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Sean Sakamoto's avatar

I’m with you on consciousness and “whyness.” What a wonderful way of putting things.

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Andrew Paul Koole's avatar

This is beautiful and kind of funny and I want a whole book of "gnostic" stories like this from you please and thank you.

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Naomi Kanakia's avatar

LOL. Thank you =]

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Kahlil Corazo's avatar

I can't believe you did not mention Mary in the part on agency and women in Christianity. The incarnation of literally depended on her Yes. Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum. Among Orthodox and Catholics, Christianity is also incomplete without her. Btw, I wrote about Mary from a Filipino perspective https://www.explorations.ph/p/after-501-years-we-can-finally-see

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JustAnOgre's avatar

I am not sure I understand this, but I don't understand the standard explanations of Christianity either, namely, humankind deserves to be punished, and god could only simultaneously fulfill the virtues of justice and mercy if he chose to punish himself instead. I think that is nuts. There is no cosmic ledger book that needs to be balanced, there is no justice, punishment is simply an incentive.

Compared to the simple logic of Buddhism that can be explained in a few words clearly: things have a self-existence only through their separatedness from other things, this separation is illusionary, and thus when you understand you do not exist, you do not become nothing, you become everything.

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Chanda Singleton Griesë's avatar

For your research, I led a Book Club with women who read Jesus Through the Eyes of Women by Rebecca McLaughlin. She thoroughly documents how women in the NT viewed and were given honor, especially compared to other ancient writings of the time.

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Naomi Kanakia's avatar

That sounds great! I know, it's quite striking, right? And the history of Christianity is FULL of these powerful women, like Constantine's mother or St. Augustine's mother or or the Christian wife of Genghis Khan who saved the Christian community of Baghdad--it was obviously a faith with a lot of appeal to women and with a strong role for women.

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Chanda Singleton Griesë's avatar

C.S. Lewis in his Chronicles of Narnia, both the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and The Silver Chair (my favorite) had the Narnian version of Jesus, a lion named Aslan, specifically chose Lucy and Jill as the main protagonists of his stories. I think Lewis understood Jesus and how he honored women in this way.

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MeghanEBLin's avatar

I love so much about this story, it landed right in the intersection of some of my favorite things.

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Naomi Kanakia's avatar

Thank you! I'm happy someone liked it =]

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