Nick M
@m966021
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Interested in Ethics and Ante-Nicene Christianity
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Joined June 2025
Catholic jokes are the accidents of Twitter posts, even if they are essentially funny.
*tumblr person, wokely, upon seeing a catholic woman make a joke*: thereās no way she realizes she accidently made a funny joke here
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"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einsteinās brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops" - Stephen Jay Gould
Thereās too much talent trapped in poverty and too much mediocrity funded.
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Genuine question: why do people hate universalism? At least on here the reactions are visceral.
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Well this isn't really true. Gregory of Nyssa believed in purgatory. Quite a few universalists do too.
IMO the fact that Orthodox donāt believe in purgatory implies that weāre in essence actually sotierologically closer to Prots over RCs and the similtude to the latter is more accidental due to the sacraments.
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Chat, do Academics have to cite their sources?
Hey btw Fr DR SDY doesnāt have to cite sources, he is a source. He has a doctorate in this field of study, he is the authority youāre trying to appeal toā¦ he doesnāt have to cite a thing, but even then, he though he doesnāt have to, he actually does quite often.
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Few movies and TV shows are art. Even less are beautiful. Frieren is a beautiful work of digital art.
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@Alex_Ortodoxie I tried reading his book. āReligion of the Apostlesā the lack of citations was super off putting.
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Stephen de Young is easily the worst popular orthodox author and it isn't even close. No citations for anything he claims, terrible Biblical exegesis, and nebulochaotic theology comprised of hastily mashed together ideas with no coherent structure.
Question for Lutherans/Calvinists In the below clip (minute 59 onward), Fr. Stephen de Young claims that the core of penal substitution is the idea that Christ died an internal spiritual death, the same death of soul Adam and Eve experienced through sin. Any reformed authors
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This kind of blew up. Here are respected Orthodox authors I like and ACTUALLY CITE THEIR SOURCES Andrew Louth John Behr David Bentley Hart Kallistos Ware
Stephen de Young is easily the worst popular orthodox author and it isn't even close. No citations for anything he claims, terrible Biblical exegesis, and nebulochaotic theology comprised of hastily mashed together ideas with no coherent structure.
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De Young isn't Orthodoxy. Orthodoxy is a religion. De Young is an author. If you think me disliking his books is the same as disliking your religion, you need get off the internet.
I see a growing sentiment against Fr Stephen de Young because he easily knowledge-gaps every enemy of Holy Orthodoxy. You people need to learn how to take a loss and say GGs! https://t.co/B4JYZ3uvov
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Behold, the peak of de Young's Biblical scholarship.
@forsman_josh @m966021 @hneros13818 Exactly. He never said they were Giants in terms of height. They're made through demonic ritual with the people participating embodying the demons
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Sunsets are beautiful. No cultural edification required to know that.
@MapEffects Flawed premise. Beauty requires a culturally as well as genetically embodied sensory taste which is edified through Education and Apprehension via what we now call "Gnosis", but really is just Embodied Understanding because you've experienced it. Art is the Conscious Creation or
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A lot of fictional stories also take their own narratives seriously. I don't think this a good argument.
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I do not see the strength of this argument at all. If something does not align with reality (and the flood narrative does not, for instance) it should not be taken literally regardless of how the text interprets itself.
From genealogies, to doctrine, to theological implications, the entirety of the rest of Scripture treats Genesis as history, not allegory nor metaphor.
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Even if we grant that movies and games can be art, can they ever be beautiful?
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Temporary Hell at over 80% support. Can it get higher?
Do you believe in Hell?
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