Ok 1) I am so ecstatic you made your way to HDS. Truly tickled. You and Maggie Rogers going to Div school has me realizing I have no excuse but to make my way there at some point...
2) You know that Romans text about the spirit groaning when we have no words for our experience? I think that names the limits of language, of how so much of the time we are saying a lot of the same things, or similar things, but our emotional association with words sends us to our corners of division. I'm not saying this is universally true or the sole answer for divisions, because there's a place for language... but isn't experiencing Jesus as Lover just another way of saying Jesus as Seeing Me Fully? Isn't this saying that God is fully desirous of us? Isn't that an expression of surrender? Isn't eroticism and expressions of queer love, yet another affirmation that we were made "imago dei" that our true nature is goodness, nakedness? Isn't this just another expansion and layer to fathoming God's love? We feel so much in relation to the words we use... I sometimes wonder if we don't realize our souls are uttering so much of the same things...
So fascinating to read as someone who has studied a little bit of tantra and has been learning about the erotic and cervical orgasms. It felt like I forgave my rapist once, it was quite the devotional experience.
I was thinking about another example of sexualizing or fetishizing God earlier today!
I’m fascinated by discourses and practices in Christian communities that bring God and prayer into the bedroom.
I know several people who make it a ritual to pray together before having sex. People sometimes talk about praying during sex and sex being an embodied prayer etc. I started thinking of it earlier because I saw a post that said:
“All Sex is a threesome - You, The Other Person, and God. We do not ‘own’ our bodies, we ‘steward’ our bodies. Our Bodies have been purchased by God”
You can’t tell me this Theology of The Body isn’t kinky as hell. Ownership by, and Submission to, a cosmic entity - I can see why people find that hot.
I think these Christians deal with the Holy/Horny dichotomy. They don’t reject religious sexual repression (like my response was), But instead they fetishize chastity and submission to God. It is a fetishistic asceticism.
Religion and Sexuality have some fascinating intersections. Another example that is more related to these mystical traditions is the Medieval practice of depicting Jesus his side wound as a vulva.
Ok 1) I am so ecstatic you made your way to HDS. Truly tickled. You and Maggie Rogers going to Div school has me realizing I have no excuse but to make my way there at some point...
2) You know that Romans text about the spirit groaning when we have no words for our experience? I think that names the limits of language, of how so much of the time we are saying a lot of the same things, or similar things, but our emotional association with words sends us to our corners of division. I'm not saying this is universally true or the sole answer for divisions, because there's a place for language... but isn't experiencing Jesus as Lover just another way of saying Jesus as Seeing Me Fully? Isn't this saying that God is fully desirous of us? Isn't that an expression of surrender? Isn't eroticism and expressions of queer love, yet another affirmation that we were made "imago dei" that our true nature is goodness, nakedness? Isn't this just another expansion and layer to fathoming God's love? We feel so much in relation to the words we use... I sometimes wonder if we don't realize our souls are uttering so much of the same things...
So fascinating to read as someone who has studied a little bit of tantra and has been learning about the erotic and cervical orgasms. It felt like I forgave my rapist once, it was quite the devotional experience.
I was thinking about another example of sexualizing or fetishizing God earlier today!
I’m fascinated by discourses and practices in Christian communities that bring God and prayer into the bedroom.
I know several people who make it a ritual to pray together before having sex. People sometimes talk about praying during sex and sex being an embodied prayer etc. I started thinking of it earlier because I saw a post that said:
“All Sex is a threesome - You, The Other Person, and God. We do not ‘own’ our bodies, we ‘steward’ our bodies. Our Bodies have been purchased by God”
You can’t tell me this Theology of The Body isn’t kinky as hell. Ownership by, and Submission to, a cosmic entity - I can see why people find that hot.
I think these Christians deal with the Holy/Horny dichotomy. They don’t reject religious sexual repression (like my response was), But instead they fetishize chastity and submission to God. It is a fetishistic asceticism.
Religion and Sexuality have some fascinating intersections. Another example that is more related to these mystical traditions is the Medieval practice of depicting Jesus his side wound as a vulva.