Futterbinger [he/him, they/them]

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Cake day: July 28th, 2020

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  • I heard somebody say once that evangelicals don't believe Christianity is the last best hope for America, they believe America is the last best home for Christianity. I think that put it into perspective for me. That while some American Christians, nominally Catholics, will somewhat acknowledge some other parts of the world as being Christian, or having a population of Christians, Evangelicals do not believe this. For evangelicals The only time Christians exist outside of America is when they're oppressed minorities in China, or middle eastern Christians being beheaded by isis. Evangelicals have made American civil religion part of Christianity much in the way pagan festivals were co-opted by early Christians to ease conversion.






  • The Ilyad from Homer's perspective is a story from an ancient civilization. They Mycinean culture that had existed in that part of the Mediterranean collapsed during the bronze age collapse. Homer lived in a period called the Greek dark ages. The Ilyad is about a culture several hundred years older (and more advanced) than the culture in which Homer lived.

    The video might mention this idk I didn't watch the whole thing.