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William Lindsey :toad:As to atheism and agnosticism, I've said before and will say again: people who see value in religion have a LOT to learn from atheists and agnostics. It's the militancy — on both sides — that's the problem here, the anti-intellectual fundamentalism and the rank sense of superiority that some folks seem to imagine gives them the right to be hateful to and dismissive of others.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/AshWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AshWednesday</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#religion</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/atheism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#atheism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/evangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evangelicals</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fundamentalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fundamentalism</a> /7

William Lindsey :toad:I, too, experience the behavior she's describing from militant atheists who attack me on social media for monitoring the role religion plays in political life and who want to conclude I'm some kind of right-wing religious operative — which could not be farther from the truth. I don't want fundamentalism of ANY KIND. Start that with me and I'll turn a deaf ear to you faster than you can say Jehovah bless.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/AshWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AshWednesday</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#religion</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/atheism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#atheism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/evangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evangelicals</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fundamentalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fundamentalism</a> /6

William Lindsey :toad:As someone else who grew up Southern Baptist and long since left that stifling world of Christian fundamentalism behind, who wouldn't dream of attending church after being shoved to the margins of the Catholic church I chose after leaving my family's church, I say a big amen. As I write over and over here, the disgraceful performance of much of white US Christianity in the Trump era is a stark counterwitness to the gospels.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/AshWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AshWednesday</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#religion</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/atheism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#atheism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/evangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evangelicals</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fundamentalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fundamentalism</a> /5

William Lindsey :toad:"How can people not just leave people alone? Do your thing. Support others in doing their thing. Don't storm the capitol. Don't piss on people's social media posts about Ash Wednesday. Like, just go live your life and let other people live their life.... Just go do your thing."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/AshWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AshWednesday</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#religion</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/atheism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#atheism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/evangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evangelicals</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fundamentalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fundamentalism</a> /4

William Lindsey :toad:How they were behaving and what they had to say — their viciousness and absolute certainty that they and they alone own the truth — reminded her, she says, every bit of the very fundamentalism she grew up with and has worked hard to leave behind. Mirror images, militant atheism and Christian fundamentalism.She tells her attackers,"You are what you hate, by the way, and you're as insufferable as the people I grew up with, so congratulations."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/AshWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AshWednesday</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/atheism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#atheism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fundamentalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fundamentalism</a> /3

William Lindsey :toad:In this video, she talks about what just happened to her when she posted on social media about attending her first Ash Wednesday service now that she has shifted to a mainline Protestant church. When she made her posting about attending an Ash Wednesday service, militant atheists came out of the woodwork and began viciously attacking her. <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AshWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AshWednesday</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#religion</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/atheism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#atheism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/evangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evangelicals</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fundamentalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fundamentalism</a> /2

William Lindsey :toad:Holly Berkley Fletcher grew up the daughter of Southern Baptist missionaries in Africa. Her book The Missionary Kids: Unmasking the Myths of White Evangelicalism will come out this August.Holly has long since broken with the stifling anti-intellectual repressive world of Christian fundamentalism with which she grew up. <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AshWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AshWednesday</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#religion</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/atheism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#atheism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/evangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evangelicals</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fundamentalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fundamentalism</a> /1<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k605yPoygNE&t=2s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k605yPoygNE&t=2s</a>

𝗠𝗔𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗠𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗠𝗔𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀<a href="https://det.social/tags/rubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rubio</a> on the easter week<a href="https://det.social/tags/rubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rubio</a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/ashwednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ashwednesday</a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/aschermittwoch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aschermittwoch</a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maga</a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meme</a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/mamema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mamema</a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memes</a>

Markus GainesMandatory Ash Wednesday selfie. This was nice, my first actual Ash Wednesday cause I missed last year's at my Church.Woke up late and had no time to get ready save for trying to whip my hair into a reasonable shape. I also apparently have resting bastard face. Neat.<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ashwednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ashwednesday</a>

Scott Williams 🐧Remember that you are dust and to dust you will return.<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AshWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AshWednesday</a>

HEAC 🏴It’s that time of year again: we post the text of TS Eliot’s Ash Wednesday on the socials every Ash Wednesday: if you fancy that, take a look at our Bluesky realm: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/meersalt.bsky.social" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/meersalt.bsky.social</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/AshWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AshWednesday</a>

Rachel 🌎✨🕊️Ash Wednesday - a reminder to take one day and a time, with gratitude. 🙏🏼✝️❤️🌟<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AshWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AshWednesday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Impermanence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Impermanence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/gratitude" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gratitude</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/love" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#love</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Lent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lent</a>

Lydia SchochHere’s an Ash Wednesday story for you all. When I was in college, a friend showed up to class with a grey smudge on her forehead.I pulled her aside and quietly let her know she had something on her forehead. She laughed and told me it was Ash Wednesday.I was raised so Evangelically that this possibility had never crossed my mind. 😂 (To give context, Evangelicals do not generally observe Ash Wednesday or Lent). <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AshWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AshWednesday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ExEvangelical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExEvangelical</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lent</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Evangelical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Evangelical</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christianity</a>

chris actualPretty much the singular reason I'd want to be a priest is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ashwednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ashwednesday</a> . Being able to tag hundreds of people's foreheads is pretty dope, and you know your work will get exposure for at least a day. I'd definitely just smudge my initials and not some poor attempt at a cross though.

Anna-Jayne MetcalfeHeads up - it's <a href="https://metapixl.com/discover/tags/AshWednesday?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AshWednesday</a>! <a href="https://metapixl.com/discover/tags/FaithfullyLGBT?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FaithfullyLGBT</a> <a href="https://metapixl.com/discover/tags/Ashtag?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ashtag</a>

🍋 Superball ☀️Conversation with an elderly friend this morning:Her: Ash Wednesday today has Nordic roots. You probably know, but I just looked it up.Me: Where did you find that? I’m not seeing it anywhere.Her: Look up ash wednesday ancient history norse mythology on Google. Also ash wednesday odin.Me: Oh LOL. You can look up anything, and it will tell you something about it, whether it’s true or not. The key is to make sure it’s on a reasonably trustworthy website. Google is the opposite of trustworthy; it makes up all kinds of things using AI. I usually go to Wikipedia.Anybody heard of legit ancient Norse origins of Ash Wednesday?Everybody looking after their AI-vulnerable loved ones?<a href="https://norcal.social/tags/AshWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AshWednesday</a> <a href="https://norcal.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://norcal.social/tags/NorsePagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NorsePagan</a>

Sean MayerSome people really get into Lent—it’s their favorite season of the church year. Not me. Oh, yes, I appreciate the season and follow the practices. The liturgy is rich and beautiful. But is this my favorite season? Nope. One reason for my caution: I’ve experienced too many Lents where it seemed like the focus was on *my* effort of prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and “giving up”—as if Lent were a season of spiritual calisthenics. Or worse yet, a holy reason to break bad habits for a more healthy me. Granted, I could use a little extra motivation to moderate my calories, support good causes, get to chapel on time, etc. All of these goals can be outcomes of the traditional lenten penances—but "better me" is not the point. Jesus Christ is *the* point of it all. I want to defrag my mind and heart in order to live more authentically in Christ. ☩ “When will we make a clean break from the reasoning of those who only consider this present life; a clean break from merely human reasoning in order to take on the thoughts, judgments, desires, and feelings that Jesus has for us? Until we arrive at the point where: truly Christ lives in me.” Blessed James Alberione<a href="https://c.im/tags/Lent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lent</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AshWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AshWednesday</a>

Father RoderickToday is <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AshWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AshWednesday</a>. Here is a quick explainer with <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Lego" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lego</a>! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZx971Zvk2I&list=PLFXrG9H3RhDjPXFRQ6Nq-tVlWG7KpNNzm&index=1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZx971Zvk2I&list=PLFXrG9H3RhDjPXFRQ6Nq-tVlWG7KpNNzm&index=1</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lent</a>

ShawnT 🐀Today is Ash Wednesday. If you see somebody with a smudge of dirt on their forehead, no you didn't. It's not your problem.<a href="https://mastodon.coffee/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#religion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.coffee/tags/lent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lent</a> <a href="https://mastodon.coffee/tags/AshWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AshWednesday</a>

Andy Cc…They weren't ready. They weren't expecting it. But that's how Jesus worked then, and that's how he works to this day. Perhaps that's why you're reading Matthew's gospel right now. Join me in reading Lent For Everyone: <a href="https://www.bible.com/en/reading-plans/83" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bible.com/en/reading-plans/83</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bible</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lent</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ashwednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ashwednesday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biblestudy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biblestudy</a>

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