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GOP dominated Texas school board approves curriculum that incorporates Bible lessons for K-5 classes.
This is Christian nationalism & it is an existential threat to our republic. It seeks to revive the white supremacist foundings of this country & it is a huge mistake to underestimate its danger.
@QasimRashid We need adamant parents fighting this who are brave enough to word this as "you will not teach my child your rapist-worshipping religion".
@QasimRashid I really need to write a longform piece on this, but the mainstream Christian interpretation of the Christian god has him as a RAPIST and anyone who wants to be Christian without worshipping evil needs to confront this and come to terms with an interpretation they can reconcile with human values.
@dalias Where is it that God is a rapist in Christian circles? Are you too confusing Trump and God like they do?
later, after Gabriel leaves, we get the rest of the story: "and His mercy is on them that fear him," sings Mary, in Luke 1:50
There's a lot made of Mary's explicit consent, but just like is so common in the real world, that consent is couched in a massive power imbalance -- Zechariah was struck mute for daring to ask if John's birth was safe for his elderly wife Elizabeth.
CC: @dalias@hachyderm.io
@khm consent is not consent, of course
@khm @joe @dalias Becuase 200-odd years later I'm sure they got her exact words spot on.
There isn't a woman in the whole tradition who directly consented to being written about and later included, and for another 1600 years there weren't any women on the right side of the rood screen to object.
The whole thing is Lot giving away his daughters and claiming he wasn't the one doing the raping.
I'm so glad it calmed down to burning witches, eventually...