Aric Renzo

Certified geek passionate about Theology, Technology, and various other -ologys

[Aric Renzo @aric49]

Proud to announce the launch of my latest book: The Docker Workshop. Me and my fellow co-authors worked diligently to bring you a comprehensive guide on running #Containers using #Docker, #Kubernetes and other #CloudNative technologies! Check it out here: https://t.co/XozodvRc5G

[Aric Renzo @aric49]

@TheStudioRevue Just recently started watching your videos with my wife. We love them. I'm so curious, what watch do you wear?

[Bree Solstad @BreeSolstad]

The images coming out of Fatima tonight are truly breathtaking.

While the world burns, devout Catholics join together as one to pray for the intercession to the glorious white lady of peace—Our Lady of Fatima.

In the end, her Immaculate Heart will triumph!

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Mary is the Mother of the whole Church. Everyone can turn to her with filial confidence, certain of being heard, protected, and loved. #GeneralAudience

[Aric Renzo @aric49]

As a former #Keto/#Paleo dieter, I have to say: Going totally #PlantBased for Lent was a game changer. I lost weight, I felt lighter, more energetic, slept better. Now I want to hear debates around animal vs plant based dieting. Recommendations?

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

[The Lunduke Journal @LundukeJournal]

There’s definitely something to Star Trek being inherently Christian.

Sort of.

There are a handful of moments, in TOS, where characters say things that are distinctly Christian.

“Bread and Circuses” and “Trouble with Tribbles” spring to mind as both having either direct quotes or concepts from Christianity or the New Testament.

Now, here’s something worth considering:

“Bread and Circuses” was written by Roddenberry and Coon. Both of whom were not Christian (and generally not religious at all).

“Trouble with Tribbles” was written by David Gerrold, who is Jewish.

In fact, the most Christian aspects of the entire series were put in place by Jew and Atheist writers. In other words: They were put there very specifically. Deliberately.

That was a key decision, for those stories, to be distinctly Christian (or at least Christian influenced).

Throughout ST:TOS, there are many references to religion… and it mostly (with a few exceptions) tends to be written from the viewpoint of either Judaism or Christianity (almost always with an American flavor)… with several Old and New Testament quotes.

TOS had multiple Jewish writers (just shy of a dozen episodes if memory serves) — and both Kirk and Spock were played by Jews (with some parts of Spock’s background borrowed from Judaism).

On the Christian side, I believe Dorothy (DC) Fontana (who wrote the most episodes behind Roddenberry and Coon) was Catholic (not sure if she was practicing as an adult, but definitely raised Catholic). Though her episodes tended to be some of the most… non-religious in concepts and references.

But, regardless of who did the writing, creating, and acting… one thing is clear:

When looked at as a whole series, TOS is distinctly “Judeo-Christian American”.

If you took the “Jewish-ness” out of Star Trek… you wouldn’t have Star Trek.

If you took the “Christianity” out of Star Trek… you wouldn’t have Star Trek.

If you took the “America” out of Star Trek… you wouldn’t have Star Trek.

And now I’m rambling. But it’s a fascinating topic. I love Star Trek.

[The Lunduke Journal @LundukeJournal]

With all of the various debates and arguments in the Tech World… sometimes it’s important to return to the core issues.

[Hughes de Payens 🇻🇦✝️📿 @hdpayens]

Ignatius of Antioch died around 107 AD.

He was a student of the apostolic generation. Possibly a disciple of John himself. He watched men who walked with Jesus teach the faith.

And when he wrote about the Eucharist, he called it "the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins."

Not a symbol. Not a memorial. Flesh.

He didn't hedge. He didn't qualify. He wrote as if this were the most settled thing in the world, because for him, it was.

Now here is the philosophical problem this creates for the symbolic interpretation.

If the Eucharist were merely a memorial meal, you would expect to find that view somewhere in the first century of Christian writing. Even one document. One letter. One sermon fragment.

There is none.

What you find instead is Ignatius treating the literal view as so obvious he uses it to refute Gnostic heretics, arguing that they reject the Eucharist "because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior."

He didn't invent a doctrine. He appealed to it as common ground.

The symbolic view doesn't just contradict Ignatius. It requires us to believe that every surviving Christian voice from the first two centuries got the central act of Christian worship completely wrong from the very beginning.

That is not a minor revision to church history. That is a collapse of it.

What would it take for you to trust a man who learned from the apostles themselves?

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

When it comes to the perpetual virginity of Mary, do you agree with the Catholic view or with the view of Protestant reformers Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, and John Wesley?

[How to be Christian @How2BeChristian]

Most Protestant ARE NOT Protestants because they have read the Bible and intelligently concluded that it is Protestant.

Most Protestants ARE Protestants because they blindly followed someone who falsely claimed that the Bible is Protestant.

When Christians actually read the Bible honestly, it becomes clear to them that Protestantism is the product of adding words to the Bible.

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✝️ In John chapter 6, we can read that Jesus said:

“Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.” Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform? Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me— not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.”

- John 6:25-59 ESV ✝️

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Learn more about the Word of God ⤵️

PART I - “What Does ‘Eat My Flesh’ Mean?”:
https://t.co/erof3Rnatp

PART II - “What Does ‘Eat My Flesh’ Mean?”:
https://t.co/c8LwVqxQ4q

🙏 Please pray for this family! ⤵️

[Aric Renzo @aric49]

@Pastorclips1611 You have absolutely proved your ignorance of the Catholic Church and what she teaches. We do not believe "getting close" to a statue is "magical". We believe statues and icons are simply that: statues and icons. Plaster and paint. They help us to focus and meditate when we pray.

[Aric Renzo @aric49]

@Pastorclips1611 Continued: "Those, therefore, who speak against this gift of God, incur death in the midst of their disputes. But it were better for them to treat it with respect, that they also might rise again."

Written 110 AD. Disciple of John the Apostle.

[Aric Renzo @aric49]

@Pastorclips1611 Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Smyrnaeans, Chapter 7:

"They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they confess not the Eucharist to be the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins, and which the Father, of His goodness, raised up again. "

[Aric Renzo @aric49]

If you're an #audiobook fan, you need to seriously check out @librofm and ditch @audible_com. You can buy DRM Free audio books that actually support brick and mortar bookstores. I just bought #ReadyPlayerOne. This service is amazing and they have a great selection of books.

[Fr. Chris Vorderbruggen @FatherChrisVor1]

Seeing some Roman Catholic influencers warning against apps like Hallow this Lent. If Hallow helps you pray and draw closer to God, use it. Don’t overthink it. Don’t be distracted by noise. Just pray. God hears you, and He delights in your sincere conversation with Him.

[Aric Renzo @aric49]

@How2BeChristian @taco_talks I've been praying for Taco. Hopefully this puts a stone in his shoe.

[Aric Renzo @aric49]

Reading research on #PlantBased #Nutrition has really started to open my mind towards the health benefits of plant based dieting. Most of the #Carnivore influencers I follow seem to simply state: "trust my story, bro" which is a weak argument. I'm open to both sides however.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Medicaid data has been open sourced, so the level of fraud is easy to identify.

@DOGE is not a department, it’s a state of mind.

[Aric Renzo @aric49]

@CaryKelly11 I disagree with your assertion that "they" refuse to study carnivore because ribeye and eggs can't very patented. Neither can lentils, beans, or any whole plant foods. I'm not even in the vegan camp, but I feel like this is faulty reasoning.