#badtheology — Public Fediverse posts
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When Jesus is Aryan, the Wandering Jew is a Catholic priest, and Revelation is rewritten like a Chick tract... you know you're watching The Seventh Sign (1988).
#TheSeventhSign #FilmCriticism #BiblicalCinema #ReligiousHorror #DemiMoore #Revelation #ApocalypseNowWhat #CinemaSins #BadTheology #MLAstyle #JewishMysticism #EndTimesCinema #KJVvsHollywood #MovieReview #CultCinema
https://ninetypercentcrapmoviereviews.wordpress.com/2022/11/09/the-seventh-sign/ -
Hearing so many of my friends in Texas suffering from the floods (several who had to evacuate, one who is having to try to save their house DIY without flood insurance) has been hard.
It's hard because of the human tragedy. Ordinary people losing so much, being even more vulnerable in a very time in history.
But it's doubly hard because the tragedy is leading people to embrace terrible, toxic forms of theology (i.e. the Texas governor actually claiming that the flood waters receeded because of prayer --- so I guess God doesn't care enough about the 90+ people who have died so far to intercede sooner). And of course we can count on these same politicians (who gutted FEMA and the Weather service) to now preach at us some more, pushing people to "have faith" and "pray harder."
Sorry, but that is not how the world works. God isn't going to save the people of Texas (and other places) from flood waters. And God isn't going to help those who have lost loved ones and homes.
Who can help? . . . PEOPLE, actual human beings can help.
Certainly, religion can be a motivator for doing good and for meeting human needs, but we need to be clear that it is toxic when it becomes a justification for governments and other human institutions and individuals to not take the action that needs to take place.
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Beilby Porteus, Anglican bishop, writes on the Sabbath. He reminds that this also applies to animals. They are abused. A righteous person will be merciful to beasts.
How can you be benevolent to the brute creation?
#christian #climateactivism #compassionfirst #ritual #badtheology