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France did a review on the pornography industry and revealed that 90% out of millions of videos watched contained violence against women and misogyny.

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Also apparently Galileo didn’t get put on trial by the Catholic Church just because of heliocentrism, apparently he got put on trial because he was an asshole about heliocentrism, didn’t have all of the evidence he needed to actually really prove heliocentrism (apparently one of the big hangups at the time was “why are the stars so small if the heliocentric math says they should be big?”, and they didn’t have the tech yet to explain “it’s because the stars are really goddamn far away”). Apparently one of the Popes at the time, who was actually Galileo’s friend, actually did let him write about heliocentrism on the condition that he talked about the pros and cons of the theory instead of the aggressive “this is real and you’re all dumb!!!!” he’d been doing. And Galileo, high intelligence/negative wisdom/negative charisma dumbass he was, doubled down on his arguments and also insulted his friend the Pope by representing the Pope’s arguments via a character named “the Simpleton”. And it was this idiot move of shittalking his now ex-friend the Pope that got him on the big bad trial we all know now, not helped by the fact that he apparently burned all his fucking bridges with everybody else who could’ve saved his bacon too (apparently one of the people in charge of his trial was a guy he plagiarized too). It was never about actual religious faith or heresy, it was always just. The stupidest, pettiest politics fight.

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This is everything 🙌🏻♥️

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Mabel: “Kinda worth it though.”

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Typical Prot Church:

Welcome to Feels Goodman Church and Trampoline Park, where we Jump for Jesus!

Join us down at the local strip mall, right next door to Pew Pew Lazer Tag!

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Typical Catholic Church:

Welcome to Our Lady of Pain Parish

The A/C is broken, the kneelers have Legos glued to them, and we slap you saying "Memento Mori" before each Mass

Mass times: Every day at 7AM and 10:30AM on Sundays. We share a priest with 5 other parishes.

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You guys rlly don't realise how much knowledge is still not committed to the internet. I find books all the time with stuff that is impossible to find through a search engine- most people do not put their magnum opus research online for free and the more niche a skill is the less likely you are to have people who will leak those books online. (Nevermind all the books written prior to the internet that have knowledge that is not considered "relevant" enough to digitise).

Whenever people say that we r growing up with all the world's knowledge at our fingertips...it's not necessarily true. Is the amount of knowledge online potentially infinite? Yes. Is it all knowledge? No. You will be surprised at the niche things you can discover at a local archive or library.

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“Oh the men in lotr are so fantastic” ITS BECAUSE THE GUY WHO WROTE IT UNDERSTOOD MASCULINE VIRTUE (CATHOLIC)

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The fact that our culture is divided on whether or not it's ok to kill a baby is wild. You'd think we'd all be able to at least agree murdering a baby is bad but no.

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if we ignore all the stuff that's gone wrong ive kind of had nothing but wins

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“For starters, learn to distinguish between a lustful thought and a temptation to lust. A temptation is the sudden thought of a forbidden act. To the extent that this thought is beyond your control, you are not morally responsible that it came to mind.

However, what you do with that thought determines whether you gain merit or guilt as a result of it.

If your thoughts are beginning to drift toward lustful things, try to draw them back as soon as you recognize what you're doing. If you're tempted while you're alone, trace the shape of the cross on your forehead. Say the name of Jesus. Announce to heaven and hell with your words and your body that you belong to God. But don't just pray against the temptation. If you're tempted toward a particular person, pray for him. Turn your temptation into an act of intercession.”

-Jason and Crystalina Evert, How to Find Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul

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“But men are hopeless creatures, and the less they concentrate on their own sins, the more interested they become in the sins of others. They seek to criticize, not to correct. Unable to excuse themselves, they are ready to accuse others.”

From a sermon by St. Augustine, bishop

Second Reading from the Office of Readings, Liturgy of the Hours, Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (7/3/22)

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“The Modern World is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.”

- G.K. Chesterton

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