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@MatthewJLB

Catholic; American (Filipino Dad/mixed-European Mom); supports the Social Reign of Christ the King; space geek; #NASASocial vet; Phillies phan. Viva Cristo Rey!

Washington, DC Region Se unió Mayıs 2009
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Jonathan Liedl
Jonathan Liedl@JLLiedl·
Didn't want to try to compete with the actual cosmos-altering announcement, but on the morn of the Annunciation my wife delivered some "good news" we wanted to share: Our baby girl Adelaide Marie Tadros Liedl was born! She is *lovely*. A self-indulgent first-time father thread:
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(Tracking something I ordered as a Christmas gift…way early) Who knew the USPS has a facility in Jamaica???
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@HeartPatient105 @HelleVitesse @Sachinettiyil There has to be court-supervised negotiation/arrangements between the diocese; its insurers; & the lawyers of the victims. I attended 1 such hearing a couple of years ago for Baltimore. It’s a complicated process. It’ll take a while to sort out.
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Sachin Jose
Sachin Jose@Sachinettiyil·
St. John Chapel, a Catholic chapel in Louisiana, was vandalized and deliberately set on fire. Authorities have arrested suspects in connection with the incident. Info: Diocese of Alexandria
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@alancornett He blocked me over this. He posted a link to some Protestant website about the problematic “pagan” components to Tolkien. But they denied the Catholic canon of Scripture. He spent the whole day at CPAC; so he probably Googled something quick to “own” people.
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@JackPosobiec @JoshuaLisec So you, the rosary-clutching Catholic, is turning to a page that rejects the Catholic canon of Scripture?

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Alan Cornett
Alan Cornett@alancornett·
Good Lord. A guy I don’t like likes it so it has to be pagan. We used to have Chesterton and Tolkien and now we have Posobiec and Candace Owens.
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Alan Cornett
Alan Cornett@alancornett·
This is why the self-conscious “right” can’t make good art. Everything has to be didactic and overt. It’s the same motivation that results in a literal come to Jesus conversion scene in “Christian romance” novels.
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.@JackPosobiec: Lord of the Rings is overtly pagan.

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Jon Del Arroz | Pop Culture & Gaming 🎮
Tolkien described his left wing hippie fandom as “deplorable cultus.” Lord of the Rings was always intended to be a right wing and Christian work.
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Greco-Levantines World Wide
Greco-Levantines World Wide@GrecoLevantines·
After midnight in Damascus, they are still there— holding the Cross, chanting for faith, for dignity, for life. Christians refusing to be silenced. Refusing the terror campaign against Suqaylabiyah. The night is long… but they are still standing.
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@infooverload @DLoesch The ancestors of Aragorn & the Gondorians had a temple to Eru (the One God) on their island nation. Before the whole ring saga, Sauron had a role in corrupting it—to rather dark & evil end.
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InfoOverload@infooverload·
@DLoesch My one beef with LOTR is that it appears impossible in Middle Earth to have a personal relationship with a supreme being. The main characters can have only vague, hopeful trust in semi-legendary Elves who lived many centuries in the past.
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Things happen in three: 1. The Colbert movie announcement 2. The laughable claim that “there's far too much moral clarity in [LOTR] for the story to feel authentic and relatable…the 21st century has no place for black-and-white perspectives. 3. The below:
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.@JackPosobiec: Lord of the Rings is overtly pagan.

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Alex Christy
Alex Christy@alexchristy17·
Among other bits of evidence, Tolkien literally invented the word eucatastrophe to describe the incarnation and resurrection and then said all good fairy stories need a eucatastrophe in order to be a reflection of The True Myth, to use the phrase he used to get Lewis to convert
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.@JackPosobiec: Lord of the Rings is overtly pagan.

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Kevin Tierney
Kevin Tierney@CatholicSmark·
The Civil war in anti-trad influencer world, between those who are reluctantly accepting reality, and those who will never leave the prison of their own deranged mind.
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