Laugh With Rage

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There are a lot of things I want to say to Mark Driscoll.  Most of them would be spoken in anger, which probably doesn’t help.  But, I do wonder sometimes if he understands the great power that words have to cause harm and pain. Does he know how hurtful it can be to say to someone, your faith, your relationship with God, your place in the church are meaningless because you don’t believe these exact same things that I believe?

I believe in the salvific work of Christ. I strive to love people as Jesus first loved me. I find joy in the Good News and comfort in the Psalms. I love nothing more than to sing the praises of my God. I seek justice and love my neighbor as myself. I have turned the other cheek. I have challenged piety to eat with sinners. I believe that I was beautifully and wonderfully made in God’s own image. I have taken up my cross; I have walked in the footsteps of my Savior. I have studied theology for nearly a decade. I have wrestled with scripture and sought truth. I pray with every fiber of my being, that one day, I can stand before my God and hear Him say, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”

How can you, who knows nothing of my journey, who knows nothing about my faith say that I am not a Christian? I will do my best not to judge your relationship with Jesus, please treat me with the same courtesy.

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powells:

“That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating on anything is very hard work.”


- David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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If I hear one more time, about a fool’s right to his tools of rage, I’m going to take all my friends and move to Canada, where we can die of old age.
Ani, to the teeth