Unsystematic Theology – Page 2

The True Meaning of Christmas Trees: The Spiritual Abuse Connection

By Eric Pazdziora December 8, 2010 December 9, 2010 57 Comments

First published Christmas 2009; newly updated for Quivering Daughters. I think I finally figured out what Christmas trees are really about. A while ago I found a blog article on the subject of our friend Mr. Tannenbaum. Apparently (the author

God’s Prescription for Your Discouragement

By Eric Pazdziora November 10, 2010 November 11, 2010

Another in my series for Quivering Daughters I've been saving this for a rainy day, and I think it's gotten sufficiently damp. This got its start a few years ago as a comment on someone else's blog post and quickly

Broken

By Eric Pazdziora April 2, 2015 September 30, 2010 16 Comments

Another in my weekly series for Quivering Daughters broken arm is painful. A broken glass is dangerous. A broken mirror is unlucky. A broken heart is depressing. A broken toy is sad. A broken promise is wrong. So it’s strange

Godly Authority: A Flight to Topsyturvydom

By Eric Pazdziora January 10, 2013 September 16, 2010 28 Comments

Another in my weekly series of articles for Quivering Daughters. oet and playwright W. S. Gilbert (you might know him from his operettas composed with Arthur Sullivan) wrote some comic poems about the far-away land of Topsyturvydom: Where vice is

Duck? Duck? Goose.

By Eric Pazdziora November 10, 2010 September 2, 2010 2 Comments

This is the first in what we hope will be a weekly series of articles at the lovely website Quivering Daughters. If you like this kind of thing or need some encouragement, especially from Spiritual Abuse, check them out! If

Literally Noir

By Eric Pazdziora July 5, 2011 August 4, 2010 5 Comments

The streets of the city are always dark, especially when it’s raining. And they just put a fresh coat of grime down 67th street. It got all over my office window. Not that you can see anything out my office

The Misadventures of Person C, or, Why Couldn’t God Just Forgive Us?

By Eric Pazdziora March 31, 2015 April 5, 2010 14 Comments

There’s a lot on my mind lately, but, though it’s not really a great pressing concern to me, I keep coming back to one particular issue. Perhaps that means it will be illuminating to somebody, so here it is. From

The Best Road

By Eric Pazdziora March 10, 2010 March 10, 2010 16 Comments

or, If God Has a Wonderful Plan for My Life, Why Am I Suffering? From my files: September 2008. My long-time readers know that the best way to get a post out of me is for somebody to ask me

“I Have a Sign”: Answering Spiritual Abusers According to Their Folly

By Eric Pazdziora January 10, 2013 February 1, 2010 5 Comments

“Are you looking for a sign from God? This is it.” — seen on too many church signs In the popular imagination, Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist “Church” probably deserve their status as the archetypal hateful ultra-fundamentalist spiritual abusers.