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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 Katılım Mayıs 2009
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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@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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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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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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Peachy Keenan
Peachy Keenan@KeenanPeachy·
Anecdotally, I already knew this. Not only are some of my kids' college friends coming into this church this Easter, but even my own wonderful mother, a lifelong atheist and religion-doubter, is getting baptized this Easter. 🥹 It's a miracle and I have no other explanation for it. I have never prosletized her. She stunned us when she confessed that she had secretly started going to OCIA classes at her local parish. The woman in is her seventies. It is never too late!
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@TimONeill007 @johnddavidson “MAGA-bro evangelical Prot” Isn’t Davidson Catholic? In any case, the fact that I refused to vote for Trump three times would make me a pariah in that crowd (not that I care).
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Tim O'Neill
Tim O'Neill@TimONeill007·
@MatthewJLB @johnddavidson I fail to see how Pobosiec getting Tolkien wildly wrong disproves my point. And given enough time, everyone will pretend they loathed MAGA.
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John Daniel Davidson
John Daniel Davidson@johnddavidson·
Under the pen of someone like Stephen Colbert, who clearly doesn’t understand or doesn’t care about the moral vision at the heart of LOTR, the upcoming spinoff will almost certainly corrupt Tolkien’s work and reduce it to nothing more than pop culture slop.
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@TimONeill007 @johnddavidson Go see how Jack Pobosiec got completely wrecked last night/today by right-of-center Tolkien fans over his really-bad take on LOTR. You’re being shortsighted about the subject due to your loathing of MAGA.
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Tim O'Neill
Tim O'Neill@TimONeill007·
@johnddavidson I think Colbert’s idea sounds awful and fully expect the end product to be terrible. But the idea some shallow-brained Christian Nationalist MAGA-bro evangelical Prots are the true keepers of JRRT’s deeply intellectual and compassionate Catholic humanism is hilarious.
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Wyatt Buckingham
Wyatt Buckingham@BuckinghamWyatt·
Jack Posobiec would of course have the dumbest take on LOTR. A dude who wrote sexual fan-fiction of a GoT teenage girl isn’t someone to ask about these things. LOTR at the core of its story is a Christian story, Tolkien himself talks about this. Jack Poso is just an idiot.
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.@JackPosobiec: Lord of the Rings is overtly pagan.

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Douglas Dunklin
Douglas Dunklin@DougDunklin·
@Katapetasma2 @TheMiddleborne I’m guessing you haven’t: A. Read the books. B. Read any in-depth commentary on the books. C. Read what Tolkien himself said about the books. I have. Get back to me when you have and we’ll have a conversation based on facts.
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Kangmin Lee | 이강민
I am now seriously inquiring Catholicism, Orthodoxy, or High-Church Protestantism after this whole fiasco. Modern evangelicalism is compromised & detached from apostolic faith, swapped for subjective feel-good fluff instead of Scripture-rooted truth & historic Church tradition.
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