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By making violence pleasurable, fascinating, and entertaining, the Powers are able to delude people into compliance with a system that is cheating them of their very lives.
The Powers That Be
Walter Wink
But here’s the weird thing. A lot of Christians are embarrassed by sin. We don’t want to talk about it. Especially when it comes to sex. You see this embarrassment a lot among Christians who are post-evangelical or post-fundamentalist, Christians who were raised in puritanical churches where sin, holiness, purity, piety, and personal morality were talked about all the time in ways that created loads of guilt, fear, and shame. I understand. Growing up in a conservative church I knew that being a “good person” meant avoiding drugs and sex. And coming out of pietistic churches like this we want to avoid talking about sin because talking about sin makes you sound like a judgmental and holier-than-thou Christian who’s obsessed with sex. The other hesitancy to talk about personal morality has to do with how we need to address systemic evils—social injustice and oppression. By focusing so much on this struggle we can come to wholly ignore the personal and moral aspects of the Christian walk. We talk a lot about justice, but we have almost nothing to say about holiness.
Reviving Old Scratch
Richard Beck
“Every time we have an outage, we’ll be conducting a blameless post-mortem like this one. The spirit and intent of these sessions are to learn from them, chronicling what happened before memories fade. Prevention requires honesty, and honesty requires the absence of fear. Just like Norm Kerth says in the Agile Prime Directive, ‘Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand.’
The Unicorn Project
Gene Kim
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