Susannah Black Roberts
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Christian, postliberal / Journo / Editor @Plough , @mereorthodoxy / Rooted cosmopolitan / Wife to @zugzwanged / A spider sitting at the center of my web
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feelin cute, might mess around and become an Augustinian civic republican
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OK this is WILD
you know that thing about how all the "witches" who were persecuted/killed during various inquisitions were actually pagan wise women victimized by the bigoted Catholic Church
you know who invented that idea
yes
it's
Heinrich Himmler
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Of US states, only South Carolina, West Virginia, and Wisconsin are meaningfully free.
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extremely funny suggested community note that will never see the light of day
Do you know what a "bottle night" is?
Probably not, because my gf and I invented it during a 2023 blizzard in Buffalo, NY.
We lock our phones away, turn the TV off...
Each grab a bottle of wine, and talk.
That's it, we simply talk and enjoy each other's presence.
We live
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Please stop using “we found archaeological evidence of Asherah being worshiped as the consort of the God of Israel” as a gotcha.
It’s like a major part of the plot of the OT.
@LacanianC
@forsman_josh
The OT extensively discusses the fact that Israelites habitually syncretized with Canaanite religions. There are a ton of references to Asherah in particular, who the Israelites used to worship as the consort of the Lord, particularly when they intermarried with the Canaanites.
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It will never not be funny when folks rediscover marriage and think it’s a gotcha
@ElieNYC
@HeatherThomasAF
No female is impregnated without a male biologically. Therefore, that male should be required by law to provide half of the support — both physically and financially — till adulthood.
I suspect that might change the intervention in women’s right to choose for themselves. ✊
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my dad recently told me about a Hollywood-adjacent acquaintance of his who had, with his wife, hired a surrogate mother for their first child, and were planning to do the same for any future children. to preserve his wife's body in its non-mom highly cultivated state.
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Wed!
It was an absolutely amazing day, and I am so full of joy to be
@zugzwanged
’s wife. Ok now gotta get to the airport.
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Posted with permission because
@ClareCoffey
is a genius poaster and is under-appreciated
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I am going to think of this EVERY time I see the "we are the daughters of the witches you couldn't burn" meme and it is already making me increasingly deranged just thinking about it
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The most important political movement now is the movement to become human again, to embrace being human, to fight against that dehumanization. It's an all-encompassing project.
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1/This is amazing and wonderful. Several years ago we published a book about them by Martin Mosebach, and I got the chance to learn more about them. 20 were Egyptians, Coptic Orthodox, many from the same village. But one was not: Matthew Ayariga was a Ghanian, probably Catholic.
Pope Francis’ has said that the 21 Coptic Orthodox martyrs killed by Islamic State in 2015 “will be included in the Roman Martyrology as a sign of the spiritual communion uniting our two Churches”:
Background:
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Yes, there can be something obnoxious or fetishistic about the "get married, have family, make household" propaganda but the thing is it is clearly better for almost everyone's state of mind to do this,
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Me: In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself, in a dark wood, where the direct way was lost. It is a hard thing to speak of, how wild, harsh and impenetrable that wood was, so that thinking of it recreates th
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One thing they don’t tell you about marriage is that you are 100% signing up for a dedicated 24/7 personal troll
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Completely stupid and won’t happen probably but if it did:
what if pro-life people and pro-choice people work together to promote policies that will reduce the demand for abortion and materially support mothers and their kids
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Be human. This is an emergency. You may have forgotten that you are human but you still are. Act like it. Being human, being embodied, is like a superpower - a superpower of limitation and reality. Wake up to the fact that you have that power, and use it.
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The genre of pro-choice tweet that's essentially reinventing marriage is really kind of heartbreaking: it's so clear that what they want *is* marriage, but they don't even know that that's what they should and can really expect of life, of themselves, of their partners.
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I can’t wrap my head around being any kind of traditionalist and using AI art. If you’re not aiming to preserve the human in the human things, what’s the point?
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Really quite remarkable how fast we went from "Does it spark joy?" to "Is it shelf-stable?"
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Christianity is not a means to an end- not the folk-religion of white people, not a tactic to preserve Western civilization, not a cover for the worship of blood and soil.
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I have never more wanted to burn it all down.
Obviously it used to be the case that upper-class and bourgeois women would get wet nurses for their children to avoid inconvenience and sagging breasts. This is not a sickness specific to modernity. But it is so dire.
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I heard this yesterday and it was so insane that I had to google
It's true
He had this academic working on this for NINE YEARS, there was meant to be a book but that never materialized, but he promoted the idea heavily-the Church as suppressing the power of pagan wise women
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People try SO HARD to distort human nature, to deform themselves. That's what sin is. You just hate your own nature, as a human social creature, and you try to change it or destroy it.
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I think the reason we love St. Augustine is that his discontent, careerism, pride, personal chaos, spiritual curiosity, intellectualism and frustration are so familiar to us. And that means his final honest hunger for and satisfaction in God are things that we can experience too.
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Almost everything a child experiences is more real than “dopamine”
This obsession with neurotransmitters is making us all into chemical kantians— no direct experience of the world or even of our passions, just phenomena on a neurological scrim
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If you are a conservative Christian who thinks that it’s unjust that people on the left sometimes characterize all conservative Christians as racist or fascist, a good step to take is to not include racists or fascists in your institutions and coalitions & not cover for them.
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This is so depressing and dumb. What a horrible way to think about children and about music.
Classical music is becoming a niche activity not helped by the fact that fewer and fewer state school pupils are learning to play orchestral instruments. It’s time to reassess our priorities, argues Ray Coyte.
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hot take: protestants have not sufficiently reckoned with the seriously demonic nature of the French Revolution.
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“being obsessed with making babies is weird” is not perhaps the popular and common sense message that you think it is. Babies and the process of making them both remain extremely popular among the human race.
The far right is so obsessed with making babies, they just held a whole conference about it.
Behind the scenes at the first “NatalCon” ⬇️
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Cooking for yourself and your family is part of it, and so is getting in good physical shape, and so is fighting to preserve wildlands and habitats for non-human creatures, and so is ditching Roe v. Wade, and so is loving your friends, and so is honoring your parents.
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Yes, men should materially and emotionally support the mothers of their unborn children throughout the pregnancy, as well as afterwards. Again, I would like to introduce you to a thing that has in times past been referred to as “marriage.”
If a fetus is a person at 6 weeks pregnant, is that when the child support starts? Is that also when you can’t deport the mother because she’s carrying a US citizen? Can I insure a 6 week fetus and collect if I miscarry? Just figuring if we’re going here we should go all in.
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Hey
@catholiccom
your AI “priest” is offering absolution. Might want to kill it with fire and never do anything like this again.
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“It's 106 miles to Paris. We've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, It's dark, and my skull’s in a reliquary.”
“Hit it.”
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-weird food habits
-can’t get baptized because “I’m too liminal”
… is Jordan Peterson actually Simone Weil
“It’s unlikely, I will become a Catholic because I exist on the borders of things….”
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What I’m hearing is they didn’t find his body 😃
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And it's going to get worse. (Some of) the rich always have and will always try to dodge aspects of the human condition, to reject the solidarity of the body. As our technology makes it more possible for people to do this more effectively, they will.
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It is not the job of fiction or music to make you morally better
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Are we allowed to notice that Jordan Peterson’s latest thing is publicly attacking the world’s most straightforward universal father figure squarely in his own realm of authority
Is that maybe something that a Jungian analyst might have something to say about
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That's what not giving justice to the poor is, that's what aborting Down syndrome kids is, that's what not worshiping God is, that's what having contempt for your parents is. Suicide by a thousand cuts of auto-dehumanization.
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Embryos this age are 13-17 mm— ie around half an inch, the size of a large blueberry or small olive— and look like this
Just a reminder that this is what an 8 week pregnancy/abortion looks like
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Thinking about contemporary versions of Puritan virtue names again
Self-care Baxter
Mindfulness Sewell
Productivity Bartlett
Big Feelings Bradstreet
Authenticity Abbot
K-selected Mating Strategy Dudley
Low Time Preference Gage
Holding Space Hutchinson
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It’s never occurred to me before, but I wonder whether in addition to everything else the Tower of Babel was very tacky.
The "Icon Of The Seas" sets sail in January 2024. 5610 passengers, 2350 crew members, 5 times larger and heavier than the Titanic, 19 floors with more than 40 bars, restaurants and bowling alleys. What a monstrosity!
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Good afternoon. Second-wave feminism was a psyop designed to funnel as close to 100% of human productive work as possible through the corporate wealth-skimmer and instantly double the labor force in order to cripple the union movement.
Nearly 2 million women in our country have been locked out of the workforce because they have to care for a child or an elderly relative at home.
My Build Back Better Act will make caregiving accessible and affordable and help them get back to work.
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“where exactly is God? I have checked the produce drawers in my refrigerator REPEATEDLY. checkmate theists”
“Where is heaven exactly, given that we have multiple telescopes up there beaming back information.” - Sam Harris
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“There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”
Odyssey 6, 182-185
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The distrust and dislike of Tim Keller is pretty mysterious to me. I don’t get what it is that his enemies think, specifically, he’s done wrong.
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This is where we're going. If you don't choose not to do this, if you don't choose to reject this concept of what children are, what people are for, root and branch, this is what you will believe is good in ten years.
Bloomberg reports the claim of the first child born following polygenic screening as an embryo, via a company called Genomic Prediction.
Basically a test that rank orders embryos by health using genome wide profile 🧵
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Christianity is a religion with creeds, rituals, practices, beliefs, and canons.
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And so is marrying one person and giving them your loyalty for life, and bearing your own children - or suffering their loss, and so is adopting those who need parents but never thinking that you are entitled to a child, and so is helping your parents as they age.
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You ever think about how Jesus was born as a peasant baby & died as a miscellaneous criminal and was buried in a borrowed tomb and now his kingdom has spread over the whole world and kings and queens have been (accurately) worshiping him as their King and God for nearly 2K years?
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hang on it’s a “liberal” position to say that David raped Bathsheba? what does this mean/why is that liberal/what
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Overstatement and Being Triggered By Vermeule taken into account... this is a hideous thing to say.
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So is listening to and making good music, and so is going to physical Church on Sunday, and so is promoting good architecture, and so is praying for the president and others in authority, and so is learning and promoting the traditions of classical Christian jurisprudence.
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pray for him.
But also, you don’t get to be in any pro-life adjacent club or political movement if you mock people with Down syndrome.
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I'm not going to be able to describe this right.
Marriage has felt... incredibly empowering, and has made me a good bit less instinctively statist, to want to have our home be a location of political and cultural power. It *feels* political. It feels atavistic and pre-modern.
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My dear Wormwood,
I’m very pleased to hear that your patient has begun thinking of his Twitter use as a kind of chivalric act, equivalent to taking part in an actual war. Sloth and anger are powerful weapons on our side, as of course is self-righteousness.
He also would absolutely have written a whole Screwtape about the dangers of culture warring and it would have been glorious.
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She’s encountering the text personally in a way she hadn’t before. That’s wonderful! But because of her conspiratorial habit of mind, she thinks this subjective experience means that previously the truth had been hidden from her by sinister forces.
Am I the only person who thinks literary criticism, looking at language nuances, is useful? A theme in the Hebrew Bible v later English translations is that the original is often more immediate and open, and much less bureaucratic, priestly or institutional. Middlemen were not
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Meanwhile an obscure Corsican artilliery officer prepares to place a blue check next to his own name...
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Fwiw crisis pregnancy centers offer services and goods (primarily focusing on support for women and children during pregnancy and the first year of life) valued at $250-300 million or so a year. Free std tests, medical/prenatal care, parenting classes, baby goods, etc.
Please ask every anti-abortion person you encounter how many children they’ve adopted. They don’t actually care about children. When they say none ask them how much they donate to orphanages/social services & to any children’s causes. It’s always nothing. They’re just hypocrites:
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This is evil.
The 3rd Reich gave us a collective immunity to this kind of thing that lasted for 80 years but it has apparently worn off. Because we can’t count on moral instincts any more we will now have to make arguments.
Euthanising people with autism and intellectual disabilities in the Netherlands: a report from the Associated Press.
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Ok one more: so, we were at Bethesda Fountain in Central Park doing photographs after the wedding, and a high school dance troupe (naturally) was hanging around and (ofc) wanted to take a picture with us, and really, when these things happen, you kind of have to go for it:
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This is disgraceful.
Ex-Archbishop of Canterbury tells MPs assisted dying is 'profoundly Christian'
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Unbelievably screwed up and every woman who’s had a miscarriage knows this, if she could bear to look. The embryo was removed from these photographs. A 9 week embryo is nearly an inch long. Pathetic and cruel gaslighting.
So,
@PoppyNoor
and the
@Guardian
managed to do a story on what a pregnancy looks like (takeaway: "it doesn't look like what you think") and in the nine week photo, for instance, they *removed the baby from the photo.* This is not a joke! Amniotic sac only.
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Any country that has begun to permit euthanasia has given up on civilization in any recognizable sense.
while hardly perfect, Canada is a more civilized society than the US, with a concern for the "commonweal" that is not in the American tradition.
euthanasia, like abortion, is a "human rights" issue that should not be politicized or controlled by religious dogma.
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I am once again begging highbrow Christians to remember that every baptized person is a co-heir with you of the Kingdom of Heaven and it is not a good look if you treat a member of your own family like they are a trashy embarrassment.
This is a subtweet.
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turns out if you kill all your baby girls then 20 years later you will be in a bit of a pickle
maybe killing baby girls isn’t a good idea and you shouldn’t do it
Or baby boys
What if, experimentally, we just acted as tho each person was not to be killed
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tfw if you don’t look at epistemology it won’t hurt you
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This piece is clearly deliberately deceptive. "There is still no visible embryo... if we looked closer, under a microscope, would we see more human qualities?"
There're no visible embryos because they were removed from the gestational sacs before the photos was taken.
What a pregnancy actually looks like at nine weeks – in pictures
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@LacanianC
@forsman_josh
The OT extensively discusses the fact that Israelites habitually syncretized with Canaanite religions. There are a ton of references to Asherah in particular, who the Israelites used to worship as the consort of the Lord, particularly when they intermarried with the Canaanites.
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this is really the central thing. Those who because of mental illness are considering suicide do not need to be told “yes that might well be a good option for you, no ethical problem with it, you’re not needed here and there’s no objection from our side for you offing yourself.”
@globeandmail
I suffered from depression for 3 years, there were times when I thought suicide might be a good idea. Thank goodness no one at those moments offered me MAID.
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Above: "Pregnancy tissue" at 7 & 9 weeks. These are the amniotic sacs with the embryos removed.
Below: R: Embryo at 9 weeks, L: Fetus at 11 weeks, inside the sacs. These photos were taken in the mid-1960s and have been reprinted in
@guardian
many times.
What a pregnancy actually looks like at nine weeks – in pictures
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Hume: "what if... now hear me out... when I hit the billiard ball with the cue, the cue doesn't CAUSE the ball to move, it's just a really WEIRD COINCIDENCE"
Everyone else: "interesting, say more."
Hume: "now that I've got causality figured out let me tell you about miracles"
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This is what 90% of guys have been thinking for the last couple of days, secretly.
I know I'm supposed to "stay in my lane" but I really feel that if I were given a chance at the wheel there would be a decent chance I could move the ship.
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This question is so strange to me.
For the Christians: would you still choose to be a Christian if there was actual proof hell didn’t exist?
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I would like Blue Laws reinstituted because I do not have the personal virtue necessary to not shop on Sunday and I want the magistrate to help me to be good.
Not even slightly kidding.
Some Christian thinkers, integralists & Protestants, advocate return to Blue Laws. Almost no Christians I know avoid Sunday shopping. I've heard Sunday sermon on this topic maybe once in 50 years. Maybe Christians should 1st try Sabbath observance as model for society?
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Read the second tweet down too.
Don’t tell me that there’s no flavor of hostility to children and fertility in general among many pro-choice ppl.
She destroyed legal abortion in this country then just returned to her home planet forever
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One reason I love Tim Keller is that every time it seemed like conservative evangelicals basically hated and feared or had contempt for people like me, he was a conservative evangelical who loved people like me.
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This is such garbage.
Christianity is not an ethnicity. Stop trying to make that happen. It never, ever will be. It will never be a religion that fears outsiders. It’s just not that kind of a thing.
Unless Christians can regenerate negative ethnocentrism, the Muslims will beat them.
Shunning sinners, separating from wider culture, conviction that outsiders go to Hell, that outsiders should not be helped as they are in league with the Devil, has to return
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Nah if he were an EO convert from Anglicanism he’d be beefing on Twitter
King Charles has often been seen surrounding Mt Athos and some have speculated he is secretly Greek Orthodox.
What are your thoughts?
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Ladies & gentlemen, I got the ‘Rona. (Not officially diagnosed but my housemate has it & now I have a little fever & scratchy voice). Prayers please. Seems p mild so far.
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The beautiful thing about Hanania is that he makes very very explicit what the post-Christian eugenicist right means and demonstrates why no alliance is possible.
I saw a woman complaining about surrogacy taking babies away from their mothers.
Her profile said “mother of 6.”
With 6 kids, how much attention can you give each one?
Those who want government to decide which families exist should consider if their own meet their standards.
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You’re telling me the Tour Montparnasse is not an injustice to the citizens of Paris?
It clearly is. Aesthetics are very obviously a matter of justice and are not subjective.
I know I'm being somewhat joking here, but I really have difficulty with the "judgmentalism" that
@suzania
has to engage in to call an "ugly" building unjust.
help me out? I'd rather not commit the same sin in a doubtful matter :)
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I regret to say that the Episcopalians are at it again.
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It makes me extremely confused and distressed when Christians act and speak in ways that seem untouched by the sermon on the Mount.
I have seen this much more this past year than I ever did before.
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It is not antisemitic nor is it anti-Israel nor is it pro-Hamas to want the bombing to stop and to want there to be no more deaths of children.
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Any Catholic/Christian org that wants to differentiate itself right now should market the fact that it does not use and will never use AI in any of its written or visual work.
Introducing Father Justin, the New Interactive AI from Catholic Answers
Catholic Answers, the number-one lay Catholic apostolate of apologetics and evangelization, is excited to announce the release of our new “Father Justin” interactive AI app. This innovative digital
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If you’ve got a political project that you think is Christian but the general ethos and character traits implied by the Sermon on the Mount are really quite alien to it, it is not a Christian political project. You just think it is.
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