I know I don't have many followers, but for those who see this, please say a prayer for my wife and our baby. We found out she's pregnant today, thank the Lord. We've had some unfortunate things happen with past pregnancies that leave us worried. It's much appreciated. God bless.
Pope Leo states that mass immigration is a problem to be solved by the state but encourages us to treat immigrants with dignity. This seems reasonable to me.
I believe the Shroud of Turin was forged by a medieval artist. I believe he chose a very expensive linen cloth to wow only the very few who would notice, matched the Gospel accounts in extraordinary detail, rejected the artistic conventions of his own time in many ways for the only known time in history, depicted crucifixion with striking anatomical realism, used real blood or blood-derived material instead of simply painting the wounds, created an unremarkable faint image whose most remarkable property would not be recognized until photography revealed it as a negative more than five centuries later, embedded three-dimensional image information that would only be discovered with modern image analysis, produced an image so superficial that modern microscopy still can’t explain it, anticipated details that align perfeclty with modern forensic understanding of crucifixion, executed the entire work without mistakes or corrections on a valuable cloth, he nailed it without error in one shot, invented a technique that no one has convincingly reproduced, left no record of how he did it, inspired no known followers, and did it to wow only us centuries later as nobody viewing the work at the time would even see it for what it is, and then disappeared from history without anyone ever mentioning the greatest technical achievement of medieval art.
The “alien”/UAP/rewriting ancient history narrative will scratch the itch for mystery and transcendence so many modern people have, but which their own modernity has robbed them of.
Christians believe the Second Person of an infinite Triune God became flesh incarnate, compressed His full deity into an embryo, arrived through the uterine canal of a human female, grew an impressive, bipedal skin-chassis so that His priceless, perfect God-blood could serve as a ransom payment for the sins of a vast swath of believing humanity across the entire expanse of time and space.
Please do not talk to me about a regional flood; you overeducated, underbelieving, feckless, faithless, pretentious, Socinian, elbow-patched seminar monkeys.
As if God can't make it rain a bunch.
The Shabbat has been fulfilled. The first creation was good, and so was Shabbat. But that creation fell, with man squandering God’s Sabbath rest.
We therefore celebrate the Lord’s Day—the beginning of the New Creation inaugurated by the resurrection of the Messiah, and His victory over death.
I got an interesting email today from someone who just started reading the saints on the amount of people in heaven and hell. She insisted that if more are lost than saved, "then I can no longer trust in God’s plan and I’m lost." I understand her shock of going from modernist writings to traditional writings (as she had just done) so I'm not mad at her question. But I sent her this quote from CS Lewis, because his answer is brilliant:
"What some people say on earth is that the final loss of one soul gives the lie to all the joy of those who are saved. But see what lurks behind [that]... The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven... Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it; or else for ever and ever the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves."—The Great Divorce p 118.
@Catholicizm1 I thought Mary determines the canon? Which is why Protestants can't have a canon, since Mary won't tell them since they don't pray to her?
Dave Rubin, who bought a baby with his 'husband', is considered a 'conservative' by MAGA
Pope Leo XIV, who has been outspoken against surrogacy, is considered 'woke' by MAGA
You will never understand the world or be able to form truly original thoughts beyond a certain point if the pinnacle of your mind is the left/right paradigm