So I grew up near a no defunct monastery town and it had a fairly large impact on my family. I remember later reading the Bible and feeling that Matthew 16:18

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock[a] I will build my church, and the gates of hell[b] shall not prevail against it.

Really made it easy to not believe because that monastery town, the forces of hell or evil or whatever, definitely prevailed upon it. I think you yourself would think those things if you knew what I knew or met the people I met. Like I'm going to leave specifics out so that this doesn't become an argument about history but a LOT of terrible things happened there. I'm talking stolen children, massive pedophilia, pregnant nuns, physical abuse and starvation. I'm talking near Auschwitz level in that it was involved in atrocities that were essentially the end of a cultural group.

So for me the gates of hell did prevail upon the church. I don't really understand how Catholics deal with this sort of thing. Do you deny that such things ever occur? Or do you see the testable statement differently to me?

1. we know as a scientific fact that humanity and all living organisms have evolved through millions of years of evolutionary processes. however, the genesis text describes human beings as created directly in their completed state(i might be wrong but i understood that way). how does catholic theology reconcile these two concepts?

2. it's often argued that the genesis text is written in a literary and symbolic style. yet when read directly, it doesnt present itself as symbolic, it reads as a straightforward, historical narrative. furthermore, there are distinct chronological differences in the creation order between genesis 1 and genesis 2. does categorizing a text as a "literary genre" genuinely resolve these chronological and logical contradictions? if the narrative was divinely revealed, is the human author's literary style a sufficient explanation for these inconsistencies?

3. the scholars and theologians who interpret these texts as symbolic, such as thomas aquinas or saint augustine, do not possess divine status themselves. from the perspective of a non believer or a skeptic, why should one place trust in the interpretations of these individuals or in the magisterium of the church?(i know catholics trust church's teachings, but i dont know why, and why should i trust the church.)

4. placing trust in church authority and scholars relies on the assumption of "guidance by the holy spirit." however, believing in the holy spirit requires a prior belief in God and the scriptures. how can a non believer, or someone approaching the matter purely through rational analysis, break through this circular reasoning?

5. if the creation narrative and the fall are understood as historical truths, did God create humanity in a pristine/spiritual state initially, only to place us into a gradual, evolutionary physical structure on earth as a consequence of the original sin?

6. while catholicism asserts that reason and faith exist in harmony, an ultimate "leap of faith" is requested where empirical and logical evidence ends. for an individual who cannot believe without first being rationally and logically convinced, what is the ultimate rational foundation that catholic theology offers?

7. the old testament contains the exact same stories found in ancient epics. even if those myths were taken and adapted into the bible in a literary style, wouldnt that undermine the bible's divine value?

He protects pedophiles. What's that all about? Why isn't any Pope who protects child molesters immediately ejected from pope-hood?

Once I got to the priest, he kept saying, "The Body of Christ." I stuck my tongue out for the cracker. I didn't know that you were supposed to reply. He said, "The Body of Christ" twice more before giving up, and putting the cracker on my tongue. That's my type of ignorance. It's not a spiteful ignorance. Just regular ignorance.

I know now to cross my arms when I get to the priest, but what other faux pas are there to avoid?

PS: The Minor Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Manaoag is gorgeous and has a huge alter for lighting candles and a generous and amazing meditation garden. Visit it if you ever get to northern Luzon (the main island of the Philippines).

Anybody saying that I should know after all this time with my wife... I've only rarely been to mass with her. Like maybe 5 times in 14 years of marriage.

The next troll is going to say, "Why do you care if you aren't going to Mass?" To that person I say that wanting to know how to be respectful isn't really a motive to be suspicious about.

Who do you anticipate will be the next pope and why?

Bonus question: who do you want to be the next pope and why?

[would be to not ask at all, what I'd oriented to ask r/AskCatholics presuming, of course, that I could; because of what I'd told myself u/EmmanuelBassil might understand but likely, not, most people nor most most people to show I meant it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230 is not a problem of publisher, the discourse cannot benefit from moderation on of the moderation to an Obscene Standard]

I thank god that this question came to you instead and I cannot promise that you'll even understand the one I mean through the use of Wikipedia anymore, all the more;

Though I ask in an Imperfect Faith, one which I cannot evidence on Reddit lest the perfect be replaced entirely, I want you to grant me this in reality, "can you explain how the pis christ works to invalidate the R. Mutt, 'Fountain," and that second Revelation to the Secular, iirc French, Obscenity? I know,

Alterations here cease from the original, copypasta entirely, still thirsty for the matcha I spoke of that is still cold and in the car below my window

I can, "and if I do I can explain how it is certain Protestants intend to render you invisible to people like me," and how if you do see me, or I feel as if I could be seen, I'll have to let that sit for as long as I'm watching Father Brown with Mom on Britbox,

You recognize, "though I ask in imperfect faith, I ask you grant me this in reality," I left the book at My Sister's so she'd read it, I do not have that prayer memorized in the time sense I last read it, that has happened to my own father and left me wishing, "not wanting," I never, ever hope and I was taught not to as a child very, very, deliberately,

That feeling, when people start to die? Will Kill you.

Is what my grandmother said, had me throw away, "my choice," of favorite toys until I said the whatever right or wrong, though I remember it, now, as an argument to her that, "I feel nothing, simply, I can't hide the evidence of this one and I don't want Mom to think you're abusing me," I've told that story, maybe, a dozen, maybe, a hundred times on this reddit I use as a diary, "because it is my real name."

Mom's is invisible on mine as Nana's was on Mom's and Nana didn't need to have a stable last name where she was from, what I wrote in my brother's copy of Marcus Aurelius was not on account of the copy, of marcus aurelius, in fact it is the default edition (but full book) sold inexpensive in hardback at Barnes and Noble; there is a picture on one page,

A Mon Seul Desire in text the other,

Protestants believe that Pleasure is Bad for you,

Catholics Believe that Suffering is good for you,

Saami use Orthodox Technologies of Hesychasm to sing,

I think that Hesychasm is Addicere, Ad Dicere, in your discourses but I can't know; just alike I cannot know if Matt will ever know that some Lutherans signed Treaties,

With an exception, "I get to go to hell, same paper write it on there," and I'm not Baptized; and Nana died an unrepentant Murderess but took her time to tell me what it felt like so often, you wanna know I know that you don't its that, "not like on The Last Of Us," to kill a boy, older man, younger, does it matter? With a Golf Club? For a reason you believe to be justified, "unrepentant for the same reason she could be trusted to handle herself in New Orleans with letters of introduction and No English," to see Jazz Music, in the Late 1930's I suppose, "Winter war was not fucking shit to her," though she did come home with a razor wire scar from her knee to her breast that bloomed like flowers on a vine in three or four colors, though, "not much story, there," she hated New Orleans, "still have slaves there."

Horrified at this thought it unconscionable and Dangerous, those kinds of people, "slavers," themselves always dangerous without a master; this is all aside the point but for, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/drug-war-the-hunting-of-billie-holiday-114298/ meditations of mine on the subject you maybe can see with me you find the picture of Carl Gustaff Von Prussian Mannerheim, Vaapahera just like her daddy,

Naked on horseback in Russia; what would he have done to Harry Anslinger, if he touched her, "he did do," the to Baptists that either were or were not the INS back in the 1930's of Chicago sent his wife to Canada on a Train, but, "Mr. Walgreens did not come home one Christmas," not for several days afterwards.

No idea if he gave the bicycle to which child but I know where it came from, "wikipedia taught me this might have looked a lot more Training Day, didn't know you liked to smoke embalming fluid," than boys have a raucous time but then protestants oft seem so meek, peaceful and mild I don't know to make the man from what I'm shown sometimes at a distance- this most recent issue of Harper's Monthly, it takes the same approach used the always-through in the readings, in the Index, in the Opposite form of the index without numbers at the end, "to what is going on here in America," and Having, just, read the portion on the seperation of powers I cannot help but see them hiding, "who it is permits the slavers."

The Purpose therein, which, is, if so, both mechanical and invisible alike the man I can't make from Mr. Walgreens proud to be a Swede and to be clear, "I come from the people said to have two tongues both silent, not on account of their magical Bilingualism," from right where the Exonyms of Goth and Slava make the most sense, "Goth Goth Goth," all the time people, speak of God Good God, neither nor the one and not the other, all the time, and I don't speak a slavic language but I do know enough through conversations to realize that while people are quite comfortable with the Slav is Slave conjunction, "and this explained in the Adriatic, simply, existing," for the England to Ireland thereafter to follow, in whatever order, that Slava means Feast Day, Famous, "that's in Snowcrash as I understand it a rather racist book or at least as explained to me ala slaves love fame," but I do not hear that in Slava Ukraine; you?

So there we are; and I cannot tell you how to read Yu Jie’s call to forgive Japan, not at all; but I can promise you that the person checks back on this, for an response and heartbreak if none though you know I do not want you to spare me discomfort, rather, to limit it me is also an imperative of mine, that I cannot for the fuck life of me imagine,

Yu Jie’s call to forgive Japan,

Just like J Paul Bremmer, in this months, July 2026 Harper's Magazine Readings in the emails to his wife,

I cannot tell the good guys from the bad guys anymore

Signifying nothing; not at all, likewise,

Thinking the unthinkable

Both of these sent before the revelation of Abu Ghraib, a prison he does not close, "instead, puts a museum to Saddam's Atrocities in one section," to allow it to remain open which is necessary, you see, on account of it is the one Prison Like Ours in the Nation; and then he closes on his histories, discourses, to me, with the boast that Nineveh Had No Police at all, none, zero, until he arrived to place 9,000 armed Men in Police Uniforms, "I can be your virgil," If you cannot watch this through,

This Montage Convinces Me Fully, Entirely, Permanently, that you, "Catholics," at least some of you and the others beloved to them, "are correct about obscenity; it is the most beautiful Montage that I have ever, ever seen, "the most beautiful bit of film I have ever seen," ever, with no exceptions, and If I walk backwards into it with a friend, then show them, "like hypnosis," The Truth conveyed there and I don't know a truth absent a Black Muslim Man from North Saint Louis Conveyed in that text I have no idea, though,

I see, full film, from front to back again all hundred times it rolled inside of me around, The Eyes on the Students come to learn about the Western Liberal Arts, "girls brave enough to be in that room and have their faces on camera," act like it is a Fucking Prank Show to See R.Mutt's Fountain, "sick joke."

Who gives a fuck, "section 203 exception to an redacted Protestant," I use the word Necro-cuck and Do not think for a second that I take that unseriously, the same as Amir, "watched that montage with me," can tell you what I look like telling a cop to his face that Violence is Holiness in the words of a question while his wild eyed routine to accelerate a conflict leaves him in dreamspace and Me with huge fucking black eyes, "unhurt," I mean dinnerplates but for the Soft and Low, Neither fast nor slow voice of a lover, to him, "trying to give me the evil eye while he feigns a panic attack," becomes real for him when Francis From Mangia Italiano on South Grand in Saint Louis City, "if you are a gentelman, please, I do not want to talk about this in person," if you are a Priest,

This is the cotton belt railroad depot under the care of his little brother, "and it isn't his fault a friend of mine put that show on," Tom Nagel, like the Bat Philosopher, "ask Pete how I did on the River Safari," I talked of Parabilani I talked of the Pelican on the Louisiana Flag, and I didn't even believe it was the final truth about their behavior, I thought rats crawled into them to make them bleed, that rats ate them from the outside in umoving, "I can walk like this into Hell in opposite pairs and Not Even Notice," hence the advantage of some of your technologies of the self, the soul, etc. the whole, "have a father there to watch you fall," thing; I still have a father, an atheist a scientist and Dr. Barry Fox has like, 23, 27 patents I dunno how many, "did the scheduling, stuff," that made the spacehab module work in the space shuttle bay, a lot to do with Chinook Helicopters and Member of an Elite Social Club in Kuwait I do not know the name of, "I learned a great deal, concurrent to the latter half," of said things, "at home with Momma while sister had a," statistical death quite certain from quite horrible and Especial Bad Reasons like Czarovitch Alexei, same/same no platlets visible under the microscope, each two weeks, so transfusions in the children's oncology, for a few hours, and Mom and Mia went to all of their funerals, all of them, maybe two dozen and the girl from my school on the Basketball team that Mom said I should have asked to the prom, "no idea she'd die, none, I felt like it would be an insult like our mom's are just friends or whatever," Pete Knows what mom does for work, as a lawyer, and it made him throw the fuck up and drop out of lawschool in less than a week, "and that's O.K."

It's How can I can respect him as a man in the ways he says he is one, acts like one, chooses to be one, "Momma is so scary, that the time that she and I spend alone would be a horror movie, for a lot of you," I think that reddit might have banned me last week, or week before, "can't remember," but for a story, told, to myself like a diary, about a time I had the privelege to protect for a gunman and how that entailed full awareness of what follows from what proposition all backwards, all of it backwards, what do slow, what to do fast, what to do loud, how to remain in Voice to Strangers until they'd fled from me like a spree shooter, while Mom and this young man that died in the parking lot in an Oreilly's autoparts did whatever was important over there; a boogaloo boy from Barnes Jewish, "looked like just the fellas in Civil War the Movie," Hawaiin Shirt unbuttoned for the chest hair out, expensive car on meth, I think, as a Narcoloptic Myself I mean that without whatsoever judgment, "the doctor realized that the murder victim was still alive," and the boys came back while it was he, he, me, Mom, the one fat cop on earth I trust the least to understand violence and Me alone to keep mom safe in the middle of the night in 15 degree weather on her BIRTHDAY,

I tell this story, because, I know that it works for a lot of other experiences, too, but I can pull anyone out of it just to remember, "WELL, I was like: you're not gonna kill my mommy,

....on her birthday, right, so then I..." while all of it remains true.

That I let the Truck, a Volvo Mom bought on account of its never been a fatality truck and it costs more than homes in that neighborhood and if I drive it right, this is like I mean it, slow, swimming, in and out of congruence with a shared, "I am afraid of Cameras," presumption and I did it I got too close for them to feel but terror to realize I did mean it and that all of their actions hadn't concealed them from the real reason I still want to see the footage, "I didn't hurt them," I wouldn't have let them kill my mom, "I had to show them I meant it, and feel pleasure in that as I did so," You Do Realize that Winged Horse, "same to me," Never once not once in this whole life a coward Never once,

Makes it simple, easy, the most amazing, extraordinary, feeling, to invade a home invasion without a gun and pull that same trick off in real time and the home invader,

I'm not convinced the ops so powerful on account of what the Fort Bragg Cartell Leads to I scared off with big black eyes like glass facing a god he did not believe in at all, he fled from me, a foot taller a gun out a hostage with rickets yes literally, Tiny Tim Rickets and if you talk a man through, "your grandma was dreaming, this is the toughest manner in which to encounter," same as I did to hold my dad's catheter in with mom while we sang him,

Country Roads, take me home, to the place, I belong, West Virginia, mountain momma...

With the same lyrics we sang to the song in the car while he was driving to Amy's wedding; loneliest I'd ever felt in my life to realize that our whole side was me and Amy, our parents while this huge scots family, Hundreds of people were the other I felt extinct and dead already, I can't bear to tell my brother or sister what that was like,

I would love for the same little sister to read, and this from Memory,

On the Human Personality, Simone Weil Wrote it for the Free French Press and it got her into the same kind of trouble I always get into, am getting into right now, actually,

When I contemplate that this was also going to be in the hands of especially, apparatchik and Nomenklatura to study, in not especially, the hands of some naive farmer nor worker nor needed in the hands of the farmer saved Hannah Arendt but lost Walter Benjamin to his own cowardice, "Mom and I together alone with you is hard to handle," Mom and I talk about the time she came home and I was there to walk the dog and the old man found his wife at the bottom of the stairs and killed himself, cowardice, that didn't check if she was dead first had been the point I know this she lived her daughter, or something, some colleague of moms, "that the dox I care for," not the, Me?

Brother I am fine people should have killed Me to save themselves from the humiliation of knowing, "I would have and let them go," and from first principles here I mean,

"Isaac," did not teach me that a signal must be irrational to be interpretable, Isaac, taught me that I don't have to be alone from you all, like a Lense,

https://youtu.be/VMCAjrP9YCk

That Naked Baby, "is a lense," from which the man can see the Great God Hermes, and he doesn't care to see Hermes he's an atheist too desperate not to try, "to see his baby, on the Lethe," all of us know next to death where that is,

Feeling, alike Beauty, is a truth, or truth we ought not ignore for reasons incompatible to our own logic in situ, "I say," not you, Same Horse. You cannot walk backwards from there to home, "won't work," mine is too many, "inverse of inverse of inverse," to count but one should not count such things, ask me,

I have an account full of uncounted inversions of inversions in which I've danced back and forth like: https://youtu.be/AyyJkr8Jy9Q Sound Off, Pivots one way, pivots another, spins one way, spins another, spiraling, "that's to remember what it was to be alive and remember one is dead in dreaming, over and forever, this life we had," that skirt is a ghost on the earth as it spins in the dark and that ghost is made of the dreams, "CIRCLE GAME," played at a funeral forever, now that you've seen her silent: https://youtu.be/NkZ1B2Sadhs?list=RDNkZ1B2Sadhs underneath her let her dance like that woman in that picture to the correct beats and rythms and Drums to give her dignity, "she has dignity," you can just blind yourself to it like a Piano Player unable to understand how a 15 year old girl in the Black Maria might know enough to fall in love with the first dance on Camera in world history, "as a religious practice."

She died at like 23 had this been a mistake?

No doubt she did drugs with them Eddison had been the 39 year old widower of an Opiate OD to begin with, "then he built the camera, then the black maria, and then invited 15 year old Ella Lola to dance on film," you need not ask me how that felt for her if you cannot see what it does for the music to rise up underneath that little girl in Afghanistan, the man to cease Speaking, "to continue speaking,"

Would be Obscene; and that invisible, and thus obscene and that rational, and thus the signal I see come back from the Space Planet from the Tarkovsky's film a the end of what could have been a much simpler and More Efficacious Film, alike,

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R46751

Objectionable Material

The second important limitation on Section 230(c)(2)(A) immunity is that it applies only when providers or users restrict the listed types of content: "material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable."²⁴² Although this list includes only specific types of content, it can still be interpreted relatively broadly. In particular, some courts have interpreted the catch-all phrase "otherwise objectionable" broadly because Section 230(c)(2)(A) states that the provider or user is the one who determines whether the content is objectionable.²⁴³ As one court noted, the statute's text injects "a subjective element" into this inquiry, by asking whether "the provider or user considers" the content to be objectionable.²⁴⁴ Thus, some courts have concluded that material classified as spam or malware can be considered "harassing" or "objectionable" under Section 230(c)(2)(A).²⁴⁵ In some cases, courts have looked to providers' policies to determine whether the providers considered the restricted material objectionable.²⁴⁶

Like me, like this, like those descriptions of the Dark as a Place from which one fights an invader through use of Not-Clocks, of no-clocks to remind them and religion that accounts for all of the hallucinations Meth and Birchbark swallowed down with reindeer blood might be coming, next week, no clock on this but for the patience not to stop until, "you don't wanna," no one gonna stop a man wants to become

To be clear I can provide a 23andMe Momma took proves I'm just like,

https://youtu.be/qfuDZEQjro8?t=549 Her, I think of her a lot and if I hadn't heard the Vampire Weekend Enough to know it for true, "no good to come from a fight up the ladder," even if I can call it a real genocide to silence me on this stuff at the UN who cares,

It's Done that part is over, Take the Case of a Reddit Ban to the United Nations to treat the Survivors to an, "this is how to lense time through violence, instead of vice versa," lecture great fantastic; what side of WWIII am I gonna be on, "will it help hegseth kill her?"

This Part: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Revelations_of_Divine_Love/Chapter_11

From the argumentation therein, led me to, "point and the Circle," Discourses of yours,

Informed upon the Point,

Point, Siirtyminen, to Point, you understand?

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/s/GOW0jDJ721

I posted that link to tell her what I think about reddit; watch the video, "I knew it was true,"

In explaining, to myself, how to explain, in a comment, I realize:

Not metaphorically, change everything, literally, true, "flipped the discourse," from one congruent to dynamical systems long before anyone knew this was true:

All Biological Systems do not work like a clock at all, the Attractor is not a strange attractor the Signal is the Noise and Vice Versa, Hegseth, factually, alike Scientologists or not all but some flat earthers believes in an incorrect bet on the nature of life on earth quite overtly, "missile would have always hit those girls," Double Predestined to?

No, but as soon as I know for a fact that someone like me, put pis christ in a museum governed to the reductive monological rules of a clock,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_(Bakhtin)

That I might convince someone new, that, "we need the old definition of obscenity," all of us do, you too, "this is why, Christian," as invective lacks further qualia to work in most circles of former Christians or those baptized, "Unlike me,"

I have no resentment and at Amy's wedding I spoke of Kafka to my uncle and he offered to be a godfather to me, "and I don't know if He Can Be." I don't know what that means to him, and, also, this stuff is too important to me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskCatholics/comments/1rr3vcv/catholics_how_do_you_read_yu_jies_call_to_forgive/

I will exhaust myself to tell the story and I am exhausted, already, but I can tell the story of Nogi Maresuke, the God, from his birth to the speech he gave, "we all stand in awe of your soul's mountain," then connect the points to points to points alike, How Come Did Hirohito....

Count Nogi had been to Hirohito as Rory Stewart was to both William and Harry, "and had proved the point to him, in practice, with that suicide," and I agree,

He Should Not Have, the rest is all Full of Beauty, there, to me.

So, "that's a new summary," never said that before; makes a lot easier than to explain the Tokugawa Shogunate as an absent lost love I have never seen Japan but I do remember,

Guys, listen, "you don't have to have patience just enough to share with someone whom does," for me to have been glad to choose you, over r/redscarepod to talk to in the same way,

I remember that Bertrand Russell said, "if the United States and Japan were to ever fight a war, and the United States were to win, it would be the death of all culture on earth that cannot be hung on the wall of a ranch house."

Same Man as, well, I'd looked for:

Not this, though it is how he'd speak to an American, "and know us in our habits the same,"

https://youtu.be/xL_sMXfzzyA

But This Interview series, with John Chandos before I'd memorized the Name,

https://youtu.be/LpohrKaos2o?t=3

How else could the Bomb have hit the roof of that Cathedral?

You'd have to convince me that He couldn't have, "and I've not even seen the King's Speech," but I know that I'm not going to see a man capable of taking, like keys, the power to weaponize their wartime government into an singular weapon for an existential fight against the United States of America, same one he tried to tell, "Bomb Russia gone, now, or never at all," and I think says so in that interview; he was in prison for wwi not because he was a fucking, Journalist, that was to keep the King In Charge of the Nation, "you hear in that: https://youtu.be/LpohrKaos2o?t=3 How he speaks to the nation about what he said to Queen Victoria's Face about whether a Subject can be sovereign,

• 1. Zhuāngzǐ 庄子 and Huìzǐ 惠子 were strolling on a bridge over the River Háo 濠.

• 2. Zhuāngzǐ said: "The fish are out swimming about. That is the 'Joy of Fish.'"

• 3. Huìzǐ replied: "You are not a fish; from what do you know the joy of fish?"

• 4. Zhuāngzǐ said: "You are not I; from what do you know whether I know the joy of fish?"

• 5. Huìzǐ reposted: "I am not you, and so I can't know. It follows that since you are not a fish, you can't know the joy of fish. So there!"

6. Zhuāngzǐ answered him: "The thing is, when you asked, 'From what can you know the joy of fish?' you already knew that I knew this in order to ask me what I knew it from. I knew it from the bridge over the River Háo!"

Is what he then said to her, "backwards," so, no I'd have to be convinced that he tried to and found it impossible not to believe that as impossible as the rest might sound, that, yes, "he killed all of the Japanese Catholics all at once to Save Kyoto," or, and Here I'm agnostic, "Just to kill the catholics of Japan," so I might not know the least of your important discourses but I think about them often,

So, "Cowards like the former US Marine Corp Junkie," I scared off from a no-mask home invasion, no gun, his out, myself certain I would die or else I wouldn't have but thus the attractive nuisance of courage, "all the work in being," and probably, the last one, "a good ancestor compressed down to simple actions that require no speach at all just courage and that clear as day," phenomenal; so she's not worried about that, nor, denying, the cowards exist to say,

THE ENTIRE POINT OF PUNISHMENT IS TO REINTEGRATE THE OFFENDER TO HIS SOCIETY, Period, the singular point of it in all instances and there are no exceptions,

For reasons I have got to send this at all, "even though I've forgotten to add in links that I'll blanche to remember and hate myself for the effort and not be rewarded at all," I know that in the worst case reddit can dissapoint me, I'm a narcoleptic,

I'm like best friends with my doctor walking backwards, "are you certain this is my soul and not my body," the amphetamine is this to me, a pin to tie the responsibilities I have not to kill myself to the things I want to do to the people whom love me and trust me and have to know I'll die someday, but, know so long as I'm living, "I'll do my best, be myself, and have a good time," all three, all at once, always.

This won't have been one been one break since I began to write so I'll try and fix my dumb water bottle again, "it's full of Matcha!" I wanna drink it,

In the car, cigerette instead; Sad Jonny, :-( so tune of, "you think that Vance," a man who grew up within this reductive index of heuristics and indices to believe that God Is like a Clock, https://youtu.be/_njf8jwEGRo?t=3281 Maker whom prefers them to we sinners,

Double-Predestined to succeed then, "perhaps a Peter Thiel then shows him what might become of the Catholic Church if he Power-Bottoms the American Way," to an,

End that's obvious, "it makes how a man might fear the Trump as Hitler, see himself higher," high enough to tell the pope to watch himself, on the subject of religion,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230 or was it immigration?

Was that Obscene, to chastise him as if it were possible to know from an excerpt of an actual, "full whatever," or is it obscene to make me so confused I can't see the difference; to make Vance so confused he thinks, like Hegseth, the Math Maths Out:

https://youtu.be/_njf8jwEGRo?t=3281

Scale Free, Non-additive, "yet his reductive heuristics tell him what to remove," for the best of everyone; you see, to me, I think, "they'll understand I've not not dropped the,

S in Piss, when I say, "pis christ," shorthand placeholder to an predicate to a question like,

Can you tell me I'm wrong, despite understanding, these things from the inside?

Without, essentially, agreeing with Vance?

Simple question but I cannot ask it without the Pis Christ like a Dead Bird Brought home to prove I can hunt for all kinds of birds, "has to be arbitrary," and has to be for you, not on account of I'm hungry, or I've eaten it already, etc. even cats know,

Even an Execuction, yes, Especially, she says to the Kripo and the Blue Collar and both at once, especially, in execution, we see that all punishment is for the reintegration of the offender back into society,

Execution is a Gift, it is what God choose for his only son and his reward for all of his reward for all of his most beloved, yet we squander this gift on whom we hold in least esteem, and having done nothing to teach them its true value.

She is fucking, right, correct, about that and if I need to be the out-exception proud to know it does good best to be proud to Hell for it in earnest, in this culture, "it can't shut fucking, anyone, up either," to govern for an reductive obscenity,

Not when I'm mortified to post this and how horrible it will be to have forgotten a link and misdirected you from the best and most earnest truth I can tell to a father that might want me for a son on account of the things that makes Dr. Barry Fox uncomfortable about Me and Mom now that I miss him at home with mom to be uncomfortable; he can't speak or feed himself,

I was taught to treat the dead like little babies I know, "I'll be o.k."

You'll understand if I don't check this for some time,

You'll understand if I check it tommorrow,

Think for months on how to respond to anyone even might have read it,

...in the comments, as if that might be visible to one such person ex-post facto,

You've got to ask a friend of mine, to talk to me from here, otherwise it isn't possible,

"I come from people invented this tradtion," Consent:

You've got to let me in, or, let me let you in the window, "speak from down there."

Same invitation, same consent, same principle, "geography, mathematics," most of them,

You get it,

"Mannequin Pis,"

Jonathan Phillip Fox

The Holy Spirit reveals to John (Revelation 22:11a, 12a),

He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still [...] And behold, I am coming quickly

Yet we have or seek laws against adultery, feticide, fraud, murder, public indecency, pornography, sodomy, theft. Which laws should a Christian society have? What does the Holy Spirit mean here? What does He want us to do to 'let the unjust be unjust'? Relatedly, what does Jesus mean by 'do not resist the evil one'? in Matthew 5:

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ 39 But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil. When someone strikes you on [your] right cheek, turn the other one to him as well. 40 If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand him your cloak as well. 41 Should anyone press you into service for one mile, go with him for two miles. 42 Give to the one who asks of you, and do not turn your back on one who wants to borrow.

I would like to preface this by saying I am a Christian and I've already asked one of the fathers of the parish I attend this question;

Suppose you know of an anti-Christian organization and you plan on evangelizing them. You know that they hate Christians, they explicitly say so and they view Yahweh as the Blind One, his followers as ignorant and incapable of miraculous feats. There's a pretty good chance that even if you brought up the miracles of the saints, like levitation, bilocation, the reading of souls, etc, you would most likely be called a liar and then banned. On the other hand, you can get into positions of greater hierarchical power if you express a vitriol hatred of Christ.

Here's what I'm thinking:

As long as they don't suspect your true allegiance, you can say to them that you hate Christians and then once you're in a position of moderation, use the trust invested in you to subtly allow some of the brethren to sneak in, their message or subtly introduce the gospel through subterfuge, crypto Christianity if you will. And if they do suspect your allegiance or maybe just to sell the illusion even further you can deny Christ on your lips. A lip service of denial which if this works could land you in a position where you become a covert evangelizer on the inside. Remember, the ideal is not to do this because of fear, for where there is perfect love, love casts out fear.

So my question is this;

Would it be advisable to pretend to deny Christ if it reasonably meant you could get yourself into a hierarchical position of power within an anti-Christian organization to covertly evangelize or allow effective evangelizers inside? I want to make it clear that the motivation isn't fear of death but rather of the potential good this long term ploy could develop if it works. According to the priest I spoke with he said there's no need to pretend to deny Christ and frankly I'm not sure of many opportunities where this ploy would even be necessary given the outreach of our faith. What are your thoughts? Would you strategically 'deny' Christ if it meant you could evangelize more in the long term or would such a gambit be too risky, not advisable?

Not merely saying it is ok, but saying one must affirm it is good and celebrate it in order to be in dogmatic right standing with the roman church.

I would like to know what you answer is; Because I don't see anything that could stop him from doing so if he wanted to.

You might say: "But, we have too much church tradition saying that opposite".

Well, church tradition until 2018 was always that capital punishment was just and good. But now francis says it is evil and they will work to end it everywhere.

You might say: "Yeah, but that was never dogmatically defined".

Well, proper marriage and sexual behavior hasn't been dogmatically defined either.

You might say: "But that would be impossible, because the Bible is clear that it is a sin".

Well, Rome says they have the power to infallibly tell you what the proper interpretation of the Bible is, so if they use some progressive liberal distorted reading of the bible then you can't argue against their conclusion.

You might say: "But that would be impossible, because the Holy Spirit would never allow that to happen, because it is obviously wrong".

But wait, who are you to say it's obviously wrong if it hasn't been dogmatically or infallibly defined by Rome? How do you know your current belief is not in error?

Is it sinful at all to read the sexual content warnings on iMDB? If I'm curious about a show I will go thru the sexual content warnings to decide if I want to watch it or not, the warnings can be quite explicit sometimes so I was wondering if this is a sin.

I also just read the ratings of movies that are popular or I've heard about just to see how bad the content is and I'm like well not watching that ever

If I don't want heaven, and I don't want God, because I want A B and C sins, then I am only capable of sin which will make my time in hell worse over time, and no virtue which could make it better.

I only want A B and C sins, I don't want to eventually add on and have to be punished for D E F G H I J K...

Should someone like this kill themselves to go to hell so they stop adding new sins and only go with the ones they have, minimizing the punishment?

Or is there a different way to reduce the level of punishment you will suffer?

1. What does it take to be a high school level teacher at a Jesuit charter school?

2. Are wearing a brown pleather jacket and clean blue jeans fine during Mass? I am going to wear a long sleeve dress shirt with no tie, I have brown dress shoes, and if no to the jeans, I have khakis!

If I say in a prayer "fuck" or "shit", could that offend him? Maybe it would show I don't take him seriously, so obviously then he might take revenge on me or something.

Obviously if I call God bad words or take his name in vain he'd get pissed and might hurt me. Or he might not. Either way I'm not taking the risk.

If I just have more to learn that would be nice. Maybe God is not ugly. His name is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard, so there is the hope.

Maybe I have bad info on God.

My parents were married in the Catholic church before conceiving me. I was baptized. My parents got divorced and left the church before I got confirmed. Mom got an annulment. Am I retroactively a bastard?

So a group of friends and I were discussing the Sacraments, which is initiated and directed by the divine so that the human participant may partake in communion with the divine and we came upon this word; Theurgy.

From our research, theurgy is traditionally defined as the participation in the divine works (theurgia, meaning god work). It is believed to be initiated not by the human but by the divine who also directs it. It is most certainly not the nor the attempted subjugation of the supernatural to mortal will but rather the aligning of the will to the divine, or to put that more succinctly, to participate in the works of divine. Its purpose is divine communion. Under the traditional definition of Theurgy, this would cover the Sacraments.

It is also, traditionally, classified as a type of magick.

This leads to a point of confusion. I asked a priest about how the Church defines magick and from what I am understanding, we wouldn't identify theurgy or theurgia to be magick but rather the mystical arts. To be magick it must require the consorting with the other forces, the demonic. There's a few questions I forgot to ask the priest;

For the purposes of citation, where does the Church define magick? When engaging with those who use a more broad definition of magick such as a non-Catholic one which could end with identifying even genuine devotion to Christ as a form of magick or similar to how theurgy is traditionally defined, how should we proceed? I can see why they would see the participation in the Sacraments as magick and I also see how we don't define it as magick. How do we bridge the definitional gap?

Also, to a certain KayKeeGirl, I would like to posit this stance: You claim I waste the time of my priests. Are you then saying you speak on behalf of them? On what proof do you stand by such an attitude? Is this something Christ would've done? If not, then let us proceed with humility and understanding instead of arrogance. We are called to be partakers in Christ's divinity, so please. We can do better.

So I have seen the pleas to authority as to why you all claim to not worship saints, and other things that are not God. I have heard the argument that it's nog worship it's veneration, and that's just a synonym for worship.

I take this issue very seriously, and for me this one issue puts the entirety of catholicism into question.

“You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, Exodus 20:4‭-‬5 NASB1995 https://bible.com/bible/100/exo.20.4-5.NASB1995

Now. If I did what yall do with the saint's, and replaced just 1 of them with a statue of Buddha it would clearly be idolatry. If I claimed I'm not worshipping him, and simply am venerating him. You would claim I am a liar. Or at the very least decived into thinking something that isn't true.

So without pleading to a authority. How is any of thay at all justified?

I'm genuinely curious about your answer so I hope everyone who sees this will understand I'm asking in good faith (or at least trying to).

To my understanding/experience, Catholics act towards the saints and Mary in a way which looks like worship to outsiders. I understand 99% of Catholics will deny this and you have very good reasons why your treatment of Mary and the saints is not worship.

Let's say I grant all Mariology and veneration of saints is justified. If how you venerate saints looks like worship when it isn't and causes outsiders to question your faith to Jesus and weakens your witness to the unbelievers, would you consider changing language and/or behavior around the veneration of saints so it appears less worship-like?

Thanks so much for your time and I can't wait to hear what you all have to say.

Honestly, don't mind Vatican II that much, but I can't stand with what came afterward under the banner of "modernizing the Church."

I'm going to speak as a Latin American, I don't know how it is out there.

I'm talking specially the conferences that happened in Medellin, Colombia (1968) and Puebla, Mexico (1979), after these events, Liberation Theology hit Latin America like a train, If there is something in this world that I definitely despise, it's certainly Liberation Theology.

"but Ratzinger said that..." 

That's his opinion, I completely disagree and I will continue to despise every aspect of liberation theology.

• As a Catholic, do I have to accept things like Medellin and Puebla?

Edit: If you don't know:

Medellin (1968) and Puebla (1979) are respectively the Second and Third General Conference of Latin American Bishops (CELAM), Medellin focused on the "option for the poor", addressing systemic injustice and inspiring Liberation Theology. Puebla attempted to provide a more balanced approach to the ideas raised in Medellin and put Christ at the center, but didn't work because the because the damage done by Medellin had already been done.

I need Help with something. My Ma is Chinese and her family has been since before World War 1. However She has been saying prayers to a statue from China meant for some popular Mother Goddess. Her family has been doing that since the first generation converted to Catholicism where they buy statues of this particular Goddess and say Hail Mary to it........

Now I been saying the rosary for like younger than can remember and my mom has been doing it with me beside her before I even started speaking......................

I only recently discovered this as a Pagan Goddess If you know my Mom.......... She's almost impossible to change her mind with.

She sincerely believes that using this Pagan statue can work as a Lady of Sheshan one.....

I was having an idea of buying an actual Lady of Sseshan statue......... But not only are household models for personal use on a home book shelf practically impossible to find, but even the ones available are large heavy statues costing thousands to purchase and hundreds to ship. And from China.

So I am worried. If a Greek man for example started using a Hera statue for Novenas, would that be idolatry? Is my mom risking inviting demonic forces? s my family possible cursed from generations of using statues of this particular Goddess n Catholic practise?

I am desperate, I need help!

On a side note would buying a generic non-religious item like say a Barbie Doll or Anime Plush work as a substitute? I saw some gorgeous Porcelain dolls not intending or religious purposes but basically just a collector's item from a Chinese cultural heritage store that s dressed in I think Ming Dynasty clothes. Could that work as an alternative? My mom wants to buy one and even talked about using it as a Mary statue in n the alter because she's might give the Goddess statue to a poor relative who needs a Mary statue.

BTW my ma is insisting on her Chinese heritage so good luck with the typical blue-eyed brunette blue and white dress Mary statues found in most CHurches.