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[doseofdavis]

The original name is back.

The dose has returned.

[revelation19]

So question...if the end times have come and Joel 3 has been fulfilled where does that leave mankind? The way I tend to read scripture, especially the work of Christ, is that it keeps moving and working, Christ coming again within each of us in a way so that we may all bring about the New Heaven by allowing Christ to be present in the world again in us. Is that a valid way of reading the "Second Coming" or nahh?

It leaves us in the already/not yet. Between the two coming of Christ. So the “last days” speaks of the time in which the end of the ages has been inaugurated but not consummated. So there is a future coming of Christ, but it is not some apocalyptic scenario that leads up to his coming. When he comes back he comes in power and glory and all that, and history ends right there. He will consummate history and establish the New Heavens and the New Earth. Paul talks about a time when we will be with Christ in a way that we are not with him now, we will be with him in a fuller way, we will be with him physically and not just Spiritually as we are now. 

So it’s kind of yea and nahh. In the already sense, yeah that’s true, we experience the kingdom of God truly (spiritually.) In the not yet sense, not quite, because we will experience the kingdom of God fully when Christ returns and establishes his physical kingdom in the form of the New Heavens and the New Earth. 

[the-queer-queen-mother]

The Perfect Friday Night

-> Texting with CaliBoo -> Kiki with queerasfolkmusic -> Rearranging furniture -> Purging junk from my house -> Enjoying cupcakes & religion pun wine -> Netflix What more can a girl ask for??

[entanglingbriars]

How much do you know about paganism and how it's viewed in the realm of academia? I've been thinking about research interests since grad school is around the corner and neo-paganism has always stood out to me but I don't really know (aside from a couple google scholar searches) what's being done on it in the Religious Studies community. Thanks!

There’s a fair bit of pagan studies scholarship out there, but most of it’s done by neopagans, which is a bit problematic for a variety of reasons. I’m not sure what universities do the best/most work in the field.

[entanglingbriars]

What are your general thoughts on Movement Atheism as a belief system or a "religion" in it's own regard? I've heard some arguments for this stance out of academia recently (mainly around its organized style and that it follows leader and has become largely evangelical in a way). What are just your general ideas on this?

This is like my favorite thing to talk about ever. Anyway, I regard movement atheism as a religious movement, in the loosest sense of the word “religious,” of course; it has tenets related to the divine and supernatural generally agreed upon by its adherents, leaders, and even schisms. It functions, in other words, like innumerable other movements that we would call religious without hesitation.

I would say that the current movement is less evangelical than it used to be. A lot of its adherents used to think that religion was more or less the sole cause of racism, homophobia, and sexism and therefore thought that removing religion was the most efficient and effective way to destroy them. In light of the schism, I would say that most progressive movement atheists are less optimistic about the prospects of getting rid of religion making a better world and so have started to be more about community formation than evangelism. The libertarian wing is still fairly evangelical, but also frankly ineffective.

I highly recommend checking out my movement atheism tag for more info.