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9 years ago @ The Toast - Conspiracies of Faith:... · 3 replies · +27 points

"I know that I do not believe in the same way I did as a child. I believe differently now, more openly, and yet I worry that I am making the wrong choice, choosing the wrong conspiracy of faith. The light and beautiful version doesn’t necessarily mean truth. What if the dark, terrible, awful version is the Truth?"

Oh I feel this, I feel it so hard. My worst fear isn't that God will turn out not to be real, I think as long as I live my life learning to love others better and better I won't regret those choices even if there doesn't turn out to be an eternal reward. But every once in awhile I am haunted by the fear that God is exactly as awful as John Piper & co. have made him out to be. And yet I cannot spend my life worshiping a God who has less capacity for love than I do, so i keep hoping that God is better than that.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +25 points

Also, with all the Jesus talk, I was bracing for a condemnation of the writer's queerness, which never came. Tbh the comment is hilarious and intrusive but seems genuinely well-meant.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +2 points

I love them! The Moses one is especially brilliant

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 4 replies · +32 points

Oh goodness that first Prudie letter! I would be livid.

Also, I tried a thing this order weekend where I mashed up Hamilton lyrics and Bible stories under #hamible. I came up with about 10, but it feels like something Toasties might have more ideas for. I'm particularly proud of this one. http://twitter.com/christinaemoss/status/74182020...

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +8 points

I'm also confused because the commenter seems to be implying that Tyndale deserved this/translating the Bible into English is a bad thing? I did not realize anyone still believed this. I thought the weirdos had moved on to insisting that the KJV was even more inspired than the Greek and Hebrew or the Vulgate.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Open Thread In Lieu Of... · 0 replies · +16 points

Wheelock is a great start, with lots of exercises to get you going. The hardest part of initial Latin learning for most English speakers is learning to decline nouns (and just thinking about the roles nouns play in sentences, generally, so that's worth focusing on to start with.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Let's Talk About The B... · 0 replies · +2 points

When I was 12, I thought my parents would forbid me to read Roald Dahl's The Witches, so I tried to hide it from them. My mom found it and told me she didn't care and figured I was old enough to figure out what to read on my own, sort through it, and come to them if I had any questions. Mind you, I didn't read Harry Potter until I was an adult because, while my parents told me I could if I wanted to, I got the distinct impression it would make my mom unhappy if I did.

I was, moreover, forbidden to watch Pokemon at friends' houses (we didn't have a tv) because someone told my parents if was demonic. Afik they never saw it themselves.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +5 points

I love this, except that I would have preferred a younger girl as Burr. One of the Fun House Cast members, maybe?

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +3 points

No lie, I thought it stood for trigger f*cking warning

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +3 points

Seconded. I literally cannot think of a worse book to film adaptation

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