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[andinstone]

Some kind of about me. Works in progress: putting my room & life together, putting my icon corner together, & actually practising my devotions. #badcatholic https://www.instagram.com/p/CDGeU52pz3u/?igshid=jsgc8k4jpr3x

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Keep the Christ in Murdered Christians

Politicians seem to think that by stepping back from the identity of “Christian” they can diffuse that will to vengeance that characterizes groups who perceive that their members have been attacked.

There has been a similar effort to downplay the connection between the attacks in Sri Lanka and the global persecution of Christians; an effort to curtail the possibility that Western Christians will use the rhetorical power of Sri Lankan victims to further the growing complaint against the marginalization of Christianity in Western countries:  “It’s an impulse to make a global assessment…that doesn’t help,” the Washington Post quipped. This curse against Christian globalism is a little odd, as most other “causes” are blamed precisely for not considering the global plight of the oppressed as part of their total cause. White, American feminists are called all sorts of Very Cutting Names for speaking about women without taking into account the experience of non-Western women of color. LGBT+ activists are lambasted for not considering the uniqueness of transgenderism as it is expressed in South America. But Christians who include the persecution of Sri Lankan Christians as part of a global Christian struggle are doing something quite untoward — stoking the idea of a war between Christians and Muslims.  

[johnnyprimecc]

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[anastpaul]

Have you heard the news that Pope Francis preached it was better to be an atheist than a hypocritical Catholic? It’s in the headlines from Reuters, CNN, The Guardian, and many others. There’s only one problem: that is not what he said. They’re all wrong. From Vatican Radio itself, here is what Pope Francis actually said, in context: “But what is scandal? Scandal is saying one thing and doing another; it is a double life, a double life. A totally double life: ‘I am very Catholic, I always go to Mass, I belong to this association and that one; but my life is not Christian, I don’t pay my workers a just wage, I exploit people, I am dirty in my business, I launder money…’ A double life. And so many Christians are like this, and these people scandalize others. “How many times have we heard – all of us, around the neighborhood and elsewhere – ‘but to be a Catholic like that, it’s better to be an atheist.’ It is that, scandal. You destroy. You beat down. And this happens every day, it’s enough to see the news on TV, or to read the papers. In the papers there are so many scandals, and there is also the great publicity of the scandals. And with the scandals there is destruction.” You see that he is not saying that it’s better to be an atheist than a hypocritical Catholic. Rather, he is saying that this is something other people say when confronted with hypocritical Catholics. In Catholic theology, “scandal” is any sin that hurts another person spiritually. The pontiff is saying that when Catholics are hypocrites, it causes scandal, and makes people think they shouldn’t be Catholic (which is bad for them spiritually). This is of course true and is a completely uncontroversial thing to point out. Now that you know what the Holy Father really said: Don’t be a hypocrite! Live your faith!

No, Pope Francis Did NOT Say It's Better to Be an Atheist Than a Bad Catholic | ChurchPOP

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Benedict XVI's Critics Are Not Being Smart

Easy takes on the sex-abuse crisis in the Catholic Church need to be criticized.

On the face of it, it is a good thing to demand “concern for victims” from our church leaders. The tepid reactions of doubt and suspicion towards those who make claims of sexual abuse are shameful. But once we begin to scratch at the surface, things get weird. It has become the rote practice of angry Catholics to dehumanize victims of clerical sexual abuse, not by ignoring them, but by sacralizing them. They become, by virtue of suffering evil, infallible weapons foisted into the service of the cause of the one who regards them with deep enough “concern.”

On the one hand, this is simply a good rhetorical device. In the world that Christianity has made, the only way to be a Good Guy, rather than a Bad Guy, is to be on the side of victims rather than on the side of the victimizer, or as René Girard puts it, on the side of the Paraclete (the lawyer for the defense) rather than on the side of Satan (the accuser). Once a writer criticizes someone for not paying enough attention to victims, he insinuates, without evidence, that he does care deeply about victims, and thus fights for the Army of Light, against the calloused, victim-blaming Army of Darkness. But it is evil to use people who have actually been raped or otherwise abused as a rhetorical device.

Actual concern for victims is the good that we’re all after here.

[christinawithach]

Matt: what are you doing for lunch?

Me: the salmon risotto from Costco.

Matt: I’m probably going to do sliders.

Me: it’s Friday.

Matt: ...

Me: it’s Lent.

Matt: ...

Me: 🤨

Matt: Fuck it. I’m gunna eat the sandwich.

Me: you’re gunna go to hell, ya know.

Matt: yup.

(He ate risotto 🤣)

[jurakan]

BadCatholic keeps posting articles?? About why Catholics should vote for Kanye??

What??

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Can a Christian be a Nationalist? — Postliberal Thought

Is the United States of America like unto what Jesus refers to as “all the nations of the earth,” or is it like unto the social order he calls the kingdom of Heaven?

TL;DR answer: No.