Popes Francis’ #Beatitudes papacy makes him one of the most important #antifa politicians of our era because,

[catawu@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva I saw the Rat for what he was when he was on the steps approaching the conclave. There was an evil darkness to his countenance, and he was salivating as if he knew it was a done deal. I was shocked he was ever a bishop and more shocked that he was elected. I figured it was blackmail and extortion all around. I for one, happy when he ‘retired’.

[msbellows@c.im]

@juergen_hubert @blogdiva +1. You can't separate MLK's work from his faith, or Gandhi's, or Malcolm X's, or Jimmy Carter's. The problem is that some humans take good things and misuse them, whether that's family or faith or work or sex or any other good.

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

go find what i wrote about Bergolio’s efforts.

@emma

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

❝ In all areas, the problem is whites. ❞

which is why it’s funnier that Pope Southside is like my Thing2, a white-passing, icognegro of AfroCarib ascendancy

@eldersea @Kerplunk

[agturcz@circumstances.run]

@blogdiva I'm sorry if I explained something you may know better than me.

[mayintoronto@beige.party]

@mothninja @blogdiva Welcome to the world of Supply-Side Jesus. https://imgur.com/gallery/gospel-of-supply-side-jesus-bCqRp

[mothninja@beige.party]

@mayintoronto brilliant, thank you for the link!

@blogdiva

[msbellows@c.im]

@InkySchwartz @blogdiva
"The editor in chief of Christianity Today is warning that evangelical Christianity is moving too far to the right, to the point that even Jesus’s teachings are considered 'weak' now."

Um... that's been happening since at least the 1980s, but yeah, evangelical Christianity today absolutely would be condemned by the actual Jesus along with the Pharisees and Saducees. The Beatitudes are nothing if not woke.

[geonz@mathstodon.xyz]

@blogdiva *Wow.*
That be some audacity to say "he rejects them." I'd have worded it differently: his answer is "NO."
But that's me. GO POPE LEO!!!!

[dzwiedziu@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva
One time a high-ranking Polish nazi^Wpatriot blocked me on Twitter for saying his views on the Christian God (them not being infinitely merciful) are not what the RCC Catechism says, and thus a heresy ^_^

[geonz@mathstodon.xyz]

@blogdiva At Beloved INclusive, yes, the focus was peace and also oh, how conflicted we can be. (So right after Peter claims "I WILL NEVER DENY YOU" we sing a hymn "we will drink the cup, we will win the fight..." and the perspective that yea, Peter & the followers were feelin' it but .... oops, later on...
and how our task is to continue active, peaceful resistance.

[wyatt_h_knott@mstdn.social]

@blogdiva WAIT WAIT WAIT

are you trying to tell me
we could have had a

POPE PIZZABALLA

serio, chica, serio?

por que no???

[roknrol@beige.party]

@blogdiva Somehow I think the guys that defiled and then resold the Bible aren't going to care what Popes and Cardinals think.

[c_merriweather@social.linux.pizza]

@msbellows

People forget/overlook the fact that the historical Jesus (what little is known), was a poor, illiterate peasant, and preached to people of his own class: The poor, the dispossessed, the oppressed, and those who were at the bottom of the social/political hierarchy.

The better off in the area had sold their allegiance to Rome and the Empire. The imperial government executed Jesus for sedition; crucifixion was a common method. All the stuff about the various Jewish factions was invented later, as was so much of the NT.

@InkySchwartz @blogdiva

[huntingdon@mstdn.social]

@blogdiva

Psychopaths and their followers, like Pete Hegseth, think calling or a holy war is doing God's business. In fact, he's doing the psychopath's business and calling him a god, which is another of the gravest sins.

[mwyman@mastodon.social]

@msbellows @InkySchwartz @blogdiva “blessed are the warmongers, for they shall leave a trail of holy devastation across the land”

[mwyman@mastodon.social]

@c_merriweather @msbellows @InkySchwartz @blogdiva why the “prosperity gospel” people are so obscene

[eldersea@expressional.social]

@blogdiva
Hey, look at who saw trump for what he was and have been remarkably consistently right.
https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/catholics-support-for-trump-s-agenda-has-not-significantly-changed-pew-report-says
@Kerplunk

[c_merriweather@social.linux.pizza]

@blogdiva Not an <anything> religious. Just a student of history, and interested in the different paths the early Jesus-movement could have taken.

Paul and his followers were mostly to blame for misdirecting the message; they took it out of its very Jewish origin and made it into a Hellenistic mystery religion. After the sack of Jerusalem (70 CE), there was no Jewish foundation left for the Paulinists to have to avoid. They ran with the mystery religion and turned a Jewish (not) messiah into the mythic Christ.
It was all downhill from there. You get people worshiping a quasi-deity, instead of trying to live the message he taught.

And then there were the early "heresies," some of which might have been better directions, if the early "Church" hadn't crushed them (like the Gnostics, and the Gospel of Thomas).

So, reasonably good messages, (from a poor, illiterate Jewish peasant, who had come to some understanding of his world), which were totally convoluted by the so-called Christians.

[tlariv@mastodon.cloud]

@wyatt_h_knott
Because it would have been such a loss when he changed his name.
@blogdiva