#preaching

[upennmanuscripts]

Via salutus, vel dieta, by Guilelmus (or Guillaume) de Lanicia. The author was a minor brother from Aquitaine, and the text is a handbook for preachers that he wrote before about 1310. Our copy was written in Croatia in the mid-15th century (UPenn Ms. Codex 88)

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[blackatheistconfessions]

"I survived, so God is real" That notion is a slap in the face and an insult to every child who starved, every parent who grieved, every life cut short. Don’t use their suffering as your sermon’s footnote.

[followinginhissteps]

[asmallorthodoxblog]

Some people you heal with your word, others only with the example of your life.

-Saint Gregory the Theologian

[mindinthevoid]

[adriel-montejano]

[marielle555]

This whole talk about AA sexualization and his so-called "mask, facade" of a sexy vampire - fixer’s cope.

He takes off the mask as AA. He’s free as AA.

It’s like listening to some cray-cray priest suffering from lust for a girl who’s just doing her own thing and enjoying life, even sex, while the guy goes crazy. But the gender flip here. Astarion is supposed to behave like the male-Virgin Mary to be true, free and loved, I guess. First came Cazador’s slavery, now pseudo-progressive tone-policing lectures of fixers.

+100. The association with the cray-cray priest is spot on. And where before there was “God's will”, now there are pseudo-progressive lectures. The fixer's cope is also based on some “faith”, there are ‘dogmas’ - their headcanons, which are presented as some “truth”. Oh yes, and “soul”, “lose his soul”. Even this religious concept is presented specifically in a religious context, in complete isolation from the game's story and DnD lore. There's a reason they're sometimes called the “Church of the Spawn”, lol. And the main “message” of their narrative is to keep Astarion from being free. And the church needs the concept of “sin”, what's better than ‘sex’ as a “stigma for the sinner”? And after the Ascension, Astarion gets to enjoy life, and in the UA path there is suffering of the flesh and forced “asceticism”. But usually fixers gloss over this, devalue it, call it a more convenient word for them “restrictions”. Redemption. And let's not forget the devil… You know, it's generally interesting how those, who call themselves progressive, have taken a terry conservative ideology, in all its worst manifestations, made a gender flip and voila! The Church of the Fixers opens its doors - redeem yourselves, sinners.