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The image for which we’ve waited.

The Eschaton has arrived.

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Gif inventor says pronounce it 'Jif'

memejacker:

Death of the Author

That was literally my exact thought! lol

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Gif inventor says pronounce it 'Jif'

One Year Later

Today marks the first birthday of “The Space Beyond Being.” I know it is a cliche, but it seems…

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The Judith butler tag is the same cat post like 50 times in a row. 

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Wassily Kandinsky, Small Worlds III, 1

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Pope Francis Says All Who Do Good Are Redeemed - Atheists Included

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Pope Francis rocked some religious and atheist minds today when he declared that everyone was redeemed through Jesus, including atheists.

I still have strong reservations regarding Francis, as I’ve said elsewhere;  but this is a good step. 

(though, admittedly, the article misses some of the finer theological subtleties of Catholic notions of redemption)

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Pope Francis rocked some religious and atheist minds today when he reiterated Catholic theology that was promulgated in the early 1960s.

Seriously. Do people not pay attention to anything? Nostra Aetate and Lumen Gentium are fairly old news at this point. Why am I the only non-Catholic that seems to be aware of what happened in Vatican II?

Because the last two popes made it their primary initiative to undue, undermine, and suppress the radicality of Vatican II. Even a simple reiteration of 1960’s doctrine would be a dramatic step forward at this point. 

Also, the stance toward atheism during the cold war was atrocious (because atheism was tied to communism), so this remains fairly significant.

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I don’t want to be redeemed through Jesus, but thanks dude I appreciate the sentiment!

This isn’t really new — St. Anselm made it pretty clear that Jesus’s sacrifice was so great that it redeemed everyone. Read the “Proslogion,” guys. 

I think it’s important to reiterate that new =/= significant. Something can be really important without being “new”. If this ends up being more than an offhand comment, then this would mark a concrete redirection of centuries of Catholic movement (even if it is an old doctrine theologically). Even as recently as Eccleisum Suam, dialogue between atheism and Catholicism was not only nonexistent, but considered a distant possibility (perhaps even an impossibility). That being the case, the opening that Francis seems to be suggesting is really quite significant, even if it “really isn’t new.” 

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Pope Francis Says All Who Do Good Are Redeemed - Atheists Included

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Pope Francis rocked some religious and atheist minds today when he declared that everyone was redeemed through Jesus, including atheists.

I still have strong reservations regarding Francis, as I’ve said elsewhere;  but this is a good step. 

(though, admittedly, the article misses some of the finer theological subtleties of Catholic notions of redemption)

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Pope Francis rocked some religious and atheist minds today when he reiterated Catholic theology that was promulgated in the early 1960s.

Seriously. Do people not pay attention to anything? Nostra Aetate and Lumen Gentium are fairly old news at this point. Why am I the only non-Catholic that seems to be aware of what happened in Vatican II?

Because the last two popes made it their primary initiative to undue, undermine, and suppress the radicality of Vatican II. Even a simple reiteration of 1960’s doctrine would be a dramatic step forward at this point. 

Also, the stance toward atheism during the cold war was atrocious (because atheism was tied to communism), so this remains fairly significant.

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Pope Francis rocked some religious and atheist minds today when he declared that everyone was redeemed through Jesus, including atheists.

I still have strong…

Okay, first of all, I’m not sure how I am being too individualistic, narrow, or cognative. Could you please explain that? (I swear I’m not being snarky I genuinely want to know). Secondly, I don’t know how sola gratia could be a burden - someone did all the work for me, so that the burden of being good enough doesn’t fall on me anymore. I see that as incredible, ultimate freedom.

Works are indeed part of a Christian lifestyle. I’m not saying we should just do whatever we want because it doesn’t matter. That’s exactly opposite of what the Bible teaches. But works come from faith. It’s like faith is the tree, works are the fruit. I was not trying to say that no one should do good works - I was saying that doing good things won’t get you to heaven. 

Also, I wasn’t saying that protestantism is the center of the Western church. I was simply trying to state what the teachings of Christianity are.

Sorry, I hope I’m not being complicated and confusing and I don’t want to start a theology debate, but works-righteousness is a teaching that really bothers me so I felt the need to speak up.

I apologize for my lack of clarity, I was not calling you individualistic, narrow, or (overly) cognitive, but rather, sola gratia. 

The burden of sola gratia is not upon the back of those who pronounce it, but upon those who it is pronounced against, those whose lives are hurt by a reactionary Protestantism which does not value “works.” Certainly, lip service is paid to social work, but this lip service is drowned out by the roar of sola gratia and bad eschatologies which anticipate an immanent annihilation of social reality (I know this likely sounds odd, but I think they are directly related). Consider, for instance, this assertion by Driscoll ”I know who made the environment. He’s coming back and he’s going to burn it all up. So yes, I drive an SUV.” This anti-worldly ideology, not only views the “secular” world as unworthy, but by way of sola gratia, also belittles serious movement towards reconciliation. It is not surprising that the radically socially conscious “liberation theology” emerged, not from protestant, but from Catholic thought. Sola Gratia affirming Protestantism is still haunted by a specter of gnosticism. 

Lastly, I did not intend to imply that you were intentionally positing Protestantism as the core of Christianity, but that, by positing decisively protestant values (or more specifically, the subset of Protestantism which affirms sola gratia) as the “core of Christianity” or as “what the teachings of Christianity really are”, you are implicitly substituting a decidedly narrow protestant narrative for the vast tapestry of Christianities and theologies. 

Sleep time, if you have a response, I’ll continue discussing in the morning.

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Pope Francis Says All Who Do Good Are Redeemed - Atheists Included

cloister-belle:

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Pope Francis rocked some religious and atheist minds today when he declared that everyone was redeemed through Jesus, including atheists.

I still have strong reservations regarding Francis, as I’ve said elsewhere;  but this is a good step. 

(though, admittedly, the article misses some of the finer theological subtleties of Catholic notions of redemption)

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The Pope is missing a huge thing though, like, the entire center to Christianity and what makes it different from every other religion - that good works do not save us. Only perfection is good enough, and Jesus attained that for us so that we don’t have to be perfect. We just have to believe that that is the truth.

That’s what saves us. Faith, by grace, and through Christ alone.

Good works have zero effect on your salvation.

Eck! too individualistic, too narrow, too cognitive. One shouldn’t mistake the center of Western protestantism as the “center of Christianity.” 

Protestantism is burdened by the weight of sola gratia, one of the many sola’s it should throw off. Faith is a lived act, Catholicism,(as many issues and struggles as it has had), to its credit, has never never forgotten that.

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I know that I’m 15 years late, but holy shit. The West Wing is so fucking excellent. 

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Pope Francis Says All Who Do Good Are Redeemed - Atheists Included

Pope Francis rocked some religious and atheist minds today when he declared that everyone was redeemed through Jesus, including atheists.

I still have strong reservations regarding Francis, as I’ve said elsewhere;  but this is a good step. 

(though, admittedly, the article misses some of the finer theological subtleties of Catholic notions of redemption)

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Anti-capitalism is so hot this year.

“Why anarchism may be new black” - HAHAHA

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thelifeofillusion:

Hey guys, if anyone who follows me or happens to see this knows what I’m talking about it would be great if they could tell me. Basically I heard about this belief a while ago where when we die, we go to a hell-like state where we are purged of our sins and then we cease to exist. Does this exist? If so what is is called? And I thought it was absolutionism but apparently that’s not a real thing. Thanks!

Could you be thinking of annihilationism? [wiki]

Also, what you are describing is also quite similar to certain readings of the German mystic Meister Eckhart. He writes that what burns in hell is everything that is desired, including “being” itself. We should attain detachment (gelassenheit), become nothing more than the divine spark of God, rather than being dragged down by our own “nothings” (desires). 

“But I say truly that what burns in hell is nothing. … Since God and all those who are in God’s sight have in them, according to their proper blessedness, something that those who are separated from God do not have, that “nothing” alone torments the souls who are in hell, more than self-will or fire. I say truly, So long as “nothing” holds you bound, so long are you imperfect. Therefore, if you want to be perfect, you must be naked of what is nothing.” Meister Eckhart, The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises, and Defense, 83

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