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@ClarkeMicah @tomscrace Why are people engaging with the internet assembled theology of Peter Hitchens as if he had any insight whatsoever on this topic? Who are we bringing in next? Lee Mack? Dawn French?

.@tomscrace It wasn't a priesthood. Otherwise, this was a normal thing to do at the time, like so many of the other basic things He did. Christ did not feel the need to explain it. I am more interested in the abnormal things he did.

@JulianM39314109 @ClarkeMicah @WalkerMarcus This is what happens when aesthetics trump theology

@ClarkeMicah @WalkerMarcus So why didn't Lancelot Andrewes become a campaigner for the ordination of women?

Thank you, .@walkermarcus. I am jndeed pleased ‘What lacks she?’ is indeed a pretty potent question.

@ClarkeMicah @DavidGr08051597 We also have no mandate to form doctrine based on speculation as to what else Jesus may or may not have said to Mary Magdalene. This is incredibly basic stuff.

.@davidgr08051597 1/2 WE don't actually know all that Christ said to Mary Magdalene. We do know (from John 20) : 'Then the disciples went away again unto their own home. 11 But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre, 12 And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. 13 And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. 14 And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. 16 Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master. 17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.'

@ClarkeMicah @Childermass1 Says the man offering embarrassingly crass justifications for the overturning of Christian orthodoxy with regard to holy order.

.@childermass1. Well, I am a Protestant, but I think you are mistaken, and I am not abusing anyone except perhaps Judas, and the daft non-logic of your position.

@redeemed_zoomer @NathanPrindler But Anglo-Catholics don’t consider themselves to be Protestant - and you not realising that is the source of your confusion.

@NathanPrindler someone doesn't wanna be Anglican, fine. I'm talking about those who would choose between Protestant (Anglo-Cath) and Catholic (ordinariate) based on convenience

I will never understand the psychology of those who could just as easily attend an Anglo-Catholic or Ordinariate parish depending on where they live

@ClarkeMicah It’s obvious what’s going on here. Peter Hitchens is a thoroughly obnoxious individual, and so he’s throwing orthodox Christianity under the bus in order to appear slightly more ‘reasonable’ to the liberal establishment. Pretty pathetic.

I have in mind the Gospel according to John. Will that do?

@ClarkeMicah @opticswolfe Bizarre, facile and profoundly lazy reasoning

.@opticswolfe. Mary Magdalene, above all, was chosen to be the first person to see the risen Christ. Does it for me.

@xwanyex I think the apostles were perfectly aware of the improbability of the resurrection, which is why they thought it “nonsense” when first told. They were not gullible primitives. Something happened to move them from abject fear to laying down their lives for what they had seen.

I can’t believe I actually have to explain this, but, “I just find it impossible to accept that the accounts we have of the apostles would exist unless they really did behave exactly as described on the basis of having witnessed a resurrection” is trivially defeated by, “well, I find it impossible to accept that there was a resurrection, mate.” You are creating a case of, “which is more likely” and, “a guy rose from the dead” is definitely the less likely of the two possibilities, from a purely scientific and secular worldview, even if the other thing is really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really improbable. Even if we grant that the accounts that we have today of their behavior are perfectly accurate, that nothing has been left out, that no mistakes were made, that literally everything occurred exactly as described, and even if we therefore grant that they went to their deaths genuinely believing they had firsthand evidence of a resurrection, one would still have to say, I think, that some other explanation for their behavior, no matter how unlikely or improbable, is still more likely than that a guy genuinely rose from the dead. If your acceptance of Christianity is based on arguments like this one, then I think it will always be flimsy. These just aren’t very good arguments. That is to say, at the very least, these arguments are not going to be convincing to most smart, scientifically-minded people. I would just simply resist the urge to try to compare probabilities in this way. Most smart, rational people see these two options and think that resurrection is the dramatically least likely of all available explanations. ”But without the resurrection, these accounts of the disciples make no sense!” just simply cannot overcome the improbability of a literal resurrection (again, from a purely secular, scientific worldview). I think it is a mistake to base your Christianity on these kinds of arguments. I think you will find that these kinds of arguments are not very convincing to most educated people. And I think also that the reason for this is that it is in fact not a very convincing argument. We cannot hope to construct Christianity on logic in this way. If one believes, as I do, that Christ was in fact resurrected, as I proclaim in my recitation of the Nicene Creed every Sunday, then one must have the courage to accept that this must somehow be possible absent the intuition described above.

@PWestoff You don’t need to be big to have the power - you just need to be coherent, disciplined and determined. It’s why whites ran Rhodesia as a 5% minority, and South Africa as a 20% minority.

Morgan rubbishes Giuliani's warning about the Islamic takeover of Britain via the ridiculous claim of "Muslims are only 5% of the population." That overall claim is true, but Muslims now make up 40% of the new-born in Britain. We are old and grey. They are young and fanatical.

@BasilTheGreat Fewer dogs 🙄

The BBC says the UK needs to have LESS DOGS We all know why they're doing this It's blatantly obvious

@DuncanHegan1 This is my beef - there’s a Western secular assumption that all religions are basically just about prayers to a guy upstairs, and therefore they’re all the same and should be afforded equal dignity and respect. However, we don’t do this with political creeds. Why religious?

Note also the insistence that Christianity and Islam are fundamentally the same. No desire to engage with Islam’s relationship with space/territory and force which is very different to Christianity’s.

Tweeted as though no one ever says this about public displays of Christianity (“how do you feel when this rhetoric is directed at you for a change!”), but they do. People regularly call prayer walks/processions territorial and domineering, including people within the Church.

@Adrian_Hilton @ArchbishopSarah @Nigel_Farage Good

Happy 64th Birthday to @ArchbishopSarah of Canterbury! Those who have ontological objections to Dame Sarah being installed on the Chair of St Augustine (or even being ordained a priest) may like to know that in six years @Nigel_Farage will choose her successor as Reform will reverse Gordon Brown's reforms to the appointment of bishops and restore the established nature of the Church by re-establishing the PM's ‘advice’ to the King. Nigel will, in fact, get to select all new diocesan bishops.

@benjaminbutter @HRHCatherine @tomhfh Incredible ignorance

@HRHCatherine @tomhfh Oh my god

Tamworth MP Sarah Edwards just pronounced lieutenant as "lootenant" at PMQs.

@MarieTidball @Nigel_Farage @reformparty_uk Why are MPs debating snooker in Sheffield in the House of Commons? It’s completely ludicrous and shows how they don’t have anything of substance to talk about

I’m absolutely livid. @Nigel_Farage and his @reformparty_uk MPs just walked out during my question to the PM about keeping snooker in Sheffield and getting a tram-train extension to Stocksbridge. Farage and Reform don’t care about constituencies or communities like mine.

@gavinashenden The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard suggests it’s never “too late” this side of heaven

Too Little Too Late – The Warming of Prince Williams' Tepid Agnosticism. open.substack.com/pub/drgavinash…

@TabbyParent @timothy_stanley Stop calling child murder healthcare, it’s sick

@timothy_stanley Islam is ok with abortion. And people accessing healthcare services might want a meal.

How to blow a Labour MP’s mind: hold a massive Iftar outside an abortion clinic.

@RepublicStaff These people are literally insane

'But you'll just get President Farage, or President Blair!' - no. We'll get a real alternative to the corrupt monarchy. #AbolishTheMonarchy

@TimothyMondayBt @RuxandraTeslo Well I never 🙄

@vicarofmex @RuxandraTeslo How ridiculous. These are not engravings from 995, sir.

Bishops of Durham Cathedral. Going back to 995. Love that you can see transition from Anglo-Saxon to Norman names.

@stellacreasy @NeilDotObrien Every genocide in history has been justified by denying the humanity of its victims. Abortion is just the same. Living beings treated in the same way as a tumour.

Interesting @NeilDotObrien - why do you include the rate of abortions and babies being born in your list of concerns as though the two correlated? as if women must have their freedom to choose what happens to their bodies curtailed in order for the birth rate to rise... that is quite handsmaid tale tbh....