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The utopia that lied. Here's the truth...

@TheDemSlayer @FaithofKGI And with that bit of wisdom, I’m out.

@FaithofKGI The spiritual stain and stink of Catholicism wouldn’t come until the 3rd-4th Century, hundreds of years after Jesus.

I’d respond directly to this guy, but he decided to block me. 😂 He couldn’t handle the truth, it seems. Anyway, here’s my answer to his ridiculous comment: “The Jews had no Bible” is such an ignorant statement. Yes, they did, and they still do. It’s called the Tanakh—the 39 books of the Hebrew Scriptures. It was the Jews who had canonized all 39 books of the Hebrew Scriptures (Genesis to Malachi), and they did it about 500 years before the Catholic Church even existed. The Catholic Church had ZERO influence determining which books of the “Old Testament” were Scripture. ZERO. That was 100% the Jews. The only thing the Catholic Church determined was what books should be included in the New Testament—the same New Testament books that were also written by THE JEWS. So, no, the Catholic Church actually did very little when it came to providing us with the Holy Bible. The truth is the Catholic Church FORBADE the common man from even reading the Bible. (Note: Why would the Catholic Church do that? Because if the people were actually reading the Bible for themselves, then they wouldn’t be Catholic. That’s why). And 1000+ years later when Protestant Reformers were working to translate the Bible into English so the common man could read it for themselves, the Catholic Church literally hunted them down, imprisoned them, and then murdered them. The only reason YOU have the Bible today is because (1) the Jews wrote it and (2) Protestant Reformers gave their lives to translate it. So, be sure to thank a Jew and a Protestant today.

“The Codex Sassoon (dated late 9th–early 10th century) is the oldest, most complete Hebrew Bible known, selling for $38.1 million in 2023. Covering almost all 24 books, it precedes the similar Aleppo Codex (partially damaged) and Leningrad Codex (dated 1008 C.E.), making it the premier, near-complete surviving example of the Masoretic text”

@FeserEdward What if it’s mom vs dad?

The present moment is revealing people’s true loyalties. The pope is the spiritual father of all Catholics. In a family, even when you disagree with your father, you rally to his defense when he is attacked by an outsider. And if you don’t, there is something very wrong with you.

@realsashastone I almost never like the movies the critics like, but this is one of my all time favorites.

It's such a great movie. We did not realize how good we had it.

@gatorgar @realsashastone

I’m just going to post pictures of rocks I like from now on. Here’s one. Good rock.

@walterkirn It’s isn’t a dog. Not a he, she, they, twin spirit. Not a puppy. Not dog. It’s a toaster.

No writer ever made a more accurate and specific prophecy than Ray Bradbury about robot dogs. Also: the first time one of these harms a real dog we will see an uprising.

@Microinteracti1 Your terms are acceptable.

For years, Canada sent 70 cents of every defence dollar straight to the United States. Mark Carney just told Parliament that stops now. The room gave him a standing ovation. It is a striking thing to get a standing ovation for announcing that your country will stop subsidising someone else’s arms industry. But that is where Canada is in 2025. Carney’s case is blunt: the United States is “beginning to monetize its hegemony, charging for access to its markets and reducing its relative contributions to collective security.”   And MAGA is celebrating. Winning. Always winning. USA, USA. Somewhere a man in a red hat is pumping his fist. Let me explain what is actually happening, because clearly no one has bothered. In ten months, the United States has torched eighty years of alliance architecture that its own soldiers, diplomats and taxpayers built from the rubble of the Second World War. Eighty years. Gone. Detonated, with a smile, by people who genuinely believe this is genius. Canada is not drifting away. Canada is leaving. Europe is not hedging. Europe is building a defence industry specifically designed to cut Washington out. Allies are not quietly grumbling over dinner. They are signing contracts with other people. And the MAGA faithful are cheering every single step of it, because someone told them this is what dominance looks like. It is not dominance. It is a man burning down his own house and whooping at the flames. The saddest part is not that America is losing its allies. The saddest part is that half the country thinks that is the point.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

Catholic teaching is not pacifist; it includes just war criteria precisely because evil aggressors exist and innocents must sometimes be defended by force. Popes can (and should) urge restraint, mercy, and peace negotiations. But when the rhetoric appears one-sided—stronger condemnation of defensive actions by some parties than the initiating atrocities by others—it inevitably invites the "partisan" charge that is being hurled against Pope Leo.

@ToriatheistTori You may be reading the wrong book. 🙈

Teams encapsulated the Cygnus XL spacecraft ahead of Falcon 9’s fourth launch of @northropgrumman's commercial resupply mission to the @Space_Station → spacex.com/launches/ng24

How does the digital leviathan differ from Big Brother? "Big Brother desires control over the inner life of the individual ... the information state doesn't aim for the subjection of the soul, it aims to make the soul an obsolete technology in the advancing march of automated efficiency." youtube.com/watch?v=01ZuHu…

@walterkirn Walter, perhaps, or perhaps there can only be one singularity? Would the ultimate apex predator suffer competition? Risk war? Why? Is AI god a jealous god?

The AIs are going to be ceaselessly at war with one another, making raids like medieval dukes and princes, while we hunker down in our villages trusting no one, not even the priests. At least that's the dream I had last night.

@mark_slapinski Damn, you just made that up out of whole cloth? Do you even speak English?

@Maximumatheist No the more important question is why do you care?

I think the more important question here is why would a grown person believe in a magic being?

@beemyli Yes, we call them women. (Not necessarily a skin color thing though)

White people have you ever looked at your white counterparts and said to yourself they’re a different level of white that you don’t identify with?

I don’t think the war is necessarily over. If you’ve been following Bryan @BryanDeanWright on Substack you know that there is geopolitics here at work way beyond the headlines. A terrific summary this morning on exactly how we got here, where we’re at now, and what to look for next. @wrightreport/note/p-193546463?r=2rh96d&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@wrightreport/…

I guess if I had to hand a win to anyone, it would be the MAGA right who did not want the war and did not want Trump to finish the job. Not sure they will see it that way but it's a theory.

On the disagree side. Marriage is a covenant not a contract. There are sufficient reasons why a marriage can be deemed unlawful, but the most obvious is the one you use as an example, a child doesn’t understand the vows or the consequences for which they were taken. “St. Thomas died for his belief in the indissolubility of marriage. When the Church reviewed the marriage between Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, it found no reason for the marriage to be considered invalid. Therefore, the marriage between Henry and Catherine was indissoluble. Consequently, St. Thomas stood by the decision of the Church against the will of Henry VIII who believed that he was not validly married and could enter into another marriage. In order to circumvent the teaching of the Church on marriage, Henry found clerics who would grant him an annulment. When St. Thomas would not confirm that decision by taking an oath, Henry saw fit to have St. Thomas killed” The English Church never recovered from that original sin.

Matthew 19:9: Now I tell you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery. I know there are differing interpretations of this. I do not believe that Yeshua's intent is to relegate divorcees to a lifetime of forced, unwanted celibacy. So, some 16-year-old makes a mistake, gets married, and gets divorced, God expects that person to stay unmarried and celibate for their whole life? I believe Yeshua's intent is to show us God's ultimate and perfect plan for marriage. By saying "From the beginning divorce was not so", He is referring to Edenic perfection. But we don't live in Eden. There is sin in the world, and mistakes are made. And on this side of the Kingdom, there is always room for repentance and forgiveness, and moving forward from a mistake. So if divorcees are repentant and remarry, no, they are not committing adultery, even though their remarriage is not in line with Edenic perfection. This is my interpretation and I know that others disagree.

@_OKJ__ What the Lord giveth the Lord taketh away.

Till today, no Christian has been able to answer this question. If Yahweh, the Bible deity, isn’t just a genocidal maniac, why didn’t he send Jesus earlier rather than drown the whole planet, killing women, men, children, babies, pregnant women, and animals in the process…especially when the flood literally didn’t achieve anything, as the world wasn’t actually cleansed and went back to default pretty quickly? People who believe the stories in the Bible baffle me.