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Shane Morris retweeted
Humanists should be snobby about the fact that they are stewarding a tradition that stretches back thousands of years rather than doing busy work involving little technical puzzles. Instead they find dumb “research” niches to fill because STEM gave them an inferiority complex.
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Not really? Much more fair to say that there are two wolves inside of evangelicalism, moralism and consequentialism. Politics is only one domain in which they are constantly struggling against each other, but you see exactly the same thing in fights like seeker-sensitive worship.
Shane Morris retweeted
>McGonagal as a fire-and-thunder “nae king in the Kirke” Presby.
Not only can I see this, I betcha she has a handbound Authorized Version KJV with red letters.
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We are living through the first geriatric societies in history and it sucks about as hard as it sounds like it would suck.
It's actually technically canonical, but underappreciated: Harry is a baptized Christian (Anglican, specifically). His parents designated a Godfather/sponsor, and they are buried at the parish church with Bible verses on their tombstone.
Modern man ceaselessly tries to Jefferson out the parts of Scripture that offend his pride, and substitutionary atonement is usually first to go. But Jesus' ministry began when John declared Him "the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world." Jews knew what lambs are for.
One helpful definition of moral principle is something you won't violate in pursuit of earthly victory. The moment the "shalt nots" become dependent on the "thou" in question, you've lost the moral high ground and made it plain that you don't believe God rewards the just.
WOW -- Vance *defends* Ramaswamy's reprehensible ad 👇
Q: Ramaswamy's campaign put out a controversial ad featuring his opponent's mother. Some Republicans are backing away from that. Do you think that ad was appropriate?
JD VANCE: Well, I'll be honest with you. Whether the ad was appropriate or not is not really my concern. My concern is who is gonna govern. I have to admit I'm a little bit disgusted when I see Republicans who are whining more about that ad than they are about what the Democrats want to do.
Shane Morris retweeted
They say the worst thing that can happen to a gambler is a big win early on in his career. I wonder how different Christianity Today's fortunes would be today if the Driscoll pod hadn't been a big hit that made the "policing evangelical scandal" beat feel like a viable identity
An important corollary of this is learning to see that what Christians describe as "sexual morality" is just choosing long-term sexual happiness instead of trading your birthright to wholeness as a person for a mess of instant gratification that leaves you and others miserable.
I recently rented a 2026 car and it is still WILD to me that cops will pull you over for looking at your cell phone meanwhile new cars are rolling off the assembly line with 2-3 literal giant computer monitors built into their dashboards.
Shane Morris retweeted
The Republican Party is becoming the party of corruption and immorality, with self-dealing, philandering, and perversion omnipresent among the party’s Senate candidates and in the Trump administration. washingtonexaminer.com/in_fo…
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This is why, despite all of its flaws, the Star Wars stories George Lucas told will remain.
They are built on timeless patterns and archetypes.
You cannot escape these patterns and stories. They are part of the human drama.
American common life is in a death spiral as people abandon spaces not dedicated to profit or commerce and retreat into individualist caves where we suspiciously type away about our hated neighbors. Museums, libraries, the arts, parks, etc. are "we" goods in a "me" culture.
The Smithsonian’s Dwindling Attendance city-journal.org/article/smi…
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Loose retelling of the Passion narrative and Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Snow Queen,” plus a bit of Le Morte d’Arthur
Prince Caspian: A riff on Hamlet, with a dose of Norse myth and medieval romance
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: The Odyssey and the imrams (medieval Irish tales about journeys across the sea in pursuit of wonders)
The Horse and His Boy: a loving homage to The Arabian Nights
The Silver Chair: a medieval quest narrative with nods to Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, The Faerie Queene and Tam Lin
The Magician’s Nephew: Paradise Lost meets Edith Nesbit
The Last Battle: Edmund Spenser (Mother Hubberd’s Tale) and The Book of Revelation
the chronicles of narnia don't get enough credit for being so different from each other. No two of them are written in the same genre.
LWW: "conventional" hero's journey fantasy
Prince Caspian: uncategorizable, no idea what he was going for here tbh
Voyage of the Dawn Treader: CS Lewis' The Odyssey
The Silver Chair: CS Lewis' Pilgrim's Progress
Horse and His Boy: CS Lewis' Arabian Nights
Magician's Nephew: multiverse scifi!
The Last Battle: apocalypse fantasy
very impressive, imo, to do this while returning you to a world and storytelling style that feels familiar from book to book
That's because they embody the influence of seven different worlds. IYKYK!
the chronicles of narnia don't get enough credit for being so different from each other. No two of them are written in the same genre.
LWW: "conventional" hero's journey fantasy
Prince Caspian: uncategorizable, no idea what he was going for here tbh
Voyage of the Dawn Treader: CS Lewis' The Odyssey
The Silver Chair: CS Lewis' Pilgrim's Progress
Horse and His Boy: CS Lewis' Arabian Nights
Magician's Nephew: multiverse scifi!
The Last Battle: apocalypse fantasy
very impressive, imo, to do this while returning you to a world and storytelling style that feels familiar from book to book