This poll is for #Catholic identified people, regardless of level of participation. If you were baptized as a baby, but don't attend parish services, you still count for this poll. #religion#Christian#Christianity
I often read texts that suggest that there is a concept of #Empire that everyone is relating to, but so far no one has bothered to explain to me what this is supposed to be. Apparently, it is more than just a dynastic or multi- or supranational state. Sometimes it is suggested that the concept is related to the Holy Roman Empire and its relation to the #Catholic Church. And that a genuine empire has a claim to the world.
The #Vatican proclaiming that #trans people can be baptized and serve as godparents is absolutely not a "major step for trans inclusion". However "progressive" #PopeFrancis appears to be, the #Catholic church is still an oppressive institution.
Hi, everyone. I really need to vent. I don't expect anybody to actually read this whole thing, but if you do I'd love it if you could share your thoughts with me....
So I am a week into my #Zizek#Lacan#Hegel studies, through Zizek's lens. All good. I think Zizek's #philosophy of looking at Hegel through the Lacanian lens is seductive. That said, where I find the lens of Zizek lacking, and I now wish he'd not talk about these 2(3) things any more are:
I was a serious #catholic half my life, seminarian for minute, and an ordained deacon, still, even after I confessed my #atheism. So I get what he is saying. My atheism has never felt the same as #Dawkins or #Hitchens, whom we adore, and Zizek sneers. Slipping through the profound safety net religion and a transcendent, all powerful, personal god into the #existentialism of nothing was terrifying, it was my first experience of the "#real." This is it. This is all there is. The problem is it appears Zizek commits the #fallacy of #reification (if we understand it correctly). Clearly he knows it is #fiction, even if profound from a #psychoanalytic Hegelian #CriticalAnalysis, we get it we really do, but it is not real. The #event is real, and the fiction caused the event, but the fiction is still fiction. There is no God, IOP, that became an atheist. The #story Zizek emphasizes is powerful, the changing of the cosmos when #Jesus on the cross questions Gods love. Good story and that is all. Some RCC positions from recent popes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlBZy_iu0m8 and https://www.romereports.com/en/2021/09/14/full-homily-of-pope-francis-at/
So please, Zizek, can I say stay in your lane where you are brilliant, please.
It is so long past time to get rid of all the catholic schools in Ontario, but no politician will touch it. They make no sense in a secular society, either financially or morally. They are a bastion of bigotry and human rights assaults that we need to get rid of.
As AP reports, law officials in Alabama are seeking the phone records of Alabama Catholic priest Alex Crow, who has fled to Europe with an 18-year-old girl he's accused of having groomed. Why the interest in Crow's phone records? As AP states,
"Alabama law prohibits sexual contact between a school employee and a student 19 or younger."
Data extracted via #OverpassTurbo and plotted using geojson.io to add some styling.
(The map is so bad that I got the “This page is slowing down Firefox. To speed up your browser, stop this page.” message. This is why you use marker clustering, or a GIS tool more suited to the job such as #QGIS or something like @felt.)
Today in Labor History August 27, 1798: An army of 2,000 French troops and United Irishmen, led by Wolfe Tone, routed a combined force of 6,000 British and Protestant loyalist soldiers in the Battle of Castlebar, during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Wolfe Tone’s Society of United Irishmen formed in the wake of the French Revolution in order to win “equal representation in government for all people,” emancipation of Catholics and an independent Ireland. The organization was composed of both Protestants and Catholics who vowed to make common cause in their struggle. They organized primarily among the working class and tenant farmers. The Irish Rebellion lasted from late 5/24/1798-10/12/1798. Up 50,000 Irish rebels and civilians died in the uprising, along with up to 2,000 loyalist troops.
It's something of a Christmas gift to read Michael Sean Winters' latest column in National Catholic Reporter in which he goes on a snide tear attacking the Colorado Supreme Court for holding Trump accountable to the US Constitution and proving that he fomented insurrection.
I say a Christmas gift: this is a valuable reminder that I'm missing nothing by ignoring almost anything the Catholic media, including in "liberal" iterations, publish.
"More than 300 people employed by Roman Catholic institutions in the south-eastern US city of New Orleans have been accused of sexually abusing children or other vulnerable people whom they met through their work over the last several decades, secret documents obtained by the Guardian reveal."
" The Vatican has blasted the practices of gender-affirming surgery and maternal surrogacy in a new document, declaring both are inconsistent with God's plan for human life. The Catholic Church's document puts both practices on a par with abortion and euthanasia in terms of their perceived negative impact on human dignity."
[RANT] Why I left my grandfather’s Requiem Mass early (kbin.social)
Crossposted from Atheism@kbin.social, a larger but less active community than this one.
OC [RANT] Why I left my grandfather’s Requiem Mass early
Hi, everyone. I really need to vent. I don't expect anybody to actually read this whole thing, but if you do I'd love it if you could share your thoughts with me....