Aspiring Reformed Episcopalian. Book Review Editor @northamanglican. Book: https://teapawt.org/t.co/EPWcNXl7ba
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"But I beseech You of Your kindness to have mercy on me—not the lesser mercy which You show temporarily for physical distress, but Your greater mercy which You show for the distress of the soul. Have mercy on me, and forgive me my sin. Amen."
"Either you reclaim the theological robustness of the authentic natural law tradition, including its eschatological dimension, or you dress up ‘dichotomies’ as – theologically supported – ‘distinctions’ in a bid to stay relevant and credible within the secular 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑠."
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"Write for an agenda." No. No. Write what is in front of you. Avoid fads. Engage, do not pander. To hell with what the politics are. Never pander.
"Wow, this is just as annoying to watch as that stupid glasses girl anime I tried onc- wait, it's the same show."
The necessary basis for combating this trend is to deny repeatedly, unceasingly, that "sola scriptura" rightly understood means excluding church tradition. Rather, the Reformers taught that "tradition is not inimical to sound biblical interpretation, but an aid to it."
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The Aesthete will annoy you. You will not want to read to the end, and you probably won't. But you'll be annoyed by it, putting it down and months later still being ticked off by it, like it's a belligerent girlfriend. It isn't. Read The Aesthete.
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Malfoid stans insisting their anime-inflected fan-fiction will usher in literary renewal at the precise moment Japan is trying to explain to Westerners that "anime and manga (which we love) are slop, actually."
Go ahead, clean out my bank account, steal my SSN, throw up all my passwords. Just let me keep posting through it all.
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Now live on the site: in a fully automated future, two administrators are called down to tend to one of the sorry engineers tasked with keeping the AI from running amok.
TERMINAL - novelette, 7.7k words [link in reply post]
Dragon Ball is inspired by Journey to the West, but nobody calls it "Journey to the West fan-fiction." That's because it's different enough to be recognized as an independent story with its own distinctive characters and settings.
You have no use for Roger Scruton because he once criticized the act of self-pleasuring during intercourse. I have no use for Roger Scruton because he later recanted the view that revulsion for homosexuality (i.e., mutual self-pleasuring) is justifiable. We are not the same.
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"Notably, Burgess’s historiography is not secular, meaning that he does not dismiss professed religious belief as a smokescreen for the “real” driving forces of history, i.e., material concerns."
—James Clark
“Perhaps one of the more interesting facts laid out by Burgess is the continued presence of resistance theory in Anglican thought (not just British thought) over time.”
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