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I am asking you to endure it.

“Jesus cooks and does the laundry. This, by far, is the most striking feature of the resurrection stories in John’s gospel. The first thing he does after he’s resurrected is to fold the laundry. And the last thing he does on earth is to cook a meal for a friends.”

— David R. Henson

Losing my mind over the gospel of Luke being like “they wrapped his body in linen cloth and laid him in a tomb” after the beginning of the story being “they wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger” like

I’m absolutely feral

jesus mustve spread his arms so many times to embrace others before he spread them to embrace death on the cross and i think about that a lot

"Pope Francis said during an interview one time that he fell asleep during prayer. The interviewer asked him whether that was allowed, and he said that fathers always love it when their children fall asleep in their arms. That always stuck with me. Rest in peace." [x]

jesus—joy and jeweled, the root of jesse, son of judah, judge of judge

Jewish Literacy, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin. Image taken from @gnnosis post

Thoughts on Judas?

i think god’s first words to judas were: ‘you’ll end up hanged in a field.’ i think judas’ response was: ‘i’ll see you there.’

yeah we might be brothers in christ but so were cain and abel so shut the fuck up before i decide to find a rock about it

Microstory

“Sanctuary,” the child cried, running into the library. “Nice try,” the guard following after sneered, “but only holy places can grant sanctuary.” The librarians glanced at each other. A small nod. The head librarian gave the guard a stern look. “Sanctuary granted.”

thinking about how the bible is all affect. about how it is an oral thing, a leak between bodies, a murmur between lovers or a yell at a wound or a song in a nursery. the bible is a language that falls over itself. it is a word left untranslated. i am thinking of סֶֽלָה (selah), a transliterated word that means nothing except for when it means everything—it is a word that is really a sigh. or, i am thinking of יהוה (yhwh), the name of god that is no name at all but instead the panting of breath. affective, rhythmic, pulsing, the bible and its language can't catch up to itself. it was never meant to. cantillation and intonation can do no good with a text in excess. nor anything the masoretes did, nor new lexicons either (הַֽלְלוּ/hallelujah can't attach itself to meaning, no matter how hard you try)

(nothing between me and god except a thin panel of aquarium glass) ahem *bonk* hey *bonk* excuse me *loud thunk* i have questions about the nature of things

Finally have all 4 life stages let's gooo

Favorite literary technique in the Bible?

repetition, not necessarily parallelism though. a prophet splits a river, his fellow prophet splits a river. a form is severed into twelve pieces here, and here, and here. a king is refused, a king is refused, a king is refused (repeat until assyria ends kinghood)

do you have any spiritual thoughts on blood? pomegranates, periods, prophecy-- does what comes out of me monthly and hurts me so horribly mean anything at all besides that familiar pain no one will help me with?

the priests feared it for a reason

As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.

In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.

i think it would be wise to seriously reconsider any statement you make about God in which the word “God” cannot be replaced with “love”

I’ve been seeing something going around about how since Hermes is a trickster god, April first should be a new day of celebration for him. Here’s everything I have on it so far.

Seems super interesting and something I could really get behind.

So I did a lot of digging to find this. Pretty difficult to come across good resources sometimes. Here is a great educational resource on Loki. I think it'd be really good to get the word out there on this, as it spreads information that people may not otherwise know. Take care, everyone! 💚🖤

It's April 1st today and in the light of april fools day i'd like to announce my opinion of this day being sacred to Hermes

Here's something that's a good source on Hermes, if you're not really sure what he's like as a god and a person.

jesus would've hung out with furries in high school if he were born in 1998 and subject to the american school system he would have let them make a fursona for him over lunch even

asking someone their big three and meaning their favorite prophet, apostle, and member of freud's vienna society

“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” - Luke 23:34

sooo… jesus art got me to 10k on twitter😳, here is some more art, i can’t draw wolves, or clothes, or anything really

guys jesus is trending on twitter

jesus and the samaritan woman at the well

What does two-or-more-gathered mean?

this is the minimum requirements for a church. you should not faith alone. separatist only periodically for health, etc

Léon Morin, Priest (1961)

in psalm sixty, his faith has the feeling of a roofie. תַּרְעֵלָֽה, staggering and reeling. the register here is softer, though, than the poisoning he's known for