playlist: OP SIDED WITH POPE CLEMENT VII EVEN THOUGH KING HENRY VIII HAS THE DIVINE RIGHT BUT GO OFF I GUESS LMAO

literalliterature:

You’re the worst person I know.

“No Children”–The Mountain Goats

I hope I lie, and tell everyone you were a good wife/And I hope you die

“Real Friends”–Kanye West

Fuck the church up by drinking at the communion

“Turn The Lights Off”–Tally Hall

All good devils masquerade under the light

“Irreplaceable”–Beyonce

Because you was untrue, rollin’ her around in the car that I bought you

“Under My Skin”–Jukebox the Ghost

England has a way of getting under my skin

“Canticle Of The Turning”–Trad.

Your very name puts the proud to shame

aeide-thea:

In the Beginning God Said Light

and there was light.
Now God says, Give them a little theatrical lighting

and they’re happy,
and we are. So many of us

dressing each morning, testing
endless combinations, becoming in our mirrors

more ourselves, imagining,
in an entrance, the ecstatic

weight of human eyes.
Now that the sun is sheering

toward us, what is left
but to let it close in

for our close-up? Let us really feel
how good it feels

to be still in it, making
every kind of self that can be

looked at. God, did you make us
to be your bright accomplices?

God, here are our shining spines.
Let there be no more dreams of being

more than a beginning.
Let it be

that to be is to be
backlit, and then to be only that light.

—Mary Szybist

Calvinist Dog Corrects Owner: ‘No One Is A Good Boy’

mark-gently:

SEATTLE, WA—Responding to his owner Matt affectionately calling him a
“good boy” for fetching a stick, local Calvinist canine Rupert
reportedly reminded him that “according to the Scriptures, nobody is a
good boy.”

“We’ve been over this, Matt. We’re all corrupted—every one of us,”
Rupert reportedly said to his owner after stopping mid-stride to address
the glaring theological error. “How can you call me a good boy when we
have all been marred by the effects of sin?”

According to witnesses, the dog went on to lecture his owner for
several minutes, stressing how easy it is to forget who we really are in
light of God’s blinding holiness and our desperately fallen nature.

“Do not call me a good boy—I am a depraved wretch,” he added before picking up his stick and continuing to play.

Calvinist Dog Corrects Owner: ‘No One Is A Good Boy’