Tom B.

agnostic

[Tom B. @TomBGone]

All you need to be willing to die for something is a strong sense of identity with it. These folks willingly risk their lives for a tradition that was handed down to them.

[PMっぽいひと @kanabunee99]

体真っ二つになったの見てもうたんやな

[Tom B. @TomBGone]

A nebulous conservative influence. Interesting.

[polycarp ☨ @Monocarp_]

Forgot to mention that a coworker w/ a MA in colonial American history said that he was surprised how few Catholics there were in colonial Virginia because “that’s basically the same as Anglican”. Convinced some programs only mention religion as a nebulous conservative influence

[Tom B. @TomBGone]

The historical development of Christianity is intelligible without supposing any divine revelation took place. There may be explanations for the opacity but those explanations are not the same thing as a good reason to believe divine revelation occurred in the first place.

[Dan McClellan @maklelan]

Yes, quite. The post is not just saying "look what we discovered." It quite explicitly says these discoveries debunked prior rejection of the historicity of these things & that's precisely what I quite accurately pointed out is just not true. I'd say do better, but you can't.

[Tom B. @TomBGone]

But the Bible says I have to love you even if you're my enemy.

BOOM! GET MORALLY MOGGED, LOSER. 😎✝️

[ApostateNate @MentallyNathan]

I don’t give a flying fuck what your Bible says .

[Tom B. @TomBGone]

I love it when late at night as I lie in bed a train rumbles through the tracks five blocks away and sends a long tremor through the whole house. Makes me feel like a kid, when the world was just something grown-ups dealt with.

[Tom B. @TomBGone]

Let's remember that neither Tyndale nor anyone else was ever INFALLIBLY burned at the stake. For that the pope needs to pronounce it as infallible, manifestly evidently. If you think this counts against Rome's Christ-Given authority you simply don't understand Catholic teaching.

[Indiana Brunner @IndianaBrunner]

Sometimes the best argument against Rome is simply letting its defenders speak

[Tom B. @TomBGone]

@AnglicanAkatosh We gotta define terms.

[Tom B. @TomBGone]

@user84829272 There’s a certain social anxiety in using wipers beyond what is strictly necessary.

[Tom B. @TomBGone]

@Love_Thy_Hood @PAHoyeck I'll be honest. I saw it for the first time last week. I loved it.

[Pioja @Venus_en_ruinas]

“Te amo” pero Albert Camus alguna vez dijo “He respirado mejor, he odiado menos cosas. He admirado con más libertad lo que merecía admiración. Contigo, he aceptado más. He aprendido a vivir.”

[Tom B. @TomBGone]

Quite right. You can come up with an explanation for every objection without ever having established that what you're defending is actually true.

[Drew Haas @TheDrewHaas]

How do you distinguish a truth you've arrived at through reason from a conclusion you've merely become extraordinarily good at defending?

[Tom B. @TomBGone]

@CatholicPebble Not yet.

[Tom B. @TomBGone]

The sigh of relief I breathed to find this is not as Dostoyevsky wrote.

[Tom B. @TomBGone]

@itsjustnewsbruh 1859, but in poor condition.

[Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove]

You should treat other people with dignity—not because they deserve it; they often don’t—but because it corrupts your own spirit to act with indignity and cruelty.

[Tom B. @TomBGone]

And all the while it's insisted that the underlying moral principle remains unchanged and that Rome remains as ever a trustworthy authority that cannot err. It's the intellectual dishonesty of the latter that particularly irks me.

[Steve Skojec @SteveSkojec]

@kalezelden

[Tom B. @TomBGone]

@SimonSimplicio I'm not sure. I know he's been through the valley of the shadow of death.

[Tom B. @TomBGone]

Just spent the weekend with my best friend from college, currently a seminarian. He didn't want to know my reasons for being agnostic only because they're irrelevant to him. He's just a guy who loves Jesus. He couldn't be less dogmatic or more compassionate so I'm glad for him.

[Tom B. @TomBGone]

@sagespells Mastery of self.

[Tom B. @TomBGone]

@JoelMCurzon You photographed this beauty? That's incredible.

[Tom B. @TomBGone]

@j3lqingt0n What’s up with veterinarian assistants? Always so whimsical and tastefully tattooed.