@StMichael71

Dominican friar (@opdomcentral). Metaphysics, medieval Latin & Chinese, and assorted tidbits. Views are my own and do not represent my school, @hkbaptistu.

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My new book, 'Wisdom Proceeding: A Thomistic Account of Theology,' is now UP ONLINE AND AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD FOR FREE! taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-m…

Wisdom Proceeding | A Thomistic Account of the Nature of Theology | Ja

This book proposes a Thomistic account of theology, arguing that understanding God requires holiness and faith, not merely exceptional theological reasoning. In

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Apart from the fact that racist attitudes are so obviously anti-Christian, they are founded on such ridiculous pseudo-science, xenophobia, and intellectual laziness as is totally inexcusable in our modern age. It's essentially grievance culture in the *most utterly stupid* form.
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"I'm disappointed there are no local vocations from my city; I'll blame the Indian priest who volunteered to move thousands of miles to say Mass for me." "I don't have a girlfriend and live in my parents basement - of course it's the fault of the Jews that I'm a greasy loser."
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I care about your soul, not whether you are white, black, brown, purple, yellow, or any other possible arrangement of melatonin. Skin color or ethnic group matters absolutely nothing in the eyes of God. Wise up now before you end up in hell with the rest of your racist friends.
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There are goods in Western culture, and while preserving those goods values is not wrong, saving 'the West' seems to me to speak inappropriately as if the West in abstraction is worth saving or an object of charity or self-sacrifice. People are worth those things, not culture.
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Saving the West has no intrinsic connection to salvation: we should be VERY clear in distinguishing the two. St. Augustine wrote City of God about this. The earthy city - West included - was founded on fratricide. The City of God is built on sharing what we have, not excluding.
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Insofar as “saving the West” involves acts of charity or dying to self, it does in fact save your soul
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"Its victory is life-destroying; but if it turns its thoughts upon the common casualties of our mortal condition, and is rather anxious concerning the disasters that may befall it... this victory, though of a higher kind, is still only short-lived...."
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There are goods in Western culture, and while preserving those goods values is not wrong, saving 'the West' seems to me to speak inappropriately as if the West in abstraction is worth saving or an object of charity or self-sacrifice. People are worth those things, not culture.
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I'm a simple Christian. I think we should believe in the Trinity and what He told us, love Him and His Kingdom (the Church), pray every day, treat others well, forgive others & ask them to forgive us, go to church weekly, & give all we have to those who need it more than we do.
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And I don't think much else matters aside from what I listed.
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Don’t let imposter syndrome define you. Embrace actual incompetence.
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I celebrated the Dominican Rite regularly and worked with Una Voce. I never saw these attitudes in my TLM parish except for once, when I called it out strongly at the pulpit. Sinful racist slop has no place in any Catholic group or liturgy, TLM or otherwise. If you see it, flee.
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Guy complains about racial diversity at Mass, including an Indian priest and multiple people advise him to attend a Latin Mass. It says a lot.
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New publication alert! "Is Confucian Theism Unreasonable? Responding to an Objection about ‘Transcendence’" is forthcoming in Dao! This article has been a long time coming, a response to requests I address this issue, as well as to repeated objections. philpapers.org/rec/ROOICT

James Dominic Rooney, Is Confucian Theism Unreasonable? Responding to an Objection about ‘Transce...

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... drawn from this basic difference, alleging for instance that Christianity's supernatural-natural distinction, and in particular its claims about the gratuity of grace and original sin, are irreconcilable with Confucian claims that human nature is good. I propose that the ...
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... objection is usually stated in a way that is confused, and that when clarified it is seriously defective, if not ultimately question-begging. Indeed, one can find Neo-Confucian authors who embrace strikingly similar claims as those made by Christian theists.
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It is absolutely incomprehensible to me that people harbor such beliefs, let alone advertise them publicly on the Internet. Wanna know how you go to hell? 'Cause that's how you go to hell.
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A tormented monk came to Abba Lot, heavily burdened by a severe sin, believing he could no longer be a monk. Lot said: “I will take half of your sin upon myself and bear it with you; only stay here and do not despair.” Christian love is never perfected alone, but only together.
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For those of you who like Baroque Scholasticism, and C. Wagner's claims about my views of satisfaction being ill-founded, this Facebook post will be of interest. I discovered that Wagner derived his voluntaristic view of satisfaction from John Poinsot. facebook.com/share/p/19e3yRo…
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