‘Keep your penance simple. If you don’t pray daily, START! And keep THAT simple. BREATHE a few times to get quiet. thank GOD for his gifts. ask for NO MORE than 3 things……’
People are looking around at each other and rolling their eyes, like, ‘Do I need this.’
He warned us to give up whatever we were over attached to: ‘sweets or PORN, your devices or GOSSIP.’
So I asked God why this guy drove me so crazy—toupee or tone—and my head (trying to imitate God) said, Can I not make good issue from any of us?’
For my red-hot, categorizing brain in nonstop judgement mode most needs correction from Father Toupee.
May my lenten fast please even him.
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Could you please clarify this? Specifically “nobody”.
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I believe the “/s” was missing, that’s all.
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I figured the eyeroll amounted to much the same thing. To make my opinion clear, telling people what you believe and why is a fine way to share something about yourself, but people who say what others should think with the assumption they’ve never thought about these things are condescending jackasses.
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cross posting from the Israel/Palestine thread, because it has some interesting discussion on Judaism, the modern era of secularism, and why some holidays in the Jewish calendar are more focused on than others…
And it strikes me that some of his analysis can be used a lens to think about modern day white Evangelicalism and Islamism, too, especially the narrative of innocence in actions, even violent ones.
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Since it’s Ramadan, here is a story about dates (the traditional way to break the fast each evening)…
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