Rick Wright ⛪🕍🌌🔭🦛🐋

#Cornell alum PhD Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East. Seeking to understand creation/chaos/life/death. #BTSR MDiv. TBI survivor. #LNBL @PCreaturis Job 40:19

[Rick Wright ⛪🕍🌌🔭🦛🐋 @RickWright67]

Increasingly I am convinced we are still paying a heavy price for the sins of
a century ago
a generation ago
a decade ago
a year ago
last month
last week
yesterday
this morning
right about now

[Rick Wright ⛪🕍🌌🔭🦛🐋 @RickWright67]

>Disclosure Day is a film about false enchantment, though I am certain the filmmakers don’t see it that way. It is a profoundly religious film. It is also profoundly evil.

'Disclosure Day': A Gnostic Re-Enchantment Tale, by @roddreher https://t.co/bSvTbLorrK

[Rick Wright ⛪🕍🌌🔭🦛🐋 @RickWright67]

Glad to know where he landed.

Postcard From Buc-ee-stan, by @roddreher https://t.co/jTbp9ZbAvQ

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Atheists: The Catholic Church has always been against science

Meanwhile the Church:

• Georges Lemaître — Catholic priest; proposed the “primeval atom” theory, which became the foundation of the modern Big Bang cosmological model.

• Gregor Mendel — Augustinian friar; discovered the laws of inheritance (Mendelian genetics), forming the basis of modern genetics.

• Nicolaus Copernicus — Catholic canon; developed the heliocentric model (Sun-centered solar system), transforming astronomy.

• Christopher Clavius — Jesuit priest; principal mathematician behind the Gregorian calendar reform still used worldwide today.

• Roger Boscovich — Jesuit priest; early theory of atomic structure and force fields, influencing modern physics concepts.

• Angelo Secchi — Jesuit priest; pioneer of astrophysics and first classification system of stars based on spectra.

• Francesco Maria Grimaldi — Jesuit priest; discovered diffraction of light and contributed to wave theory of optics.

• Jean Picard — Catholic priest; first highly accurate measurement of Earth’s radius using modern scientific instruments.

• Nicolas Steno — Catholic bishop; founded stratigraphy (law of superposition), a foundation of modern geology.

• Marin Mersenne — Minim friar; “Mersenne primes” in number theory are named after him; also built scientific communication networks across Europe.

• Benito Viñes — Jesuit priest; developed early hurricane tracking and forecasting methods in Cuba.

[Rick Wright ⛪🕍🌌🔭🦛🐋 @RickWright67]

An especially good article.

>The big sacrifice of small neighborhoods.

Fullbore Friday, by @cdrsalamander https://t.co/JEpIrociu8

[Rick Wright ⛪🕍🌌🔭🦛🐋 @RickWright67]

>The tragedy is not that the government refused to rescue Spirit at the end. The tragedy is that[in 2024] the government helped block the market’s rescue before the end came.

https://t.co/Mdv79hwvdz

[Rick Wright ⛪🕍🌌🔭🦛🐋 @RickWright67]

>A merger between JetBlue and Spirit would have caused tens of millions of travelers to face higher fares and fewer choices. (Merrick Garland in 2024)

Sen Warren blasted for cheering blocking of merger that might have saved Spirit Airlines https://t.co/95a42ehdF2 #FoxBusiness

[Rick Wright ⛪🕍🌌🔭🦛🐋 @RickWright67]

Spirit had been struggling. But the sudden shutdown (which left thousands stranded and thousands out of work) did not have to happen.

Someone blocked the 2024 merger.

On Spirit Airlines, the Government Protected Competition by Eliminating It https://t.co/UmopVoMN4L

[Rick Wright ⛪🕍🌌🔭🦛🐋 @RickWright67]

This is next level.

[okazakitomohiro @oo_kk_aa]

ニャッキの伊藤有壱さんにお声掛け頂き、コマ撮りの展覧会に一作家として参加しています。私はコマ撮り分野ではない場所から活動をはじめて、デザインの視点でのコマ撮りに取り組んできましたが、今回初めてコマ撮り界の本丸の方々とご一緒でき嬉しいです。今6年目のマッチ撮影素材等を展示しています

[Rick Wright ⛪🕍🌌🔭🦛🐋 @RickWright67]

Having spent three weeks in Kerala in 1999 this caught my attention. We quite enjoyed our time there.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Congratulations India for throwing the communists out of all state governments for the first time in 59 years.

As votes are counted today, it has become apparent that the communists will lose power in Kerala.

The commies are out of power across India for the 1st time since 1967

[Rick Wright ⛪🕍🌌🔭🦛🐋 @RickWright67]

How this film ends is perfection.

[Francisco Cunha @OnDisasters]

Let me restate: while Nolan’s "Dunkirk" wasn't for everyone, it remains a masterpiece. Moments like these define the beauty of cinema.

[Rick Wright ⛪🕍🌌🔭🦛🐋 @RickWright67]

Retired early after 26 years of pastoral ministry in 2022 and returned to the Catholic Church. So far have been loving it. Am not planning on fleeing.

However I have to agree. I was cautiously optimistic after the election of Leo. And have become deeply troubled.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I have been pretty emphatic the last few days in condemning Pope Leo’s foray into American politics.

My detractors are having fun stating that I am doing this out of allegiance to President Trump and that I have chosen Trump over God.

WRONG.

The biggest reason by far why I am so vocal on this is the damage Pope Leo is doing to the Catholic Church in the USA.

I believe Pope Leo has done more to harm US Catholicism in just a few days than any other Pope of the past 100 years (even Francis).

Pope Leo is literally causing orthodox, faithful American Catholics to flee the Church out of disgust over his leftwing politicization and his kowtowing to Islam. Moreover, he has opened the door for boundless criticism against Catholicism from certain Protestant denominations and churches, causing untold harm to Christian ecumenism in the USA.

It is precisely because I care so much about the Church that Jesus founded in AD 33 that I oppose the havoc Pope Leo has unleashed in the US Church.

(And yes, under Church doctrine and as a Catholic, I am fully entitled to hold such beliefs and express them.)

[Rick Wright ⛪🕍🌌🔭🦛🐋 @RickWright67]

Very timely as western Christianity journeys through the Octave of Easter.

>A man suffering like he’s suffering, with no hope of survival, does not have the right to be so joyful. But he is. And he tells you why.

Ben Sasse's Golgotha, by @roddreher https://t.co/4UzR2w2ai9

[Rick Wright ⛪🕍🌌🔭🦛🐋 @RickWright67]

Excellent and interesting piece, largely about history of Hollywood film industry.

>If you can’t offer the people in your industry anything approaching a livelihood or job stability, you might as well give them a way to feel virtuous.

Hollywood R.I.P. https://t.co/lOfdoWB6Lo

[Rick Wright ⛪🕍🌌🔭🦛🐋 @RickWright67]

Relatively easy today. Made it through the first rounds with one guess each.

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[Rick Wright ⛪🕍🌌🔭🦛🐋 @RickWright67]

Got the nation on first try. Did well until last few rounds, made a few mistakes.

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[Rick Wright ⛪🕍🌌🔭🦛🐋 @RickWright67]

>The need for a proper frigate is something we have been discussing for two decades. The path that became FFG(X) was first recommended here over a decade and a half ago.

No, I'm Not Over What NAVSEA Did to Constellation, by @cdrsalamander https://t.co/Z6M4ksL0xt

[Rick Wright ⛪🕍🌌🔭🦛🐋 @RickWright67]

People crack jokes about France but they have a functional navy.

Le Grand Déploiement de la France, by @cdrsalamander https://t.co/DotIYyEEjV

[Rick Wright ⛪🕍🌌🔭🦛🐋 @RickWright67]

>Spain and the United Kingdom, really, have done us a favor here. They’ve reminded us of the fragility of many of our planning assumptions when it comes to overseas bases.

Nations Have Agency & Sovereignty Over Their Territory, by @cdrsalamander https://t.co/0jsHTy5mXb

[Rick Wright ⛪🕍🌌🔭🦛🐋 @RickWright67]

@SubcommanderT Wow. During freshman orientation week at Cornell he came to the local mall. Waited in line with a new friend, shook his hand - and for the first time realized he was missing a finger - and we got his picture taken with him.

[Rick Wright ⛪🕍🌌🔭🦛🐋 @RickWright67]

The problem is that the captives were released in 1981 when my family lived overseas. We did not return to the States until July 1983. And yet I clearly remember the photos I took at the celebration. I remember what the guy looked like.

Perhaps a different captivity?

[Rick Wright ⛪🕍🌌🔭🦛🐋 @RickWright67]

Something I just saw on X reminded me of something. That someone from what I consider my hometown in Massachusetts was one of the Americans held captive after the Islamic Revolution in Iran.

I remember the yellow ribbons and a welcome celebration outside town hall.