MCL MacKinley

Catholic, conservative, gay. Forensic pathologist/mortician, amateur boxer/author. I like to cook, hunt, and read. Gaeilgeoir but live in US. Former historian.

[Ernesto Sosa @nachember]

El descubrimiento arqueológico de Megido, en Israel, cerca de Jerusalén, conocido por la inscripción de Akeptous y datado aproximadamente en el año 230 d. C., constituye un testimonio extraordinario de la fe cristiana primitiva: ya se llamaba explícitamente «Dios» a Jesucristo, casi un siglo antes del Concilio de Nicea (325).

La inscripción dice textualmente:

«Akeptous, la amante de Dios, ha ofrecido esta mesa a Dios Jesucristo como memorial».

Y para que después no digan que fueron los gnósticos: estamos hablando de un testimonio arqueológico de una comunidad cristiana de Megido, en Tierra Santa.

[𝔊𝔯á𝔦𝔫𝔫𝔢 🕊️☘️ @GrainneMcD92925]

Blessed feast of St. Jude, patron saint of hopeless causes, desperate situations, and grave illnesses. Pray for us. 🕊️

[Shegun 🌪️🌟 @ShegunTweets]

funny how this movie came out in 1993, yet almost everything it predicted is slowly becoming reality

[James Chester @JamesCh67471584]

@catturd2

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Capitalism gave you access to technology that would have been unimaginable luxuries a generation ago, at prices ordinary people can afford.

And somehow you've turned that achievement into another complaint about billionaires.

When your response to unprecedented opportunities is to demand that someone else provide for you, you're advertising a mentality that helps explain your predicament.

No one owes you a living, and resenting those who succeed won't make you successful.

At some point, you have to stop blaming others for having more and start taking responsibility for making something of yourself.

[High King Fëanor - Alpha Chad of Middle-earth @LostHistory9]

Do I need to illustrate all of the horrible things orcs have done in Middle-earth for the 700th damn time?!

"Challenge long-held perceptions of orcs"

Fuck all the way off

[Hughes de Payens 🇻🇦✝️📿 @hdpayens]

Many modern Christians treat their emotional life as a swamp of inherent corruption, but Thomas Aquinas argues that your passions are actually neutral tools waiting for the command of your reason.

In the Summa Theologiae (I-II, q. 24), Aquinas makes a distinction most Christians have never heard: passions are movements of the sensitive appetite. Fear, anger, desire, grief. These arise in you before reason ever weighs in.

And that is exactly why they are morally neutral in themselves.

A passion only becomes good or evil when reason enters the picture. What did you desire? Toward what was your anger aimed? Did the passion obey right reason or rebel against it? The moral act lives in that engagement, not in the feeling itself.

This is why Aquinas rejects both extremes. The Stoic, who treats all passion as sickness to be extinguished. And the sentimentalist, who treats every feeling as self-authenticating.

Both are errors about creation.

Because here is the deeper issue: your emotional life is part of your embodied nature, and God called that nature good. To treat your passions as inherently corrupt is to quietly adopt the old Gnostic move, that the physical and affective side of man is a prison rather than a gift.

Aquinas goes further. Virtue is not the absence of passion. It is passion trained. The brave man still feels fear. He simply commands it. The chaste man still feels desire. It is ordered toward the good reason has chosen.

Christ himself felt grief, anger, and anguish. Was his emotional life corrupt?

If your emotions feel like enemies to be suppressed, the problem may not be your passions. It may be that no one ever taught you how to govern them.

Which is it in your own life: suppression, indulgence, or order?

[MCL MacKinley @MackinleyMcl]

@No4167 They do love to claim jealousy. I kind of want to meet the person (who isn't trans themselves) who is earnestly jealous of these peoples' appearances. They'd have to be like the morlocks from 'The Time Machine' or Tolkien's orcs. And even then I'm sure they look better.

[Dana Rachel 🇻🇦 @thyflameoflove]

Apparently posting about Mama Mary makes some people very angry. That won’t stop me. Mary is the Mother of God, blessed among women, and our Queen and Mother 🩵

[Vintage @D__Zachi]

BUTTERBEAN KNOCKS ED WHITE CLEAN THROUGH THE ROPES IN LAS VEGAS

On April 12, 1997, Eric Butterbean Esch faced towering Ed White for the IBA super heavyweight title.

White used his seven-inch height advantage and long jab to control the early exchanges and keep Butterbean at bay.

The opening round stayed competitive as Ed White landed clean shots while Butterbean pressed forward undeterred.

In the second round Butterbean found his range with heavy overhand rights and looping hooks that staggered White.

A big right hand dropped Ed White early, and he rose with a look of resignation in his eyes.

Butterbean followed with a left-right combination that sent White tumbling through the ropes and out of the ring.

Referee Joe Cortez waved off the fight at 1:14, awarding Butterbean the TKO and retaining his title.

[ULTRA Gritty Biker DAD @AnotherHomoCon]

I’d actually rather have gonorrhea than deal with a queer person.

It’s less painful and the cure is much more simple.

[Pray The Rosary @PrayTheRosary]

Jesus, I trust in You

[𝔊𝔯á𝔦𝔫𝔫𝔢 🕊️☘️ @GrainneMcD92925]

“Never be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much. You can never love her more than Jesus did.”

St. Maximillian Kolbe 🕊️

[MCL MacKinley @MackinleyMcl]

@pureMetatron Always believable with these assholes.

[BasedBattletech @BasedBattletech]

America needs you to fuck off and die in a ditch.

[Walker Boh @OneArmedBoh]

Couldn’t see shit.

[Not the Bee @Not_the_Bee]

@ewarren You’re all publicly calling for him to be thrown in prison just for being successful. Of course he’s backing the other guys.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

This is the entire DSA platform.