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Anyone wanna guess which fic is mine?
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Thought of the Day re: abuse in churches
When the importance of hierarchy and order is paramount in a worldview or an organisation, then abuse or injury caused by those in the hierarchy, operating under "the proper order of things" is unimportant or dismissable because the hierarchy and order are being upheld by the execution of power and that is what is deemed most important.
eg. An abused wife or family in a hard-complementarian church doesn't matter to that church because the chiefest thing is that the hierarchy and order (which said church claims is ordained by God) is being upheld, and that is God's Good Order Of Creation which is more important than an individual (or collective) being hurt.
For me, the counter to this is "and He shall wipe every tear from their eyes" - intimacy, compassion, tenderness from power and might and glory. El Roi, Hagar named Him; One Who Sees: a divinity who inspired John 3:16, who took on flesh and suffering so he could walk alongside us. A God who sees, who does not turn His back, would demand both individual responsibility for those hurts committed by the individual and collective responsibility for the pain we inflict as a culture, society, community, or group.
It's just a thought.
(thank you Beau of the Fifth Column for putting that phrase out there)
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Lot of religious stuff happening around my sections of the internet. Revival in Ashbury, KY. He Gets Us campaign during the Superbowl. Australian federal laws shifting around 'Freedom of Religion'.
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In personally ginormous news: I am contemplating looking for another church. Haven't started the search, but just contemplating at this stage.
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Oh, and it looks like work maaaaay have shifted back to 'only talk about things if you have something that needs someone else's attention'. Today's meeting took less than 15 minutes! UNHEARD OF.
candyheartsex gifts yet - so sorry, creators o' mine! Looking forward to it, 100%!Anyone wanna guess which fic is mine?
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Thought of the Day re: abuse in churches
When the importance of hierarchy and order is paramount in a worldview or an organisation, then abuse or injury caused by those in the hierarchy, operating under "the proper order of things" is unimportant or dismissable because the hierarchy and order are being upheld by the execution of power and that is what is deemed most important.
eg. An abused wife or family in a hard-complementarian church doesn't matter to that church because the chiefest thing is that the hierarchy and order (which said church claims is ordained by God) is being upheld, and that is God's Good Order Of Creation which is more important than an individual (or collective) being hurt.
For me, the counter to this is "and He shall wipe every tear from their eyes" - intimacy, compassion, tenderness from power and might and glory. El Roi, Hagar named Him; One Who Sees: a divinity who inspired John 3:16, who took on flesh and suffering so he could walk alongside us. A God who sees, who does not turn His back, would demand both individual responsibility for those hurts committed by the individual and collective responsibility for the pain we inflict as a culture, society, community, or group.
It's just a thought.
(thank you Beau of the Fifth Column for putting that phrase out there)
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Lot of religious stuff happening around my sections of the internet. Revival in Ashbury, KY. He Gets Us campaign during the Superbowl. Australian federal laws shifting around 'Freedom of Religion'.
--
In personally ginormous news: I am contemplating looking for another church. Haven't started the search, but just contemplating at this stage.
--
Oh, and it looks like work maaaaay have shifted back to 'only talk about things if you have something that needs someone else's attention'. Today's meeting took less than 15 minutes! UNHEARD OF.