Details of the white marble sculpture ‘Le génie du mal’ or ‘The Lucifer of Liège’ created by artist Guillaume Geefs. Installed in the St. Paul’s Cathedral, Liège in 1848
Today is the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart. This piece, Crucifixion, by Mary Grace Thul, OP, uses the Sacred Heart as its basis. The crown of thorns, key to the Sacred Heart, is notable. So too are the various people suffering throughout time and place. Jesus’ love includes all of them, and he is with them in their pain. Their suffering breaks his heart, and Thul conveys this messages quite well in this piece.
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
And here is a website with a whole list of Black/African Saints. And here’s a webpage with just fifteen if you want to start out with a less overwhelming number. This site (which I also link below) has a good number of the most well-known early African Saints.
I think people often don’t realize that certain Saints are Black because they are, alas, whitewashed in most images of them (Augustine being a prime example of that). So when you click the links above, you’ll probably take one look at the images included on webpages and go “lol this guy’s not black!” It can be frustrating, but luckily non-whitewashed art is out there – it’s usually very ancient or very contemporary. I’ll include some here.
Moses the Black (source), Thea Bowman (source), Martin de Porres (source)
Africa played a key role in early Christianity, and it’s a shame that history tends to be ignored by Christians today. As this webpage attests, three of the earliest popes were African! as were many martyrs. One place you can go to look into that is the website of the Center for Early African Christianity.
Some people are having a hard time getting it lately so here it is again:
You can be Christian and pro-choice. Pro-choice Christians are alive and well. In fact, I’m right here in front of you. God is okay with abortion. Jesus is okay with abortion. The Holy Spirit is okay with abortion. Every aspect of the Holy Trinity supports people who have abortions.
Understand?
No. What part of ‘thou shalt not kill’, ‘before I knit you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I gave you life’, ‘for you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb’, etc. even remotely suggests that God was for abortion? If we’re bringing religion into it, you believe in the presence of a human soul. How can you say that a soul doesn’t exist until the baby passes through the birth canal?
Abortion is not acceptable in the eyes of God. Someone may be forgiven for having an abortion, but abortion is the deliberate taking of a human life.
~personal interpretation~ strikes again
This is the most disturbing heresy I’ve ever seen.
Someone can claim they are a “pro-choice Christian”, in fact anyone can call themselves a “Christian” – but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are actually following Christ. Labels people assume and their actual actions can be two very different things. What you’re actually doing is attaching the Christian label to yourself but your actions/beliefs aren’t consistent with being a follower of Christ. You are following your own personal doctrine molded by the world’s ways, not His. To be a Christian, you need to be a follower of Christ. And nothing in the Word of God remotely supports abortion. You’re literally spewing Biblically contradictory heresy and trying to pretty it up by tacking the “I’m a Christian” label over it. The fact that you could go so far as to say the He is “okay with abortion” tells me you probably do not read the Word, you want to convince yourself abortion is okay because you’re influenced by the world’s lies, or both. If your actions outright defy His authority and His Word, then that’s a problem.
I’m not saying this to judge you, because I can’t judge you. I’m warning you because what you’re doing is dangerous to yourself and to others. If you’re a Christian, you have a responsibility to be a light in this world and reflect Him to others. You calling yourself a Christian and simultaneously saying God approves of the murder of the pre-born is blatant false teaching that is promoting deception. You are misleading people. Is this something you want to be held accountable for, that you promoted the murder of His creations before they could leave the womb and blindly claimed He approves of it? Thousands of people already saw your lies on this post and have agreed with you.
You have a choice to make. Be of the world and follow its ways, or follow His. You can’t straddle the line between the two.
No. No. No. NO.
Show me ONE place where God is okay with deliberate murder. There isn’t one. Even murders conducted “for a good cause” in the OT are shown to be wrong and the murderer a sinner.
Abortion is not murder.
A heretic in action, guys.
Abortion is absolutely murder if it takes a human life, and as we know, the fetus is a human, and the abortion narrative isn’t about whether or not its a human, its about when that person is deservant of life or not
^^^^^^^ THAT
Even if the blatantly false claim abortion isn’t murder is allowed, abortion still violates the far more frequently voiced commands against child sacrifice, all of which were stated in far stronger terms than prohibitions on murder.
Y’all, this person thinks abortion is child sacrifice. I can’t.
Didn’t God demand that Abraham kill his own son?
Newsflash for the “Christians” having fits over being pro-choice: If God considered an induced miscarriage to be murder, He would have laid down a law that gave the two actions the same punishment.
The punishment for murder? Execution. (Exodus 21:14)
The punishment for causing a woman to miscarry “without serious injury?” However many silver pieces her husband demanded and the court allowed. (Exodus 21:22)
(With serious injury, though? The punishment is still not execution unless the woman dies –
“But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.” (Exodus 21:23-25))
Hmm, that seems like an awfully drastic difference, there. Especially when you consider the fact that kidnapping and cursing your parents were also grounds for execution (Exodus 21:16-17) as was knowingly allowing a dangerous animal to roam free until it killed someone (Exodus 21:29) (unless the victim’s family demanded payment instead, and the animal’s owner paid up in full. (Exodus 21:30))
Oh, also, that little bit where a woman who had cheated (or was suspected of cheating) on her husband could be made to drink an abortifacient brew, administered by the temple priests. (Numbers 5:11-31 with special attention to verses 20-22 and 27.)
So there you have it. Even God doesn’t consider “abortion” and “murder” to be the same thing.
SIT THE FUCK DOWN, CHILDREN. YOU DON’T HAVE THE FIRST CLUE AS TO WHAT YOU’RE CARRYING ON ABOUT.
bennu rising 
