Rev. Charley Earp
@commiepreacher.bsky.social
Radical Liberation Minister and Communist Follower of Jesus of Nazareth. To be a "Christian" is to be revolutionary.
I'll message you via FB. This can be a productive conversation.
December 27, 2024 at 6:22 PM
I'll message you via FB. This can be a productive conversation.
That wasn't my point. You wanted to challenge me on pantheism, which I welcomed and took up robustly. Then you decided to simply dismiss everything I said as "talking past" you.
You're basically saying I'm avoiding your point, but I've addressed them all. I'm just not agreeing with your framing.
You're basically saying I'm avoiding your point, but I've addressed them all. I'm just not agreeing with your framing.
December 15, 2024 at 11:39 PM
That wasn't my point. You wanted to challenge me on pantheism, which I welcomed and took up robustly. Then you decided to simply dismiss everything I said as "talking past" you.
You're basically saying I'm avoiding your point, but I've addressed them all. I'm just not agreeing with your framing.
You're basically saying I'm avoiding your point, but I've addressed them all. I'm just not agreeing with your framing.
You came on my timeline. Until one of us stops responding, this can go on a long time.
I'm as much of a physical naturalist as any atheist, I simply am cultivating an emotional orientation towards the cosmos.
I am in love with being alive and the fabulous reality that brought us into being.
I'm as much of a physical naturalist as any atheist, I simply am cultivating an emotional orientation towards the cosmos.
I am in love with being alive and the fabulous reality that brought us into being.
December 15, 2024 at 3:18 AM
You came on my timeline. Until one of us stops responding, this can go on a long time.
I'm as much of a physical naturalist as any atheist, I simply am cultivating an emotional orientation towards the cosmos.
I am in love with being alive and the fabulous reality that brought us into being.
I'm as much of a physical naturalist as any atheist, I simply am cultivating an emotional orientation towards the cosmos.
I am in love with being alive and the fabulous reality that brought us into being.
I said nothing about the universe feeling. The universe is your source of existence *AND* your feelings. Feelings play an enormous role of the quality of human existence. Your feelings, body, and mind are gifts from the cosmos. I rejoice in the gifts of the cosmos. I love her as my Goddess.
December 15, 2024 at 2:49 AM
I said nothing about the universe feeling. The universe is your source of existence *AND* your feelings. Feelings play an enormous role of the quality of human existence. Your feelings, body, and mind are gifts from the cosmos. I rejoice in the gifts of the cosmos. I love her as my Goddess.
That trajectory is an amazing adventure to which each one of us can contribute with all of our knowledge, beauty, and goodwill.
December 15, 2024 at 2:42 AM
That trajectory is an amazing adventure to which each one of us can contribute with all of our knowledge, beauty, and goodwill.
Poetry is life. The universe brought YOU into being over eons of spectacular processes of galaxy formation, solar system formation, planetary emergence, chemistry, physics, energy, the evolutionary tree of life, your parents, your amazing body, intelligent mind, capacity for love, and creativity.
December 15, 2024 at 2:42 AM
Poetry is life. The universe brought YOU into being over eons of spectacular processes of galaxy formation, solar system formation, planetary emergence, chemistry, physics, energy, the evolutionary tree of life, your parents, your amazing body, intelligent mind, capacity for love, and creativity.
Simply "expanding understanding" seems emotionally empty and ethically limited. I want to act with love and enable transformation. Theism of some sort has been part of human culture for most of history. Yes, it's not an objective component of reality, it is rather relational orientation.
December 15, 2024 at 2:08 AM
Simply "expanding understanding" seems emotionally empty and ethically limited. I want to act with love and enable transformation. Theism of some sort has been part of human culture for most of history. Yes, it's not an objective component of reality, it is rather relational orientation.
1. Do you believe Jesus was nonhuman? 2. Do youbelieve .Jesus was born from a virgin? 3. Do you take the bible literally or interpret it in your own way? How so? 4. What/who is god to you? ls god a person who has thoughts and feelings? 5. Do you believe in hell? 6. Do youbelieve in sin?
December 15, 2024 at 12:32 AM
1. Do you believe Jesus was nonhuman? 2. Do youbelieve .Jesus was born from a virgin? 3. Do you take the bible literally or interpret it in your own way? How so? 4. What/who is god to you? ls god a person who has thoughts and feelings? 5. Do you believe in hell? 6. Do youbelieve in sin?
I wanted to ask some questions about your personal beliefs just to see how they align with mine.
December 15, 2024 at 12:32 AM
I wanted to ask some questions about your personal beliefs just to see how they align with mine.
Original Reddit post:
<https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenChristian/s/4AnBzQvydQ>
r/OpenChristian u/giannnajoy
Your Beliefs
I love this subreddit because 1 am trying to learn about Christianity and how I can follow Jesus without criticism for my questions.
<https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenChristian/s/4AnBzQvydQ>
r/OpenChristian u/giannnajoy
Your Beliefs
I love this subreddit because 1 am trying to learn about Christianity and how I can follow Jesus without criticism for my questions.
December 15, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Original Reddit post:
<https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenChristian/s/4AnBzQvydQ>
r/OpenChristian u/giannnajoy
Your Beliefs
I love this subreddit because 1 am trying to learn about Christianity and how I can follow Jesus without criticism for my questions.
<https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenChristian/s/4AnBzQvydQ>
r/OpenChristian u/giannnajoy
Your Beliefs
I love this subreddit because 1 am trying to learn about Christianity and how I can follow Jesus without criticism for my questions.
6. I believe in "evil": that is, those actions of humans that harm other living beings and create suffering. I believe every human can commit evil. Are we totally depraved? No.
December 15, 2024 at 12:32 AM
6. I believe in "evil": that is, those actions of humans that harm other living beings and create suffering. I believe every human can commit evil. Are we totally depraved? No.
5 (continued).
"Hell" in this possible future would be an archaic label for the psycho-emotional destruction of the evil within the oppressors. It will feel like torment, but it will be ultimately benevolent.
"Hell" in this possible future would be an archaic label for the psycho-emotional destruction of the evil within the oppressors. It will feel like torment, but it will be ultimately benevolent.
December 15, 2024 at 12:32 AM
5 (continued).
"Hell" in this possible future would be an archaic label for the psycho-emotional destruction of the evil within the oppressors. It will feel like torment, but it will be ultimately benevolent.
"Hell" in this possible future would be an archaic label for the psycho-emotional destruction of the evil within the oppressors. It will feel like torment, but it will be ultimately benevolent.
5 (continued)After communism triumphs, the world can begin exploring the possibility of immortality and resurrection as a technological achievement. I think it is scientifically possible, but I could be wrong about that.
December 15, 2024 at 12:32 AM
5 (continued)After communism triumphs, the world can begin exploring the possibility of immortality and resurrection as a technological achievement. I think it is scientifically possible, but I could be wrong about that.
5 (continued).As those communists achieve greater power to bring communism into existence, they will have to destroy the systems of oppression and that means battling with those who work to prevent the revolution.
December 15, 2024 at 12:32 AM
5 (continued).As those communists achieve greater power to bring communism into existence, they will have to destroy the systems of oppression and that means battling with those who work to prevent the revolution.
5. This is a long answer. I believe that humanity and especially those who are drawn towards the highest good for all living beings will someday triumph over the forces of oppression and domination to create a world of abundance and generosity for all, a global communism (aka kin-dom of God).
December 15, 2024 at 12:32 AM
5. This is a long answer. I believe that humanity and especially those who are drawn towards the highest good for all living beings will someday triumph over the forces of oppression and domination to create a world of abundance and generosity for all, a global communism (aka kin-dom of God).
4 (continued)
I don't believe God literally has thoughts or feelings like organic creatures. God is the Creative Good within all existence, ever-present to draw us toward our highest good.
I don't believe God literally has thoughts or feelings like organic creatures. God is the Creative Good within all existence, ever-present to draw us toward our highest good.
December 15, 2024 at 12:32 AM
4 (continued)
I don't believe God literally has thoughts or feelings like organic creatures. God is the Creative Good within all existence, ever-present to draw us toward our highest good.
I don't believe God literally has thoughts or feelings like organic creatures. God is the Creative Good within all existence, ever-present to draw us toward our highest good.
4. All Being is Divine. The infinite multiverse is powerful creative, abundant, and generous, but in ways that exceed human creativity, abundance, and generosity and thus, ...
December 15, 2024 at 12:32 AM
4. All Being is Divine. The infinite multiverse is powerful creative, abundant, and generous, but in ways that exceed human creativity, abundance, and generosity and thus, ...
3. I read the Bible with a historical-critical method that has been developing over centuries. I am a materialist in the philosophical sense, and I interpret the supernatural elements in the Bible as symbolic.
December 15, 2024 at 12:32 AM
3. I read the Bible with a historical-critical method that has been developing over centuries. I am a materialist in the philosophical sense, and I interpret the supernatural elements in the Bible as symbolic.
2, (continued)The Gospel stories of the Divine impregnating Mary were parodies or satires of these myths applied to the prophesied Messiah. They have symbolic and political meaning, but are not literally true.
December 15, 2024 at 12:32 AM
2, (continued)The Gospel stories of the Divine impregnating Mary were parodies or satires of these myths applied to the prophesied Messiah. They have symbolic and political meaning, but are not literally true.
2. The Virgin Birth is a myth invented by some ancient culture, but prominent in Greek and Roman religions. The Greco-Roman versions were specifically tied to kings and Emperors from Romulus to the Caesars, who were all called Sons of God and King of Kings.
December 15, 2024 at 12:32 AM
2. The Virgin Birth is a myth invented by some ancient culture, but prominent in Greek and Roman religions. The Greco-Roman versions were specifically tied to kings and Emperors from Romulus to the Caesars, who were all called Sons of God and King of Kings.