The Bulwark of 2032 is among you even now

I'd note that this is precisely Doug Wilson's argument for killing little girls too

MAGA si, magistra no

The Lynching tree never brings (and never brought) authentic peace but many won't realize that until they recognize it as the cross and themselves as Pilate. It's a problem of being able to interpret reality and not a problem of reality itself

Some of my work with Girard (don't shoot me pls) is arguing that what an accurate depiction of scapegoat violence like lynchings does is reveal that the foundational stories we tell about ourselves as a society are always-already false.

Reagan's deepest appeal is to those who cheered George Wallace on but who felt a bit shabby and soiled after he worked them over, massaged their hate glands, made them queasy with acrid emotions sweated out of them. Reagan croons, in love accents, his permission to indulge a functional hatred of poor people and blacks. Nothing personal about it. It is really an act of patriotism not to let the hardworking middle class be dragged down to their level. Imagine what a godsend this is for right-wingers with some small claim left them to fastidiousness. Poor William Buckley had to fashion a nine-foot pole for dealing with all those Spiro Agnew types a gentleman should not touch with a ten-foot pole. But Ronnie he can walk right up to and hug. Even the caricaturists have a hard time putting Joe McCarthy's scowl or Agnew's dopey viciousness on Reagan's face. Lead Time: A Journalist’s Education (Garry Wills)

Garry Wills 💀💀💀

I have not! ✍️

St Patrick's Breastplate
In Christ Alone
Tallis' Nunc Dimittis

A prof got back to me that my writing to this effect was interesting enough that they'd ordered Eichmann in Jerusalem. We're thinking about That Which Ain't, folks

To be entirely honest with all of you: it's over. It's fucking over.

Who needs a "Joe Rogan of the left" when the right is spontaneously generating wills st*ncil

lol, lmao

Yeah I was doing this at a parish that doubled as a Newman center and also got ppl from the other two parishes in town and the nearby army base. Same nonsense. In my case there wasn't quite the knowledge disparity you describe as much as the issues you'd expect in a college town

Based on the stupid jokes about Trump and replies about "wasn't Jesus Jewish??" and "erm, has anyone told the EVANGELICAS??" bsky seems to be having a really hard time with the idea that an Israeli soldier would be violently anti-Christian or that Evangelicals don't consider these churches Christian

FWIW I also didn't go through RCIA when I came into the church in part due to a scheduling thing related to my job and also bc I was a homeschooled son of a pastor and philosophy teacher and I had done all the reading/needed to be made normal through practice more than doctrinal instruction

I fought alone for years as OCIA director to stop doing this but "number big" trumps all

In fact there are many cases in which it is preferable not to put someone in OCIA, and the canons actually discourage the common practice of having baptized Christians (as in this case) go through it on the typical schedule and be received at the Easter Vigil

There are plenty of people on this very website who will tell you that Hamas and Trump were colluding on the campus protests

Father's homily tied the disciples' lack of understanding to a previous parish having a handful of people complain to the bishop about his English (he's Korean) and said significantly that there are many other examples of people "choosing not to understand"

I have no illusions as to whether he believes in God tbc

Remembering the very liberal Anglican woman I knew who was both a Warren/Clinton supporter and believed that *specifically catholic* immigrants were going to destroy America

I think we can say both that

A. Protestants (even liberal ones) his age and older do often hold (at least in my experience) pretty insane and often racial opinions about Catholics

B. That's not the *root* cause here, even if it contributes

You don't see BANG! energy drinks anymore

Pope on plane to Angola: "A certain narrative has taken hold—one that is not entirely accurate-due to the political situation that arose when, on the first day of the trip, the President of the United States made certain statements regarding me.... Much of what has been written since then is nothing more than commentary upon commentary, in an attempt to interpret what was said. An example is the important address delivered at the Prayer Meeting for Peace on April 16. That speech had been prepared two weeks earlier—well before the President commented on me and on the message of peace I am promoting. And yet, it was interpreted as if I were attempting to engage in a renewed debate with the President —something that is not in my interest at all."

huge portions of media think they’re the refs in a Vatican VS White House MMA fight and they’re delusional. this is a one-sided beef where the Pope says something sensible like “war is bad” or “we should not bomb schoolchildren” and all the hit dogs on Capitol Hill and Fox News lose their marbles.

The worlds greatest innovator in Evil Studies is plying his trade in run down "Humanities Buildings" with no AC or drinkable water, while his subjects cavort with the dining club homunculi

I think every male grad student should probably be made to read a few novels by Woolf if only in order to be made to fear that *that* is how we're being perceived and behave accordingly

This gets a bit into the Batman non lethality bit but I just don't see em adopting Vaders signature move

b seems pretty clearly dark side coded at minimum. I don't have an answer on A but the GM in me would be making you roll a bunch of times for that