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

I know most of you are aware, but as I still get asked how Christianity coheres with classical theism, I do have a (so far) three part series on a) the existence of God b) a philosophical argument for the Incarnation and c) the atonement:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXbTJn6BGgw94T2UvAm7rnUPgm1_2_Glr

what level of pathological gay narcissism do you have to be on to see systemic child sex abuse coverups and being told you can’t have gay sex anymore as somehow equally understandable reasons for leaving the Catholic Church

according to st jerome, Christ breathed His last with a loud voice to signify His authority over death in contrast to most of us who will die in either a low voice or without any sound at all

Lol

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“He waited so that all these things might be accomplished, after which He said “it is consummated”, and departed by His own power, for He did not come by necessity, and so some marveled more at His power of dying than His performing of miracles.” St. Augustine, Tractates on John

Happy Easter!

as the Father goes out from the superabundant fecundity of Divinity to generate His own consubstantial self-Image (exitus), that same self-Image upon receiving that Divine Nature reflects this Divinity back in that same Love that is the Holy Spirit (reditus)

what happens here ad intra is manifested ad extra in the Incarnation (exitus), Death, Resurrection, and Ascension (reditus) of that same Divine self-Image (Son), thereby restoring the integrity of His own self-Image’s cosmic theophany (us)

The Jews reaction after finding the empty tomb

“Mystically, Mary (Magdalene), which name signifies, mistress, enlightened, enlightener, star of the sea, stands for the Church, which is also Magdalen, i. e. towered, (Magdalen being Greek for tower,) as we read in the Psalms, Thou hast been a strong tower for me. (Ps. 61:3) In that she announced Christ’s resurrection to the disciples, all, especially those to whom the office of preaching is committed, are admonished to be zealous in setting forth to others whatever is revealed from above.” St. Bede the Venerable

“O God, whither hast Thou led me that I may perceive Thine Absolute Face to be the natural face of all nature, to be the face which is the Absolute Being of all being, to be art, and the knowledge of all that may be known? He, then, who meriteth to behold Thy Face seeth all things openly, and naught remaineth hidden from him: he who hath Thee, Lord, knoweth all things and hath all things: he hath all things who seeth Thee. For none seeth Thee except he have Thee. None can attain unto Thee, since Thou art unapproachable: none, therefore, can possess himself of Thee except Thou give Thyself to him.” - Nicholas of Cusa, The Vision of God

hans kung was like every other arch heretic in church history except in the fact that he was boring and they weren’t