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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2017-11-21

"If I had been in her place, which would be harder for me to believe? The part about being knocked up by God and giving birth to a king? Or the part where the angel said, I was favored? I mean, if an angel came to me and said, 'Greetings, favored one,' I'd be like, 'You've got the wrong girl.' There's no way I would trust that the angel meant me. You know, since I've never managed to have my life look the way the youth minister implied it should in order to earn God's favor.

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"When Stephen asked, 'How would my life be different if I was not scared and really believed I was loved?' I was reminded of the youth pastor's similar, yet completely different question. One question had to do with trusting God's love; the other had to do with trying to become worthy of God's love.

"There is a reason Mary is everywhere. I've seen her image all over the world, in cafés in Istanbul, on students' backpacks in Scotland, in a market stall in Jakarta, but I don't think her image is everywhere because she is a reminder to be obedient, and I don't think it has to do with social revolution. Images of Mary remind us of God's favor. Mary is what it looks like to believe that we already are who God says we are."

-- Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People (2015)

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posted by [personal profile] khatru at 08:54pm on 2017-11-21
In the methodist church where my kids played handbells (because the handbell director was my best friend since childhood, not because they were there for church), I usually went to the Christmas service cause it's a big thing they play in. (sometimes I take video on my then camera/now phone.) One year I had a SPLITTING MIGRAINE, and was pushing through with package wrapping etc, and decided that no, I'd not gone to any of their rings all year, I'd go to this one, be good mom. When we got there, there were 2 seats left, right in front. As the participants filed in, we found that the two chairs just behind hte altar rail were for the trumpets. So I not only got to stand there with a bleed out the ears migraine listening to shrilly bells, but to have my brain blasted with the trumpets.

This is all leadup to explain why I spent the ENTIRE SERVICE snarking on just about every sentence by the minister. "And the angel said unto Mary--" (did she have to sit through trumpets too? It shows that in the paintings) "blessed are you," (blah blah) "will bear the son of god" (Right. You never hear about the dozens who said, "fuck that noise, you gotta be kidding me, hell no") "they went to bethlehem" (she'd better have been riding sidesaddle) But there was no room at the inn so they made do with the manger ("AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!! (*running screaming*)")...

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posted by [personal profile] flwyd at 02:48am on 2017-11-22
I've always figured that there are images of Mary everywhere because imagery is a powerful way to connect to the mother goddess, and Mary is one of the best-known mother goddesses in the world.
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