Michael De Robertis

Retired professor of astronomy, interested in Christian theology, and a skeptic (in the good sense!).

[Michael De Robertis @mmdr9118]

@JamesEsses Absolutely disgraceful.

[Michael De Robertis @mmdr9118]

@LifeNewsHQ The viral video often recirculated on social media is actually a 2022 brand campaign film produced by the Quebec-based department store chain La Maison Simons, not an advertisement for medical assistance in dying (MAID) or the Canadian government.

[Michael De Robertis @mmdr9118]

@Riley_Gaines_ The viral video often recirculated on social media is actually a 2022 brand campaign film produced by the Quebec-based department store chain La Maison Simons, not an advertisement for medical assistance in dying (MAID) or the Canadian government.

[Michael De Robertis @mmdr9118]

@web_pastor Trouble is, there is no evidence Voltaire wrote or said this. But I get the sentiment and you're absolutely right. The truth will prevail!

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Feminists… until they enter the doorway of a mosque:

[Michael De Robertis @mmdr9118]

@BarbaraRKay What you said. Amen.

[Michael De Robertis @mmdr9118]

@KonstantinKisin Correction: Man is NOT the measure of all things. That's what's gone wrong!

[Michael De Robertis @mmdr9118]

@Martyupnorth Too outrageously crazy to even be a parody!

[Jennifer ✝️🇺🇸🇮🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Jen4USA]

Never trust the cutes ones… LOL

[Michael De Robertis @mmdr9118]

@roddreher Every corporate group to which I belonged, when reflecting on where to go from here, used the term "shared values" to ground itself. How would your nation now describe its "shared values"? And isn't that the point?

[Michael De Robertis @mmdr9118]

@FrancesWiddows1 Keep telling the truth Dr. Widdowson!

[Michael De Robertis @mmdr9118]

@McCormickProf It's time we in Canada revisited this issue and repudiated the MAiD culture that has poisoned our nation for far too long!

[Michael De Robertis @mmdr9118]

I just knew it! @benshapiro @michaeljknowles @brianlilley @jonkay @BarbaraRKay @MattWalshBlog

[Michael De Robertis @mmdr9118]

@roddreher This is so far beyond the pale... an indignity to all that is decent and right about America.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Word has just come down that St. Paul’s Cathedral in London—the second most important church in the Anglican world—has imitated Canterbury Cathedral in permitting “raves,” nightclub-like entertainments, to take place in its confines.

The usual reasons for acquiescing to this have been trotted out: reaching out to the young, trying to get with the times, etc. But this development simply shows that the leadership of the Church of England has lost any sense of the crucial distinction between the sacred and the secular.

Across the centuries and across the cultures, our ancestors seem to have intuitively grasped the importance of this demarcation. Whereas the secular is the arena of ordinary experience and activity, the sacred is another realm, a different dimension.

Accordingly, in the properly sacred space, one is lifted out of the conventional and introduced into the numinous. This is why Christian cathedrals are filled with images of the saints and angels and why their interiors are meant first to disorient us and then to reorient us toward the divine.

It is also why, in the initiation rituals of primal peoples, a young person is purposely ripped out of the ordinary and introduced into the mythic and mystic dimension. And it is why, throughout the Bible, sacred spaces are carefully set apart from common spaces.

The contemporary West is, quite literally, the first culture in human history that is in danger of collapsing the sacred into the secular, or better, losing any sense of the difference between the two.

This is doing enormous damage, especially to young people, whose lives have been flattened into a preoccupation with money, worldly success, and material things.

The Church indeed should go out into the secular space to find those who have wandered away from God, but it should then lead those wanderers back to the holy.

Having “raves” in the nave of one of the most sacred spaces in the Christian world is, I’m sad to say, another sign of our pitiful surrender to ideological secularism.

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

“people wouldn’t commit crimes if they could just afford food”

they would, actually.

Finland studied this by giving people UBI, and it had precisely zero impact on crime

[Michael De Robertis @mmdr9118]

@MedievalScholar The number of heavily biased, anti-religious (Catholic) narratives that persist in modern culture, including in our schools, is legion. For example, "while clergy swore Earth is flat, Columbus proved Earth is round." A "Grand Lie."

[Michael De Robertis @mmdr9118]

Next year in NYC under comrade Mamdani's leadership? @jonkay @BarbaraRKay @benshapiro @michaeljknowles

[Michael De Robertis @mmdr9118]

@brianlilley Just show them this... burning down their White House in 1814, and tell them that if they're not careful...

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

“In the academic world, diversity means black leftists, white leftists, female leftists, and Hispanic leftists. Demographic diversity conceals ideological conformity.”

— Thomas Sowell