Tradical

Current events make a lot more sense once you accept that demons literally exist & are actively roaming the Earth.

A lot of people think Barack Obama looked like the guy on the left but we actually did an archeological survey of remains from people who lived in the United States during Obama's presidency and we determined that he probably looked more like the picture on the right

“Your Highness, the Iranians are shelling Qatar” “We need to ban Pakistanis immediately” “We’re activating the anti-missile defence system” “Quickly, suspend Pakistani visas” “Parts of Doha are on fire” “We cannot afford to let anymore Pakistanis in, do you understand?”

There are about four prominent paintings of this type: Pukirev, Toulmouche, Zhuravlev, and Leighton (the ones pictured are Leighton and Zhuravlev). They have been recirculated recently for obvious modern reasons. Men painted them. They are fiction, not photography. They do not represent marriage norms of the time, and the fact that they were painted to make some kind of point indicates that the audience would have received them that way. In one prominent case, Pukirev, we have good evidence that the artist was primarily motivated by the fact that the woman he was painting married a man other than himself.

The 1139 ban was formal, carried the threat of anathematization, only applied to the use of crossbows against fellow Christians, and was implemented by a Pope with massive temporal power and influence. And everyone still basically just ignored it.

People are comparing this to the Second Lateran Council’s ban on crossbows, but that was infinitely more likely to succeed—and still didn’t.

These guys who don't want to "discuss" the culture war never end up having moderate positions on it. When you look into it, they generally have the most aggressive and radical possible position. They just want you to unconditionally surrender so the "war can end."

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It’s genuinely depressing how eagerly Catholics have embraced AI slop-"iconography"

How come radical feminists always bring up an almost 40-year-old case from Japan when discussing crimes against women, instead of bringing up what has been happening daily in Western Europe over the past decade?

While I was not aware of what you said in your follow-up article – only of what you had said to your critics here at Twitter – I’ve now read it, and it doesn’t change anything. It just repeats the lame defense you already gave here. You still defend McManaman’s article, saying “I believed it deserved a hearing. I still believe that.” And as you did before here on Twitter, you defend it by misrepresenting it. You pretend that his article merely challenges certain arguments for the doctrine that the sacrament of Holy Orders is reserved to men, but not the doctrine itself. That is false. The article explicitly says that it could turn out that the doctrine “is in the end indefensible,” that it “is not irreversible,” and that “this issue is not at all closed to discussion and debate.” That goes well beyond merely saying that the arguments for the doctrine are not convincing. It says that the doctrine itself might be wrong. Yet you published the article, still defend publishing it, and dishonestly pretend that the article makes only a weaker claim. It’s worth noting too that in your follow-up article, you cite one CDF document but ignore a more relevant one, namely Cardinal Ratzinger’s commentary on Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, which states that the doctrine in question “could not be considered ‘open to debate’” and requires “full definitive assent, that is to say, irrevocable, to a doctrine taught infallibly by the Church.” McManaman’s article unambiguously contradicts these statements, and you continue conveniently to ignore this.

Getting subjugated and erased is historically normal, so you should be OK with it happening to you. I'm convinced.

So true, Professor Beard. Those paranoid nativists should take heart from the cheering example of the *checks notes* Ottoman conquest of Greece. x.com/i/status/20287…

Trophy hunting is generally good, and the fact that it drives normies into an almost feral rage probably speaks to its goodness.

Sad that many Catholics are genuinely dumb enough and/or subversive enough to support this, but certainly not surprising.

Your prayers were answered.

Please pray for a very important special intention.

They’re calling him the most gullible moron of all time.

Hilarious how Rod just falls for literally everything and never learns any lessons.