#ungit

[tomato-bird-art]

Why must holy spaces always be dark spaces?

(I reread Til We Have Faces and it is up there as one of my favorite books still…)

[babu-s]

Doesn't the whole land smell of her? Do you and I need to flatter gods any more? They're tearing us apart... oh, how shall I bear it? … and what worse can they do? Of course the Fox is wrong. He knows nothing about her. He thought too well of the world. He thought there were no gods, or else (the fool!) that they were better than men. It never entered his mind – he was too good – to believe that the gods are real, and viler than the vilest men.

Till we have faces - C.S. Lewis

[nocylipcowa]

the veiled queen, orual of glome

[seraphsfire]

“We are King’s daughters still.”

-Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis

[andrewgalbraith]

[6969420bc-blog]

jesus did ungit delete im going to CRY

[hellenicproblems]

ungit reblogged your photo: Hellenic Problems #128: When you realised...

Thank God(s) the ancient world wasn’t full of ‘social justice’ activists. Sure, they might throw

You're trolling, right?

Absence of evidence ≠ evidence of absence

I've no doubt that there was an equivalent of social justice activism in the ancient Mediterranean, but as the idiom goes, history is written by the victors --in other words, whoever conquers.  Furthermore, widespread literacy is a relatively recent addition to human history, as is the occupation of time with "causes" rather than things that need to be done; i've no doubt that the sentiment for social justice activism has more-or-less always existed in human history, but the time to "fight" for it, in various manner, is relatively new to human history, and relatively speaking, is only engaged by a handful of people in this world --those who are privileged by the luxury of spare time.

That said, kiddo, if you know about the brazen bull, then you should know it's got nothing to do with my image / comment about "cultural appropriation" or even the kind of "armchair activism" rampant on Tumblr; the only "evidence" that it was even used on the odd Christian martyr is, frankly, Christian convention --there's no evidence that the overwhelming majority of Christian martyrs even existed, at best, their characters, including their deaths, is something of legend, not history.  And seriously, Rome put up with a lot of her people, so the very notion that, even if the martyrs alleged to be brazen bulled really were, they surely did more than what Christian tradition claims (Eustathios, for example, is alleged to have been bulled for merely "refusing to sacrifice to pagan gods", as per my old Felician school; considering the facts I've learned since, I highly doubt it).  You've thoroughly missed the point to an extent I simply have to assume is intentional, because that degree of stupidity takes practise.