Josh Watson
@JoshuaLWatson
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Philosophy PhD. Interests in early Christian history. Joking. Love trees 🌳🌲🍁. He/him.
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Joined February 2022
RT @Sacrifice_Isaac: "The laborer of the present day would not cease to suffer even if his toil were much lighter than that of the slave of….
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For fools always have a greater admiration and liking for any idea they see obscured in a mist of paradoxical language, and adopt as true what succeeds in prettily tickling their ears and is painted with a specious sound. ~Lucretius.
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There is . no planning there; we speak of reasoned purpose in the world of things only to convey that the universe is of the character which . would point to a wise purposing. Providence implies that things are as . a competent foreplanning would produce them. ~Plotinus.
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I've read the New Testament & definitely didn't get the sense that one of its central themes is that the wealthy are the blessed & favored by God or that following God raises one's chances of having riches. Maybe adding a "W" to TULIP for "woe to the rich" would help?. TWULIP.
Traditional Calvinists had great anxiety over whether or not they were part of the elect. But modern American Calvinists are utterly convinced that they are saved. And more than that, God blesses them with wealth. This can lead to dangerous pathologies.
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The increased interest in Stoicism. among scholars of the New Testament. is part of the more general turn away from Platonism. It is also part of a movement. looking at the New Testament from a . perspective that puts. theological interest on hold. ~Troels Engberg-Pedersen.
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my passions include long walks on the beach, playing the guitar, and awaking from my dogmatic slumber.
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Is it not the rich who oppress you? ~James 2:6.
WATCH: Republican @RepTimBurchett says he's voting to gut Medicaid because sick and disabled Americans should "get off their ass and get a job."
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Ecclesiastes is one of the more surprising books in the Bible. "For the fate of humans and the fate of animals is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and humans have no advantage over the animals, for all is vanity." ~Ecclesiastes 3:19.
Ecclesiastes is incredible. "I have seen another evil under the sun, and it weighs heavily on mankind: God gives some people wealth, possessions and honor, so that they lack nothing their hearts desire, but God does not grant them the ability to enjoy them. ".
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I think the NT also presents a diversity of different & conflicting portraits of Jesus. Each Christian tradition responds by constructing its own personal Jesus as it sees fit & says God guided them along the way.
There is no “God of the Bible”.#maklelan2771.
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. the domination of the exploiters loses the form of a power relationship & makes an indirect appearance, on the basis of the equality of commodity exchange, which mystifies the capitalist exploitation relation in an economic form, but also thereby legitimates it. ~Michael Mauke.
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