Pope Pius IX

Traditionalist Catholic. Dominican. Stoic. Scholastic. PhD student (Philosophy & Evo Bio) @UTAustin. Husband. Dad. Dry wit. Longhorns. Cowboys. Lakers. Yankees.

[Pope Pius IX @PopePiusIXStan]

@MarkWillcoxon I try to do that too; I’m talking about inner faith dialogue

[Pope Pius IX @PopePiusIXStan]

New rule: Mormons can’t complain about the Trinity until they actually read books on it. Not a YouTube video, some real study.

And also, don’t criticize Mormonism if you haven’t bothered to read the best of Mormon scholarship on a given issue. Charity folks.

[Pope Pius IX @PopePiusIXStan]

@samdgrant_ @KramersFaith No, just the idea of being eternal and being created seem to be contradictions.

[Pope Pius IX @PopePiusIXStan]

@Primary_Pianist I have; I was LDS 15 years.

[Amanda Atwell @AmandaMAtwell]

👀 worth the read

(OTF is worth the subscription as well)

[Pope Pius IX @PopePiusIXStan]

You being the best player and your team doing well are not the same thing. Wemby is the best player in the league right now, no matter what happens in the Finals.

[𝙽𝚘𝚝𝙰𝚗𝙾𝙺𝙲𝙵𝚊𝚗 ⚡️ @NotAnOKCFan]

Does Victor Wembanyama have to win the Finals in order to be the best player in the league?

[Pope Pius IX @PopePiusIXStan]

I am pretty sure Jesus has a face....

[dyyrStraits @dyyrStraits]

@PopePiusIXStan 🤣🤣🤣 you can't talk about it until you actually meet God face to face... Oh wait. Your God doesn't have a face. You will never see Him.

[Pope Pius IX @PopePiusIXStan]

@DigitalPastaFan I would also point out that Joseph Smith did not teach spirit birth; that idea comes after his death.

[Pope Pius IX @PopePiusIXStan]

Mormons often say this, but it has to be figurative because they also believe that all humans are eternal. If you’re eternal you don’t have a father or mother…and you don’t need one.

[Exmo2EO @Exmo2EO]

Is LDS cosmology 100% incestuous?

Mormonism believes that we are all literal sons and daughters of God. If that’s the case, then your mother and father are actually brother and sister living in an incestuous relationship. They just happened to provide you with your immortal body.

Plus your father is your brother, your mother is also your sister, and your kids are your siblings.

[Pope Pius IX @PopePiusIXStan]

@DigitalPastaFan They are your literal parents because without them you’d have no earthly existence. If you’re an eternal spirit, that’s not true of God; you exist of necessity as you’re not created.

[Pope Pius IX @PopePiusIXStan]

Brendan Sorsby

[SleeperCFB @SleeperCFB]

Name a bold prediction for a Heisman finalist in 2026? 🤔

[Pope Pius IX @PopePiusIXStan]

I don’t misunderstand your analogy, and nothing I said implies creation out of nothing. When a carpenter makes a table out of wood, that’s not creation out of nothing, he used the wood. The table didn’t exist before he made it. So, in like manner, if you are made of spirit matter (whatever that is), then you didn’t always exist. Even if what you are made from did.

[Pope Pius IX @PopePiusIXStan]

@AaronMouritsen What’s intelligence?

[Pope Pius IX @PopePiusIXStan]

@AaronMouritsen That would show things you are made out of exist prior to you, but that doesn’t mean you existed.

[Pope Pius IX @PopePiusIXStan]

Um…looting is already a crime?

[Rev. Ray Cistman ✊🏾🙏🏾 @RevRayCistman]

Spencer Pratt wants to criminalize looting. Vote Karen Bass.

[Pope Pius IX @PopePiusIXStan]

@Doc_Texas I was there. It was awesome. When Jaydon Blue broke that 80 yard run I thought a bomb went off.

[Pope Pius IX @PopePiusIXStan]

Why is he moving his arms so much….

[Uche is a girl @UcheMaryOkoli]

This priest here is obviously speaking Latin, which is the language of the Catholic Church.

I can't speak Latin. So I won't be able to respond to what the priest is saying on my own without looking at my Missal.

But I can follow along and respond in English because I know exactly what he is saying.

This is the beauty the Catholic Church has that no denomination on earth has.

The church is one and true.

[Pope Pius IX @PopePiusIXStan]

Defund the police is back? Because it worked out so well the first time?

[Rev. Ray Cistman ✊🏾🙏🏾 @RevRayCistman]

Spencer Pratt wants to fund the police. Vote Karen Bass.

[Pope Pius IX @PopePiusIXStan]

@BrandonTheAdams Logic is seeing what follows from what. It’s shows if something is possible or impossible. I understand that life exists, I can’t comprehend how low the probability is that exists, even if I can write it out.

[Pope Pius IX @PopePiusIXStan]

Comprehending and understanding something are not the same thing. I can understand how the universe works; that it exists at all and why is not fully comprehensible. And that’s fine, we are finite beings we won’t have infinite understanding.

[Travi𝕏 @TraviXai]

0% understand it. It is a mystery.

"The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy Ghost incomprehensible... And yet there are not three incomprehensibles, but one incomprehensible."

[Pope Pius IX @PopePiusIXStan]

@Mormonger Not entirely. The idea that blessings are predicated on obedience would have a lot of resonance with Calvin. You’re against predestination but there is more to Calvinism than that.