Status Updates From The Feasts: How the Church ...

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“They would rather drain the cheer out of days than permit any public reference to Jesus Christ. They advocate legislation to have his name and symbols removed from every postage stamp, courthouse square, and even window sills that can be seen from the street.” And they aren’t doing a good enough job if you ask me

A whole congregation of people kissing the same cross is disgusting and seems like a breeding ground for spreading so many diseases/illnesses. But no churches definitely deserved to be excluded from COVID restrictions in the pandemic

“In the West, the tradition has long been to abstain from eating meat on Fridays. For many centuries the Catholic Church prescribed meat-free Fridays, and the rule was only relaxed in the United States in the late 20th century.” Insane that the culture of eating meat in the U.S. was so strong that the Catholic Church had to relax it because they couldn’t give it up

I wonder the prevalence of obsessive fasting Catholics with eating disorders

“…Saint Philip Neri was shooting billiards … a boy asked… what he would do if Jesus arrived… [he] replied that he would finish the game of pool. His point was that Christians should live every minute of life in anticipation of Jesus’s coming, so that they are always ready and there will be no need for rushing around.” Instead of interpreting this as Philip being like ‘I wouldn’t give a fuck’ lol

“The truth about the Trinity is so mysterious that it exceeds human understanding. It is inaccessible to unaided reason. No team of researchers could have fathomed the mystery, even after a long lifetime of exploration.” How convenient lol

“The message of the annunciation is implicitly pro-life: Jesus’s human life began at his conception. For this reason, among many others, [none of which the authors will list here] the early Christians condemned abortion in the strongest terms.”

Ain’t no way this book is making the claim that the Great Depression happened because they wouldn’t allow religious leaders to hold greater power in America’s government at that time, LMAO what a joke

“…citizens in some affluent democracies were simply losing interest in religion and giving over their lives to the pursuit of pleasure.” It has been shown that as countries become wealthier and more educated (usually linked), more educated people have less desire to participate in religions, and wealthy people have less need for religion as a coping mechanism.

“…many traditionally Christian lands were turning to forms of government, that placed the concerns of the state above everything else, including matters of conscious and religion.” A hard pill to swallow for many religious people is that matters of conscience and religion are not necessarily the same thing. You can have a conscience without being religious. Separation of state and religion is a good thing.

“Panis Angelicus” PAINUS?? ANUS? P-

“We Christians in the modern age have too often allowed the culture to mute our participation in the public conversation about issues of personal morality and social justice.” Christians are the loudest fucking religious group on public issues, LMAO WHAT?? They won’t shut the fuck up, trying to make their opinions and definitions of morality be representative of everyone else’s.

“they were also daily witnesses to pre-Christian morality, so they saw vividly the life from which they had been saved.” riiiight

“When we try to remove Christ from Christmas, what are we left with? Bills from overspending, anxiety over pointless social events, and a big letdown on December 26 or thereabouts.” And what do we have if we keep Christ in Christmas?…. Um, all of those same things, because Christians are a large part of the overconsumption associated with the holiday!

“Even Christian taskmasters, it seems, would have made it impossible for their laborers to attend Mass if they hadn’t been compelled by law to close up shop on Sundays.” So you agree, people are not meant to work so much.

“The Genesis account makes it clear that God created us to work for a living.” Strong disagree here Donny

“facts are the solid foundation of understanding” right…. Remember that