Answering Atheism™

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[Answering Atheism™ @Answer_Atheism]

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[Answering Atheism™ @Answer_Atheism]

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[☧✝️Sacerdotus™⚛✡🇻🇦☧ @Sacerdotus]

The Pope didn't "blow it." He referenced Isaiah 1:15—a rebuke to ancient Judah's unjust oppression and ritualistic hypocrisy, not a blanket ban on all defensive/just war. Poor exegesis ignores context: Scripture condemns needless aggression (Amos 1-2, Isa 10), yet affirms just defense (e.g., David's wars, NT soldier examples).
Critics aren't "attacking" for peace calls; they're rejecting misapplied pacifism that equates all force with sin, undermining legitimate self-defense against evil. True Christianity balances peace with justice—not endless war, but neither naive surrender. David's "blood" barred the Temple, yet he was "a man after God's heart." Context matters.

[☧✝️Sacerdotus™⚛✡🇻🇦☧ @Sacerdotus]

I can, I have studies in physics/astrophysics/astronomy.

This meme lacks an understanding of astrophysics and astronomy. It assumes a planet must orbit something to rotate or have "days," but that's false in astrophysics.

Rotation (spinning on its axis, causing day/night) is independent: it comes from angular momentum during formation. Planets rotate even without a central star—e.g., rogue planets drift alone yet spin.

Revolution/orbit isn't required for rotation. A body can rotate in empty space with no orbital motion. If orbiting, gravity provides centripetal force, but the Sun isn't needed for spin or revolution itself. The sun itself is rotating!

In Genesis context, light existed on day 1 (Gen 1:3), enabling "evening/morning" via Earth's rotation relative to that divine light source—before sun/moon/stars on day 4 (likely atmospheric clearing or appointed roles).

No astrophysical contradiction: rotation or revolution doesn't require a sun; days need rotation + directional light source.

See a visual in the video below. The Solar System was just a collection of particles, gases, dust and water. With gravity they moved, blended and created mass. The larger the mass, the more gravity forces took hold. The Sun being the largest took on the most mass and held the other smaller constructions (planets etc) in place which were already in motion. Those collected gases, dust etc and formed their own masses constructing the "sphere" shapes we see. The remaining materials around them formed into moons.

[☧✝️Sacerdotus™⚛✡🇻🇦☧ @Sacerdotus]

The framing oversimplifies and misrepresents both.

Mother Teresa's actual stance (from her own words and context): She saw suffering as potentially redemptive when united with Christ's passion—not something to be sought for its own sake, but accepted with joy when it comes. She said: "Suffering is a gift from God... Only never put on a long face." She ran hospices for the dying poor who had no other options, offering basic care and spiritual comfort.

Hitchens' critique is strawman rhetoric and selective. He called her a "fraud" focused on propagating Catholicism via poverty rather than alleviating it, citing reused needles, poor hygiene, and cozying to dictators for funds. Yet her Missionaries of Charity have operated 600+ centers in 123 countries, aiding millions (including lepers, orphans, disaster victims)—far more direct help than most critics ever provided. He never helped anyone.

The meme pits theology against humanism as if one must choose: accept suffering passively or fight it aggressively. Christianity holds both—alleviate where possible (as Teresa did), but find meaning in unavoidable pain. Telling a dying person their agony unites them to Christ isn't sadism; it's offering hope beyond the material.

Hitchens' line "I want to be off [the cross]" is honest atheism, but calling the alternative "moral obscenity" dismisses how faith comforts countless in extremis. Suffering is a horror—yet many believers (and non-believers) find purpose in it without being masochists.

The post cherry-picks to vilify faith; reality is more nuanced.

[☧✝️Sacerdotus™⚛✡🇻🇦☧ @Sacerdotus]

Evidence?? Hitchens could never provide anything. His books have no sources, no citations, nothing. He was even hired by the Vatican to be the devil's advocate against the beatification of St. Mother Teresa and he failed. He was the fraud. He never helped anyone just like you who sit behind a screen attacking a holy woman who got her hands dirty helping the poor and dying giving them dignity and respect. Where are the atheist charities? You guys are the fraud.

[Answering Atheism™ @Answer_Atheism]

He died.

[Dr Taylor Marshall™️ @TaylorRMarshall]

Charlie is alive and receiving blood.

Get on your KNEES and PRAY to Jesus.

[Answering Atheism™ @Answer_Atheism]

#Atheism is pretty much dead in 2024 and 2025. We have not gotten many questions or exchanges with alleged #atheists both on and offline. The #atheist agenda is pretty much on the way to extinction. #AnsweringAtheism

[Answering Atheism™ @Answer_Atheism]

This link does not call the Mass "Novus Ordo Mass." The words are as clear as day. This is why future documents do not even refer to the Ordinary Form as "Novus Ordo." #answeringatheism #Catholic

[NubesPluantIustum @pluant]

@Sacerdotus @ArchCordileone Here’s Paul VI, using the “borderline heretical” term Novus Ordo.

I warn you, it’s in Latin, so hopefully you can manage that if there’s no translation for your expert self to consult.

https://t.co/KnaKay6XjE

[Answering Atheism™ @Answer_Atheism]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Answering Atheism™ @Answer_Atheism]

Today is the feast day of his apparition at Monte Gargano.

[Joe Blow ✝️ @squicky232]

@TheRealSergioGG @TaylorRMarshall Sept 29 is St Michael’s feast day

[Sarah Salviander @sarahsalviander]

Astronomer Carl Sagan, who inspired the iconic Pale Blue Dot image of the Earth, tells this interviewer it's "pathetic" to consider ourselves as important given our relative size and number in the total ensemble of things.

William Lane Craig has a good philosophical response to Sagan's assertion. I just wrote a devotional entry on this very topic, where I look at it from a related perspective. Here's an excerpt:

Our human hearts are such a paradox. They inflate our fleeting worries to cosmic proportions, yet whisper that we’re mere dust-creatures on a slightly larger speck of dust in an endless universe. We crave significance, a sense of being cherished, but an image like this can shatter our hopes of ever being worthy.

If importance were measured only by size, we’d be lost. But “the Lord does not look at the things people look at” (1 Samuel 16:7). Consider the nucleus of an atom—unfathomably tiny, yet brimming with energy to fuel the Sun. Or a single living cell, microscopic yet vastly more intricate than galaxies of stars. Consciousness, an unquantifiable marvel, ranks among the universe’s greatest mysteries. It took eons and a sprawling cosmos to forge the chemistry of life, and we know of only one pale blue dot in the vast cosmic sea that cradles it. Earth is rare. It is precious.

And on this fragile mote, caught fleetingly in a sunbeam, the most extraordinary event in history unfolded. The God who spun the stars stooped low, donned a cloak of dust, and walked among us. This pale blue speck became the stage for a universe-sized act of love: Jesus Christ’s willing sacrifice on the cross, rendering each of us—every dust-creature—worthy. The scale of the cosmos may dwarf us, but we are exalted by His love.

[Answering Atheism™ @Answer_Atheism]

#Atheism is pretty much dead in 2024 and 2025. We have not gotten many questions or exchanges with alleged #atheists both on and offline. The #atheist agenda is pretty much on the way to extinction. #AnsweringAtheism

[Answering Atheism™ @Answer_Atheism]

He is an intellectual coward.

[Deanne @NzDeanne]

@gingereejit He is great.

[Answering Atheism™ @Answer_Atheism]

He is an intellectual coward.

[SimonM 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇳🇿 @gingereejit]

Seems an apt time to watch Massimo Pigluicci talking about "How to live like a Stoic"... understanding and dealing with the fact there are events in life that are outwith our control.

Part of the "Great Courses" on Kanopy, free access with a Wellington Library Card

[Answering Atheism™ @Answer_Atheism]

This is a very anti Christian take. Then we wonder why people leave the faith and become #atheists. #atheism #atheist #answeringatheists #Catholic #Christianity

[Answering Atheism™ @Answer_Atheism]

You lack knowledge of current events in light of Traditionis Custodes. Your commentary is ill-informed.

[🇻🇦Bug Hall🌱 @Bug_Hall]

@Sacerdotus @ShaneSchaetzel I don't agree with this sentiment, but you obviously have comprehension issues...

Peter said they can't hear the mass in the basilica. They heard it outside. Obedience.

[Answering Atheism™ @Answer_Atheism]

This is a complete falsehood. There exists no religion that worships Mary, the Mother of Christ. #AnsweringAtheism #AnsweringAtheists

[Danny @Truth_matters20]

Giving your heart to Mary is worship.

Praying to Mary is worship.

Singing to Mary is worship.

Writing poetry about Mary is worship.

These are literally all the things Christians do when worshiping God. Please don't be deceived. Repent of your sins and trust in Jesus alone.

[Answering Atheism™ @Answer_Atheism]

Another troll to report for inciting harassment. @Support @elonmusck #Answeringatheism #Atheists #AnsweringAtheists

[Prophet Rob @thesaviorweneed]

@Sacerdotus @AleMartnezR1 @tokolosh1961 https://t.co/lgo4J3k0yt
https://t.co/XVkPoaPFmg
ya'll think an unrelated person found this thread and reposted all these things that fast?

[Answering Atheism™ @Answer_Atheism]

There goes another troll to report for inciting harassment. @Support @elonmusck #Answeringatheism #Atheists #AnsweringAtheists

[Prophet Rob @thesaviorweneed]

@AleMartnezR1 @tokolosh1961 https://t.co/XmZQ6mOHjo
see there he goes socking again

[Answering Atheism™ @Answer_Atheism]

So everyone is everyone because they like posts? #atheists #atheism #answeringatheism

[Prophet Rob @thesaviorweneed]

@Sacerdotus @AleMartnezR1 @tokolosh1961 i can't see the likes on this one, but it's the mother ship

https://t.co/XKFbCZa8AT