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"The legal scholar Robert Cover famously wrote: “For every constitution there is an epic, for each decalogue a #scripture.” What he meant is that central legal texts like the American Constitution or the Ten Commandments never stand alone as authoritative collections of law. The stories we tell about them — how they came to be and why they are authoritative — are an essential part of accepting, interpreting and living by them.

This week’s #Torah portion begins the final book of the Torah, a series of parting speeches #Moses makes to the #Jewish people before they enter the land of #Israel. With this speech, Moses provides a framing narrative to link the laws of the Torah with the story of the Jewish journey."

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My Jewish LearningLaw and Story | My Jewish LearningThe legal scholar Robert Cover famously wrote: “For every constitution there is an epic, for each decalogue a scripture.” What ...
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Christians find profound hope and belief in redemption, love, and eternal hope because their worldview centers on the existence of a benevolent God who actively intervenes in the world and offers salvation, contrasting sharply with atheist philosophies that can lead to nihilism (the belief that life is meaningless), amorality (the rejection of moral principles), and zero-sum games (where one person's gain is another's loss).

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William Lindsey :toad:

“Told again and again that they are the dominant sex, created to rule over and have dominion over not just women but the earth, the land, its animals, and all things on earth—it's often a rude awakening for young, white Christian men when they enter the world and find that most created things are not interested in being ruled over by them.”

~ Ibid., p. 48

#Christianity #race #masculinity #gender #whitechristiannationalism #AngelaDenker #bible #scripture
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William Lindsey :toad:

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"On first read, maybe you'd think that means we're taught that we look like God. But ‘no one has ever seen God,’ so when you learn that you're created in God's image—as most young, white Christian boys and men have learned—then it makes sense that you think, ‘God must look like me.’”

~ Ibid., quoting John 1:18

#Christianity #race #masculinity #gender #whitechristiannationalism #AngelaDenker #bible #scripture
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William Lindsey :toad:

“Many white American Christians are pretty sure they know what God looks like. Most of us won't really say it explicitly, of course: that would invite critique and the possibility that one of our most closely held but unexamined truths could be exposed as false. But most of us heard growing up that we were created in God's image."

~ Ibid., p 43

#Christianity #race #masculinity #gender #whitechristiannationalism #AngelaDenker #bible #scripture
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My favorite scripture, and qualities worth celebrating:

"...the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law." -Galatians 5:22-2

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