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people are posing the "who suffered more" meme again.

so who's got the diagram/masterpost of how horribly crucifixion messes you up?

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Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thine intercession was left unaided.

Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother; to thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me.

Amen.

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Happy feast of the Immaculate Conception!!

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....submitted herself completely to God's will i.e. by choosing not to sin.

Why does Mary being sinless make Jesus less special? Mary isn't deified by being created without sin. Adam and Eve were created without sin.

Jesus is free from sin because He is God, he's incapable of sin. Or sin is incompatible with Him, by nature.

Mary is free from sin because she chose not to sin. She was freed from original sin like the rest of us, by Christ's sacrifice. Submitting yourself completely to God's will necessarily means being sinless, because it is not God's will for you to sin. One of the definitions of sin is going against God's will.

The point of the Incarnation wasn't that Christ was sinless, it's that he was God. The point of Christ's sacrifice was because he was sinless, but in the way that only God is.

The point of the Immaculate Conception that God holds the ultimate power over sin and forgiveness, and that He loves the world enough to justify us to Him at the price of His Son, and the first fruit of that was His own Mother.

Any grace preferred to Mary or anyone for that matter only exist to magnify God. It can't undermine His power because it's source is Him.

Mary being treated as if she was sinless makes me so so sad. Like talk about erasing the wonder and glory of Jesus’ birth

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If anyone tries to pull that “Jesus was born sometime in Spring, not December” stuff with you

Remind them that St. Elizabeth conceived St. John the Baptist on Yom Kippur, which is set sometime in late September, early October. When Mary went to visit Elizabeth after first conceiving Jesus, Elizabeth was 6 months pregnant. Doing the math, Elizabeth’s 6 month mark and thus Jesus’ conception mark is in late March, which is 9 months from December. His conception was what was in Spring, Christians have always held  conception as the beginning of life and thus Jesus’ conception is noted as the beginning of His life on earth (which is where I assume the confusion comes from), but His birth was still in December.

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That is explicitly what we learned in AP World History back in Highschool. They only talked about the Janissaries (briefly) and glossed over the part where they were captured or forcibly removed from their parents in conquered parts of Europe, forcibly circumcised and converted, and said it was actually good for them because it allowed them to have some learning in Ottoman society, so it wasn't "technically" slavery. And no other forms of Ottoman Slavery were mentioned.

We have to define this word as something that absolves the group I like of any guilt and lays it all on Western Europeans.

Russia and China get some too I hope.

Next up, we cover all the ways that being enslaved by the ottomans wasn't real slavery for one reason or another that still ignores the fact that the people were still considered property.

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Happy All Saints Day!

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I'm actually a fan of the versions of Daredevil and Nightcrawler in my head who are orthodox Catholics who don't sleep around and go to Mass every Sunday.

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Laudare, Benedicere, Predicare...

And for these, Dominic treasured prayer, study and community.

You can always find him sitting and reading.

This is one of my favorite icons of St. Dominic. It always pulls up whenever I read about him, he looks so peaceful and focused.

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Happy Ostara everyone!!

Reminder that Easter is actually a pagan holiday that was appropriated by Christianity. Just like Christmas.

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The saint for finding lost things.

I gotta say, reading about him is very humbling, born from a rich family, but became a saint for the poor.

I'm practicing him, 'cause I wanna make sure to give distinct looks with different saints.

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Other movies spend so much time asking “why is there badness in the world” and Free Guy, movie of the decade, assumes from the beginning there is badness, of course, the code is stolen and corrupted into a stupid shooter game, and so it asks instead, “so why is there any good in this world?” And then it answers with “because it’s made by someone who was creating a love letter to you.”

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new atheists deride religion as “primitive superstition” but when you hear their take on what religion is it’s clear they have the shallowest concept of it

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Any christian resource recommendations aside from gotquestions.org and 412teens?

Hey Kiibo! Answers in Genesis seem to be pretty good for providing evidence of young earth creationism if you're interested in that. I will say that sometimes they seem to be a little...political(?) about it, making it seem like young earth creationism is a salvation issue. There's also Geeks under Grace if you want Christian perspectives on video games/Pop culture. If I remember correctly, Beneath the Tangles is also a good one for Christian perspectives on anime.

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An actual victim.