Roman Catholic | rabid Ultramontanist | husband | father of 4 | tech business owner | Christendom College grad | to the right of the Tsars | should be in bed
@pearlythingz
Itโs been great! She lives for our kids, continues to want more, has no desire for an outside career, and all her ambitions have to do with our home and descendants. Sheโs literally the ideal woman.
@HawleyMO
OR maybe a Christian economy would be one where affinal societies could sustain themselves commercially without reference to wage labor at all....
@stillgray
Probably the same. Black bears can of course be dangerous, but they're generally not aggressive unless they feel threatened. If the goal is to keep people safe, this was obviously the right course of action.
@EvaVlaar
I think what has historically been considered chronic Lymeโs is turning out to actually be novel tick-born parasitic infections, which is why antibiotics donโt eliminate the problem. In the past decade, dozens of these parasites have been discovered and had tests developed to
@CdnMnrchyRspctr
Catholics arenโt Puritans, but โPuritanismโ isnโt distinguished from high church traditions by its view of sexuality - itโs distinguished by its emphasis on โpurityโ from Catholic influence. The Puritan view of sexuality was very similar to that espoused by virtually every other
@langluigi_
The presumption of conciliar authority preceding papal authority is built into your argument from the beginning. The Ultramontane prerogative is traced to the Apostolic Fathers, so why shouldnโt a Catholic, by same token, argue that Eastern Orthodoxy is obviously not the
@WomenPostingLs
I actually agree with this list. It should be a classy (read โnon-fast foodโ), but not fancy, establishment that furnishes alcohol but does not make drinking socially compulsory. That way it doesnโt feel cheap, or threatening, and is not too loud to get to know one another. Itโs
@WomenPostingLs
L L L 100 times, L. Adultery should never go unpunished, but breaking the Confessional Seal should be punishable by flaying. Once a sin is confessed, its consequences pass away at the end of this world. But if any mortal sin is not confessed, its consequences will be greater than
@AnthonyKrouse6
@WomenPostingLs
I probably am. But I did manage to get married as a fat, bald guy, so hopefully what makes me insufferable also makes me useful to someone reading this.
@EdmundSmirk
Nailed it. Iโve often said I object to capitalism, not because I favor socialism, but because capitalism is too similar to socialism. The central error is the same: that commerce and child-rearing, and community life are best achieved in an institution remote from the family,
@LayahHeilpern
Weed is a problem, but I'm not sure I would rank it so high.
Also, there's one other thing that underlies the rest - the individualism-collectivism dialectic. There are two sides of our culture: one the gives preeminence to the individual as the supreme moral good, and one to the
@CloudyBRM
@WebDevLex
@TravelsCharlie
@Pat_Stedman
At least 55% of American colonists are believed to have been loyalists, with 30% volunteering to fight for the British, and only 30% have been shown to have been in favor of seceding, with only 3% actually fighting for the Continental Army. And the notion that they were rebelling
@GigaBasedDad
Homilies on Marriage and Family Life by St. John Chrysostom; City of God by St. Augustine of Hippo; Zero to One by Peter Thiel; Democracy: the God that Failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe; After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre; 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson; What's Wrong with the
@BeckyBeefJerky
@bebookled
There are really three sources for this: Scripture, the Church Fathers, and historical development.
In 1 Corinthians 11, St. Paul insists on head coverings for all a Christian women, and even closes his admonition by suggesting that it IS NOT a matter of culture or custom, but
@RightHegelian
@Sola_Requiem
@TDisputations
Most villains are motivated by correctly observed injustices. โApart from the solaeโ is meaningless - itโs not the people of the Church who save - itโs the Doctrine.
@pearlythingz
Of course. People are looking for concrete โcheckbox itemsโ to guarantee success. There are no guarantees in life. The answer in relationships, I think anyone who ponders long enough will agree, is the same as something like business or war: being informed, cautious, and
@smashbaals
Christianity didnโt disappear with the spread of Islam - it persisted throughout the Middle East, but became less prominent. It was also already established throughout East Africa along the Red Sea coast and the Indus Valley region as early as the first century.
@pearlythingz
My wife gave me a sterling silver crucifix which Inwrar every day. She is also an iconographer, so I would love someday to have an icon of the couple Sts. Henry and Cunegunde.
@ewarren
Or they could just close the discount window altogether. The only reason predatory mortgage lending is possible is because of how high easy credit drives housing prices.
@Loorsey
@AnthonyKrouse6
@WomenPostingLs
Iโm not suggesting thereโs anything wrong with any of these places. But a first date is a screen, and screening out crazies is hard even in the ideal scenario. Finding a venue conducive to making your appraisal easier can only be a good thing at square one.
@CatholicOrca
Probably because the Patristic tradition is pretty critical of cosmetic use. The exception held by some, and generally maintained thereafter by later theologians such as St. Thomas Aquinas, is for married women and those seeking marriage, but those are the exception and not the
@BibleBashed
That's not what "flat tax" refers to - flat tax just means that rates aren't graduated. What you're referring to is generally called a "poll tax."
@Culture_Crit
Beauty is essentially objective, but the experience of it is subjective. I.e., it is up to the individual to be able to perceive the beauty in things, and to be able to distinguish it from profanity.
@DirectorBowen
@LayahHeilpern
I forgot to mention also, beyond the question of child-rearing, that human individuals need family ties for mental health. You have your wife, and thatโs wonderful, but a marriage isnโt an individual endeavor. A married couple is inherently greater than the sum of its parts, and
@TopRed666
@JonErlichman
In over a decade in the job market, I have never worked at or applied to a company that uses employment contracts. I didn't think they were really ever used except in special circumstances.
@pearlythingz
@benshapiro
Counterpoint: this is more or less what is achieved in
@benshapiro
's conversations with Sam Harris. The problem is that there aren't very many people who fit the bill for "smart person representing a mainstream political view." The smartest public figures tend to be
@sovereignbrah
Read the Gospels, but also read the Early Church Fathers, like St. Ignatius of Antioch, St. Augustine, St. John Chrysostom, St. Gregory of Rome, and St. Clement of Alexandria. These contemporaries and near contemporaries of the Apostles will provide one of the best possible
@Catholicizm1
More verbal participation - especially helpful for catechizing kids who can't read yet. Much of our Pauline Mass is in Latin, ad orientem, and uses the traditional propers instead of the responsory, etc., however, so cosmetically it would look much the Tridentine to an outsider.
@michaeljknowles
I thought the charges didnโt have any sexual dimension, and that โtraffickingโ was just the term used to describe an alleged financial crime?
@ClownWorld_
It doesnโt, but most of a federal legislatorโs total compensation isnโt from their salary. Thatโs the not-so-secret secret that people miss when debating congressional salaries.