God hath made the roots of proud nations to wither

Catholic. Subject of the Pope of Rome. Post-liberal politics.

[lilaccatholic]

These kids are super dope, actually, and I'm praying that their faith inspires their parents

[slavicgerman]

[1959-b-l-t-z-k-ri-e-g-f-r-1-t-z]

The death of beauty is the death of Inspiration. Le Corbussier wrote that brutalism is necessary to remind the citizen of his insignificance in contrast to the state.

If beauty doesn't surround us it's easier to quell the dreams and aspirations of the people.

[unclejingo]

We have lost our asabiyyah

[butterflies-and-bumble-bees]

@angeltreasure consider:

[angeltreasure-deactivated202505]

@butterflies-and-bumble-bees Now I like that idea! You get the aesthetic appearance AND you limit light pollution to stargaze. ☺️

[a-path-beyond84]

Let’s be honest, if you’re in a major city, light pollution is simply going to be awful and you’ll have a bad view of the sky.

[lilyismycat]

Please pray for my father D who committed sexual abuse against me and my mother.

Pray for his salvation.

I want this spread far and wide. It is my dream that the whole world would pray for this intention.

[eternal-echoes]

Video link

[strongermonster]

perhaps some will disagree, but i think the world got worse when we changed the colour of the night

[strongermonster]

this is what i mean

[degenderates]

Via @bulbaderp

[itistimetodisappear]

To be clear, THIS is how nights of the future should be lit

This is bat friendly street lighting, which not only looks sick as fuck but allows bats to pass through without disturbance, as they cannot see red.

orange and especially white lights deter bats and prevent them from reaching feeding grounds at nighttime. Please if you can, write to your local council and encourage red street lights!!!!

[anarchistmemedistro]

ALSO! red light doesn’t fuck up human night vision much so you can go in and out of lit areas without readjusting

[anarchistmemedistro]

[thicque]

the red light not fucking up human night vision is also why a number of older cars had gauges that lit up red at night

[b0ggyb1tch]

i legit miss red lights in cars and appliances n stuff. red city lighting is goated

[ausefulblogforputtingthingsin]

I'll do you one better: the red lighting should also be on motion sensors and timers wherever possible, so it's only on when you need it

[a-path-beyond84]

E46 gauge cluster… classic

[a-path-beyond84]

A Wonderful Life was also banned in communist countries, because the people who were struggling in capitalism were still doing better than the average person in communism

That’s funny.

**capitalist banker blackpilled to the point of throwing himself off a bridge**

**comrade, what a prosperous society, even the worst among them is not starving!**

[a-path-beyond84]

As the topic has suddenly become relevant (no I’m not becoming Jewish), what are the pros and cons of circumcision?

I can and will do my own research but curious what the opinion of the Catholic community on here is (the ones that still see my odd occasional post on here).

[fnordseer5]

oh the wifi password yeah it's the nicene creed in its entirety

[freebroccoli]

*spends 15 minutes painstakingly typing the creed in its entirety*

"password is incorrect"

*remembers that my host is Orthodox, rewrites entire creed but without the filioque*

[a-path-beyond84]

Password incorrect again…

You’re kidding me… you typed it out in Greek?!?

[apenitentialprayer]

During our first meeting, Pope Francis reminded me that the first almoner was Judas, because he held the Apostles’ money bag. Everyone thought that Judas went to give money to the poor after he left the Last Supper. However, he went to sell the Lord Jesus. The Holy Father emphasized, “Remember that money can be used excellently, and help many, but it can also cause harm—just as it harmed Judas.”

Cardinal Konrad Krajewski (Interview with Columbia Magazine)

[faithshaped]

"Nor did demons crucify him; it is you who have crucified him and crucify him still, when you delight in your vices and sins."

—Saint Francis of Assisi

[janepaulina]

been really needing to hear this, especially as someone who cries easily

[andyetheloves]

I won't say names, but I came across something that I feel like needs to be addressed as it is a big issue in Christian communities.

I saw a very sweet post made by a Christian saying that she met a Pagan man in a Christian discord server who wanted to check it out. She mentioned that she befriended him and talks to him.

What did the comments say? There was a comment that started with "Be careful." Be careful of what? Communion with a fellow neighbor? The rest of the comment even had the audacity to tell her to look up traditional Christian arguments and even asked her if she wanted suggestions of other Christian servers to go to. What does "Be careful.," signify? It signifies that we should fear our neighbors who aren't like us. This comment tried to spread the ideology that we should be prepared to cause conflict with our neighbors and even worse, run from them. Abandon them when they aren't like us like they are some street rat that you stumbled upon.

My friends, does this seem like something Jesus asked of us? No. Jesus didn't abandon people. He didn't fight with them. He built a friendship with them despite their backstory. He wants us to build these friendships as well so it is harmful to spread the idea of the opposite. This is why a lot of people dislike Christians. We spread the opposite of what Jesus wants from us.

The creator of the post responded in way that Jesus wants. She responded to the comment by explaining that she is not focused on converting her neighbor, she is focused on building their friendship. May we look to her as an inspiration for her actions are how we show the love of God. Debates do no good, love does. Love teaches, love cares, love builds. This is why the bible tells us to knock the dust from our feet and let people make their own decisions.

I would like to point out that I am not shaming the person who posted the comment because we all make mistakes. This comment helped give an example of God's teachings and love playing out. May we pray for others and for ourselves so that we can learn to get past our temptations of viewing our pride as compassion. May we pray so we can live out Christ's teachings to the fullest.

(I'd like to point something out as someone misunderstood the meaning of this. This post is not simply about the fact that the man is Pagan. I'm talking about how a lot of Christians take the wrong approach when it comes to our neighbors. Debates are a type of way people try to force others into believing certain things. This does not work. You can't force someone to believe in something especially when God wants a genuine relationship from the heart. I know this because yars ago I was someone who absolutely hated Christianity because of Christians until I learned about the religion on my own terms. The man clearly has an interest by joining Christian servers and befriending Christians. It is up to him whether he wants to convert or not and showing compassion will help him do so.)

[a-path-beyond84]

I'm going to push back a little on this.

We have to remember that Jesus is in one sense a model but also he is God. Jesus was never at risk of falling into spiritual or moral error through those who encountered. For regular humans, most of us are heavily influenced by our friends. Scripture even warns of it:

Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship is there between light and darkness? What agreement does Christ have with Beliar? Or what does a believer share with an unbeliever?

I would suspect that most of those comments were out of fear for the pagan influencing the Christian to turn away from faith more than anything else.

It might be helpful to change the context a little bit to help illustrate this. You are a progressive Christian. Let us say that one of your friends met a man at a coffee shop and they end up hanging out there. After a while, the conversation turned to politics and your friend found out that he is an ethnonationalist and also a fascist. Not fascist as in 'Trump supporter' but fascist as in someone who believes that the ideal form of government for America would look something like Franco's Spain and who reads Gentile and Mussolini. Your friend tells you that she was taken aback at first, yet he was charming, sweet (paid for her coffee), and was actually very intelligent and made good points for his beliefs. She told you that as much as she is herself a Democrat, she isn't interested in pushing back on his beliefs and just wants to be his friend and plans to have regular meet ups with him at this coffee shop. Another of your friends is part of this conversation with the two of you, tells her to be careful, and to make sure she reads up on reasons why liberal democracy is a superior political philosophy to fascism. Would you have the same admonition to the friend giving the warning and advice, that we shouldn't fear relationships with neighbors who aren't like us?

Separately, while I agree with your point about debates often not being productive (though sometimes they are!), and while it might not be prudent to be actively trying to convert our neighbor at every possible moment, that should ideally be the long-term goal in many of our interactions with non-Christians. Often that may be simply stating what we believe we the situation calls for it and otherwise trying to model a good Christian life. Yet actively trying to convert a person to Christ isn't a bad thing: the Apostles traveled all over the Roman world and beyond to do precisely that. Plenty of other saints went out to evangelize other continents, places that had been lost to Protestantism, and so forth.

[willowsdelta]

I try so hard to be a good Christian but I honestly just want to die. It always comes back to that. I never wake up and want to be here. Pray for me if you have a moment. I don't have many options anymore. I'm dealing with severe illness, poverty, intimate coercion in my living situation. I'm living a nightmare. Life is not good for me.

[femceltonysoprano]

One of those bastard months

[christianbookfinder]

[voiceforjesus]

The Gospel in one sentence: Christ came to save sinners.

[walkthroughtheword]

Prayer for April 26th

Dear God, root out any disobedience in our hearts. We pray that you would remove these areas of sin and darkness that are taking us further away from you. Change us from the inside out and give us hearts that are not resistant to your love and grace. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.