@ChristandGuitar Yes, every church father used exactly that phrase "if it talks like a duck," and not "dulia, hyperdulia, and latria."
This is actually quite simple if you're trying to understand it.
If you've already made up your mind, then your mind will remain closed.
@latinaPatriota@CarriePrejean1 I'm not saying she's right. I'm saying your statement isn't logical. The secret potential third option is you're both wrong.
(hint: just because your opponent is wrong doesn't make anything you say right)
@latinaPatriota@CarriePrejean1 Literally not relevant.
When considering becoming a Democrat, one might continue to say "I'm a Republican" when asked, because sharing one is thinking about switching may not be desired.
@AmberLanph21831@foremar@CarriePrejean1 ... are you stupid?
Is the usccb the entire church?
Or is that the US church?
Or is that the US Church leadership?
Or is it some fraction of them?
If usccb does something, that's not THE CHURCH doing something. That's a group.
@AmberLanph21831@CarriePrejean1 Can you read?
Those are two thoughts on 1) the Catholic bishop's conference, and 2) one particular bishop.
"Catholicism" is the beliefs. "Catholics" are the people. So it's only his thoughts on Catholic beliefs we're interested in discussing here.
Evan Barker’s disillusioned Democrat memoir (out today) has some priceless firsthand observations of the modern Left:
“Almost all Democratic operatives, regardless of their type, parroted the same lines to each other. It was common for us to call Republicans racist almost daily, convincing each other that the ‘alt-right’ was ‘absolutely’ terrifying, a force that wanted to literally murder us.”
@brianeskow@evanwch If you're trying to be compelling, I wouldn't mention you hope people buy your book when you put one out. Completely undermines your pushing of this book.
@roddreher@conservmillen Oh fuck off. Abraham is our father in faith, does that mean I need to defend all Abraham's?
That's literally the analogy you're making.
I see I am being ritually insulted for my support of this man
The uneducated call me a racist
I am not a racist
I am a culturalist
I believe that some cultures are better than others
I prefer cultures to do not advocate stoning, pederasty,
wife beating, female genital mutilation, and beheading opponents
Call me old-fashioned...
I just watched @BishopBarron's first Thomas Aquinas lecture for @petersonacademy.
He's one of the best lecturers I've ever heard.
He's engaging and coherent, well-armed with stories, an effective synthesizer, and able to shift up and down levels of analysis with ease ("here's the social impact; here's the theological significance; here's the historical context, etc.).
I've interviewed him, and we have spent time together, and that was all exceedingly worthwhile. But a full lecture requires a different skill set, and not many people have it.
He captured my attention, despite my current difficulty with pain. And I learned a lot.
He's also eminently likeable.
It's a privilege to have the Bishop's lectures on Peterson Academy.
I get the logic behind the Mainstream Media ignoring rational COVID voices like RFK, Rand Paul, Jay Bhattacharya, etc.
They went against the force-fed narrative (no journalism required) and the directives of their Big Pharma sugar daddies.
But for them now to ignore Fauci in his own words is unconscionable.
They are co-conspirators in his crimes.
@HedgieMarkets I’ve asked the SpaceXAI team to preserve any rare books in a library and scan them the hard way vs just cutting off the spine and scanning