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sorry i just need to brag abt my boyfriend real quick.... if anybody gets it its u guys. he's gonna be a pastor, for valentine's day he engraved me a necklace with a verse from the gospel of john in his handwriting bc he thinks it summarizes my faith best... he read the brothers karamazov bc i told him that it's my favorite book.. he prays w me before we eat, he loves his mom, he's kind to animals....

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the brothers karamazov, fyodor dostoyevsky

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Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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“Jesus was not sent by God to die in order to appease a violent deity, nor did he defeat the powers by dying on the cross. his death was not an atoning sacrifice or a way of bringing a scapegoat mechanism to light. It was a political murder meant to sow terror and to undermine hope. His violent death exposes the domination system as oppressive and violent. His resurrection challenges the ultimate power of the system and invites us to be people of God here and now where oppressive systems remain powerful and must be challenged. Jesus teaches us how to live and shows us the risks of living God’s compassion in an unjust world.”

— Walter Wink, The Human Being (via queertheology)

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― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun.

— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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my contributions to the same bible at 19 years old & 2 years old

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This Sudanese woman, now a 1300 year old mummy, has the monogram of St. Michael tattooed on her thigh.

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kom ombo temple (47 BCE) / subway hands (2021, 2023) / persepolis, iran (330 BCE)

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Emma Kisiel holds a bachelor of fine arts with an emphasis in photography from the University of Colorado Denver. “At Rest” is a photographic series depicting roadkill on American highways and addressing our human fear of confronting death and viewing the dead. Kisiel’s images draw attention to the fact that, while man has a vast impact on animal and natural life, dominant American religions insist that animals do not have a place in Heaven and are, therefore, of little value in our society. To cause the viewer to feel struck by this truth, Kisiel photographs memorials she builds surrounding roadkill at the location at which its life was taken. “At Rest” expresses the sacredness to the bodies of animals accidentally hit by vehicles while crossing the road.

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“If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things saved by love.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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Agony is Christianity’s normal climate. Everybody dies in this religion, even God, as if there were not enough corpses already and time weren’t the slaughterhouse of the universe!

Emil Cioran, Tears and Saints, tr. Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston

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— Not So. Not So., Anne Sexton. From The Awful Rowing Toward God.

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i'm fucking jumping

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The Seventh Seal (1957) Ingmar Bergman

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he just gets it