Traditionalist Catholic. Dominican. Stoic. Scholastic. PhD student (Philosophy & Evo Bio) @UTAustin. Husband. Dad. Dry wit. Longhorns. Cowboys. Lakers. Yankees.
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Pope Pius IX retweeted
Wemby just called the Finals “the biggest lesson of my life.”
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Crazy to think Patrick Ewing has fewer rings with the Knicks than Jalen Brunson.
Thems the facts tho.
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Congratulations to the Knicks. What a win.
But most of all, thank you to @BlackBlessedLDS, who has given me Amazon gift card for calling Knicks in 5. I’m the real winner.
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Dallas mavericks ownership may not make it into heaven for what they have done
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I think the Catholics and Mormons on X need this vid after the last week lol
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I like him.
I wish all Catholic schools would have these rules.
Mormonism is a bad religion theologically but a model religion sociologically.
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Read @maklelan paper on the matter.
Do Mormons believe in being saved by grace?
Today in a meeting of leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in DFW, we sang this:
"His grace has brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home."
So there's that...
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"Do I ever doubt the central claims of the Christian faith? If the question means, am I less than absolutely confident that those claims are true, the answer is yes. I am absolutely confident about very little, not even the existence of ‘other minds’ (that is, of conscious persons apart from myself). But I judge that there is an enormous balance of evidence in favor of the existence of other minds and a significant balance of evidence in favor of Christian theism. If the question means, do I devote time to examining objections to Christianity, the answer is obviously also yes. It’s my job. But I think that everyone, Christian or non-Christian, ought to spend some time, in however amateur a way, examining the pros and cons of their creed; and not just once in youth, but at intervals throughout life."
Richard Swinburne, "Natural Theology and Orthodoxy"
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Yes, and they are risking eternal damnation as well.
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If a Catholic never goes to Confession, are they missing something essential to the faith?
Good Morning 🌹
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Right living presupposes right thinking; your thinking goes astray so does your behavior. These are not separate issues.
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Obsession with orthodoxy (right theology) over orthopraxy (right practice) is cancer.
But a true disciple of Christ prioritizes orthocardia (right heart) over all.
So many twitter bros have their priorities all mixed up.
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Now that Musk has a trillion dollars maybe he will invent floo powder.
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This is the second time in 4 months I've been stranded overnight due to endless plane delays and missed connecting flights
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Pope Pius IX retweeted
Jun 12
I've just finished indexing what is one of this year's most eagerly anticipated books among historians and sociologists of religion (as well as Vatican-watchers) - 'Trads' by Stephen Cranney and Stephen Bullivant global.oup.com/academic/prod…
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Pope Pius IX retweeted
Jun 12
.@Rachel__Nichols says there's one major factor everyone is forgetting about the Spurs 😬
"Victor Wembanyama is 1 tech away from a suspension."
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No, and you know that no one believes that either.
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The true church of Jesus Christ teaches that Jesus Christ will return a second time with a body of flesh and bones in power and glory.
The rest of Christianity says what — he’ll return as a blob of 3 persons?
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Too bad he didn’t take philosophy 101; he would know this is a false dilemma.
Trillionaires shouldn't exist and neither should billioniares. Tax every penny in net worth over $999 million at 100%. We can have extreme wealth concentration or a democracy but we can't have both at the same time. Pick one.
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Yeah I think the soul is the form of the body it’s not an addition to it.
Jun 12
Over 90% of all Americans believe that people have a soul or spirit in addition to their physical bodies.
The groups that buck this trend
Jews: 75%
Agnostics: 69%
Atheists: 33%
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Jun 12
How is Justin Jefferson on neither list?
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