Seattle DSA R&S Committee

People of faith. Partisans of democratic socialism. We are the Religion & Socialism committee of @SeattleDSA.

[Seattle DSA R&S Committee @SDSA_RSC]

Three Cheers for Socialism https://t.co/QF7QSXBDEs

[Institute for Christian Socialism @SmashMammon]

Whatever the scale of the transformative changes the left aspires to, they cannot be sustained for long without what Grace Lee Boggs called "soul power," a tremendous philosophical and spiritual transformation. https://t.co/fxTGTXU1am

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It Can Happen Anywhere https://t.co/m51KnioUco

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"Our idea that Jesus, Mary, and Joseph were poor was not always mainstream, however. In the Middle Ages, with the rise of the mendicant orders...a vicious ongoing debate emerged regarding the poverty of Jesus and his followers." https://t.co/usYUrnhLIz

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“The history of the state which the Maccabees established, however, is a depressing example of the way in which revolutionary groups so often end up replicating the patterns of abuse against which their rebellion was originally directed.” https://t.co/QZJJX1CM0n

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The genius of Irving Berlin was to understand that sometimes Christmas is not what it’s supposed to be. It is neither merry nor white. https://t.co/gn4HNJqo9J via @americamag

[Seattle DSA R&S Committee @SDSA_RSC]

“The second thing is that people weaponize Revelation to “other” the groups that disagree with us, whether it’s Luther pinning a papal tiara on the unidentified “whore of Babylon” or Americans in the 1980s noting with glee that Ronald + Wilson + Reagan evoked the number 666.”

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“For Mormons, this tendency...means that we interpret the angel in Revelation 14 as referring to Moroni unveiling the truth to Joseph Smith [and] Revelation 7 as prophesying the restoration of the gospel (to us, conveniently enough!) in the latter days.” https://t.co/upf5fBA3Rk

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“Let us laugh in delight with the young in celebration of small but steady achievements. Let us move out of the way when we feel hopeless, but join in the fierce pursuit of change when the tired energies of our bodies get that second wind for change.”

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“Let the struggle for ‘a better life’ pursue its course. Let us be warners of dangers past, based on life’s experience, without quenching the spring that will ever long for a better future. Let us smile at the unstoppable hope for a new beginning.” https://t.co/MED1SMbxLM

[Seattle DSA R&S Committee @SDSA_RSC]

A Powerful Statement of [Christian] Resistance from a College Student on Trial in Moscow https://t.co/u6uNeiSx8L

[Institute for Christian Socialism @SmashMammon]

Gary Dorrien highlights the vital contribution of Christian socialists to the tradition of democratic socialism https://t.co/81nuu87t3j

[Institute for Christian Socialism @SmashMammon]

“'Humans' doing things to the earth reiterates the nature-society duality (and the conquest of Nature trope that resides safely therein); and it conceals the specific social order that led 'us' into this terrible impasse—capitalism. " https://t.co/skEPyat2jZ

[Institute for Christian Socialism @SmashMammon]

GUADETE! Rejoice! The mighty are brought low; the rich have been sent away; the proud are scattered—the humble are life up and the hungry are filled.
The Institute for Christian Socialism is now live.

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[Seattle DSA R&S Committee @SDSA_RSC]

The Sort-Of Socialist Church Is Taking A Radical Approach To Christianity https://t.co/iFBwZjcugr

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“And the ancient monuments of north-western Europe...are constructed to amplify & revere the precise moment at which the sun pauses in its passage, refuses darkness, re-commits to light and warmth and life. These are radical moments. The courage of the candle-flame.”

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“In winter, we celebrate and call forth light in the darkness. During Hanukkah, the menorah is lit at sundown, and placed it in the window so that everybody might be reminded that miracles are possible—that things can be different...” https://t.co/m2HNi7sWss

[Seattle DSA R&S Committee @SDSA_RSC]

“At Diwali & Kartika Purnima, buildings, trees, rivers, & homes are illuminated to symbolise the driving-back of darkness. The Christmas tradition speaks of the guiding star, the cosy stable, the wise & the wealthy called to there to exalt a child born into poverty & oppression.“

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Does Socialism Have to Be ‘Godless’? | Christianity Today https://t.co/4iMus7FFUW