Brian P Bennett

just a humble country professor & author of
◾️Religion and Language in Post-Soviet Russia
◾️Sacred Languages of the World: An Introduction

[Brian P Bennett @Tandemician]

I conspue Trumpism - and you should too

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@BradWilcoxIFS Interesting. What does "SE" mean after Fremont?

[Brian P Bennett @Tandemician]

Trump is embarrassing. The people who support him -- I'm almost embarrassed for them.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."

[Brian P Bennett @Tandemician]

@SohrabAhmari ordering "We Believe" ☑️

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@RonFilipkowski I met someone who thinks that King James wrote the Bible

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🎯

[Maria Chong @mariachong]

@jennfrey Crazy how the people most vocally declaring that we must defend Western Civilization are here helping to defund some of the very means of preserving and transmitting Western Civ culture (arts, music, philosophy, religion, etc.).

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

The Vicar of Christ is the actual leader of the actually free world.

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@BethMooreLPM Thank you for sharing this. When the choir gets going at the end -- it's thrilling

[Brian P Bennett @Tandemician]

sacralization of nuclear weapons

[Christians Against War @shalt_not_kill]

Patriarch Kirill called the development of nuclear weapons in the USSR "the grace and mercy of God."

Moscow Patriarch Kirill called the Soviet Union's development of nuclear weapons in Sarov a divine plan. He made this statement on August 1 after the liturgy at the Holy Trinity Seraphim-Diveyevo Monastery.

The monastery was founded in the 18th century. From 1778 to 1833, the famous Russian saint, St. Seraphim of Sarov, lived there. In 1927, the communist authorities closed the monastery, and St. Seraphim's relics were transported to a museum in Moscow, and then to Leningrad. In 1946, the Soviet authorities established the highly classified KB-11 nuclear weapons development facility in the monastery itself.

"The scientists who worked here in Sarov created our Russian atomic bomb, which stopped the enemy's plans to destroy and enslave our Fatherland. Thus, through the work of the scientists, engineers, and workers who labored here, God's grace and mercy were bestowed upon our country," the Russian Orthodox Church's official website quotes the patriarch as saying.

Since 2022, Russian authorities have regularly threatened Ukraine and the countries that support it with the use of nuclear weapons.

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@DamonLinker couldn't get past his coy/crypto support of Trump from an ostensibly Catholic vantage point

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@jasonwblakely @yalepress @YaleBooks really looking forward to reading this
getting my copy at Talking Leaves...Books in Buffalo

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@jasonwblakely @yalepress @YaleBooks ok now

[Brian P Bennett @Tandemician]

the culture war is exhausting

[Brian P Bennett @Tandemician]

@timkawakami I really value your reporting, but you seem to take all the negativity too personally... I'm a nobody who's never experienced anything comparable, but it might be liberating to not engage and instead just ignore the haters and critics 😎

[Brian P Bennett @Tandemician]

"Why did some Catholics clearly perceive the dangers of Trumpism from the beginning, while many others did not?"

RESENTMENT is "what gives it [Trumpism] coherence and invests it with bewitching, magnetic force."

https://t.co/VwaVFxqKoY

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@LizWolfeReason I like the 'Our Father' there

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Trump is the presidential equivalent of an AI data center -- a relentless emitter of noise pollution that depreciates the value of everything it is near, gives people headaches, and allows no peace of mind

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@MerriamWebster we need a word for when you have to stand in line with the cars at a drive-thru ATM

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

To understand the scale of today’s Russian crime against humanity’s historical heritage: it is the equivalent of bombing St. Peter’s Basilica in a war of conquest against Italy, or Notre-Dame de Paris against France, Westminster Abbey against Britain, or Aachen Cathedral.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

When Notre-Dame burned in 2019, the world stopped.

Today, Russia damages Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a monastery nearly 1,000 years old and older than Notre-Dame itself.

A thousand years of history deserves the same attention, the same sympathy, and the same protection.

[Brian P Bennett @Tandemician]

The commandment to worship the Lord alone integrates man and saves him from an endless disintegration. Idolatry is a perversion of man's innate religious sense. An idolater is someone who "transfers his indestructible notion of God to anything other than God." (CCC #2114)

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

Trump supporter at his Wisconsin event today: “Just to see him, to breathe the same air that Donald Trump is breathing. Oh my gosh. It’d be awesome.”