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| > I doubt this will be a single coherent piece. It's likely to be a sprawling catastrophe of a composition, | > I doubt this will be a single coherent piece. It's likely to be a sprawling catastrophe of a composition, | ||
| - | * intro and scope | + | * intro and scope---how did we get here? |
| + | * this has been a long time coming, but the decision to start seriously outlining it was sparked by video essays from Laura Crone and Renegade Cut; the former prompted me to confront and accept the complexities of Christian tradition, and both invited me to consider the ways in which the teachings I was raised in may have been built upon distortions (e.g., faith and doubt, the existence and role of Satan) and the harm done by the Christian establishment | ||
| + | * maybe cover those in more detail? | ||
| * faith and doubt | * faith and doubt | ||
| * exist in symbiosis | * exist in symbiosis | ||
| - | * "I believe in gravity" | + | * "I believe in gravity" |
| * anyone who says they can prove God exists is lying---to themselves and to everyone else; that's where faith comes in | * anyone who says they can prove God exists is lying---to themselves and to everyone else; that's where faith comes in | ||
| * anti-Catholicism in NCA's curriculum | * anti-Catholicism in NCA's curriculum | ||
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| * NC more generally | * NC more generally | ||
| * and I guess that was NC's biggest flaw: they weren' | * and I guess that was NC's biggest flaw: they weren' | ||
| - | * to pull again from Laura Crone, her discussion of the widow who donates all of her money was powerful; it was an examination of a story I knew from an angle I hadn't considered, and that power was entirely derived from the context she provided | + | * to pull again from Laura Crone, |
| * by contrast, Bible quotes at NC were generally stripped of this context, often pulled from whichever translation provided the best fit for the point at hand; the Bible says XYZ, and we're going to take that at face value | * by contrast, Bible quotes at NC were generally stripped of this context, often pulled from whichever translation provided the best fit for the point at hand; the Bible says XYZ, and we're going to take that at face value | ||
| * my gripe is not that they used multiple translations, | * my gripe is not that they used multiple translations, | ||
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| * in practice, this meant I was highly enthusiastic about my role on the media team but uninterested in showing up to church if I wasn't on the schedule | * in practice, this meant I was highly enthusiastic about my role on the media team but uninterested in showing up to church if I wasn't on the schedule | ||
| * case in point: my departure from NC's youth group and later CotK' | * case in point: my departure from NC's youth group and later CotK' | ||
| + | * antisemitism in Christianity | ||
| + | * this might seem like a tangent, but I think reckoning with the built-in antisemitism is a prerequisite for practicing Christianity ethically; it should also be an interesting historical study | ||
| + | * Christianity claimed to be the fulfillment of Judaism, and it's a small jump (really, no more than a hop) from there to arguing that Jews who do not convert are betraying their own faith and thus rejecting God | ||
| + | * then there was the political climate in the early years of the church; in an attempt to present themselves as no threat to the Roman Empire, the early church thought it wise to denigrate the Jews | ||
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