If I understand your question, the intellect is the default system. It takes charge,so it seems we must engage in practices that integrate the body, the intellect and the emotions. I hope that does justice to your important question.
There’s something in this that feels less like an argument and more like a mirror.
Not because it’s trying to prove anything, but because it quietly asks where surrender actually lives in our lives; not in language, not in identity, but in practice.
“Submission is the surrender of the false self.” That line stayed with me. Not as a statement about one tradition or another, but as something that cuts across all of them.
It’s easy to speak about faith in terms of protection, identity, or even defense. Much harder to sit with what it asks us to release.
And maybe that’s the part that gets lost; not what we believe, but what we’re willing to let go of in order to live it.
"Christian Nationalism cannot bear that kind of reminder because its own prayer life has often been reduced to territorial performance."
I think that is why the first response is anger when their beliefs are challenged. There is little substance behind the prayer life of the indoctrinated. It's all part of the circle to bring you back to obedience -- or submission.
I cannot get past this as far as law goes - I keep remembering from all the law shows on tv growing up, “do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?” And I think it is still said & grateful I’ve never had to personally witness it in court - but It was weird to me that they brought God into it but I was a kid so…..
I cannot get past this as far as the bottom line of Christianity goes, maybe because this was what my Lutheran minister/missionary grandfather took as the most important part of Christian belief: Jesus loved everybody. Follow his lead. That simple.
I see next to none of that in Christian Nationalism so I’m confused as hell.
Brilliant religious comparisons, truths, historical facts & some very necessary sprinkles of ironic humor in between. I want to memorize it just in case i stumble into a situation one of these days where my mind goes blank even though i know what’s being said & done is bullshit.
Please keep up the rare truth being spoken these days & LOVE the image of Virgin Monk Boy & the beautiful prayer I wish was never needed to be written but so glad it was. Printing away….
The intellect cannot say “i surrender”. Only the heart can do that
If I understand your question, the intellect is the default system. It takes charge,so it seems we must engage in practices that integrate the body, the intellect and the emotions. I hope that does justice to your important question.
There’s something in this that feels less like an argument and more like a mirror.
Not because it’s trying to prove anything, but because it quietly asks where surrender actually lives in our lives; not in language, not in identity, but in practice.
“Submission is the surrender of the false self.” That line stayed with me. Not as a statement about one tradition or another, but as something that cuts across all of them.
It’s easy to speak about faith in terms of protection, identity, or even defense. Much harder to sit with what it asks us to release.
And maybe that’s the part that gets lost; not what we believe, but what we’re willing to let go of in order to live it.
Stay entangled, my friend.
—The Bathrobe Guy
"Christian Nationalism cannot bear that kind of reminder because its own prayer life has often been reduced to territorial performance."
I think that is why the first response is anger when their beliefs are challenged. There is little substance behind the prayer life of the indoctrinated. It's all part of the circle to bring you back to obedience -- or submission.
I cannot get past this as far as law goes - I keep remembering from all the law shows on tv growing up, “do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?” And I think it is still said & grateful I’ve never had to personally witness it in court - but It was weird to me that they brought God into it but I was a kid so…..
I cannot get past this as far as the bottom line of Christianity goes, maybe because this was what my Lutheran minister/missionary grandfather took as the most important part of Christian belief: Jesus loved everybody. Follow his lead. That simple.
I see next to none of that in Christian Nationalism so I’m confused as hell.
Brilliant religious comparisons, truths, historical facts & some very necessary sprinkles of ironic humor in between. I want to memorize it just in case i stumble into a situation one of these days where my mind goes blank even though i know what’s being said & done is bullshit.
Please keep up the rare truth being spoken these days & LOVE the image of Virgin Monk Boy & the beautiful prayer I wish was never needed to be written but so glad it was. Printing away….
you have to ditch Amazon!
I'm sorry that that's all I commented. I thank you so much and appreciate your writings and really like this one as well!