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opisrussianonmain:

realsadjewishhours:

Last original post for the day (sorry, I just have so much to say and add on to concerning conversations jumblr has had before I created this account)

But let’s talk about “Christian culture”

You know how you hear Christianized atheists try and say they “aren’t Christian/Christianized because you know they don’t believe in G-d”

And we, as religious minorities in the west, have to explain that that’s not how this works.

This is the problem with seeing religion as “just religion” and not a whole entire culture.

Ive seen secular people wear crosses (upside or downside doesn’t matter)

I’ve seen secular people say “Merry Christmas” and celebrate Christmas or celebrate Halloween

I’ve seen secular people give “something up for Lent” because “they need to be more healthy”

I’ve seen atheist people dress up as Jesus or the Christian European version of what people think G-d “looks like” or dress up to what Christians think the devil looks like

I’ve seen atheist LITERALLY GO TO CHRISTIAN PRIVATE school (source: me, I was the atheist that went to Christian school. Before you ask, no my mom was agnostic she had no interest in Christianity but saw it as better education and other reasons)

I’ve seen secular workers complain about how they don’t have Easter/Christmas off because you know, “everyone has off those time”

I’ve seen atheists literally trying to prostelyze their lack of religious beliefs to others.

I’ve seen many Christianized secular/atheist people do things that are inherently from Christianity or Christian centric, you know why?

Because, as religious minorities stress, religion IS NOT just “religion” something you can shed once you stop believing in it.

It is a CULTURE (especially ethnoreligions)

If you’re an atheist who was born into a Christian society, community, or family you do things you don’t EVEN realize stem from Christianity.

You will never ever be able to divorce yourself from that narrative.

ex-Christians who convert to another religion (like me) have incredible trouble already erasing and unlearning Christianized behavior. And some behaviors we may never unlearn

So it’s no wonder, that ex-Christian atheists are the same, in fact worse when it comes to Christianization. Many secular and atheists spaces in the west are in fact, Christianized, and have no want to unlearn Christianized behaviors. So many of you stop being religious and suddenly think “I’m not Christian anymore”

When that is not how it works

Christianized secular/atheist folk please realize: you can never EVER stop being christianized and that your form of secularity is in fact thriving and hasn’t been oppressed (at least compared to other religious minorities) for a long long time.

Sorry I had to be the one to explain to you that you benefit from other religious minorities oppression not because your secular but because you’re Christianized secular.

@attackfish

As an ex-Christian and Christianized atheist I can say 100% this is true in my case. It’s actually very interesting to observe all the ways I am culturally and spiritually Christian in my thinking. There’s nothing inherently wrong with being Christianized, but it is wrong to deny your own influences and gaslight religious minorities about the unthinking cultural dominance you assert over them. In the Western context this seems to be another case of cultural/religious privilege, in that people who are part of the dominant culture don’t have to think about their cultural influences and assume they are some kind of nonexistent “neutral” default.

It really is time for the Jedi to end

lj-writes:

Morality, Trust, and the Force–toward a new model of Force instruction

What went so fatally wrong with the Jedi Order?

It’s a recurring and fundamental question. Through the prequel, original, and now sequel trilogies we’ve watched the Jedi Order fall, rise, and then fall again. Unless they can end this cycle the end of Episode IX won’t be an end, but rather a prelude to a new tragedy.

I believe the old Jedi Order’s reliance on inborn Force power became warped into blood worship in Luke’s new Jedi Order, and Kylo Ren was a product of this repugnant and ahistorical belief. To overcome the mistakes of the old and new Orders, a new model of Force instruction must arise: One that does not rely on inborn talent and certainly not on the nonsensical idea that a lineage confers a special destiny or rights. Rather the new model must recognize and nurture the Force powers inherent in everyone, and instruction itself should be a horizontal process where the students teach each other.

Below I will lay out these ideas in more detail. First I will explain the progression from the old Jedi Order to the new one, and how discontinuity in history led to Luke’s mistakes and Kylo Ren. Then I will lay out the new model that I believe must take the Jedi’s place in order to prevent new Kylo Rens from arising, or at least minimize their damage, while also avoiding the mistakes of the old Jedi Order.

Keep reading

The TLJ novelization seems to validate part of what I said here about Luke’s role. From Snoke’s point of view:

Luke, in other words, knew that the Jedi were flawed and he needed to turn to sources older than the Jedi to understand the Force and perhaps seek other ways to organize around it. Snoke saw this path Luke was on as such a threat that he used his knowledge and a young Ben Solo to manipulate Luke into rebuilding the Jedi.

Much like the history of the Jedi itself, Luke’s attempt to rebuild the Order was defined by fear and temptation, not faith–fear of his nephew falling to the Dark Side, and the lure of power. In doing so Luke seems to have abandoned his earlier attempts to seek the origins of the Force faith that Snoke found so threatening. History repeated itself, and the Jedi came down again in blood and fire.

Luke did take another apprentice, however, who received barely any instruction from him other than the basics of the Force, the roots that Luke had been seeking before Snoke’s interference and sought out again when Kylo Ren destroyed his fledgling Academy. In addition to these basics, Rey also has the first Jedi texts which Finn discovered in the Millennium Falcon. It seems the stage is set to realize Luke’s original vision for a new/old way of Force instruction, the one he was groping toward before Snoke distracted him.

Imagine a Ben Solo who was always dark. A Ben Solo who was afraid and fascinated by the dark at the same time, all his life, and it was just a matter of which one won out in the end. A Ben Solo following in the footsteps of Momin and Sidious rather than Anakin Skywalker. A Ben Solo whose goodness was always nothing but the absence of evil.

I think the Sith Lord he most closely resembles is Darth Sidious anyway.

Like I get why reyl0s refuse to acknowledge the torture scene is mind rape but its still jarring to see a bunch of so called english majors denying such an obvious parallel. He tells her he can take whatever he wants and then forces his way into her mind, it ain’t subtle. And the way they insist JJ’s quote is debunked is so gross. Yes technically we don’t have a direct quote from JJ but why would that poor women who’s dying husband got an early screening have made that up??

Just like a translator on a Chinese entertainment website would jeopardize their job by making up a fake anti Reylow quote by Daisy, a grieving widow would totally lie about JJ’s words for no reason whatsoever. That’s how dedicated we anti reylows are!