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March 11, 2025... I was given this book today by Courtney. It will be a great guide through AFL 2025. I do need to catch up to the second week. So there is a bit of reading to do to get caught up. But so thankful that she gave me this for what most likely will be my last time through Atheism for Lent. I am so thankful to walk alongside Courtney as she has done so with Peter Rollins and the great minds of the past during this Lenten journey. When Lent is over and I have finished the book, I will do a followup review of the book and the journey. But for now... I will pass along three quotes to get anyone interested in what this journey could look like for you... if you choose to come along.
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“This book does not offer easy resolutions or tidy conclusions. Instead, it exposes the futile ways in which we try to resolve contradictions rather than facing them. It exposes how we patch up holes in our thinking with convenient ideological scaffolding. More than this, an “appetite for antithesis” helps us to sit in the cracks, the rupture, the gap. To wrestle, to unknit, to unpack and unravel.”
Peter Rollins
“This whole book “is an explosion of forces that have been accumulating for decades: in such explosions, the author can easily get blown sky high as well. I feel this way now and again:
—I don’t want to hide that from you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“In 2023, I participated in Atheism for Lent for the third time. Or maybe the two-and-a-halfth time. This go-’round, I worked through each day’s material by posting my various thoughts and confusions on my blog. Pete provided us with stellar seminars to introduce each week’s readings and explain this or that more complicated passage.... But personality and brain chemistry often keep me from knowing what I think until I verbalize it, so I needed to manifest Atheism for Lent in my own words in front of my eyeballs before I could make sense of it.”
Courtney Cantrell
(Okay.. I like that Courtney included Nietzsche to introduce her journey. His words written long before Courtney was born resonate well with the words she is sharing. It's kind of like an endorsement from the stars. Be back in a month.)
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