This is a valid point that about zero attention is given to. Just saying.
#CircumcisionScar #JayJJackson #JayJacksonFeldman #audiobook #busbook #religion #indoctrination #religiousfreedom #righttonotbechristian #sexism #misandry #misogyny #equality
This is a valid point that about zero attention is given to. Just saying.
#CircumcisionScar #JayJJackson #JayJacksonFeldman #audiobook #busbook #religion #indoctrination #religiousfreedom #righttonotbechristian #sexism #misandry #misogyny #equality
To be honest, I‘m not sure this is actually possible for anyone who has been taught that their way is the only way, and to question their way, is to choose evil.
Just think about it.
#CircumcisionScar #JayJJackson #JayJacksonFeldman #audiobook #busbook #religion #indoctrination #religiousfreedom #righttonotbechristian
I‘ve known so many parents - catholic, protestant, conservative, liberal - who hold this belief. I just don‘t get it. I didn‘t get it as a kid. I sure as hell don‘t get it now.
#CircumcisionScar #JayJJackson #JayJacksonFeldman #audiobook #busbook #religion #indoctrination #religiousfreedom #righttonotbechristian
I‘ve always had a hard time with the complete truth of the Bible, honestly. I enjoyed the stories as a child, but I never thought they were actually real. I think that was the biggest culture shock when we moved to Texas. Almost everyone there believes the Bible is 100% true, cover to cover, and 100% right. 🤢
#CircumcisionScar #JayJJackson #JayJacksonFeldman #audiobook #busbook #religion #indoctrination #religiousfreedom #righttonotbechristian
Also this! If it‘s SO AWESOME being American, if it‘s SO AWESOME being christian, if it‘s SO AWESOME being whatever your religion is, what‘s will all the crap behaviour?
#CircumcisionScar #JayJJackson #JayJacksonFeldman #audiobook #busbook #religion #indoctrination #religiousfreedom #righttonotbechristian
I know this is actually about the American obsession with circumcision (just think of the phrase “clean cut”), but it certainly applies to other things in this day and age - I‘m sure that wasn‘t lost on the author.
#CircumcisionScar #JayJJackson #JayJacksonFeldman #audiobook #busbook #religion #indoctrination #religiousfreedom #righttonotbechristian
I‘ve always thought this. I was raised in a catholic family, much like the author, and anytime I brought up a disparity in what I was being taught, my parents usually told me to just shut up… or worse.
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Equal for everyone, or it‘s not equality. Period.
#CircumcisionScar #JayJJackson #JayJacksonFeldman #audiobook #busbook #religion #indoctrination #religiousfreedom #righttonotbechristian
For my experience, the “free will” most christians taut is simply freedom to choose to be christian and ends at that point exactly.
#CircumcisionScar #JayJJackson #JayJacksonFeldman #audiobook #busbook #religion #indoctrination #religiousfreedom #righttonotbechristian
Because obviously my spirituality affects SO MUCH of yours. 🙄
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This book may be the author‘s personal story of circumcision and restoration, but it applies to SO much of American life right now.
#CircumcisionScar #JayJJackson #JayJacksonFeldman #audiobook #busbook #religion #indoctrination #religiousfreedom #righttonotbechristian
This. 💯%
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This was dead in the middle of the road for me. 2.5 stars.
I have mixed feelings about this book. It was really short and didn‘t go into as much detail as I would have liked, in places. The first half was strong and what I expected from the title. The first half supported his thesis. The second half did not; in fact, it sort of disproved it (at least for me). 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
This was a fun, quick read, that was almost a book of solo thought experiments. Some of these games/exercises could make excellent group discussions after being completed by everyone in the group. I don‘t know if it created joy, but it sure was fun!
#AwarenessGames #BrianTomOConnor #busbooks #mentalgames #thoughtexperiment
Almost a so-so, but just on the pick side of the dividing line. Maybe it‘s just me.
I liked the discussion of the main religions in the world and how they are different. I agree with him that to reduce all religions to different expressions of the same deity or divine is reductionist and ignores the different traditions and aims of different world religions. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
This is the first book I‘ve heard this word that didn‘t have Luc and Oliver. It made me smile like an idiot on the bus! The more I think about it, this is probably a book Oliver has read somewhere along the way. 😂
#GodIsNotOne #StephenProthero #busbook #LondonCalling #BoyfriendMaterial #HusbandMaterial #Oliver #Lucien #OliverAndLuc
I haven‘t really listened to any books since last Tuesday. My mom had her knee replaced and I just haven‘t felt up to it. Maybe after my PT and chiro appt this afternoon.
Starting this new audiobook this morning.
#GodIsNotOne #StephenProthero #audiobook #busbook
I really loved this book. I don‘t agree with everything in here, but I did get a lot out of it. I started meditating again and it really helped me to decide to choose a different response to other people‘s drama and anger.
#JayShetty #ThinkLikeAMonk #audiobook #busbook
This is certainly a much different version of events, a much different story than what was presented in Catholic school and by my devoutly Irish Catholic grandmother. Honestly, if my grandmother had actually known about some of these things, she would have explained them away or seen it as Catholic persecution. Sadly, this is how most people will take this entire book.
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I just can‘t with this book anymore. If you are into martial arts for the sport, the exercise, the community - if you‘re more into forms than sparring - this book is absolutely NOT written for you. If you‘re into martial arts to win fist fights (street fights is Christensen‘s preferred term), to beat people up, to find new, unique, inventive, and technical ways to hurt people…
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Again, this is in stark contrast to the childhood inflicted upon millions of children by religions and their negative view of human beings, especially children.
#UnconditionalParenting #AlfieKohn #children #childhood #haven #refuge #religion #GodIsNotGreat #ChristopherHitchens
It‘s amazing how many quotes popped up on Readwise today that fit with the book I finished this evening.
#TheTestaments #MargaretAtwood #GodIsNotGreat #ChristopherHitchens #sexism #antiwoman #rebellion #religion
Martyr or evangelical revival circuit faith healer. Just saying. My last read (God is Not Great) has me wanting to watch the documentary “Marjoe” now.
#TheDarkeningAge #CatherineNixey
I greatly enjoyed this book. Some of this information was absolutely revolutionary to me. Some of it I already knew, but he took those a step or more - further than I dared take them previously - to their logical end. There is nothing shocking about this book, honestly.
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And yet, those with the greatest faith never realise they are NOT part of any group reasonably and logically referred to as “men and women of real conscience.”
#GodIsNotGreat #ChristopherHitchens #conscience #faith #religion #philosophy #humanism
This sounds like us!
#GodIsNotGreat #ChristopherHitchens #religion #philosophy
#DeadPhilosophersSociety
@TheBookHippie @ravenlee @JaclynW @RavenLovelyReads @AlaSkaat @Chrissyreadit @kspenmoll @bnp
This is, of course, assuming organized religion HAS a conscience, which we all know they do not.
#GodIsNotGreat #ChristopherHitchens #religion #conscience #women #children #criticalthinking #freeinquiry #tribalism #racism #bigotry #ignorance #contempt #coercive
Anyone else see a problem here? This guy goes on and on about how he was a cop and all the fist fights he got into. A motorist is angry, so your response is to elbow him in the face repeatedly? This guy is straight up obsessed with beating people up. He doesn‘t give a crap about sport, his in it to beat people up. I don‘t feel like this is what martial arts are supposed to be about these days.
#SoloTraining #LorenWChristensen
Is there ANY religion that protects children?!
#ChristopherHitchens #GodIsNotGreat #religion #children #logic #ethics
It‘s has been a crazy few days/week here, but this is really bringing my mind down from all that overstimulation and helping me find a sense of calm.
#JayShetty #ThinkLikeAMonk #audiobook #busbook
Over all, I read 61 books for the year (not great, but not terrible). Here‘s to more great reads in 2024!
#2023 #booklog #endofyear #audiobook #ebook #paperback #hardcover
I‘m a bit late to the party on this. I spent the entire weekend fighting the flu. I finished 52 books in Apple Books last year. #2023 #endofyear #applebooks #ebooks #audiobooks #abookaweek
SO EXCITED FOR THIS… it is officially preordered! I‘m not sure what I‘m going to do with myself until next September, though.
#tjklune #somewherebeyondthesea #houseintheceruleansea #preorder
Love this quote. This speaks to me on a spiritual, soul deep level.
#AlixEHarrow #TheOnceAndFutureWitches #equinox #solstice #moonlight #wildwomen #wildheartedwomen #outdoors
Loved this book. The last sentence here seems to get more important every year since I first read this in 2020.
#TaraWestover #Educated #yourvoicematters #youarestrongerthanyouknow
The fact people are okay with, even happy with, a time widely and opening known as “post truth” is troubling… and shows that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
#allanbloom #theclosingoftheamericanmind #inalienablerights #americansociety #truth #relativetruth #posttruth #whatistruth #ourrightsarenomore
Somehow music expression is humanising… so long as it‘s not Mick Jagger. Someone make that make sense? How closed minded of him. This dude needs to read Alfie Kohn and redo the assignment.
#allanbloom #theclosingoftheamericanmind #music #selfexpression #humanity
This is one of my favourite quotes from Good Omens. You have no idea how happy I was to see it included in the show.
#TerryPratchett #NeilGaiman #sirterrypratchett #goodomens #god #dice #odds #davidtennant #michaelsheen #amazon #amazonprime #amazonprimevideo
I think there are American lawmakers that would recreate this law, and a surprising number of citizens that would support it, if they were smart enough to word it in a way that kept it constitutional. Religious freedom has NEVER been a Christian idea.
#catherinenixey #thedarkeningage #christianity #religiousfreedom #freedomofspeech #freedomofthought #angryandreligious #christiansarewhatswronghere #christiandestructionoftheclassicalworld
Like much of everything else, WE MADE IT UP!
#josteingaarder #sophiesworld #kant #time #space #humanideas #wemadeitup #makingitupaswegoalong #philosophy #adventuresinphilosophy #westernphilosophy #deadphilosopherssociety #whereitallstarted
This book was a real eye opener. I mean, I already thought that the folks who can‘t complain about millennials or gen z enough were full of hot air, but here is the scientific proof.
If you work with young people (or old people), this book is a must read. The author in general is a must read, too.
#alfiekohn #themythofthespoiledchild #dontcomplainread #readthis
This connects amazingly well to the book Laziness does not exist. It also explains why intellectuals are not valued in American society.
#susanwisebauer #thewelleducatedmind #devinprice #lazinessdoesnotexist
#susanwisebauer #thewelleducatedmind #readwise
I‘ve started using an app called Readwise, that shows you the things you have highlighted in books you have read. It helps you remember what you‘ve read and review them. It‘s actually kind of cool.
I died when I read this. I straight up, literally laughed out loud when Maren pops this out with ZERO hesitation. Talk about some comic relief!
#rebeccayarros #ironflame #theempyreanseries