Michael LaFond
@michaellafond
Anthropologist, religious scholar. History fiend. #writer 🚫DM's booksoncomputer.com "The Conspiracy of the Christ: A Memoir of Gnosis, History, the Secrets of Christianity, and Carlos Castaneda." amazon.com/dp/B0DS1KXWXS
Why did the Gospels not plainly state the theology of Jesus? Jesus himself said that he withheld understanding from the crowds. Secret meaning is an inherent element of the Gospels, and an obvious purpose of parables. The real meaning of Christianity was a secret.
The modern world works against spiritual enlightenment in an insidious manner. By creating psychological insecurity, people are forced to crave certainty. However, spiritual knowledge requires an open mind and sensitivity to what is beyond the senses.
Why do you think that the theology of Jesus was not explicit in the Gospels? It was a secret, in part, because some would find it blasphemous. No, there is no simple scriptural quote to make understanding easy. That's why it has taken most of my life.
Do you want to know what Christianity was really about? #booksky #history #Jesus #Christianity
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Trump will send ICE and military to intimidate voters. He will also order them to grab the ballots, disrupting the chain of custody. If protests get loud, he will invoke the Insurrection Act. While you talk about "legal authority," he will grab absolute power. With guns.
That depends on which democratic socialist you mean. Some absolutely want to do those things. I know them well.
We should join together to be more powerful. We should not split our power to be purer and more isolated, feckless perfection.
We need to get corporate money out of politics completely. That said, we are going to need corporate money to win this time. We are going to a gunfight, so we might actually need a gun.
NOT for people protecting their faith. NOT for people against faith. ONLY for people seeking truth without prejudice. #book #history #Jesus #Christianity
Trump promises that, if we let him be dictator, he will not hurt many of us.
All authors get rejections to queries. How do I handle my rejections? I query many agents at once, so each rejection is not so important, and I am hoping on many more replies. By the time my queries are all rejected, I have foreseen it and moved on to other things. Fail well. 😆 #writing
It's time. Democrats should run on Medicare For All, BMI, free childcare, and education. The oligarchs are happy enough.
That's good. I just find tedious all the trashing of Jeffries and Schumer. They play the cards they have. If we want better play, then give them better cards. We live in a fascist country, but now we are impatient for change. I feel it.
I am a rabble-rouser. I rouse rabbles. paraphrasing CJ Cregg, The West Wing.