Tristan

"Jesus said just be a heckin' nice and decent person bro!" - The most hateful and vindictive person you've ever met.

I assume someone has already told him, but it behooves the President both spiritually and politically to delete the picture, no matter the intent.

Happy Easter to the Orthodox community!

@johnamonaco Tried finding some of the old tweets but to no avail, unfortunately.

@GreenRedKnight Oh man, I wonder if I was on hiatus then because that would’ve been incredible to witness

“Women’s ordination” only appeals to progressive women over 40 who are power-hungry and want attention. Liberals are horrified that the younger generation of Catholic women are wearing veils, desiring large families, happy with an all-male priesthood.

Manly Honor VI: The Decline of Traditional Honor in the West in the 20th Century buff.ly/3sD16GL

Ultimately, the problem with liberal theology is that it thinks too highly of man and too lowly of God.

@BradleyGrey_ Skill issue

Nobody wants to say this out loud so I will: Teaching young men that their natural sexual desire is sinful doesn’t make them holy. It makes them socially crippled. Anxious. Ashamed. Completely unprepared for the real world. That was me. For the first decade of my adult life.

Religion stole my entire sexual prime. I didn’t have sex until my wedding night at 23. I didn’t have a real dating life until my divorce at 28. And I’m done pretending that wasn’t a tragedy.

Its really important to not let the actions of other Catholics disturb your spiritual life or convictions that the Catholic faith is the one true faith. I know thats much easier said than done especially when it comes to scandalous bishops and priests and clergy in general, or influencer culture, or even just how Catholics in your day to day life act. Some actions come from genuinely bad intentions, some come from good but mistaken intentions, and many times we dont know the spiritual battles other people are facing and we should pray for them rather than let their behavior disturb our own faith. Sometimes its best to take a break from social media or looking at church politics. Christ established one Church on the rock of St Peter, its the true faith, and we need to have full confidence and trust in Jesus. Dont let your faith be shaken, as bad as things can be at times, cling to the rosary and the Eucharist. God bless you

@redsteeze @ChristopherHale Why wouldn't he be? They're so similar I wouldn't be shocked if they turned out to be related.

@ChristopherHale Big fan of Nick Fuentes, are you?

“MAGA is a dead and dying movement. The only people left in MAGA are the boomers that still watch Fox News, the boomers in the Villages, all these retirees in Florida that get tricked by AI on the regular. “Those are the only people who are still with it. And like Trump, they're not going to be here in 20 years. They're going to be dead.” — @NickJFuentes

This arg went so hard when I like 17. The fact that grown men still make it almost 20 years later feels like a mosquito trapped in amber.

If a belief or behavior makes you happier and healthier, it likely fits the real world. It likely matches reality. David Larson "practically single-handedly turned around the medical community on the subject of religion and health. As a graduate student in psychiatry, Larson was actually advised to leave the field. The settled stereotype was that religious belief is associated with mental illness. Ever since Freud had declared belief in God a “universal obsessional neurosis,” it had become dogma that religion is harmfulto mental health, and even pathological. Nevertheless, Larson persisted in his studies, and over time he began to notice that the negative stereotype of religion was not supported by actual research results. In fact, the facts pointed to the opposite conclusion: Subjects who were more religious tended to show up in the healthy groups, not the sick groups. Eventually Larson began doing his own research and founded the National Institute for Healthcare Research (NIHR), which has published scores of studies confirming that religious belief (which in America generally means Christianity) actually correlates with better mental health. It is now widely accepted that religious people have lower rates of depression, suicide, family instability, drug and alcohol abuse, and other social pathologies. How did scientists overlook for so long the fact that religion is a powerfulsource of mental well-being? How did they even mistake it for a form of mental disorder? If the study of mental health is a science, as its practitioners like to claim, this was no “minor oversight,” writes Patrick Glynn, in God: The Evidence. “It shows to what degree the term ‘science’ has been abused by the thinkers of modernity to mask what amounts to little more than a prior prejudice against the idea of God.” Even more surprising, religious belief also correlates with better physical health—with lower rates of virtually everything from cancer to hypertension to cardiovascular disease. When religious people do get sick, they recover faster. They even have lower mortality rates—that is, they live longer—which is the bottom line for medical professionals. (Modern demographers regard life expectancy as the best indicator of quality of life.) All told, people who attend church regularly are happier, healthier, and even live longer. What a stunning irony, writes Glynn. The heralds of modernity had “assumed that spirituality would be shown to have a physical basis”—but “instead something like the reverse has occurred: Health has been shown to have a spiritual underpinning.” Today the facts are in: Science itself confirms that biblical principles work in the real world—which is strong evidence that they are true. The Bible describes the way we were created to function, and when we follow its prescriptions, we are happier and healthier. The best explanation of the positive data is that our lives are lining up with the objective structure of reality." (from Total Truth)

Here is a very basic response – if you care to read it. Catholics hold that the Bishop of Rome, as successor of St Peter, possesses a unique ecclesial grace of the Holy Spirit, a charism attached to the Petrine office, such that when he teaches as supreme pastor of the universal Church (ex cathedra), defining a matter of faith or morals to be held by all the faithful, he is preserved from error. This is the power, called Papal Infallibility, the office has always possessed, but was formally defined at the First Vatican Council. These require the assent of the faithful, since their authority derives not from the pope's personal qualities (ex merito) but from the office he holds (ex officio) which is guided and protected by the Holy Spirit. This, however, pertains only to the formal exercise of the office and not to the private judgment of the man who holds it. As a man, the pope is fallible, capable of imprudence, temporal corruption, and subject to error in matters outside the scope of his teaching authority (e.g. economics or the climate). His personal opinions, non‑authoritative remarks, or personal conduct do not bind the faithful. However, the virtue of justice demands that we still honour the man – even if he be vicious – because honour is owed principally to the office as a participation in the divine order, and the man receives that honour by reason of the office he bears, not by his personal sanctity – even though we hope and pray that all pope's (like all members of the Magisterium) are good and holy men.

Anyone confused by the Christian concept of "original sin" need only watch @abfly's anime "Haibane Renmei," because somehow a Japanese artist understood the core concept of Christianity better than many Christians do. The "circle of sin" riddle and the answer to it perfectly encapsulates it. The riddle is "he who acknowledges his sin, has no sin;" a paradox, as a person cannot objectively judge, and thus forgive themselves any more than they can bite their own teeth. Judgement has to come from somewhere external to the sinner. However, if it's a simple matter of judgement, why is the sinner's acknowledgement required? Christian theology poses this same question, with the common phrase "do you accept that Jesus died for your sins?" Christian theology holds that the innate imperfections of mankind (as compared to the flawlessness of divinity) are the root cause of all sin; the weakness which leaves us susceptible to moral failings. (This is called "original sin.") God sent his son, Jesus, to earth to absolve this sin by means of sacrificing himself. Thus to acknowledge this sacrifice is to acknowledge your own sins are real - in short, it is to acknowledge that you have free will, and thus are responsible for your actions; you are a "moral actor." Thus the "circle of sin" that afflicts Rakka in Haibaine Renmei - if you face the truth of good and evil, you are deluged in guilt, as humans are imperfect and thus cannot avoid committing sins. Hence the importance of Jesus's sacrifice - the act of selfless forgiveness breaks the cycle of guilt. The creator whom made humanity flawed does not blame humanity for that which was out of our control; this allows us to hate and reject the evil within ourself without hating the whole of our selves; and by consequence, strengthen our free will so that we may choose good over evil more and more often. Christians say that "God made humans in his own image" and conceptually this is found in our free will, from which our ability to create ultimately stems. Free will is the spark of divinity; that which makes us the children of God, and he, our father. Thus the core of Christianity: there is a spark of divine Good within you; an inheritance from God, and it is within your power to fan this spark into a flame. It is an empowering and uplifting message. Tragically, many Christians don't grasp the fundamental message of their religion well enough to communicate it. "Do you accept that Jesus died for your sins?" is how "evangelical" Christians often phrase it, without preamble, and when I was young, despite being raised in the religion in a mostly Christian country, it seemed like an accusation - "you're a sinner, aren't you!?" If I was Japanese and someone showed up talking like that, I'd definitely throw rocks at that guy. Perhaps this is why ABe's work so excellently summarizes the core idea of Christianity, despite coming from a Buddhist/Eastern worldview: the job of a storyteller is to communicate clearly about the human condition. In the movie "Enemy Mine," a human, while reading his alien friend's holy book, suddenly pauses and says, "I've read all this before, in my own people's holy book." His friend replies, "of course you have. Truth is truth." The only wall between humans are misunderstandings, and our storytellers gave us the sledgehammers we needed long ago. All we're doing now with the Great Cultural Exchange is picking them up and swinging.

🚨VEJA: Astronauta Victor que foi à Lua diz que sua fé em Deus aumentou após a viagem, ao ver tudo o que presenciou no espaço, afirmando que Ele é o criador.

Because we're the ones who end up in work camps.

Uma coisa às vezes divertida e às vezes maçante sobre ateus e anti-cristãos em geral é que todas as reações estúpidas contra a fé estão prefiguradas no Novo Testamento.

@hf_222222 What did Dorothy even do? I've never heard of her having a "past"

Literally wtf is this guy talking about. I don't even know what aspect of Day's past is being referenced here, whereas Augustine's scandalous past is a key part of like the second most famous conversion story ever.