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Re: What is Yamato’s gender identity in One Piece?

bobic — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 02:02:45 -0000

your explanation basically captures it. more about social role than actual gender identity

Re: Eternal Revolution, Not “Old Time Religion”

bobic — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 16:24:00 -0000

Hypocritical Christians are worse than sincere atheists... Christ's condemnation of the worldly Sadduccees is milder than that the woe he calls down upon the Pharisees.

Re: ‘Shouting Through The Water’: A Story of Strength in Weakness

bobic — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 16:02:34 -0000

"If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable."

Re: Remaining Alive to the Enigma of Life

bobic — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 15:40:12 -0000

You should read Tolkien's "Leaf By Niggle."

There's a description of the world's mystery that's about as precise as the one you put up there.

Re: Why I Didn’t Convert to Eastern Orthodoxy

bobic — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:39:46 -0000

The Church is the body of Christ—in some sense, the Church is Jesus.

Re: Why I Didn’t Convert to Eastern Orthodoxy

bobic — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:36:51 -0000

Azymes? You've got to be kidding me... is this how love speaks? Focusing on minutia?

Re: The French Dispatch movie review (2021) | Roger Ebert

bobic — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 02:37:02 -0000

Damn good review, Sheila

Re: The (New) Canonical Reason Why Halo‘s Cortana Is Naked

bobic — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 00:18:24 -0000

It's just a cop out. She's like that cause devs are horny and sex sells, that's it

Re: It’s Weird to Say It, But Pope Francis Has a Point

bobic — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 04:08:02 -0000

This is terribly impious. You are surprised that he is not wrong? He's the successor of St. Peter. Show some respect!

Re: Experimental Theology: Meditations on the Little Way: Part 4, The Elevator to Jesus: The Practice of the Little Way

bobic — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 06:07:22 -0000

God was not taking out His wrath on Christ. The quite conservative 1911 Catholic Encyclopedia makes that clear:

The first [error about the atonement] is indicated in the above words of Pattison in which the Atonement is specially connected with the thought of the wrath of God. It is true of course that sin incurs the anger of the Just Judge, and that this is averted when the debt due to Divine Justice is paid by satisfaction. But it must not be thought that God is only moved to mercy and reconciled to us as a result of this satisfaction. This false conception of the Reconciliation is expressly rejected by St. Augustine (In Joannem, Tract. cx, section 6). God's merciful love is the cause, not the result of that satisfaction.
The second mistake is the tendency to treat the Passion of Christ as being literally a case of vicarious punishment. This is at best a distorted view of the truth that His Atoning Sacrifice took the place of our punishment, and that He took upon Himself the sufferings and death that were due to our sins.

He paid the price for our sins. Sins against God incur a debt which must be paid by suffering.

Frequently it is assumed that this idea is pathological and incomprehensible to modern people, that it is a relic of feudalism, etc. But one intuition which I found capable of grounding it was our own (indeed, the universal) experience of guilt.

The internal guilt we feel when we sin is a sign that we deserve to suffer. Part of guilt is indeed remorse, but another part of it is dread for the just suffering which our evil has incurred.

By suffering in our place, by paying our debt for us, Christ offered something to the Father of more value than all our sins put together.

But how, you might ask, can the guilt of one person be transferred to another?

Rather than the guilt, I think that it was the payment for this guilt which was transferred. Christ in His passion and death offers up to God something greater than that which was taken away by our sins.

Re: Don’t Make The Church A Stepford Wife

bobic — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 04:52:23 -0000

This says it

Re: Teaching Teens: The Risk of Education

bobic — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 05:13:14 -0000

God bless Fr. Giussani and Fr. Longenecker. May he long always for the neck of Christ, the Holy Virgin Mary.

Re: Love Is Barefoot Philosophy | Raymond Hain | First Things

bobic — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 20:41:33 -0000

I agree with Bruno. Christ told his disciples to become like little children.

It's hard to see chastity as anything other than negative, because concupiscence really blinds the mind. And as a negative, what good can there be in it? If we see it as just the (arbitrary) absence of something we really like (with no positive content) it can only seem dismal.

But I think this is just because it is broader than other virtues; it's the kind of innocence that children have. Because of our fallen nature, carnal desire just can't coexist with it. But I think it's a very positive thing.

Re: Why Don’t the Young Learn from the Old?

bobic — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:51:35 -0000

"you might think each generation could at least make clear to the next the big timeless insights and strategies of life."

that's what culture is man.

Re: THREE WORKS by JOSEPH FREDERICK GARCIA

bobic — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 00:41:43 -0000

lolool good stuff

Re: Ad Litteram by David Bentley Hart | Articles | First Things

bobic — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 02:15:56 -0000

wonderful!

Re: FOUR POEMS by ANDREW PURCELL

bobic — Mon, 01 May 2017 20:35:24 -0000

mmm

Re: five poems by cowboy roland

bobic — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 04:04:18 -0000

wasn't impressed by the last poem until I read the title, then I lol'd

Re: EIGHT POEMS by Mike Andrelczyk

bobic — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 15:02:58 -0000

these were nice man

Re: “THE BELIEVER” by BD SIXSMITH

bobic — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 13:21:28 -0000

hehehehe

Re: “THE UNICORN” by DELICIOUS TACOS (WWW.DELICIOUSTACOS.COM)

bobic — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 19:21:04 -0000

omg dude

Re: HAPPY TO HAVE LEARNED OF HUMAN DIGNITY by Atomus Mann

bobic — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 05:39:27 -0000

I'm just gonna be honest: this is OP

Re: “THE ZOMBIE” by DC MILLER

bobic — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 05:27:55 -0000

dude this is like a story by Kafka yet it is also totally relevant to the current day and the zombie at the center of it all is the coolest part. WHAT DOES IT MEAN MAN!?!!??!!?

EDIT: sorry if the above sounded like I was being ironic, I was actually excited to the point of childish enthusiasm at this story lol

Re: Baby, You Stole the Life I Wanted

bobic — Sat, 29 Oct 2016 03:22:52 -0000

This article could've been written by Sophia herself.

Re: Speaking the language of tolerance, acceptance

bobic — Sun, 01 May 2016 15:38:25 -0000

"Mock me now, but, I was a lion once."

Instead of defacing the achievements of great men, these haters should try to accomplish something on their own. Maybe then they'll deserve to have a building named after them, and they won't have to steal their glory from their betters (I mean, how satisfying would that really be, anyway?)