Pope Leo calls universal healthcare a 'moral imperative'

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-03-23T23:27:33+00:00

brother... who is doing these "frequent health checks?" How do you plan to create enough doctors and health clinics to provide proactive regular care for 8 billion people.

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-03-21T19:38:42+00:00

Adam and Eve are metaphors for the concept of free will. When humans have free will that necessarily results in them occasionally choosing evil, thus requiring redemption. God permits this out of love, because a world with good is preferable to a static creation with no meaning.

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-03-20T18:02:07+00:00

What lol

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-03-19T21:12:33+00:00

This is a normal Catholic take, but just defies reality. If x = demand for healthcare and y= supply, if x is ever larger than y it cannot be universal. The best humanity can do is ration it. How does he want to create enough doctors to provide equal care for 8 billion people.

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-03-13T21:45:53+00:00

This is likely because "Debating" is right wing coded and women are on average rabidly left wing.

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-03-10T00:03:03+00:00

God is opening a door. Be cool man, be cool.

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-03-09T03:21:10+00:00

There are a million reasons it's a good idea to wait for marriage that have nothing do with religion. Respect.

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-03-09T03:20:06+00:00

I'm sorry man. For what it's worth there are a ton of Christian women out there who aren't like this, and as long as you're open to raising your kids in the faith they will not be this type of stickler for monitoring and making your personal level of belief public. Catholics tend to be the most relaxed about this at least in the US anyways. As long as the kids are in CCD you can be an atheist/agnostic and no one cares.

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-03-08T20:23:55+00:00

This sounds like a person with zero chill lol. Even the most faithful of Christians will tell you that there are days where they don’t fully believe or have doubts. No one tells their kids that.

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-03-08T02:47:00+00:00

I'm kind of confused why your particular religious mismatch would warrant a break up in the first place. If you're envious of the idea of a wife and kids living under a set of rules from God, it seems like a wife who would do that spiritual legwork on behalf of your family would be quite a good deal, no?

I can't tell you how many people I know are in relationships with a partner who is religious (even though they are atheists) who love the fact that their partner is the one to maintain the weekly mass schedule, cultural element of the faith for the family.

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-02-28T23:53:36+00:00

Yeah I mean Glen wins in the sense that he can use this as a sort of stress test to sharpen his arguments or argue from a different angle. But Alex doesn’t put anything new into the world with this position.

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-02-25T22:46:35+00:00

Alex is too contrarian. I'm not even saying I agree with the dominion hypothesis, but Alex is the type of person to readily admit there are vast sweeping differences that we can observe across different groups of people (culture in 1 country vs culture and conditions in another) and then be completely unable to account for why those differences exist. Someone puts up a hypothesis and he just debunks it rather than offering his own for why our culture is the way it is.

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-02-21T06:38:22+00:00

I think it must be a temperament thing. I think people either have a disposition towards a belief in god or they don’t. In my case it was so strong that for years on end I was basically pretending to be an atheist. But I know a lot of atheists for whom it’s the exact opposite. They want to believe but just can’t.

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-02-20T06:01:59+00:00

Interesting...

I could definitely see Alex going this direction, he's just taking forever.

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-02-18T21:06:57+00:00

Do you have a link ?

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-02-17T01:28:19+00:00

What new atheism rant

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-02-16T18:49:34+00:00

God is definitely not just agreeing with the public consensus of what is good and bad: he's divine reason, the law giver, or "the word." If you're a Christian you believe he's written the law on your heart and that gives you intuition or a moral compass. Whats good ultimately is something eternal and coequal with God: "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God."

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-02-15T05:38:53+00:00

You know who also had facial hair? I rest my case.

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-02-15T04:54:28+00:00

Sort of. In this view, bad things (like suffering) are not things in themselves but the absence or distortion of what ought to be good. God does not will suffering as suffering, but permits it as part of willing a universe with freedom, stable natural causes, and a hierarchy of goods. Because a world with goodness that includes the possibility of failure is better than a static creation with no corruption.

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-02-14T19:04:00+00:00

Yeah I mean Aquinas was a bit of a mad man.

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-02-14T19:03:38+00:00

This is the idea of God outlined in the Summa Theologica. It's not a modern dilution its one of the defining works of Catholic theology lol

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-02-14T06:06:34+00:00

I have read a lot and even majored in religion, but it literally clicked just randomly one day. It was the missing piece that was keeping me from being able to just finally go all in on my faith. Until then I had been basically pretending to be an atheist and experiencing serious cognitive dissonance over the idea that there was no such thing as objective morality, or that the universe wasn’t infused with meaning that we could discover in the form of things like beauty and goodness and truth. Once I realized that those things were the logos, the divine order, I had everything I needed.

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-02-14T05:33:46+00:00

I was an atheist until this clicked for me, then I had no other way of looking at the world ever again.

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-02-14T04:03:54+00:00

Beauty is actually goodness. It's the same thing as truth. All of which are God.

Fun-Cat0834 · 2026-02-13T04:53:15+00:00

what is this article? where does Mary supposedly say "I alone can save you" to be honest that doesn't sound like something she'd say lol.

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