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“But are as the Angels which are in Heaven” (Mark 12:25) | 89www.jrfm.eu 2020, 6/2, 86–89 replies, “For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven” (Mark 12:25 KJV). And in Galatians 3:28, Paul states, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.” Life in an eschatological perspective defies social conformities and attribu- tions of ethnicity, social status, or sex and gender. These categories lose their defining relevance. But instead of forfeiting vision, Paul states, between now and then, world and heaven, people will gain true vision of what is beneath the surface: “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known” (1 Cor. 13:12). People’s struggling to see through themselves and other people seems to nurture the urge to find clarity only in unambiguousness. As an alternative, a heavenly perspective indicates that true selves may lie in ambiguity itself. Dorian Electra really is a gain for today’s pop music culture. Bibliography Beaumont-Thomas, Ben, 2019, Pop Sensation Dorian Electra: “I’m Not a Woman Dressing as a Man. It’s More Complex”, The Guardian, 12 July, https://www.theguardian.com/ music/2019/jul/12/pop-sensation-dorian-electra-im-not-a-woman-dressing-as-a-man- its-more-complex [accessed 10 May 2020]. Coles, Gregory, 2016, The Exorcism of Language: Reclaimed Derogatory Terms and Their Limits, College English 78, 5, 424–446. TearsToJoyMinstries, n. d., The Demonic Attach of Homosexutality! Part 1, http://tearsto- joyministries.org/The_Demonic_Attack_Of.html [accessed 10 May 2020]. Filmography Adam & Steve (Dorian Electra and Weston Allen, US 2019), https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=mViZtUHqDg8 [accessed 10 May2020]. The Exorcist (William Friedkin, US 1973). Discography Flamboyant (Dorian Electra, US 2019, self-released).