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Phil King
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Joyful Griever • Kingdom Believer • PhD Candidate in Theo. Ethics and Systematics at University of Aberdeen
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drempel.bsky.social
Exodus 1 tells the story of a foreign people growing in power and the ruling nation oppressing them out of fear of the other.

Let the reader understand.
Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. ' He said to his people, "Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land." "Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites. 13 The Egyptians became ruthless in imposing tasks on the Israelites, 4 and made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and brick and in every kind of field labor. They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them.
January 8, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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kevinhargaden.bsky.social
When I first left atheism behind, the biblical refrain to "fear God" was unsettling since why would we fear one who is love? In this age of Lidl-brand Caesars who think they can wage war with impunity, it has come to be among the easiest injunctions to understand in all of the Scriptures.
January 4, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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drempel.bsky.social
Read this:
December 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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richterscale.bsky.social
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
sardonicus.eu Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · Dec 10
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
a shot of a god botherer in a car, next to him on the passenger seat is a skull in an ornate box
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
philking.bsky.social
Pretty sure that this kind of interpretation would fail literally any basic Intro to the Bible class. Lord, have mercy...
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Dec 6
She compares the boat strikes to Jesus breaking the sabbath to heal someone.
Ms. Villalba said the second strike was also justified, and she does not believe the United States is indiscriminately targeting boats. "They should have done that strike regardless," she said. "Every human being does have value, but if you're caught up in something that's very detrimental to society, I think that you should die." She compared these strikes to a story in the Bible, when Jesus healed someone on a Sunday, contradicting religious rules that forbid work on that day. Some laws are worth breaking for the betterment of mankind, she said, just like the biblical story was trying to show.
December 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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drempel.bsky.social
Large language models? More like large loser models.
August 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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sharonk.bsky.social
or as Eagleton's comrade at Slant (McCabe) put it:

“If you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed.”
beijingpalmer.bsky.social BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Aug 9
"The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining to do [...] The traumatic truth of human history is a mutilated body. " - Terry Eagleton
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Aug 9
i'm deeply amused that thiel keeps trying to pass himself off as a evangelical in the valley when he says stuff like this

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August 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
philking.bsky.social
Huge news...may the good work continue...
August 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
philking.bsky.social
Just when I had come down from my rage earlier this week fighting ChatGPT, I have this appear on my feed...and my hate for this evil monstrosity is rekindled once more...
meakoopa.bsky.social Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · Jul 9
AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist
HOLY BIBLE Holy Bible © @Holy_Bible1 Follow Matthew 18:19 MATTHEW 18:19 "He prayed for her, she prayed for him and God smiled knowing that their names are already written next to each other."
July 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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jaredstacy.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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drempel.bsky.social
Asking residents for entry permission would ‘kill’ the home invasion industry
May 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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jaredstacy.bsky.social
“The role of the Christian in society is to shatter the false necessities and fatalities of violence.” — Jacques Ellul
May 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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kevinhargaden.bsky.social
I love @philipchristman.bsky.social's writing and the clarity of this piece is blinding: 'one of the clearest ways God says yes to Christians is when unjust authorities hate us.'

www.christiancentury.org/voices/revil...
Reviled for Jesus’ sake
One of the clearest ways God says yes to Christians is when unjust authorities hate...
www.christiancentury.org
May 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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religionprof.bsky.social
Assistant/Associate Professor in Systematic Theology at Dublin City University

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May 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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drempel.bsky.social
It’s perfect.
joles.bsky.social no. @joles.bsky.social · May 5
applying for jobs again
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
May 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
philking.bsky.social
Very proud of friend, old neighbour, and former classmate, Kat Armas, who penned the article His Holiness Leo XIV reposted some time ago...
May 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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meactnet.bsky.social
We are fighting for funding for the ME/CFS Research Roadmap.

We have a letter urging Dr. Bhattacharya to allocate $50 million to fund the ME/CFS Research Roadmap.

Sign our new letter now: bit.ly/MEcfsRoadmap

The more signatures we gather, the louder our call for action.

#PwME #MECFS #NIH
NIH building in the background in black and white with a yellowed/faded overlay. Text: SOS Fund the ME/CFS Roadmap.
May 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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kevinhargaden.bsky.social
I had heard that you can just make up a phrase, put it in inverted commas and add "meaning" to the query and Google "AI" will fantasize a definition and an entire cultural context. Vonnegut could not dream up shit and self-defeating as this.
Google's imagined response to a bland idiom I made up - "the wren gets the last word" - which involves a definition, a cultural context, and a note about the symbolic representation of a phrase that does not exist in Hiberno-English.
April 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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millervincent.bsky.social
Pope Francis wasn’t a “liberal.” His papacy can’t be understood with the liberal/conservative frame. He was pastoral in the model of a Jesuit spiritual director. The point of Christianity is a personal encounter with God in Jesus.
April 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
philking.bsky.social
Rest in Peace, and Rise in Glory, dear Francis
April 21, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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deandettloff.bsky.social
Pope Francis's Way of the Cross: "Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of Hell. God’s economy, on the other hand, does not kill, discard or crush. It is lowly, faithful to the earth."
You blessed the Father, who conceals his plans from the wise and the learned in order to reveal them to the little ones. Even the way of the cross is traced close to the earth. The mighty withdraw from it; they desire to grasp at heaven. Yet heaven is here below; it hangs low, and we can encounter it even when we fall flat on the ground. Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of Hell. God’s economy, on the other hand, does not kill, discard or crush. It is lowly, faithful to the earth. Your way, Jesus, is the way of the Beatitudes. It does not crush, but cultivates, repairs and protects. Let us pray, saying: May your kingdom come!
April 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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joelpierce.bsky.social
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HORAE CANONICAE
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April 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
philking.bsky.social
This statement from the WH giving off real Matt. 7:21-23 vibes...Lord have mercy...
April 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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collincornell.bsky.social
god hasn’t forgotten about you
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 15
Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."
April 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Please help us spread the word about our upcoming Gifford Lectures series! Free to attend and open to all. Sign up here: www.abdn.ac.uk/dhpa/events/...
A poster showing an image of Professor Miroslav Volf. The text reads: Gifford Lectures 2025. Miroslav Volf, Professor, Yale Divinity School/ Director: Yale Centre for Faith and Culture. Then the title of the lecture series: Amor Mundi: God and the Character of our Relation to the World. The dates are 12 May to 20 May. The image also displays the University of Aberdeen logo, and the Giffords logo.
April 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM