Amateur Christian

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14

[Amateur Christian @Jonathan_E80]

If you ever have any questions about God, feel free to dm me, no matter how daunting or cruel the questions may seem.

[Liz Wheeler @Liz_Wheeler]

93% of the 4,849 Christians who were murdered for their faith last year were murdered by Islamists.

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

75% of Americans support releasing the Epstein files, even if it implicates their own party, per PBS poll.

[Vén László @LazlowTF]

What I would love to see (Til' it's not too late...) #Transformers

[Delvalyahir @Delvalyahir]

That reason he gives...is the reason why Optimus Prime deserves a solo movie. A great leader and hero who deserves to star in his own film.

Even Peter Cullen wants Optimus to have his own movie before he dies. He would love that, and so would we

[New York Post @nypost]

John Cleese blasts world's silence on Easter massacre of Nigerian Christians by Islamist terrorists https://t.co/Kb1ZOBkj6t

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

It’s crazy that @NASA has been releasing such quality photos of the moon. And I don’t want to be *that* guy, but I’ve just noticed some things that I don’t think add up. Let me explain 👇🏼

[Moh ♱ ☧ 🛡 🍇 @Mohsule_]

be assessed critically; for the claim itself, ironically, rests on axiomatic assumptions which in turn, rests on contested metaphysical grounding.

He even strawmans Wes at certain points until it gets boring but nothing I did not already expect from Lambert.

Oh well.

[Moh ♱ ☧ 🛡 🍇 @Mohsule_]

Luke’s historiographical convention & the validity of the Gospel’s superscriptions, even though part of Wes’ positions may rightly be contested). Also, the misplaced assumption that a theological-committed approach to the study of religion is to be a-priori excised, needs to…

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

People are acting like Claude just crossed into wizard territory. This is not the flex people think it is.

Human hackers were publishing actual remote root exploits for OpenBSD systems in 2002, and GOBBLES publicly dubbed it ‘sshutuptheo’ because the group owned OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt with the 0-day after he logged onto an EFNet IRC server.

Anthropic’s big OpenBSD example is a 1998-era TCP SACK kernel crash bug that OpenBSD fixed in March as a reliability patch. That is a remote DoS in crusty C, not some legendary feat.

Speaker:
jim-jones aka theut from el8 / phrack & GOBBLES.

[George Roush @GeorgeRoush]

When I was building spacecraft, one of our engineers would stand behind us while we were laying wire harnesses and read from the Bible.

We would sometimes pray before a large operation. He brought his Bible into the cleanroom and privately prayed over a vehicle before we sent it into test.

I'm pretty sure he prayed over the Orion that is being flown on Artemis II as well. The Orion team was just as religious, if not more religious, than we were.

We are "the science" and we're glad Astronaut Glover is as faithful as us.

[Amateur Christian @Jonathan_E80]

@doofgeek4011 @MickyCatholic @AEnjoyer447201 And Robert h. Stein I think takes this conclusion too (again I think)

[Amateur Christian @Jonathan_E80]

@doofgeek4011 @MickyCatholic @AEnjoyer447201 Joel Korytko touches on this as well
https://t.co/b9Xq4Hhidr

[Foster @foster_type]

I was actually surprised by the extent to which @DouthatNYT gets the better of "Christian atheist" scholar Bart Ehrman in this debate on the New Testament. I think the combination of regularities and discrepancies in the gospels both opens the way to doubts about their provenance AND gives us reason to think they might be true. Likewise the messiness of the Luke-Acts resurrection narrative always made me feel this same push-pull.

It makes you queasy to read it as a believer; there is unmistakably the whiff of desperate men trying to justify their lives retroactively. And yet...the very uneasiness of it, the persistent doubt narratives, the arms-length nature of Christ as a character--which lets us read his presence equally plausibly as delusion, empirically explicable spiritual vision, empirically INEXPLICABLE spiritual vision, and real bodily presence--refuses to offer a pat and potted and perfect answer and draws us toward belief via what gets called 'the criterion of embarrassment'.

And then we watch these men suffer brutal martyrdoms for what they saw and experienced, and look back on the resurrection narrative from that vantage, and it is we who are embarrassed.

https://t.co/UQq7JZUYCx

[Amateur Christian @Jonathan_E80]

@sjggraham 2nd temple Jewish beliefs didnt exactly endorse the resurrection of Jesus and yet the disciples held on to it despite the persecution and other ways their prior Jewish beliefs could have compensated for a spiritual resurrection and yet they still preach the physical Resurrection

[Carter Hughes @itscarterhughes]

🚨BREAKING: Cardinal Robert Sarah's urgent warning to Christians has gone viral:

“Wake up. Islam is a danger. If Christians don’t start caring about our faith, Islam will take over the West. They’ll impose their laws and culture... We will decline.”

Follow me: @ItsCarterHughes

[Abhishek B R @abhitwt]

Life after switching from ChatGPT to Claude.

[𝕯𝖊𝖛𝕰𝖓𝖓𝖞 @ennycodes]

“Everyone can now access Claude Max plan for free”

[𝚣𝚎𝚎𝚣 @wtfzeezco]

kids are now pausing their street football so that i could pass