Practically Speaking Chapter 2: The Point of Anti-Abortion Rhetoric

My first draft of this was unimaginably and unimaginatively angry.  I’ve tried to tone it down.  There are Christians who are anti-abortion.  Then there’s Christians who think Christians have to be anti-abortion.  Then there are Christians that think Christians should be so anti-abortion, that nothing else matters. The way I see it, the people in…

Consistency Chapter 2: Christian Reconstructionists

I get it.  People are filled with inconsistencies.  It doesn’t mean their arguments are wrong.  There just might be some caveats and corollaries to watch out for, which can get obscured as time goes on and the language game around them evolves.  “Pro-life” should carry a lot more than anti-abortion.  I didn’t talk much about…

Prologue

Welcome to SheepleSteeple's "Religious" Tirade:  Our current series will focus on abortions. There are way too many Christian voters, mostly in the white community, that seem to think that abortion is such a fundamental issue that it should takes precedence over everything else. I'm not sure how authentic one-policy voters are; I see it as…

Introduction

These are personal reflections on the ongoing protests that I originally posted to my personal social media pages. I am re-uploading them here. Publish dates will match the original.

The commodification of BLM

[Est. Reading Time: 4 mins] “I opened my eyes and beheld reality, at which I began to laugh, and since then, I have not stopped laughing” (a dead white guy).  This banner takes you to the announcement that Amazon is donating $10 million dollars to organizations that support racial justice.  I got to give it…

#MakeJesusBlackAgain

By focusing disproportionately to any and every perceived slight against Christians, certain media groups have been able to fool a bunch of us Christians into thinking that we have always been and continue to be persecuted. After manufacturing that fear, it seems the current person trying to use it is an Oompa Loompa who wants…

Advent Adventures #3: If you don’t love you’re dead and if you do they’ll kill you

OR:If there is such a thing as the anti-establishment, it feeds the establishment. I used to work at a supervised house, halfway between prison and the community to try to ease the pains of reintegration. Although I had already interacted with the rigidity of Criminal Justice System as an “emerging/budding criminologist” through my education and…

Advent Adventure #1: Joy, Peace, & Terror Management

PrologueAdvent’s here and I thought, despite me missing the first week,it’d be a good time to show why I need Jesus apart from all thehyper-rational arguments and Christmas cheer out there.  Sowelcome to the JonRa’s Advent Adventure with no regard for theorder of the Advent Wreath where we explore some uncomfortabletruths about me that I’m…

Resignation

I've asked Jesus to take the wheel and jumped out of the car. I wouldn't know how to get back in even if I wanted to.

The Priest, the Imam, and the Rabbi

I can't say I liked the new president, but I thought he was better than the other candidates.  He promised to keep certain institutions intact and so I voted for him.  Not really for me, I thought, but for my parish.  For that, I am sorry. I remember when they first came for my neighbour. …