If the Biden admin doesn’t wake people up on transgenderism throughout the course of the next four years I am convinced next to nothing will https://twitter.com/drdavidsamadi/status/1351515589072846848?s=21

how much do normal people have to see at this point

the only things Biden stands for are abortion, sodomy, self-enrichment, and punishing white conservatives but sure let’s pretend he chose the douay rheims Bible to secretly usher in an integralist State

“the whole world woke up to find itself gay”

Prominent politically correct (pseudo) Catholic integralists have been reduced to mentally masturbating about the minuscule ways in which Biden executive orders aesthetically cohere with miscellaneous quotations from Fratelli Tutti

These people should be ignored and disregarded not only as cowards but also as thoroughly unreflective of the intellectual milieu out of which integralism came into being in the first place, which was unmistakably reactionary

New Video: Clarifying the Natural Knowability of the Trinity

(audio is accidentally off for the intro, but the actual video is fine)

https://youtu.be/CXA7kJk_Ru4

in order to comply with the ruling ideology you have to believe being trans is chrischann’s one perfectly sane and healthy attribute

a thomistic articulation of an e/e distinction would probably go something like this:

God, as the pure act of existence, serves as the perfective end of creatures by virtue of the unique role existence has as a created essence’s principle of actuality, and therefore His energetic procession toward creatures will always be self-manifesting yet proportionate to the creature’s reception

as a result of this, no divine self-manifestation toward creatures can in and of itself be said to communicate the divine essence (considered as divine being in its supre-essential transcendence), but only signify it

Thus, engagement with Divine activity in Creation is real engagement with God, but received according to the finite mode of the recipient. One could even call such processional divine self-manifestations uncreated if this is to refer to the substantial reality of those manifestations on the side of God in His transcendence. What is “created” would be the effect such manifestations have *in the creature*, not the substantial reality of those divine self-manifestations.

This, by the way, is not to disregard other articulations of this mystery. It’s just to get at how a Thomist would approach it. Any relation this has to EO/Roman Catholic polemics is, in my view, incidental and a waste of time, insofar as Rome already permits a plurality of approaches to this question that can be read in light of Her dogmatic pronouncements on divine simplicity and immutability. Whether those dogmatic pronouncements are binding will depend on what one’s position on Papal authority is, not on one’s intellectual leanings on a speculative theological question like divine simplicity.

Catch my latest appearance on Reason and Theology. A very enjoyable discussion! https://youtu.be/ziWdkM6TEf8

probably gonna start using this more

Not saying Francis has necessarily supported any of the following, but if you’re worried about the future of the Church as far as liberalism is concerned, take solace in the fact that the gravest evils of liberalism are already condemned infallibly by the universal/ordinary magisterium as well as the extraordinary magisterium:

So even if the Pope were to call for a different approach to sodomy, know it is already solemnly condemned as abominable by the Third and Fourth Lateran Councils (as well as by the unbroken and constant apostolic/patristic tradition)

If a Pope were to criticize Humanae vitae’s teaching on contraception, know that its teaching is already safeguarded by the universal and ordinary magisterium as well as the solemn, infallible condemnation of Pius XI in Casti connubii (as well as by the unbroken apostolic/patristic tradition)

If a Pope were to call for a softer approach to abortion, know that a strong condemnation is called for by the infallible Magisterium both in its universal/ ordinary and extraordinary form (unbroken apostolic/patristic tradition, and solemnly condemned in Evangelium vitae of John Paul II)

If a Pope were to embrace classical liberalism or religious indifferentism, know that this is already infallibly condemned by Pius IX’s Quanta cura

And if a Pope were to flirt with women’s ordination, know that women’s ordination is solemnly condemned by John Paul II

These teachings have been codified in the Church’s infallible Magisterium, and are irreformable in and of themselves, binding to all successors of St Peter, and so no future Pope can even in principle dare to overturn them.

It turns out embracing the “no God no master” ethic doesn’t actually make society creative, innovative, or self sufficient it just makes it gay and trans

gays are increasingly becoming the most overprivileged and protected class in this country

catholic Marian dogmas bring even more fulfillment to the philosophical notion of the self-diffusive character of divine goodness, in that while the Incarnation is the maximum of divine self-outpouring, the blessed Virgin reflects that maximum purely on the side of creatures

As some institutional forces within the Church, particularly under the Biden Administration, try to gaslight us into submitting to the current corporate zeitgeist on racial issues, it is essential to call to mind what the actual Magisterium of the Church has already set in stone on the nature of race and its societal significance. I wrote about that last year, but deleted the link on Twitter out of an abundance of caution. You can find it here: https://middleearthmag.com/on-race-and-the-magisterium/

as I get back to YouTube videos very soon (been a very busy semester), these are topics I plan to tackle:
⁃addressing some atheistic objections
⁃continuations of the integralism/metaphysics/divine names series
⁃on the metaphysics of gender
⁃addressing Pope Francis

contrary to divine simplicity skeptics, creation is not God being presented with pre-determined intelligibles and then selecting x against y

y is already grounded in His infinite, Triune self-manifestation, but God also manifests Himself gratuitously and finitely, as x

that He gratuitously and finitely manifests Himself as x is, of course, owed to His ineffable wisdom, but that He manifests Himself as x as opposed to y should not present a problem for divine simplicity

It’s so bizarre hearing gay activists say this, as if the Church actually governing itself in harmony with what it preaches about their own lifestyle wouldn’t also solve the sex abuse crisis https://twitter.com/njchamp722_/status/1371443885445156864?s=21