You might also say it's a departure of both.
"Christ crucified is foolishness to the Greek, and a stumbling block to the jew."
Foolishness because the cross is a shameful death. Stumbling because it's a curse.
Christianity reorients the mind. For the Greek what is death becomes life, for the jew what is a curse becomes glory.
Christ for the pagan becomes the archetypal hero inducted into his kingdom by a crown of thorns. A kingdom whose citizenship is achieved through death (baptism).
For the jew the fulfillment of the law and the promised messiah, who Lords over zion bringing us peace. Peace won by a final sacrifice (communion)
Christianity has forgotten that Jesus is a warrior-king [christus victor] and if a king, a terror to his enemies and a friend to his servants.
Every failure of the modern church can be relegated to "Jesus is an unqualified friend". But he is only a friend to this who are his, and even then only as much as a father is a friend to a son, a king to a servant. Hierarchy and order remains. As do demands of lordship.
"I am a man. See me as a human being—not a birth defect, not a syndrome. I don’t need to be eradicated."
Frank Stephens pleads for the humanization of people with Down syndrome, studies suggest 67-90% are aborted in the United States due to faulty prenatal screenings.
The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.
The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.
Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.
If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.
Okay, but if we're doing the GATICA thing to cleanse the human genome, there's a long litany of pathologies I would expect to see on the list in front of, "going to be inconvenient to the parents".
Having a baby with a condition that will make parenting them marginally more difficult can't be understood until you're there yourself
Whether you decide to slaughter your child, have the kid and place for adoption, or have the kid and raise them – it's intensely personal & no one should be judged for which path they choose
My condolences to Jesse and his wife for finding themselves in an impossible situation, and wishing them best of luck in the future with their family
@reddit_lies Evenly distributed over the years since age 18 puts her at roughly 8 partners a year. 1 partner every 2 months.
EVERY 2 MONTHS.
Y'all crazy.
@McJuggerNuggets Justice can feel like that sometimes. Unfortunately, the most justice you'll receive here is people correctly calling you a murderous psychopath. I hope you feel really bad about it.
The U.S. Senate has just rejected a motion to add the SAVE America Act as part of budget reconciliation on a 48-50 vote.
Republicans who voted against it:
-Thom Tillis
-Lisa Murkowski
-Mitch McConnell
-Susan Collins
@DavidEdgington This was an important move i made early in the marriage.
She actually wants you to do this, by the way. She needs you to enforce boundaries and assert your leadership in the home.
If you go to the couch she will not respect you.