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political and religious lib, social dem. baseball enjoyer. UVA phd. he/him. adjunct prof in religious studies. DMs not open
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im anti-Puritan because of their conception of God, not because they were anti-fun

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Karl Barth being a dick to Georgia Harkness

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by law most cars should have to be small and slow. I’m imaging a vehicle that would be heavily damaged if it hit a bicycle

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nice facts you have there. would be a shame if I ran them through the unforgiving mill of my System

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Noooo Rauschenbusch, don’t pander to the incels noooooo

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“We shall probably never have an emperor, but we may have a chairman of some committee or other, some person not even mentioned in any constitution or law, who will be the de facto emperor of our republic.” Rauschenbusch

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while you’re upskilling on big data, I am becoming lightly acquainted with small data

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“that’s a fallacy 🤓”. i do not care

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history of religion and politics from mid century to Trump: From Protestant Establishment to Brotestant Revolt

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happy Valentine’s Day. Hope you had heart shaped pink pancakes

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Elon Musk can’t even kick flip

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only a godless and decadent society could produce the “mega” stuffed oreo

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In the 90s after House of Pain and Snow there were a bunch of rap groups like this

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eat shit JD

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All due respect, LinkedIn sponsored message, but what the fuck are you talking about

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Found a bunch of Christianity and Crisis scans at archive. Helpful archive.org/details/pub_...

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asked ChatGPT a difficult question about an little known 19th century figure. Gave me an answer with a citation. The citation… a link to my dissertation. Disconcerting

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got some candy yesterday with Red 3 in it. Do I eat the banned product?

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I enjoy the Super Bowl less every year. Is the programming getting worse, or am I getting grumpier

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Harnack on the grind: “as a matter of fact, there is a great deal of hypocritical twaddle talked about work. Three-fourths of it and more is nothing but stupefying toil…”

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we live in a strange timeline where this could be read as anything but tautological

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Scholars of Paw Patrol fall into two main camps. The first, using the Schmittian/Agambenian state of exception, sees the pups practicing fascistic logics of sovereignty. The second centers the corrupt Mayor Humdinger, the pups being freedom fighters for a more democratic Adventure Bay.

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45 degrees in Chicago today. Seen several people grilling out

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just picked up 8 volumes of the Writings of CS Peirce. this is what happiness is and feels like

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what miserable faces and hair to open the NYTimes this morning

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you’re not a “creator,” you’re in despair

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sick and disgusting man

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deleted Instagram and off X since inauguration. Probably hanging out here, or not on social at all

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Where Debs was imprisoned after the Pullman strike

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vulgar genealogy

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this was fun

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just published my final module of the semester. I’ll now have time to complete my System of Philosophy

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regret to inform you this tweet has been included in the final module of my world religions course. It’s a module on the idea of “secular religion”

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new “economic consequence of the peace” just dropped

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Thanksgiving break reading. belief is back baby

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heck yeahhhhhhhh

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some advice for those hopping on the crypto surge: never bet more than you’re willing to win

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David Hume Look alike competition Prize: new set of billiard balls

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next up, for no particular reason

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weekend reading

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Disconcerting how many postlibs still talk like this. From Chapoutot, “The Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting like a Nazi”

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Trump nominating a Barthian to head the department of natural theology. What a circus!!

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