Christianity is a religion for women falls apart the moment you find out how the Church actually defines effeminacy.
Aquinas gave it a name. Mollities. Softness. He was not talking about a soft body or a gentle temperament. He was describing a man who will not surrender a pleasure or endure a difficulty for the sake of something higher. A man who folds the second the work stops feeling good.
Sit with that definition and think about who it describes. The man who cannot fast for one day. Who cannot get up when the alarm goes. Whose word dissolves the moment keeping it costs him something. That is effeminacy in the Catholic tradition, and it usually belongs to the loudest man in the comments telling you the faith is for women.
The Stoics wanted the passions dead. Augustine went after them for it, because a man with no anger in the face of real evil has not achieved mastery, he has gone numb. Aquinas says the same thing. The absence of anger where anger is owed is a defect in reason, not a sign of holiness. Your aggression, your appetite, your drive to conquer something are all meant to stay alive and stay under command.
So the training, the fasting, the rule of life you keep when nobody is watching, all of it is you taking the reins of something already strong and aiming it at the highest good. That is the whole project. Nothing about it is soft.
@piethoutman "Geef de keizer wat van de keizer is." Dit is zo'n slecht argument. Dus als de keizer straks 100% van uw bezittingen vraagt, moet je die geven?
Weet u wat in het christendom als eerlijke belasting aan de keizer werd gezien? Tien procent. Hoeveel betaal je nu al tijdens je leven?
@xshroomiez@kenkohpilot Ken has posted a target for XVG (Verge) of $41, so I'm keeping that one. The others, I (as a long time follower of Ken) am not familiar with.
@P0eMPieDinges Voor een Nederlander is dit hypocrisie, maar voor het overgrote deel van niet-Europeanen is dit volstrekt normaal. Die zullen jouw bericht niet eens begrijpen.
I called it. Two giant footballing nations, Germany and Netherlands, out of the World Cup in the Round of 32.
Why? Because they treat their nations like a club. Half their teams or non-Dutch players. No ties to the nation and actual culture.
Both teams played teams that are mostly ethnically tied to their nations, and played like it. From singing their national anthem proudly, to ending the game wearing their heart for their nation on their sleeve.
Zlatan nailed it about the Netherlands. No identity anymore. Same with Germany. When half your team is just mercenaries for hire, they couldn't give af about playing for the flag. The most important part.
When you have too many players like that on your team, you lose all identity.