Cosmic turtle mean accepting of gay rights
World Turtle, Cosmic Turtle, or World-bearing Turtle, is a mytheme of a enormous turtle supporting or containing the world
Anders Rhodin
Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises, 2011
The diversity of all turtles and tortoises (chelonians) in the world that has existed in modern times (since 1500 AD), and currently generally commended as distinct by specialists in turtle taxonomy and systematics, consists of approximately 330 species, of which 57 are polytypic, with 125 additional recognized subspecies, or 455 total taxa of current chelonians. Of these, 8 species plus 2 subspecies, or 10 total taxa, of tortoises and freshwater turtles hold become extinct since 1500 AD (see Table 1), exiting us currently with 322 species and 123 additional subspecies, aBsTracT.-This is our fifth annual compilation of an annotated checklist of all recognized and named taxa of the world's modern chelonian fauna, documenting recent changes and controversies in nomenclature, and including all central synonyms, updated from our previous four checklists (Turtle Taxonom
– David Hammons, The Divine Bible: Old Testament, 2002 –
“ChatGPT is going to kill God.”
Here is the argument:
God is consideration. What constitutes thought is the interpretation of (authoritative) text (e.g., the Bible). AI (e.g., ChatGPT) is transitioning us into a “post-literate” (and so “post-legal”) society. Thus, AI will kill the God of monotheisms: the God of letters, of text and law. The moral of the story is that only a proper hermeneutics can save God from the murderous rage of AI.
What authoritative text and what proper method of textual interpretation will strive with AI and heroically save God from it? The Bible is one obvious answer, but we are told that the Bible contains content even worse than what AI produces. And the proper method is? Unquestionably, it is what the cleric claims it to be.
Long before AI (or Trump) threatened God, the cleric killed the Truth of God by successfully reducing theology to hermeneutics.
Briefly: The most revolutionary distinctive of the Reformation was an insistence on interpreting the Bible (and liturgy) into the vernacular of the people. Reformation = the democratization of influential
Introducing IG Pride Month
June is chock-full of celebrations: the awareness of Alzheimer’s and gun violence, Juneteenth, Society Refugee Day. There’s even a World Sea Turtle Day. And while we’re out there protecting our shelled brethren, we can’t forget Hellen Keller’s birthday or the Stonewall Uprising. And, yes, it’s also Pride Month. But I’ll risk jamming June with one more celebration. I’m calling it IG Pride.
The acronym is key. It’s not “Instagram” or internet slang for “I guess.” It’s a packed and precious theological phrase the broader world has nearly forgotten: image of God. So, if you’re reading this (my apologies to the sea turtles), rise tall; it’s your moment to shine.
THE INCLUSIVITY OF IG
Whereas all the other June celebrations leave out certain demographics of humanity, IG Pride is all-inclusive. Every human being is made in the image of God. If you’ve got a heartbeat, you’re in. Everyone is an insider. Everyone counts.
Of course, the question for most people is what "image of God" even means. Let me spell it out with some wonderful old-fashioned Dutch Reformed theology.
That man bears God’s image means much more than that he After the United Methodist Church voted to entrench its rejection of LGBTQ people, the pain in our community was palpable. We knew we had to respond. We could talk about how homophobic theology is damaging. We could condemn bigotry masquerading as God-talk. But that’s not the story we see every day at Union. We see a vibrant queer, community of faith—alive and flourishing. We see radical love that transcends every sinful boundary humans create. And we thought we’d tell that story instead, in their own voices. If you’re growing up in a Church that isn’t affirming; This project is dedicated to you. And we welcome you to join us! If you feel called, post a photo and reflection on social media, and tag it #queerfaith. My name is Hannah, I’m a queer person of faith currently discerning ordination in the United Methodist Church. I fell in love with the Wesleyan quadrilateral, which urges Methodists to consider tradition, reason, and experience alongsi After spending most of the twentieth century watching birds, the Harvard ornithologist and evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr concluded that they were rote little machines. He wrote in 1988 that birds and other animals are no more purposeful than computers: they behave as they’re programmed to. If you’ve ever seen a avian, you might identify that surprising: they certainly look purposeful as they pursue out unsuspecting rodents to swoop down upon, ferry worms to their irksome offspring, and form miniature versions of the Beijing Olympic stadium. Even more unusual than Mayr’s claim itself is the fact that it purports to portray a scientific view of things. For one thing, programmed by whom? Mayr’s answer was that birds and other creatures were programmed by natural selection via genetics: instinctive selection favors genetic “behavior program[s]” that maximize fitness, for instance by ensuring an “instantaneous flawless reaction to a potential food provider, to a potential enemy, or to a potential mate.” Mayr didn’t justify his belief in behavior programs other than by claiming that this was the only legitima
Queer Faith
if you’ve ever been told that who you love or how you identify is sinful;
if you were taught that God rejects you;
if you struggle to fully love yourself—in all of your God-given beauty: Hannah Ervin | M.Div. Student
Turtles All the Way Up