Barth's seven "rules for older people in relation to younger" via his letters to a poet friend of his (A Late Friendship: The letters of Karl Barth and Carl Zuckmayer); a 🧵 (1/11)
People should be able to enjoy things but like please can we move toward being passionate about things that matter and affect actual lives instead of a violent game
Like your day gets ruined because your team lost but it’s fine that your queer neighbors are under constant threat of violence in many communities??? That people don’t have housing or enough food every day??? That people are in prisons???
Zero drag queens have been arrested in Tennessee this year for raping or sexually abusing children.
Over 30 faith leaders have. https://t.co/XRG4xRqqIK
This is Moca. He just learned some people think unions cause strikes and not the immense greed of corporations that refuse to pay employees a fair share despite owing the entirety of their profits to the labor of working people. 14/10
@kevinmnye1 Someone said it’s like the most Star Wars show without being very Star Wars at all and I don’t think I could say how I feel about this show any better
there are so many parenting reels and TikToks that make me so mad because all these people are like “my goddamn kids” or “these motherfucking toddlers” and like yeah I know it’s supposed to be a joke and like curse all you want but not AT your children???
Sure. We can sing to Jesus.
But Jesus never asked us to do that.
Jesus asked us to feed the hungry, to give them water, to welcome the stranger, to clothe them, to visit the prisoner, to care for the sick.
Jesus didn’t want songs.
Jesus wants justice.