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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I just started reading the new book by my friend @collincornell.bsky.social (name drop!) He thoroughly critiques a model that never really resonated with me - reading the Bible like an unfolding start-to-finish drama - and presents a non-linearized "geometric" concept. Worth a read! a.co/d/56QTHxh

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God Draws Near: Rethinking the Biblical Theology of Mission

God Draws Near: Rethinking the Biblical Theology of Mission [Collin Cornell] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. God Draws Near: Rethinking the Biblical Theology of Mission

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Yes. I have told many aspiring grad students that they should pursue a PhD if they want to try to tailor their career to be a specialist rather than generalist. But not for money or prestige or anything like that.

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

White supremacy and sexism!

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Yes, the Bible describes this, and for sure, ancient people believed evil spirits come on people. Now, I don't believe evil spirits are real, but that's a tangent to the discussion. Dumb choices, bigoted foolishness, and superstition (all of which perpetuate the Jezebel trope) are still widespread!

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

"Biblical model" is subjective. The Bible is full of evil spirits coming on people. "The spirit of" is used metaphorically, frequently. And naming occurs as in "the spirit of the Egyptians within them" [רוּחַ־מִצְרַיִם - Is. 19:3] could be read metaphorically or literally as a supernatural influence.

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Pentecostals commonly name spirits to describe unwanted behaviors, invoking a Biblical model: Rev. 2:20 "But I have this against you: you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet and is teaching and beguiling my servants to practice fornication and to eat food sacrificed to idols."

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Hey corporate America, this is what you want? If he decides he doesn’t like the name “Goldman Sachs” will you change it? What about law firm names? Suppose Trump wants you to drop the names of certain founding partners? When is it enough?

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Trump is now calling for the deportation of American citizens. This is fascism

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Trying to imagine Hitler and Goebbels preening for photos at a concentration camp, wearing stupid little hats like these.

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Non-Jewish Zionist Trump Supporters: America should support Israel, not tell it how to run itself. Trump: Nope. I get to meddle in Israel's internal affairs.

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Ruin a book’s title by replacing one word with butthole: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Buttholes

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Pretty interesting to read about other historical periods when Christianity became a tool of the state (or the Empire) in service of advancing the state (or Empire).

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

""God” then was not a one-sized-fits-all category either within or across cultures. The prototypical anthropomorphic masters of the universe certainly qualify as deities but so do a host of other things that today we might hesitate to call animate, let alone divine." anetoday.org/god-ancient-...

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What is a God in the Ancient Near East? - The Ancient Near East Today

What is a god? While the question is simple enough, the answer depends on context and perspective.

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

No evidence Paul thought of himself as a "Christian" (I'm more of a Paul within Judaism guy). But that aside, the first generation of Jesus people thought they were the last generation and didn't anticipate their movement adapting/evolving for 2,000 years. Discipline and polity practices correspond.

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I tend to agree with @mpgphd.bsky.social. I argue that there is an ideological, theological Christianity, the Catholic Church, and its institutionalized version - one could get excommunicated from that. Practically there is Christianity as a socio-religious construct including Christian Nationalism.

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I wonder what dirt Netanyahu has on Trump to escalate from status quo proxy support to direct military action.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

"At Downey Memorial Christian church on Thursday, officers reportedly arrested a man in the parking lot then pointed a gun at senior pastor Tanya Lopez..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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‘To not speak out is to be complicit’: LA faith leaders mobilize amid Ice raids

Since federal agents descended on the city, faith leaders have rallied congregants, protested and devoted resources to serve immigrants

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Far past time to accept that there's nothing magical there...no magic ever-pure barrel to spoil. CCM isn't safer than any other genre, and evangelicals shouldn't be trusted more than anyone else.

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Apart from deaths like famine, war, or infant mortality rates, I can't even fabricate a scenario where I care about falling US birthrates.

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

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Robert P. Jones @robertpjones.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

BREAKING @prri.org poll. My disturbing take: It’s virtually impossible to write a survey question about the treatment of immigrants that is too brutal for Republicans to support. 1) 8 in 10 Republicans support renditions of immigrants to foreign prisons without due process. prri.org/spotlight/ne...

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New PRRI Poll: Six in Ten Americans Oppose Exporting Undocumented Immigrants to Foreign Prisons Without Due Process

Under the Trump administration, immigration enforcement has taken an unprecedented turn as immigrants, including asylum seekers and individuals with legal protections, are now being transferred to…

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/06/2025

The L.A. protesters have really gone too far this time… 🌼

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I strongly oppose Israel’s attacks against Iran and Iran’s attacks against Israel. Both endanger civilians and risk all-out war. If you’re like my opponents and only condemning one side, I hope you find a spine and some moral clarity.

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

REMINDER: Black ppl are ✨so✨ intrinsic to this [fucked-up] U.S. society, our decision to intentionally abstain from these street-level protests of racist fascism—which, mind you, is counter-intuitive to most of us—is SAVING the nation from the Martial Law of Project 2025. Follow for more reminders!

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Dem strategy: cross fingers and wait for enough voters to get tired of MAGA by the time the next election rolls around.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Robert E. Lee and his men killed over 110,000 US Army soldiers. Here's why that same Army must rename its military bases after him. by Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth

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David W. Swanson @davidwswanson.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The White House and Homeland Security recently promoted a graphic made by white supremacists describing immigrants & migrants as "foreign invaders" and urging people to turn them in. This administration continues to make its goals plain. Believe them and act accordingly. HT @dbernstein.bsky.social

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Rick Pidcock @rickpidcock.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The question we need to consider isn’t so much, “Why did white evangelicals choose to embrace Trump?” It’s, “Why did Trump think he could attract white evangelicals?”

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I think it is an important thing for a translator to clearly note. For example, when trying to understand the source/context of the household codes in chapter 5 or the spiritual forces section in chapter 6.

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"You can't do that" to the private business while renaming government facilities paid for by tax dollars in honor of Confederate slavers.

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Rasool Berry @rasoolberry.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

due process. freedom of speech. meritocracy over nepotism balance of power in govt Competent Leadership Science based health guidance foreign policy based on US interest academic freedom. non-retaliatory govt Court rulings being followed just a few things i used to take for granted in the US

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

How much trouble could have been avoided if this framework for reading scripture had been taken more seriously. Don't assume every story, good, bad, or ugly, is a literal record or is intended to be taken literally.

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

"Hey, Grok. Answer the following questions in the communication style of Elon Musk" is apparently now the default setting.

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I know I'm not unique in saying I've had to change my relationship with church because of this. The failure rate is unacceptable.

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Makes me think of Jack Nicholson's character in As Good as it Gets.

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 05/06/2025

Here it is: Musk thinks he is owed a say in Trump’s policy because of how much he spent on the campaign.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

With the country descending into fascism, it's the perfect time for me to plug my new book on the left's cancel culture problem.

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Yep, that's a real thing. Especially if there's a backstory about the property being redeemed for God.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

not trying to entirely absolve voters of their culpability here but at some point people in the media also need to reckon with why so many voters didn’t know that donald trump was planning to deport moms.

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I really like this introduction to the book of Job as explained by Maimonides. I wish I had read it earlier in life. "This fiction, however, is in so far different from other fictions that it includes profound ideas and great mysteries, removes great doubts, and reveals the most important truths."

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

"Limited government" isn't what they said it would be.

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I'd guess it's a progression. In order for fascism to truly take root with racist or classist ideology, I think they'd need to uproot and purge opposition first so that the party ideology becomes indistinct from national identity. They're dabbling by going after DEI, but it isn't mature.

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Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

“Look, here's burial sites all over the place. These are all white farmers that are being buried,” Donald Trump said during today’s White House meeting with South Africa’s president. The image he was holding up, however, is of the Democratic Republic of Congo. www.barrons.com/news/trump-d...

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Trump Displays DRC Visual As Proof Of South African 'Genocide'

US President Donald Trump brandished a stack of printed articles at the White House Wednesday that he claimed documented a genocide taking place against white people in South Africa.

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Guys the whole point of authoritarianism is being above and beyond the law which is why it attracts "lawless" individuals such as Noem. Habeus corpus is an annoyance for authoritarians.

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