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Not necessarily just priests but in-the-old-meaning 'religious'. That is; either (just for men) ordained ministry or else (for anyone) joining a mendicant/monastic order. If you're focusing on giving your time to God you go all the way, otherwise get married and replenish the Earth.

@MandalorianGe0 @LoganJPenn @ChristisKing123 Oh, does this concept only apply to priests? I thought it applied to everyone, but priests are just expected to actually be celibate more so than anyone else

I can’t really find a better summary of modern Christianity than a female “pastor” saying it’s not the church’s job to help a young man get married and then abandoning him to the secular world.

@planefag In the dimmimg days of the metal age miracles still happen but only those that could have faith could see. Those metal men those materialist that thoight themselves as robot of flesh confined to this deary life simply couldn't see anything but physics at work.

@naval @MaxiHielo

@RuleofLawMaxi @CrankyPainter @Devon_Eriksen_ They lived next to the Powhatan and the Lenape, not with them.

@CrankyPainter @Devon_Eriksen_ The Powhatan and the Lenape would disagree.

You may be wondering why immigrants hate us so much. After all, they were allowed to come to America, and prosper greatly by doing so, and a large portion of the population bent over backwards to welcome them and make them feel at home. If you don't understand realpsych, you would expect them to be grateful. But that's not how people actually work. Human beings are grateful for gifts and favors only up to the point where they feel they can no longer repay them. Once that point is passed, once a person can no longer repay his debts, then he has a choice between two narratives for understanding the rest of his life. "I am a charity recipient, not a self-sustaining human being." "I was entitled to what I took from those people, because they are bad, or weak, or horrible, or something." In other words, if you give someone too much, more than they deserve, more than they can possibly earn, they become ungrateful little swine, precisely in order to preserve their own psychological well being. And they will surround themselves with others who participate with them in that collaborative lie. Sometimes people can make entire careers out of pandering to the over-privileged and under-deserving. Careers like "publicist". Or "immigration lawyer". And they will invent an entire mythos to preserve their self-worth. They will convince themselves that thriving off undeserved gifts makes them the elite of humanity, while those whose inheritance was taken from them are some mental stereotype of drunken "Biff", who partied his way through a second rate IT school. There's just one small problem that they must handwave away or ignore if they can. Biff's great-grandparents build America into the greatest nation on Earth. Biff's grandparents won WW2. Biff's parents invented the internet, and flew astronauts to the moon. Biff's entire tribe was thriving. Otherwise there would have been nothing to give to immigrants, and no reason for them to come here. Meanwhile, all of the places that the immigrants are coming from have existed a lot longer than America, and been filled with the ancestors of those immigrants, and lots of other people who are like them in every way. They had centuries, sometimes millennia, to get their shit together and build something where they were. They didn't. They had to go live in someone else's country, for "opportunities". Of course they have to pretend that they "deserve" those "opportunities" more than the very people whose ancestors created the "opportunities" in the first place. Because otherwise they would have to admit the one thing their self-esteem could never endure.... Leaving their own nations, and their tribes, was an admission of abject failure.

@TaigaExplorer @PalmyrPar Genesis doesn't describe the ratios of Adam and Eve's brow ridges.

@PalmyrPar What do you say to the palaeontologists & geneticists who claim they have multiple hominid remains from different time periods millions of years ago which we can be almost sure are our definite ancestors ?

“It’s a strange instinct, as if we came from something that sought to recreate itself. That would be silly though, haha.”

@DemokratikNiko You don't have to agree with everything Augustine said because his words never had universal acceptance by the Church in the way the creeds and councils did. You absolutely have to agree with Paul because his words had universal acceptance before the end of the first century.

I think it’s quite alright that you not have to agree completely with Paul. You don’t have to fully agree with Augustine…you don’t have to put yourself into their personality cult as it were. That’s just me though.

@dominicptaranto @IVMiles I always preferred 'Raise, Columbia'. Even just as a battle hymn, love 'Battle Hymn of the Republic' though I do, I think Kipling's "Hymn Before Action" is superior. (Sorry for the reply spam, I kept noticing errors in the images.)

@IVMiles Maybe I’m just edgy but I want it as our national anthem.

Nooooo

@tiredoftheShlt @The_RacingHeart @MariaGraceVT This is "Christ Pantocrator" painted on wooden board sometime between 700 to 800 AD.

@The_RacingHeart @MariaGraceVT

Very cool, Where is Muhammad though?

@DemokratikNiko The best that one's means can afford is always beautiful. Sometimes that's St Paul's Cathedral, sometimes that's a shack.

Basement Chapel at my current church I am attending. Folks tell me some group uses it for church during the week. Unsure what group that is.

In a serious country this is what a state map would look like. Most of our problems as a country come from the benefits of the founding principles diluting at scale. All the precautions against goverment provisioned by the founders were considered vitally necessary by them for the proper governing of just four of these regions.

north america in regions of 1 million people! full res: anita.garden/na1m/

It usually over a hidden sympathy to liberal philosophy if not theology, ie: despite calling themselves conservative they still cling in their heart to some form of blank-slateism. Like I'm sorry, but a plain reading of scripture, let alone the deposit of the faith in the church fathers, teaches complementarianism. There is no generalized human nature, but instead two; male and female. Male and female are distinct metaphysical existences with two different experiences of God's creation. Though it is hard to entirely blame them, everyone except the youngest generation are still fundamentally products of the Enlightenment.

I can no longer tolerate those who aren't disgusted & 100% intolerant of women's "ordination". The priestesses' perceived intentions do not matter. You are either WO's enemy or you are it's accomplice. This includes supposed trad bishops who shield heresy from unkind truths.

In the late 90s, Bishop Swing (probably from the same Episcopalian diocese in California), visited Virginia Theological Seminary and preached the same sermon, essentially: When Jesus said that there's no way to the Father except through him, he really meant that there are many different ways to the Father and that the most important thing is to be a "good person like Jesus" and that's how you get to heaven. The assumption at the heart of progressive theology that we can all "be good like Jesus" if we just try hard enough is so breathtakingly vainglorious it still surprises me that anyone can believe it. A good number of us walked out during the sermon and in those days we didn't get in trouble for it.

@extradeadjcb They're right but ignore the race factor. Conservatives have learned to like their banishment to the hinterlands. Stockholm syndrome.

@hamansgallows @80s_Patriot @mattvanswol Adjusted for inflation that's not insanely far off. A pepperoni from back then would cost about $25. The issue is the ratio of disposable income has continuously shrunk since then.

@80s_Patriot @mattvanswol That would be great. What wouldn't be is doing so and having a large pan-style meat lovers be $39.56

🚨WOW!!! Tim Sparks has confirmed he purchased 80 PIZZA HUTS and brought back EVERYTHING that made them iconic! Pac-Man is back. Salad bar is back. Red cups are back. Booths for families. "I want to rebuild places for families to connect and put their phones down..."

My thoughts on the English Reformation on up through the Oxford movement: There are folks I like. There are folks I don't like. Plenty of developments in music and architecture that were important. What I categorically despise and will not apologize for despising: 1) Assfaced Noblemen stripping churches to pay for summer homes and wars. 2) Brutally oppressing anyone who longed for religious devotions that were taken from them by force. 3) Puritan terrorism against people who didn't want it. 4) Romanticizing any of the above. This was not a "Gosh, the people just all organically loved all this stuff until the bad ol' Oxford, Cambridge, and Ritualists came along" sort of movement. The system was put in place and sustained by violence by a small, authoritarian group of people, and when it finally wasn't enforced by violence, people almost immediately stopped worshipping that way. (Now, of course, they barely worship at all in England, but that's another matter.)

@earleigenvector @pipkinpippa He's supposedly been grooming his son as an heir.

@pipkinpippa Gabe's will needs to have his exact vision for how to lead and run Valve written out. Whoever defies it loses all claim to their shares and is thrown into the streets. Pay his lawyers a fortune to enforce it too.

unironically he earned it

Saying to Nadia Bolz Weber and co "hey the early Church had vaginal Baptismal fonts too YoUrE OnTo SoMeThInG" has the same energy as a youth pastor in skinny jeans saying "the real hard radical romance is Jesus Christ" to a bunch of sex-loving teens. A) The ancient world context and what that meant to them is heavily conditioned by their world, their images, etc (and BTW the claim isnt even certain to begin with), and B) it is foolish to build bridges with Weber through Weber's vile and disgusting blasphemy when you KNOW Weber would chew you out for being homophobic if you even think same sex action is sin It is so tiresome. Christ is Lord, the gods of the world are demonic parodies; and any bridge building here needs to consist in showing how Christ has knocked down the gods and taken back his light. Archbishop Trench: “For if it be true of Him, that as He emptied the golden seats of Olympus, and swept their long line of heroes and demi-gods and gods into the darkness and corruption of the tomb, He gathered from each idol as it fell its pretended majesty and dominion and power, claiming them all rightfully for his own, and weaving all the scattered rays of light into one crown of glory for his own head.”

Once upon a time, the people of a certain land were blessed with an oracle of uncanny precision and depth in its predictions and information. The people rose to prominence and prosperity thanks to consulting the oracle. However, the people were never allowed to consult the oracle directly, but only through the priests that carried their questions to it, and brought the oracle's responses back to them. Eventually, the priests began to confuse the virtues and gifts of the oracle as their own, and began no longer to bother asking the oracle questions before deciding on what "its" answers would be. Thus it transpired that, while the oracles was a reliable and beneficial as it ever was, since its true answers no longer reached the people, but merely the false and self-serving answers of the priests, the act of "consulting the oracle" became no longer beneficial. So people stopped consulting the oracle. The priests were mystified by this. "The oracle is as reliable as ever," they said amongst themselvs. "Why do the people then no longer trust it?" And yet they had done it themselves.

@American_Johnny I've yet to get my hands on a 1662, though I've been enjoying my 1928 when not in a pew. How does it compare?

I try not to worry much about what The Episcopal Church, the Church of England, Rome, or other denominations are doing. When you realize your target audience for evangelism isn't the wrong flavor of Christian, but rather, the person who has never heard the saving message of the Gospel, it will change your life. It'll be a work in progress, sure, but most of your energy isn't going to be sulking about Those Other People who use the wrong prayers, sing the wrong hymns, or ordain the wrong people. And that is truly liberating. It will change your focus. When I was stationed at Keesler AFB years ago, I had a young Marine stop by who was new to the faith. I mean, super new. "Do you have a Bible of your own?" "...No, sir." "Would you like one?" "Yes, sir." And I put her first Bible in her hands, and we talked about where to begin. That's the good stuff. That's what this ministry is about -- not owning the libs, not canceling the trad bros, but pointing people to Christ. I'm not calling for relativism. Hold to your principles, folks, and if they don't work, find better ones. But get you right, discern your role in the Body of Christ, and get after it. I promise you, the role God has for you is so much better than sighing on Twitter about how wrong the wrong people are.