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God’s Moral Betters
One pastor near the University of Virginia confirmed Duin’s report. He described the young adults he tries to engage as turned off by what they know about God. “Their biggest complaint,” he said,“is that God acts in morally inferior ways compared to us.” In other words, young adults formed by a tolerant, open-minded culture without sexual boundaries or limitations on self-expression, believe they are more moral than God.
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Primates Discipline Episcopal Church
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Episcopal Church suspended from full participation in Anglican Communion – Religion News Service
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Anglican Primates Recommend Discipline the American Episcopal Church
7. It is our unanimous desire to walk together. However given the seriousness of these matters we formally acknowledge this distance by requiring that for a period of three years The Episcopal Church no longer represent us on ecumenical and interfaith bodies, should not be appointed or elected to an internal standing committee and that while participating in the internal bodies of the Anglican Communion, they will not take part in decision making on any issues pertaining to doctrine or polity.
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Eve Tushnet on the loneliness of Side B and some suggestions
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Russell Moore in WP on “Sorry, the Bible Doesn’t Promise to make America great again”
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When Jim Carry Exposed Our Despairing Story-Verse and how Jesus as Hidden Wine Maker Invites us To Believe a Better Story
To Be Human is to Believe Stories
Human beings are the strangest of all earth’s creatures. We are strange because we don’t live as the rest of the animal kingdom does.
The animal kingdom is more reasonable than we are. They live directly with their appetites. If an animal is hungry it eats, thirsty it drinks, it has no problems being naked in this world. It doesn’t see itself in a story that dominates its reality. People are different.
Yuval Harari tries to write a brief history of Homo Sapien and integral to our identity is what is called “the cognitive revolution”.
Legends, myths, gods and religions appeared for the first time with the Cognitive Revolution. Many animals and human species could previously say, ‘Careful! A lion!’ Thanks to the Cognitive Revolution, Homo sapiens acquired the ability to say, ‘The lion is the guardian spirit of our tribe.’ This ability to speak about fictions is the most unique feature of Sapiens language.
Harari, Yuval Noah (2015-02-10). Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Kindle Locations 413-415). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
Jim Carrey at this year’s golden globes summarized it nicely.
Here is a relatively hairless biped with nearly everything any hairless biped could want. Power, fame, food and physical security, wealth, his choice of virtually any mating partner or amount of partners available. Before he gives out the award he introduces himself.
“From our perspective, this is huge…”
Humanity lives and dies on story. Harari asserts that what we’ve done is transcend our genetic material, that code of four letters with stories of 26.
Our stories determine who will live and who will die. Our stories determine economic distribution, warfare, mating, life and death. Story determines the material distribution of homo sapiens in this world.
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