Month: February 2013

ginandjack:

My heart is black
and my body is blue
my lips taste like honey
my chest smells like blood
and my bones sound like a fire

My shrine is verdigris and white
my God is aubergine and brown
the glass smells like wine
the clay smells like burning bay
it’s alive with the sound of a pulse

My altar is the unmade bed
all brown and green and gold
the sheets smell like wolves
and the pillows smell like figs and cloves
you can taste the salts of life
and you can still hear the ritual cry

Most people on food stamps work full time. They work full time but they don’t have enough money to pay for food for their kids. So really, in some ways, food stamps are about a business subsidy because it allows low wage business workers to… feed their families and continue working. But we call it charity, or the Republicans call it charity. They want to cut food stamps so badly that every church, synagogue, mosque, house of worship in the United States—every single one—[would] have to raise an additional $50,000 every year for ten years to replace what he wants to cut. It’s not gonna happen. It’s not gonna work.

Sister Simone Campbell [x]

I like how she articulates the simple financial impossibility of religious organizations being able to replace government aid. I’d like to add that, of course, there are so many people who have trouble receiving aid from religious institutions because they’re LGBT and/or non-religious or have a fraught relationship to religion… aid is a human right—and, as she points out, a business subsidy as well as a subsidy to food companies—which people should be able to receive in a secular setting.

(via mswyrr)

Sister Simone Campbell for Pope.

(via stfuconservatives)

Seconded.

(via cognitivedissonance)

myislamicadventure:

Marduk and his mušḫuššu- Dragon

Mesopotamia’s two primary gods were Ea & Enlil. Marduk was the Babylonian god during the time of Hammurabi (1800 BC) after having overthrown the earlier two gods, now making him the head of the pantheon (the Annunaki).

The only formidable rival to Marduk of Babylon was Aššur in Assyria around 1000 BC.