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Saint Hilaire, eveque, 1630s
etching 216 x 125 mm - Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn, 1982
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki via DigitalNZhttp://api.digitalnz.org/records/1839982/source
#Saints #Vestments #Miters #Prayers #Faith #Worship #Altars #Christianity #ReligiousArt #Bishops #Mannerist #Print #Etching #Museums
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Saint Hilaire, eveque, 1630s
etching 216 x 125 mm - Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn, 1982
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki via DigitalNZhttp://api.digitalnz.org/records/1839982/source
#Saints #Vestments #Miters #Prayers #Faith #Worship #Altars #Christianity #ReligiousArt #Bishops #Mannerist #Print #Etching #Museums
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Saint Hilaire, eveque, 1630s
etching 216 x 125 mm - Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn, 1982
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki via DigitalNZhttp://api.digitalnz.org/records/1839982/source
#Saints #Vestments #Miters #Prayers #Faith #Worship #Altars #Christianity #ReligiousArt #Bishops #Mannerist #Print #Etching #Museums
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"Realizing the dangers of rising #antisemitism and responding to those who hate #Jews in the name of the #Catholic #faith, the #UnitedStates Conference of Catholic #Bishops (#USCCB) did a remarkable thing: The USCCB issued a memorandum to all #American #Catholicbishops urging them to prepare their teachings carefully during this #Easter period and ensure that they accurately present the #Church’s positive teachings about Jews. Citing authoritative #Vatican documents, the memo detailed these teachings as (1) “the Jews” didn’t kill Jesus, (2) God’s covenant with the Jewish people has not been revoked and continues, (3) Catholics should appreciate the #Jewish People’s ties to the land of #Israel, and (4) #Catholics must recognize and combat antisemitism.
The USCCB also released a powerful video by #Archbishop #AlexanderSample of #Portland urging Catholics to reject the #conspiracies and lies against the Jewish people..."
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/387935/antisemitism-deicide-and-revolution/
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Sounds like good news. The last of the UK's hereditary peers pose for a group photo before being stripped of their political privilege.
Reality: it's bad news. The #hereditaryPeers and the #bishops are the only members of the #HouseOfLords who are not cronies appointed by the#PrimeMinister.
The whole House of Lords should be replaced by a democratic chamber, but until then the hereditary peers and bishops are the least stinky part of the stinky sewer of corruption. #TheMadCountry
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On "real Christians."
This is a lightly edited version of a post I first made several years ago on Facebook. Sadly, it never seems to stop being relevant.
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Every time I hear #Christians saying "they're not real Christians" or "this isn't real #Christianity," about other Christians doing something that brings discredit on the ##religion, my skin crawls.
Because if they're not Christians ... well, neither was Constantine. Neither were the generations of #monarchs who followed, invoking the divine right of kings. Neither were the #popes and #bishops and #priests—and note that I'm not just talking about #Catholics here—who almost universally supported and legitimized the idea that #God had put our leaders in place, and to oppose them was #blasphemy.
Neither were the #Crusaders, the #Inquisitors, the #witch-burners. Neither were the soldiers who fought generations of #religious #wars within #Christendom, including the Thirty Years' War that wrought devastation equal to both World Wars. Neither for that matter were the politicians who gave us what we *call* the First World War, in which most of the major combatants on both sides proudly claimed the Christian label, and in several cases were still official theocracies.
Neither were the Christians who rounded up their #Jewish neighbors in the Second for delivery to the camps—and if you claim that was the work of a #neopagan cult that maybe a few thousand people total ever took seriously, I'll laugh in your face before cutting you out of my life. (But I'll remember who and what you are, believe me.) Neither were the people who used Christianity to justify #conquest and #slavery and #genocide and #segregation, for centuries, and in many cases still do.
In short, if you say these people aren't Christians, you're saying most Christians throughout the *entire history of the religion* weren't Christians. You can die on that hill if you really want to. But you'll die alone, and most likely at the hands of your fellow believers.
Christians are, as a rule, no worse than other people. But you're no better, either. Do you *want* to be better? Great, that's what everyone else wants too.
So prove it. Stop making excuses. Own these people, and *then* confront them. Admit that they're yours, and then expunge them. Scourge the heretics with fire and sword, and send them wailing into the outer darkness tearing their hair and gnashing their teeth. Cast them into the lake of fire.
If you do this, if you have first the moral and then the physical courage to face this monstrosity in your midst unflinchingly and with full knowledge of what it is, then you'll have plenty of help. #Jews and #Muslims and #Hindus and #Wiccans and #atheists and all the rest won't just cheer you on. We'll be right there by your side.
And while there are in the US still more Christians than all of us put together, there aren't more of *this kind* of Christian than all decent human beings put together. We can't fight them alone. Neither can you. Together we can—as long as you're honest about what that means.
If you don't? We'll be right back to #Torquemada, with a high-tech gloss. You might live a little longer than the rest of us, but not by much, and you'll go to the rack and the stake and the oven with the words of your own holy writ shouted in your ears.
Those are the only two options. Your choice.
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Addendum:
I have a great many friends who grew up Christian, and left the religion at some point. Despite having made the choice to walk away from their childhood faith, they often feel the reflexive need to defend the people they were, and in most cases their families still are.
Those who are still Christians, of whom I trust I also have a fair number left, may feel the same impulse—although interestingly, it seems to me they're less reflexive on the whole than the former believers.
We're all made of our #history. The people we were are still the people we are, in some corner of our brains. And there are complexities about being on the inside of any group that outsiders can never quite grasp. It's similar to the way I am about the #military, which is practically a religion in its own right.
Okay. Stipulated, as lawyers say on TV and maybe in real life too. I get it. Now please get this:
Unless you *grew up* as a member of a religious minority, you will most likely never understand, on a gut level, the terror the majority religion inflicts by its very existence.
This isn't unique to Christianity, to be clear. Every majority religion, in every time and place, has unconsciously (and often consciously as well, to be sure) been casually brutal to infidels and heretics. Nature of the beast. But here in the US, that beast invariably carries a cross, so there's the focus of my attention.
You don't have to understand it. Just accept that it exists, and it leaves scars. I can live with those scars, and so can nearly everyone else who bears them. That *stigma*, if you will.
But if you cut us, we still bleed. We'll heal from those wounds too, and add new scars to the old. Long after the bleeding stops, we'll remember who gave them to us.
Here I stand; I can do no other. How about you?
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July 14 -- On this date in history:
In 1789, French peasants stormed the #Bastille prison in Paris, beginning the French Revolution. The event is commemorated as "Bastille Day," a national holiday in France.In 1793, Jean Paul #Marat, one of the most outspoken leaders of the French Revolution was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday, a Royalist sympathizer. The murder was immortalized in a painting by Jacques-Louis David.
In 1881, outlaw #Billy the Kid was shot to death at a ranch in New Mexico.
In 1914, Robert #Goddard, father of the space age, was granted the first patent for a liquid-fueled rocket design. His first rocket soared for about 2 seconds, flew as fast as 60 mph and landed 174 feet from the lift-off pad.
In 1933, all political parties except the #Nazis were officially suppressed in Germany.
In 1966, eight student nurses were found killed in Chicago. Drifter Richard #Speck, later convicted of the slayings, died in prison in 1991.
In 1968, future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Hank #Aaron became the eighth person to hit 500 home runs for the Atlanta Braves in a win over the San Francisco Giants.
In 2007, Russian President Vladimir #Putin announced that his country would suspend its participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty, a Cold War agreement that limited deployment of heavy weaponry.
In 2009, within months after repaying bailout money supplied by the U.S. government, New York banking giant #Goldman Sachs reported a profit of $3.44 billion for the first quarter of the year. JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup also reported big profits.
In 2014, the Church of England's governing body voted to allow women to become #bishops for first time in the church's history.
In 2015, the New Horizons space probe came within 7,800 miles of #Pluto, providing NASA scientists with the clearest photographs and most detailed measurements they've ever seen of the dwarf planet.
In 2016, 86 people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France, were killed when a truck drove into a crowd. The #Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.
In 2019, Novak #Djokovic defeated Roger Federer to win his fifth Wimbledon title in a marathon five-set match that lasted nearly 5 hours.
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#Critics call #US #bishops' new #website on #sexuality a #disappointment, #harmful.
The site takes a #Socraticmethod-type approach and tackles numerous topics — #divorce, #marriage, #genderidentity, #sexualorientation, #pornography, #parenthood — beginning with the question: "What is #love?"
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Spirituality #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
https://www.ncronline.org/news/critics-call-us-bishops-new-website-sexuality-disappointment
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#ChurchofEngland #backs #trial #blessings for #samesexcouples; Archbishop of Canterbury #JustinWelby said he had #abstained.
Individual #Bishops still have to give final #clearance to the #prayers in the #services, which are #trials and not #final, #settled #church #policy.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
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#ChurchofEngland #backs #trial #blessings for #samesexcouples; Archbishop of Canterbury #JustinWelby said he had #abstained.
Individual #Bishops still have to give final #clearance to the #prayers in the #services, which are #trials and not #final, #settled #church #policy.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
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#ChurchofEngland #backs #trial #blessings for #samesexcouples; Archbishop of Canterbury #JustinWelby said he had #abstained.
Individual #Bishops still have to give final #clearance to the #prayers in the #services, which are #trials and not #final, #settled #church #policy.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
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#ChurchofEngland #backs #trial #blessings for #samesexcouples; Archbishop of Canterbury #JustinWelby said he had #abstained.
Individual #Bishops still have to give final #clearance to the #prayers in the #services, which are #trials and not #final, #settled #church #policy.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
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#ChurchofEngland #backs #trial #blessings for #samesexcouples; Archbishop of Canterbury #JustinWelby said he had #abstained.
Individual #Bishops still have to give final #clearance to the #prayers in the #services, which are #trials and not #final, #settled #church #policy.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
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#CatholicChurch discusses role of #women, #LGBTQ+ #rights.
#Bishops gathered from around the world to discuss #hotbutton #issues such as whether #priests should be allowed to get #married, whether #divorced and #remarried #Catholics should receive #communion, and whether #women should be allowed to become #Deacons.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/catholic-church-discusses-role-of-women-lgbtq-rights/
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#CatholicChurch discusses role of #women, #LGBTQ+ #rights.
#Bishops gathered from around the world to discuss #hotbutton #issues such as whether #priests should be allowed to get #married, whether #divorced and #remarried #Catholics should receive #communion, and whether #women should be allowed to become #Deacons.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/catholic-church-discusses-role-of-women-lgbtq-rights/
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#CatholicChurch discusses role of #women, #LGBTQ+ #rights.
#Bishops gathered from around the world to discuss #hotbutton #issues such as whether #priests should be allowed to get #married, whether #divorced and #remarried #Catholics should receive #communion, and whether #women should be allowed to become #Deacons.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/catholic-church-discusses-role-of-women-lgbtq-rights/
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#CatholicChurch discusses role of #women, #LGBTQ+ #rights.
#Bishops gathered from around the world to discuss #hotbutton #issues such as whether #priests should be allowed to get #married, whether #divorced and #remarried #Catholics should receive #communion, and whether #women should be allowed to become #Deacons.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/catholic-church-discusses-role-of-women-lgbtq-rights/
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#CatholicChurch discusses role of #women, #LGBTQ+ #rights.
#Bishops gathered from around the world to discuss #hotbutton #issues such as whether #priests should be allowed to get #married, whether #divorced and #remarried #Catholics should receive #communion, and whether #women should be allowed to become #Deacons.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/catholic-church-discusses-role-of-women-lgbtq-rights/
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A #seat in the #HouseofLords isn’t #God-given. It’s time #parliament #ejected all the #bishops.
Scrapping #automatic #places for a #minority #religion is as good a place as any to start with #reform of the #upperhouse.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/05/house-of-lords-reform-bishops-parliament
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Did #US #bishops #listen to #trans #catholics? Nope they lied!
#Catholic #Nun #contests #claim that #bishops #consulted #trans #Catholics before #vote on updating #healthcare #directives to prevent catholic medical institutions from providing #transition #healthcare. These institutions care for 1 in 6 Americans.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Texas #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
https://www.ncronline.org/news/did-us-bishops-really-listen-trans-catholics
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Case in point all but one letter opposes #catholic #bishops attempt to #bar #genderaffirming #Healthcare at #Catholic #Hospitals that serve 1 in 7 Americans Health care needs.
#Letterstotheeditor on #Catholic #healthcare for #LGBTQ people
https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/letters-editor/letters-editor-catholic-health-care-lgbtq-people
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#Colonalism’s #legacy seen in #marriage #debate
Some #Anglicans are debating whether an attitude of #superiority continues to affect the Communion’s wealthier Western provinces in discussions on #samesexmarriage, despite explicit #condemnations of #colonialism in a statement by #Lambeth #bishops that deals, among other things, with #samesex #unions
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #Africa #UK #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
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#Colonalism’s #legacy seen in #marriage #debate
Some #Anglicans are debating whether an attitude of #superiority continues to affect the Communion’s wealthier Western provinces in discussions on #samesexmarriage, despite explicit #condemnations of #colonialism in a statement by #Lambeth #bishops that deals, among other things, with #samesex #unions
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #Africa #UK #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
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#Colonalism’s #legacy seen in #marriage #debate
Some #Anglicans are debating whether an attitude of #superiority continues to affect the Communion’s wealthier Western provinces in discussions on #samesexmarriage, despite explicit #condemnations of #colonialism in a statement by #Lambeth #bishops that deals, among other things, with #samesex #unions
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #Africa #UK #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
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#Colonalism’s #legacy seen in #marriage #debate
Some #Anglicans are debating whether an attitude of #superiority continues to affect the Communion’s wealthier Western provinces in discussions on #samesexmarriage, despite explicit #condemnations of #colonialism in a statement by #Lambeth #bishops that deals, among other things, with #samesex #unions
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #Africa #UK #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
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#Colonalism’s #legacy seen in #marriage #debate
Some #Anglicans are debating whether an attitude of #superiority continues to affect the Communion’s wealthier Western provinces in discussions on #samesexmarriage, despite explicit #condemnations of #colonialism in a statement by #Lambeth #bishops that deals, among other things, with #samesex #unions
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #Africa #UK #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
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#Conservative #Anglicans Call for Break With #ArchbishopofCanterbury Over #SameSex #Blessings
#Hateful #African #bishops have emerged as #leaders of the #church’s #conservative #wing
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #UK #Africa #Religion #Anglicans #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews