Carl E. Olson

Catholic husband, father, artist, music/book collector, author of books on theosis, the Resurrection, the Rapture, Lent/Advent. Editor @cworldreport. Acerbic!

[Carl E. Olson @carleolson]

My first icon is still in progress (and has been on hold for far too long), but I tend to think it's a bit better than anything you'll see from Rupnik...

[Carl E. Olson @carleolson]

@SpeelingBChamp @JackalopePoop You're not well. Seek authentic help.

[Carl E. Olson @carleolson]

Plenty could be said about this clickbait stupidity, but as a former Fundamentalist, I'll say what was clear to me as a callow teenager who still held to some anti-Catholic views:

Jesus Christ loves his mother, the authors of the Gospels thought about her and wrote about her, and such disrespect for the mother of the Incarnate Word is demonic.

[JP @JPuncut]

1. I don't think about Mary

2. I don't pray to Mary

3. I don't venerate Mary

4. Mary didn't die for me

5. I have ZERO emotional or spiritual ties to Mary

6. Mary is NOT your Mother or my Mother.

I LOVE JESUS. THAT IS ALL.

[Carl E. Olson @carleolson]

"When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold your son!” Then He said to the disciple, “Behold your mother!” And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home. (Jn 19:26-27)

Why do you deny the words of Christ Himself?

[Carl E. Olson @carleolson]

@SpeelingBChamp @JackalopePoop Was she the disciple's mother?

[Carl E. Olson @carleolson]

@davidpdeavel Disgusting, of course. And now Oregon will figure out a way to top this. Mark my words.

[Carl E. Olson @carleolson]

The Fundamentalist is, unknowingly, continually fragmented by his contradictions, precisely because he cannot accept paradox. It's a flat and dehumanizing worldview in many ways, even though many Fundamentalists are incredibly good and holy people. But, theologically, they either ignore deep cracks in their belief system or simply lash out in petulant pride at Catholics and others. I began to sense it in my teens, then saw parts of it in my late teens, and then rejected it by my mid-20s.

[Carl E. Olson @carleolson]

@Jeff_Eager @NotTinaKotex I think the correct spelling is "rob us".

[Carl E. Olson @carleolson]

Another friendly reminder that the Numbskulled Capitulation Rag is not Catholic.

[NCR @NCRonline]

Phyllis Zagano has spent her academic life pursuing the question: Were women once ordained as deacons, and what does that mean for the church today? She spoke about the "simmering question," as she calls it in her new book. https://t.co/W2EWV8w2cD

[Carl E. Olson @carleolson]

@GovTinaKotek How sad that so many Oregon public school students have no knowledge of or interest in Shakespeare because they cannot read and are never taught anything about Shakespeare. Oh, well.

[Carl E. Olson @carleolson]

@MatthewJLB "not an ideologue..."

I think that's true. But coming from one of the most ideological hacks around, it's ... funny.

[Carl E. Olson @carleolson]

@davidpdeavel I had not heard of this particular ma'am before now, good sir.

[Carl E. Olson @carleolson]

All excellent ideas. I recently heard about a man who had a serious midlife crisis and a lot of other people's money. So, he insisted on having a building constructed in his sad honor. Put a wick on that thing and light it!

[Joseph Massey @jmasseypoet]

I think I owe it to myself to have a midlife crisis. It’s not fair to waste the moment, and the possibilities are endless. One thought is to go all in on scented candles. Another thought is to take up painting abstract canvases with incongruous titles, like “Benedict Arnold Rides Again,” but the painting is a few vertical strips of blue and green with a straight black horizontal line through the center. Another thought is to purchase a ukulele and learn how to play it with the same gusto as Eddie Vedder. Hey, maybe I’ll buy an espresso machine and lose my mind in the world of barista-level “froth” and mouthfeel. I’m open to ideas.

[Carl E. Olson @carleolson]

@davidpdeavel @HQNewsNow @JeffMerkley Merkley couldn't estimate a gallon of BS if you gave him four quarts and a bovine.

[Carl E. Olson @carleolson]

@jmasseypoet Ah! Another autumnal warrior. You're all good. 🌞

[Carl E. Olson @carleolson]

Gratuitous driveway shot.

[Carl E. Olson @carleolson]

I'm proud that I never watched "Sesame Street" as a child.

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

Happy #PrideMonth from Sesame Street! Join us in celebrating and uplifting the LGBTQIA+ members of our community. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[Carl E. Olson @carleolson]

Summary: "I have no clue what I'm talking about, but I live to create anti-Catholic clickbait."

Yawn.

[AMASEEDSOWER @DrShayPhD]

Catholics spend all day talking about dates [our church is 1500 years old, our church is 2,000 years old] and almost no time talking about doctrine.

[Carl E. Olson @carleolson]

Serious question: Has being a lesbian helped Kotek improve Oregon in any way? Did being bisexual help Kate Brown improve Oregon? Can anyone name some "invaluable contributions" either one has made to this state's well-being?

They are the two worst governors in Oregon history (which is saying something), judged on any metric: economically, educationally, socially, culturally, etc. The incompetence and apparent corruption are staggering; you have to be a Dembot to ignore what has transpired over the past decade.

Tina has to play identity politics because she has no merits or results to point to. She is a political dial tone.

[Carl E. Olson @carleolson]

A passage from an exceptional essay by Prof. Murzaku:

The first tool is theosis, or divinization. Magnifica Humanitas criticizes the transhumanist and posthumanist “futuristic vision” (115-116), which imagines humanity becoming “more than human” through technical enhancement, hybridization, or escape from bodily limits.

Eastern theology sharpens the argument: transhumanism is not too ambitious; it is insufficiently transcendent. It seeks enhancement without grace, power without communion, and transcendence without Incarnation. The Fathers never feared the claim that humanity is called beyond itself. St. Irenaeus (Against Heresies) teaches that the Son of God became the Son of Man so that humanity, taken into the Word and receiving adoption, might become children of God. St. Athanasius gives the classic formulation: “He was made man that we might be made God” (On the Incarnation of the Word, 54, 3). The Catechism of the Catholic Church receives this patristic witness in its teaching that the Word became flesh to make us “partakers of the divine nature.” (460).

The Fathers teach that this ascent to God is received as grace, not engineered as mastery. Thus, the Church’s answer to AI is not simply “remain natural.” It is not to confuse technical amplification with sanctification. A person can become faster, more informed, more connected, and more productive without becoming wiser, freer, or holier. Enhancement amplifies capacity; deification transforms communion. Enhancement asks what the human being can do; theosis asks what the human being is called to become in Christ.

Theosis, not optimization, is the Christian answer to the machine-age fantasy of self-salvation.

[Ignatius Insight @ignatiusinsight]

"The Eastern Lung of Pope Leo’s first encyclical": Ines Angeli Murzaku writes @cworldreport that "theosis, not optimization, is the Christian answer to the machine-age fantasy of self-salvation." https://t.co/Vza9Mesxtf