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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof Feb 5
      Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and

      as an aside, it's interesting to watch the local antisemite approach the talmud the way that evangelicals approach their bible namely, by pulling random badly-translated quotes out of context and then pondering "their inner meaning" or whatever

      3 replies 4 retweets 58 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 5
      Replying to @perdricof @iridienne and

      Evangelicals don't even actually read the Bible They're, and I cannot emphasize this enough as a former evangelical, so fucking stupid

      3 replies 7 retweets 69 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 5
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and

      The Christian Bible as a whole isn't *that* long a book if it's your one sacred text that you're supposed to spend your whole life studying and basing your sense of morality and ethics on But for years I was like the only person I knew who could say I'd "read the whole Bible"

      2 replies 4 retweets 42 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 5
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and

      Forcing you to make it through the whole Bible in one year was this challenge my church's Bible study set for everyone that most people frankly didn't even bother to pretend not to cheat through Reading an individual book of the Bible *as a book*, straight through, is haaaard

      5 replies 4 retweets 37 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 5
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and

      The primary way evangelicals "read" the Bible, as prooftexts in fortune-cookie snippet form, is such total utter bullshit It's the most disrespectful thing you can do to any text, much less a "sacred" one

      3 replies 7 retweets 44 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 5
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and

      In hindsight I'm so actively angry at the kind of shit they did to indoctrinate us in Sunday school "Sword drills" (based on the Word of God being the "sword of the Spirit" in Ephesians 6:17) where you just rote memorized Bible verses as a challenge to get candy

      5 replies 2 retweets 28 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 5
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and

      And it's not even the rote memorization that gets me It's that it's an *arbitrary list of verses collated by the teacher* Random one-line snippets from a dozen different documents written hundreds of years apart in wildly different contexts that all contain the word "love"

      1 reply 2 retweets 27 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 5
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and

      Like oh my fucking God Out in the secular world we talk about people who buy books of quotable quotes and just memorize "quotes about the brutality of war" to bust out and sound cool instead of ever actually reading the whole book the quote came from

      1 reply 1 retweet 21 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 5
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and

      Well they were raising whole generations of kids to be that kind of shallow dumb asshole, about their most "sacred" text Because they actively discourage you genuinely thinking and asking questions about what the books mean instead of accepting what the pastor says they mean

      2 replies 4 retweets 29 likes
    10. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof Feb 5
      Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and

      chrissy stroop talks a bit about this--this thing that outsiders misunderstand about evangelical culture--that it's not ideological (in the way that, say, your meeting of local marxist-leninists might be ideological) but authoritarian

      2 replies 2 retweets 19 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 5
      Replying to @perdricof @iridienne and

      The sales pitch for the radical, Zwinglian end of the Protestant Reformation was "every man his own priest", that the tyrannical authority of the hierarchy to interpret Scripture on everyone's behalf would be broken in favor of radical individualism and democracy

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 5
          Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and

          This, of course, did not actually happen, because every individual Christian spending their life studying the Bible and deciding what it means on their own, aspirational an ideal as it may be, is not practical

          4 replies 1 retweet 10 likes
        3. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein Feb 5
          Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and

          Yeah. But it did largely mean that anyone who *wanted* to could, it just turned out that not many people really wanted to.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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        2. Dr. NerdLove‏Verified account @DrNerdLove Feb 5
          Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and

          This is an area where my wife — who was a medieval historian by training and education — grouses a LOT. The Catholic Church may have been authoritarian on the interpretation of the Bible but they also were honest researchers and historians.

          1 reply 1 retweet 15 likes
        3. Dr. NerdLove‏Verified account @DrNerdLove Feb 5
          Replying to @DrNerdLove @arthur_affect and

          It wasn't just "the Bible is this because we say so", it was centuries of "Ok, you're going to learn to read in the original languages so you can understand the early documents AND understand the context under which this was written if you're going to be a biblical scholar."

          0 replies 1 retweet 17 likes
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