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So... unpacking Morrison's preaching on the public dime:
There's a fair chunk of the first 10-ish minutes that are issues for the more political commentators to chew through, so I will leave that for them. My interest is the more theological side of Morrison's sermon, https://twitter.com/BelindaJones68/status/1386293691698999300
There's a fair chunk of the first 10-ish minutes that are issues for the more political commentators to chew through, so I will leave that for them. My interest is the more theological side of Morrison's sermon, https://twitter.com/BelindaJones68/status/1386293691698999300
since that's my wheelhouse.
At around 4 minutes is where he talks about Jenny and how God has plans for her, which is interesting because the public sees next to nothing of her unless Morrison has dragged her out to be his meatshield after he's fucked up.
But going by
At around 4 minutes is where he talks about Jenny and how God has plans for her, which is interesting because the public sees next to nothing of her unless Morrison has dragged her out to be his meatshield after he's fucked up.
But going by
Morrison's gushing, she's really active within their church community when he's talking about how she's been working with a family who lost their three children. Obviously a family connected to the denominational group of churches they belong to, which makes one wonder:
What of other people who have faced tragedy? Aren't they good enough? It paints an image of just how exclusive Morrison's group is.
5-ish mins he starts talking about the book he's reading about morality written by Lord Jonathan Sacks, and when you think about the way people
5-ish mins he starts talking about the book he's reading about morality written by Lord Jonathan Sacks, and when you think about the way people
talk about religious writers, you often think of people who are fairly humble and lead a modest life. Sacks was very much not this, and there's a reason that Morrison gushes over his work.
1) Sacks was a hardline conservative who went so far as to call any progressive...
1) Sacks was a hardline conservative who went so far as to call any progressive...
movement in the Jewish community as harmful. Refused to back even civil unions for gay and lesbian couples, and referred to Rabbi Hugo Gryn (a holocaust survivor) as a destroyer of Judaism. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/leaked-letter-widens-schism-in-jewry-1272921.html
It's funny though, because if he were to use a Christian example or author for the particular points he's trying to make about community building and using your faith to connect beyond the walls of the church? 95% of them are going to be progressive authors like...
Dave Andrews, Ched Meyers, or Wes Howard Brook.
Christianity has this funny polarity where looking outward is almost always an outpouring of the gospel message. It's selfless. It's compassionate. It's gracious and humble. Conservatism in Christianity is a very inward-looking...
Christianity has this funny polarity where looking outward is almost always an outpouring of the gospel message. It's selfless. It's compassionate. It's gracious and humble. Conservatism in Christianity is a very inward-looking...
phenomenon that relies on boundaries of exclusion to keep the unclean or uninitiated out.
2) I say quite often that Pentecostals rely on the Old Testament more than the New Testament for their approach to Christianity so much so that I don't think they have actually *read* the
2) I say quite often that Pentecostals rely on the Old Testament more than the New Testament for their approach to Christianity so much so that I don't think they have actually *read* the
gospels. Morrison's reliance on a hardline conservative author to put his points forward? I laughed audibly and hard.
His whole point for the next ten minutes is about pushing his fellow Christians toward building communities based on morality... the same rigid morality and...
His whole point for the next ten minutes is about pushing his fellow Christians toward building communities based on morality... the same rigid morality and...
adherence to it that the temple priests imposed on the community, the same rigid morality that... funnily enough... Jesus was fucking livid over.
8 min: "we can't let what we're entitled to be more important than what we're responsible for"
This gives a hint to his moral
8 min: "we can't let what we're entitled to be more important than what we're responsible for"
This gives a hint to his moral
justifications for things like asylum seekers and robodebt: for Morrison, morality overrides rights. Morality overrides human rights. If Morrison has decided that something goes against *his* morality, then the rights of the supposed transgressor.
There's nothing of Jesus in this. It's so completely devoid of grace or forgiveness. It's Old Testament brutalism.
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