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✝️ Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

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A thread of 10 Bach performances that will turn atheists into believers. 🧵
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Dr. Ben Braddock
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The priest and Tucker both make a subtle but fundamental error here. By the priest’s own recounting, the demon told him that his power over the woman was from “pop” (soda). But in the United States, this isn’t made with sugar, it is made with corn syrup. Corn does not occur in nature. The Olmec bred it from a grass called teosinte in one of the most radical and unexplained transformations in the history of agriculture. The plant barely resembles its ancestor. Mainstream archaeobotanists still struggle to fully account for how it happened as fast as it did but there is a school of thought that suggests the Olmec obtained the knowledge to do this by communing with entities contacted through psychedelic rituals involving human sacrifice. Corn deities figure prominently in the religion of the Olmec, the Maya, the Aztec, and other groups in the Americas. Its derivatives are now in virtually every processed food product in America. When you consume it, you are partaking in it. It’s even in your gas tank thanks to the federal government’s ethanol subsidies and fuel mandate. When your car burns it, it leaves a cloud of the stuff lingering in the air like cursed incense.
Fractured Light@FracturedLight0

Father Chad Ripperger tells Tucker Carlson sugar is a big addiction demons drive in people who are possessed. “I’m not surprised even a little bit. I’m just surprised you said it out loud.”

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Study of Five Grotesque Heads (c. 1490) -Leonardo Da Vinci
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One of the days where our discourse became irreparably stupider
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@SteveSkojec Those numbers might change if we cripple their civilian infrastructure
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Social Media Satire@SatireMedi63111·
@LangmanVince Taking photos with a fan mid song belting his 1999 one hit wonder....that is hardcore rockin' right there
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Vince Langman@LangmanVince·
Wow! "Sugar Ray" is doing gigs at pavilions in theme parks. Sad!
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Zy@ZyMazza·
I don't really do Apologetics anymore. Aquinas famously said "To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary; to one without faith, no explanation is possible" but even more importantly the Apostle Paul said "they will know we are Christians by our love." But even more importantly than that Jesus Christ Himself said "by their fruits you will know them." The way I see it there is no explanation necessary nor is there one that is even possible. That's the nature of faith. But, if there is one way laid out for us to win souls it is by example. The ultimate apologia is living a life so joyful and serene that other people can't help but ask you "what is your secret? how do you do it?" and you can tell them "through the Grace of God and my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" And honestly if no one is asking, I'm starting to think, best to not even bring it up. I'm obviously not not letting the Holy Spirit shine through me if no one is curious about what I'm doing or how I'm doing it. Honestly half the time or more I fear I would be a discredit to God to volunteer that I consider myself a follower of His; what example does that set?? I'm no saint... But if someone were to ask I won't deny my Lord either. Nor should I. So I think I ought to try to live such that people ask. Maybe. So my unsolicited advice to believers is to stop offering unsolicited advice to unbelievers. Live a life so aligned with God's will that people can't help but solicit advice from you, and then give it.
wanye@xwanyex

I can’t believe I actually have to explain this, but, “I just find it impossible to accept that the accounts we have of the apostles would exist unless they really did behave exactly as described on the basis of having witnessed a resurrection” is trivially defeated by, “well, I find it impossible to accept that there was a resurrection, mate.” You are creating a case of, “which is more likely” and, “a guy rose from the dead” is definitely the less likely of the two possibilities, from a purely scientific and secular worldview, even if the other thing is really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really improbable. Even if we grant that the accounts that we have today of their behavior are perfectly accurate, that nothing has been left out, that no mistakes were made, that literally everything occurred exactly as described, and even if we therefore grant that they went to their deaths genuinely believing they had firsthand evidence of a resurrection, one would still have to say, I think, that some other explanation for their behavior, no matter how unlikely or improbable, is still more likely than that a guy genuinely rose from the dead. If your acceptance of Christianity is based on arguments like this one, then I think it will always be flimsy. These just aren’t very good arguments. That is to say, at the very least, these arguments are not going to be convincing to most smart, scientifically-minded people. I would just simply resist the urge to try to compare probabilities in this way. Most smart, rational people see these two options and think that resurrection is the dramatically least likely of all available explanations. ”But without the resurrection, these accounts of the disciples make no sense!” just simply cannot overcome the improbability of a literal resurrection (again, from a purely secular, scientific worldview). I think it is a mistake to base your Christianity on these kinds of arguments. I think you will find that these kinds of arguments are not very convincing to most educated people. And I think also that the reason for this is that it is in fact not a very convincing argument. We cannot hope to construct Christianity on logic in this way. If one believes, as I do, that Christ was in fact resurrected, as I proclaim in my recitation of the Nicene Creed every Sunday, then one must have the courage to accept that this must somehow be possible absent the intuition described above.

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Sweeptown 👩🏽‍🚀🇨🇦
Incredible that most people haven't seen these. Like, we know what the surface of Venus looks like and most people just haven't seen it. Despite Mars taking its thunder, this to me has always been the most truly alien-looking world that's ever been photographed
Christo Aivalis 🌹🍊@christoaivalis

One thing we don't talk about is how the Soviet Union landed on Venus and got incredible pictures in 1982

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@SteveSkojec I never doubted Catholicism as seriously as when I started listening to this guy. Even when I think he is utterly ridiculous, a part of me feels convinced he is the definitive representation of Traditional Catholicism. Ripp wrecked my brain more than Hitchens ever could.
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Slumdog_Chillionaire@SlumRNA_Dog·
The worst thing that will happen if you follow this book is that even if you’re son grows up to be a pole smoker anyway you’ll have a rich and healthy relationship with him. There’s literally no downside.
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Slumdog_Chillionaire@SlumRNA_Dog

One of the most frustrating replies these posts get is “what does it say? ‘Don’t molest your son’ for 200 pages?” Especially from guys who should understand that the world is trying to molest your kids in 1000 different ways. The path is narrower than you think!

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