Matthew Minerd

"A wise yet jaded Easterner."
Ruthenian Catholic, Husband, Father, and Byzantine Thomist.

[Matthew Minerd @PhilCatholic]

@Immaculata_City I’ll just return to my other favorite theme of holding that Cardinal Mundelein wanted to commit cultural genocide against the Polish and Italians in his diocese….

[Matthew Minerd @PhilCatholic]

Friendly reminder that Bishop Ireland was an Americanist fool.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Ben Sasse has always been honest, but facing a terminal diagnosis he has been unplugged. Last night, in exactly 13 seconds, he explained the real reason compulsory education ever started in America.

Catholics, consider this when making choices about education for your children.

[Matthew Minerd @PhilCatholic]

Transeat. In this regard, I am not willing to concede the point. But I will let it pass as something that doesn’t need to be pressed on. And yet, the project of assimilation was a completely failed and foolish thing because it was trying to assimilate to a protestant culture, which will eat alive the semiotics of Catholicism.

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@Immaculata_City We hunkies hold a special dislike for his bigoted ways….

[Pope Respecter @poperespecter1]

Breaking: Former Senator Ben Sasse reveals the real reason for the rise of public schooling:

It was an attempt to destroy Catholic culture in America.

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And that Cardinal “Roman on the inside, American on the outside” Mundelein should be considered massively naive about the way that America has such anti American bones.

[Matthew Minerd @PhilCatholic]

And that Cardinal “Roman on the inside, American on the outside” Mundelein should be considered massively naive about the way that America has such anti American bones.

[Matthew Minerd @PhilCatholic]

@hmkherman @DixonCameronS @ByzCat Never claimed as much in any way.

[Gideon Lazar - The Byzantine Scotist @ByzCat]

A better way to do moral theology: instead of asking yourself "Is this technically against the Church's rules?", ask yourself "Is this really what God wants of me right now?"

99% of moral theology arguments on X are bad because they treat the teachings of the Church like an arbitrary list of rules. This both becomes simultaneously too strict (since the list of rules often becomes absurdly long) and too lax (since all one has to do is keep a list of rules, not strive for virtue) at the same time.

The purpose of the moral life is theosis, to become partakers of the divine nature. We were given only one mortal life by God and we should use it to seek the highest good possible. This is both an absurdly high standard since Jesus demands absolute perfection of us, but also achievable because God's mercy is endless and we are saved by grace not our own efforts. If we accept crucifixion with Christ, it will no longer be us who lives but Christ who lives in us.

I highly recommend this book by @PhilCatholic on moral theology.

[Matthew Minerd @PhilCatholic]

Modern example of faux aristocratic custom: not birth, but where you happened to be an undergrad determines a huge amount of perception in the eyes of the system for a surprisingly long tail.

[Matthew Minerd @PhilCatholic]

@jwest_edm Yet conventional inequality must be challenged in its own irrationality.

[Matthew Minerd @PhilCatholic]

“We can never make democracy completely ‘real,’ and we must not try. We can and must moderate democracy. limit it, temper its hostility to nature, all the while benefiting from its conformity to nature. To affirm and will democracy insofar as it is in contormity with nature, to limit it insofar as it is contrary to it: such is the sovereigh art on which depend the prosperity and morality of democracies.”
- Pierre Manent

[Matthew Minerd @PhilCatholic]

@jwest_edm No, rather that democracy must be limited by conventional inequality.

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@schmedlaff @TimotheusKearns I take handfuls of red and black pills, as well as small doses of quantum pills.

[Matthew Minerd @PhilCatholic]

Now in ch. 7 of Manent on Tocqueville and I am deeply black pilled on democracy in all its forms. We will see where this goes, @schmedlaff …!

[Matthew Minerd @PhilCatholic]

Ultimately, Mr. Schmedlaff (@schmedlaff), I find that Monsieur Pete and I are sympatico.

I am quantum pilled.

[Matthew Minerd @PhilCatholic]

Politics must be a practice of painting truly with the palette offered by noble lie of aristocracy and the natural lie of democracy.

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Convention is nature.

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Perhaps I will soon reach the state of quantum pill.

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Yet aristocratic fragility also is grey pilled.