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On Creativity, Love, and 'Christian Art'

Today I read a book on my shelf that I forgot I had, and never really looked at before. It was called Addicted to Mediocrity, by Franky Schaeffer. It talks about creativity and how we can glorify God with it without necessarily needing to plaster Christian labels all over it. In fact, it touches on why that practice can actually hurt the creativity of Christians in some ways-- One point being that just because you slap a 'Christian' label on something doesn't automatically make it good quality wise or spiritually wise. If no genuine love was put into it, and was only done to adhere to surface level aesthetics or themes that are so often associated with Christianity, then what's the point? There's no actual love in it. It's just an empty thing that neither has any real meaning, nor is even that good objectively. And then it hit me: Isn't this whole woke agenda in media doing the exact same thing? They're shoving in diversity, and all this other stuff that they claim to be good. And yet,

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Eclipse Redesign - Update (14th Dec)

♥ SHARING IS HIGHLY APPRECIATED!! ♥ If you like it and want to support me in a way you can leave a little donation here: https://ko-fi.com/isidaddy or https://www.paypal.me/isidaddy No money but want to say thanks in another way? You could draw one of my OCs >> reference sheets :3c News Section Reminder to NOT let your anger and frustration out on me. Be polite if you want to report something and don't guilt trip me for not being able to fix what I can't see. dA is rolling out their updates in waves, it's possible you get an update earlier than I do. I'll fix changes as soon as possible, but I have a full time job, so it

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