I'm Nordic. It kind of went the opposite way. We would do crazy stuff like tell the missionary priests that we would convert if they would walk through fire and live, and they would, and did, and then we would convert. Pure madness.
@EudaimoniaEsq
@chocrushed
lol, I live in the southeast. Is this person trying to talk to me about temperature AND humidity!?
It is going to be 100° (38°) today and probably 85% humidity.
@MaryDefender
I'm convinced that we were primarily impressed by the sheer balls the missionary priests had to keep showing up despite the fact that we would keep killing them.
"Expression" is not actually helpful for anger and simply creates pleasure from anger which makes things worse. The kind of men who start fights and go to jail express plenty of anger, but they never actually control it or manage it. Why? Because that doesn't work.
buddhist hell is a much more striking concept to me than christian hell. while the damned are simply trapped in christian hell, those comdemned to buddhist hell can leave at any moment — all they have to do is simply stop being angry about being in there.
they just won’t.
Ah yes the very common trait of...
-checks notes-
..."intense precocious public devotion to Eucharistic miracles in the face of a painful young death to leukemia."
Surely so common as to lead everyone to presume on the mercy of God.
Seriously? I'm sure he was a nice kid, but was he an example of *heroic* virtue, like Saints Padre Pio, Max Kolbe, Thomas More, the Holy Martyrs of Uganda, John Vianney, Anthony the Great?
The bar is low these days. That's not good. This is a saint of the "Everybody Goes To
The amount of things that are now historically contextually ridiculous to be found in medieval art, even on sacred objects, is very large. This is an appropriate use of the Saint's elements. Reconsider this stance.
The habit of the nun usually was slightly adapted expected female medieval dress at the time of the founding of the order. We had dress standards in much of the West quite close to that of the Middle East until relatively recently, and it was good and virtuous that we had them
"There's no hate like Christian love." is just a catch phrase to attempt to manipulate Christians into having no disagreements with anything.
The traditional moral teaching on hatred is as follows. Everything else is superfluous and should be ignored as a demonic temptation: 🧵
The US Catholic Church is a stunning success at the prevention of sexual abuse and it wasn't necessary to revolutionize the Church. It was just necessary to adhere to reporting, monitoring, education, and enforcement norms used by all kinds of major organizations.
@JosepoRodri01
Well yeah but you're forgetting the part where we roved the waters raiding people for like 350 years lol. I'm not really open to a "we didn't do anything" account of our history.
@hispanobro
Okay so the idea is that oppression is a blond white guy telling you to listen during Spanish class when you're Hispanic, even though I think if he had good parents they tell him the same damn thing.
@ItIsHoeMath
@JoeScho15
No it isn't. There is an extreme difference between gross economic product and economic growth.
We haven't put out numbers comparable to the 40s through the '60s at all since the '80s and we increasingly have economic growth rates not much over 2%.
No, it's not a matter of interpretation. Frank was just wrong about Paul, and he could not write his way around the archetype. He was wrong because the liberal psychology is wrong about freedom, religion, and messiahs and because he writes to well to be dishonest about his
For anyone that still thinks Paul’s rise to power in DUNE is up for interpretation… here’s Denis setting the record straight.
He rewrote Chani to basically spoon feed the audience that “Paul is bad” - but it’s quite clear a lot of DUNE fans think he’s still like Luke
When I looked into religious sexual abuse and saw that not only Catholics but Baptist ministers, Buddhist monks, Muslims, Rabbis & new age pagans traditionalist, conservative, or modernist have had problems I realized the solution was not going to be more apologetics books.
What's this mysterious idea of "misunderstanding"? Sodomy is not a complicated concept nor is queer culture somehow like difficult to get. I've been embedded in this nonsense since the early 2000s. It's not 1985 anymore. They're one of the most successful and wealthy groups in
The religious trauma of LGBTQ Catholics is heart-breaking to hear. The fear of being misunderstood, rejected, ostracized; welcoming pastors replaced by intolerant ones; church documents giving hope only to be yanked; refusal of even a simple blessing. Catholics, we can do better!
Modernism requires:
1) Philosophical agnosticism (in general, particularly as in Kantianism)
2) Vital immanence (immanentism)
3) Radical evolutionism (as in Historicism/Hegelianism)
If you're talking about anything else, it might be a heresy, but it isn't modernism.
The pageantry of Catholicism? The Orthodox ramble around in the most over decorated room you ever saw in your life in at least as elaborate vestments as we have with the instrumental accretions of the Byzantine empire dangling off every candle and reed.
I feel a consistent theme with people who disrespectfully debate Orthodoxy is that they can’t bench 225lbs. I am not joking. It seems low testosterone and cattiness always go together. And lack of testosterone makes things like the pageantry of Catholicism seem appealing.
@Goodtweet_man
Walkable anything is intrinsically "fatphobic". As per the other cases... we need only consider numbers, time preference, wealth, and impulse control.
@ComradeDoyIe
I don't know what manner of sin "give the poor alms on the condition that they sterilize themselves for your convenience" is but that's a sin and stop.
The quasi-freudian theory of rape known as the "sexual deprivation thesis" has been disproven many times in the sexual abuse literature. Rapists don't rape because they lack access to sex. In fact, by and large the most prolific rapists very rarely lack sexual access- often even
Bishop Eugenio Cóter, head of the Communication Commission of the Bolivian Bishops’ Conference, said in a radio interview that optional celibacy could be a “helpful element” in preventing sexual abuse.
@creavitmac70700
A lot of this pop wisdom arises from the popularization of the Freudian cliche that repression is bad, which is neither accurate to Freud nor helpful. If you have extreme anger the very first thing you need to do is avoid and repress- before you end up ruining your life or
There is not a single person in all of existence who would pick up a Bible, read it and then become Roman Catholic. Not a single person. That's how foreign to scripture Rome's teachings are.
Literally what will happen is a euthanasia contractor will get sales people etc to incentivize the service among certain populations of the elderly and others. It's not mysterious how this will go. There's already marketing friendly designs for equipment:
@EndlessVinco
@mythic_0
Per capita is useless in this case given that the narrative is about protection of the climate in which case all that matters is total gross emissions. World CO2 emissions have not declined despite the post industrial world declining them.
I converted at a really high point in my life. Most of my moments approaching faith were very high points.
• I was in college and had a non-trivially moving experience with a monastery.
• Later I came to be persuaded rationally and after a long and happy investigation that God
Religion is a mental illness.
You were either groomed as a kid into it, or persuaded at a low and vulnerable time in your life.
There are no sane, happy people who freely choose to become devoutly religious.
@AStratelates
Well, you see, my favorite way of critiquing Newtonian mechanics is to not read any of the material on Newtonian mechanics and then just make up what I think it is off the top of my head and criticize that.
In the course of this thread it's come up a number of times that people still believe that expressing anger is effective in some way, and I'm going to tell you from all psychological evidence and really any actual serious observation of what's going on, this just isn't the case.
Sexual abuse is not a religious problem, it is a problem IN the religions, like it's a problem in schools and a problem in corporations and a problem in families. Predators look for places to hunt. That's how it works. They don't REALLY care about the integrity of the place.
I practically walk down any city street tripping over dying 12-year-olds spouting off about the Saints and Eucharistic miracles. We can't let this dangerous example be put front and center for the faithful.
The best part about this is that Martin himself barely discusses the economy of ASOIAF or has a functioning understanding of any medieval system at all. His idea of medieval economics and medieval politics is basically somewhere in between a soap opera and a cartoon.
Particularly universal among women of all the relevant cultures and classes was the covering, binding, and veiling of the hair. This was socially enforced.
The bizarre refusal of the priests and bishops involved to allow cameras and the old sham techniques of going into the place alone and coming out with the fire are strong evidence of fraud. Moreover you can do this with normal flame with the silly quick passovers that are
@OldWest1453
@miaana_14
No, because the story would indicate a non celibate priest which means that they are Eastern Catholic, and anybody involved in that would know exactly what rite.
@hispanobro
Filipino? Why is an Aztec there? Did the conquistadors even go to the Philippines?
This is like having Mario feed the Irish spaghetti to spite the English in a political cartoon about the potato famine.
My father imprudently got a 3rd moderna shot 6 months too early because he was paranoid from the news & he has had a negative reaction that's filled his lungs with fluid. Pray that he have sufficient prudence to seek medical attention & that this reaction spare his life.
How come every liberal theologian- Hart, Lafferty, Milbank etc -just has the same opinions as CNN but they dress it up with some pretentious reading of some religious writer who probably doesn't agree with them.
No: religious vocation pretty much collapsed at once as soon as the big cultural shift happened in the late '60s early '70s and directly attacked basically everyone under 40 with education and cultural participation immediately and then everyone else slowly afterwards.
All other
I’ve thought so much abt why Mass attendance, vocations, participation of our faith is low and I always come back to this:
We are a religion for the oppressed, downtrodden, poor, marginalized. When we fail to live this, our faith cannot flourish. It becomes crippled.
Cease.
Women's reasons for ducking out on their children are unsurprisingly more or less what every man would expect having met irresponsible fathers. That any man should fall for the distortions and dramatics around this topic shows how foolish we are over crocodile tears.