Charles Johnson

history and religion, early modernist, PhD candidate, Princeton Theological Seminary

[Charles Johnson @cjhistorian]

@PMatzko Probably true, but do we have any idea how much low-density land is necessary to subsidize high-density land?

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@s_t_gibson This is the conversion story Augustine needed

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@sentantiq I went to a religious school and they said it was His story. Yes, capital-H His. They also taught the Hebrew Bible as literal history, so ...

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@lukepigott Well, of course he was upset. You blew his cover while he was on Mission 3:16.

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@Hughes69Kevin @HolmanMK I wish I could lock every church historian in a room and not let them out until they'd finished Nature, Man, and Society in the Twelfth Century.

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That no amount of power can withstand the hatred of the majority — if we didn't already know that, we've recently been made aware.
Multorum autem odiis nullas opes posse obsistere, si antea fuit ignotum, nuper est cognitum.

@sentantiq election commentary

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[Paul Matzko @PMatzko]

Story time with Uncle Paul.

Moderation at scale is hard.

I attended a deeply conservative, fundamentalist Christian university. They had a first class library on campus, but the periodical librarian had a particular problem. 1/

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[Matthew Sheffield @mattsheffield]

As a former conservative activist and journalist, it has been so frustrating to see my former compatriots spreading wild and unchecked claims about "voter fraud." @jacknicas of the NYT took a deep look at claims of "dead" people in Michigan voting. Link in next tweet.

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@lukepigott Sloterdijk

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In 1567, the Genevan minister "Raymond Chauvet and his wife were pelted with stones by a disgruntled parishioner named Christoffle Mercier, who was angry that the minister did not allow him to bring his musket to church."
~ Scott Manetsch, Calvin's Company of Pastors

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@jedwardwalters Moist Mean Girls

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@emuehlbe "A scribe who does not know Sumerian, what kind of scribe is he?"

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@lukepigott Not really. The idea that a faith community is God's chosen people strikes me as a lesser evil than God being just racist.

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@jedwardwalters and other Xian origins scholars, top 3 resources on how Christians became differentiated from Jews?

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@jedwardwalters Seeing the Johannine Community get ret-conned into oblivion before my eyes made Jesus mythicism seem 7% less crazy.

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@Tantrum_House Caveat emptor -- Bayern beware!

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@jedwardwalters Mumford & Grandpas

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@jedwardwalters Switch 1 (haven't seen) with Bojack Horseman, and we're pretty close.

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@lukepigott This is why I attend the UU. It's not really a substitute for faith, but it's a way of carrying on in its absence.

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@jedwardwalters Wouldn't have had these problems if they'd just listened to Arios.