibility that the God posited in the theodicy thesis is, albeit not physical like Bel, as much a human construct as Bel.
None are more blind than those who will not see. Nothing is more doubtful than that for which examination is unthinkable.
Who or What is God? God, who cannot be framed in a creed, is Whoever or Whatever told Moses, "I will be that I will be"
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Adventure today. Across the Bridge.
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