Mighty Warrior

Christian;
Likes reading philosophy, theology, and science history; enjoys listening to Christian metal; likes watching anime.

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@FeserEdward Congratulations!

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@MattSketch @SymplyTonbra Technically, this would have stopped war crimes from happening.

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@Andrewnsnyder I, somewhat surprisingly, discovered this to be true when reading through some of the Church Fathers. Books such as:
- Athanasius's "On the Incarnation"
- Gregory Nazianzus's "Five Theological Orations"
- Gregory of Nyssa's "Great Catechism"

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@writriverdale Another collection of essays is this volume. It was compiled by 3 Chesterton scholars. I also discovered a number of Chesterton's lesser known essay collections because of this one.

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@Andrewnsnyder

[Tim O'Neill @TimONeill007]

It's "Easter is Pagan in Origin" time again - it seems to come around faster every year. Yet again, neo-pagans, anti-theistic atheists and historically illiterate evangelical Christians are uniting in a chorus that "Christians stole Easter and its pagan in origin". Except, ...

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@Catholic_Smores @trad_west_ This thread, made a couple years ago, goes into some detail on the Christian themes in the games (mainly focusing on the original trilogy).

https://t.co/xg2bf0VmGl

[Dour Visage🐧 @DourVisage]

Halo and associated lore is a deeply Christian work of Science Fiction, and I am not kidding in that the Spartan, John 117 is a type of John the Baptist, a type of Christ, and a type of John the Beloved. A 🧵

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@4vataruniverse With a full moon too.

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@PierreBalinski @nonregemesse "When Children Became People: The Birth of Childhood in Early Christianity" by O. M. Bakke, is a good resource on this.

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@doofgeek4011 Have you read this book yet?
It explores the intersection of Christ's Incarnation and evolutionary biology.

[Tolkien Proverbs @TolkienProverbs]

A warrior should have more skills and knowledge than only the craft of weapons and slaying. FARAMIR.

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@XboxLiveGOP @ByzCat Another book you should read is this one:

https://t.co/tORWGx0g2s

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@Andrewnsnyder A 3rd one for me is Stephen R. Lawhead.

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@jacqueboatman Move the HoME volumes to the end, and read the Letters at least after the Fall of Gondolin.

[Ciarán Ó Múrchadha @CiaranMurchadha]

David Bentley Hart on the problematic Islamic theology of “Al-Qadar”(that God has created & wills all things, including evil). How God in Islamic theology becomes metaphysically opaque and morally unintelligible.

“If all that occurs, in the minutest detail and in the entirety of its design, is only the expression of one infinite volition that makes no real room within its transcendent determinations for other, secondary, subsidiary but free agencies (and so for some element of chance and absurdity), then the world is both arbitrary and necessary, both meaningful in every part and meaningless in its totality, an expression of pure power and nothing else. Even if the purpose of such a world is to prepare creatures to know the majesty and justice of its God, that majesty and justice are, in a very real sense, fictions of his will, impressed upon creatures by means both good and evil, merciful and cruel, radiant and monstrous – some are created for eternal bliss and others for eternal torment, and all for the sake of the divine drama of perfect and irresistible might.

Such a God, at the end of the day, is nothing but will, and so nothing but an infinite brute event; and the only adoration that such a God can evoke is an almost perfect coincidence of faith and nihilism. Quite apart from what I take to be the scriptural and philosophical incoherence of this concept of God, it provides an excellent moral case for atheism – or, for that matter, Gnosticism (but this too I will address below).”

Source : David Bentley Hart, [“The Doors of the Sea”], p. 29-30.

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@AutismCapital Someone should make a music video of this song with Stranger Things scenes in it.

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@jacqueboatman Supposedly, this was the last book that Christopher Tolkien edited.

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@Andrewnsnyder Tolkien's translations of myths and epics should also be read (such as Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, etc.); along with his book "The Monster and the Critics and Other Essays".

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@Jindo_1307979 999

Bottom left match of "8" gets moved to top right side of "5" (so that it looks like "909"). Lower left match of "0" gets turned horizontally and placed in the middle of the "0", so that it becomes a "9".

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@_bonaventurian Merry Christmas, Arrus!