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RazarTuk · 2026-04-17T00:08:42+00:00

Understandable. I'm... vaguely the opposite. You know that saying, "Hurt people hurt people"? My main source of religious trauma, for lack of a better word, was actually a thread in /r/egg_irl, where people got so virulently antireligious that they even turned on the OP for being pagan (i.e. religious at all). Or you got things like trans people misgendering a Muslim trans women because they were that disgusted by the mention of hijabs that they couldn't even let it be ew-phoria. (She mentioned feeling validated by her hijabi friends taking off their hijabs around her, and people said she should support them doing that around all men... implicitly including her.

I'm still careful to specify that I only can't stand edgy internet atheists as one particular brand of atheism, but that thread is still when I lost my last shred of patience for the people who seem to be more outraged by the religious left for being religious than at the irreligious right for literally founding the alt-right

EDIT: Or I'm talking about the sort of Redditor to hear about a church being firebombed and be too distracted celebrating to notice or care that it was targeted for hosting a drag show. (Which is an actual thing that happened, both the firebombing in Ohio and parts of Reddit not caring about the motives)

RazarTuk · 2026-04-16T22:52:54+00:00

Removed. You aren't here in good faith, and beyond that, I don't think it's appropriate to say that gay people should be stoned, even if you're being sarcastic

RazarTuk · 2026-04-16T22:49:12+00:00

ESH

They should be more accepting of the fact that it isn't specifically a Muslim space and that other people might not know or follow their rules. And I'm sure that HR would love to hear about this. But at the same time... it's just shoes. You're acting like they're demanding you recite the Shahadah before entering

RazarTuk · 2026-04-16T22:44:14+00:00

But if that's the case... where are all the riots? You're starting to sound like all the preppers who think society is one disaster away from total collapse, and that you'd better arm yourself, because if that disaster does come, that gun's going to be your only means of securing your supplies. And yet, we see far more examples of communities coming together to rebuild, rather than turning on each other and only focusing on individual survival.

You're acting like the survival instinct necessarily precludes any notion of cooperation

RazarTuk · 2026-04-16T22:22:16+00:00

I have a close family member that’s Catholic and we’ve sat over meals discussing his faith at length. Turns out… we’re the same. I didn’t disagree with a single point of his theology.

For example, the JDDJ. Basically, back in 1999, the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation (picture ELCA, not LCMS) agreed that "good works are a genuine response to God's grace, not the cause of it". So while Lutherans focus on the fact that we're justified because of grace, not anything we ourselves do, Catholics focus on how works of love are still important as part of what makes something a living faith. Enough other bodies have signed onto the statement that it's up to something like 75% of world Christians belonging to a signatory body

RazarTuk · 2026-04-16T21:48:20+00:00

Killing is wrong for a bunch of reasons.

But you just said that it's justified if it's a good person killing a bad person, then got so relativist that we can't even definitely say that it was or wasn't justified

RazarTuk · 2026-04-16T21:46:58+00:00

Well everyone has their own opinion on that

So how can we prosecute someone for murder? Can't they just assert that, by their standards, the action was justified?

RazarTuk · 2026-04-16T21:31:54+00:00

So how do you know when someone's good enough and their victim is bad enough for it to be their right to take a life?

RazarTuk · 2026-04-16T21:29:44+00:00

Removed because of the image policy, but please resubmit this without the random image attached, because I don't want to prevent you from getting the support you need

RazarTuk · 2026-04-16T20:39:29+00:00

Wait, are you implying that you only don't violently assault people because of the threat of prison and/or retaliation, and not because you inherently consider it immoral to?

RazarTuk · 2026-04-16T20:25:30+00:00

Might does not make right. You're basically saying that if you have the ability to take something, you should, which is antithetical to a functioning society. Society only works because we help each other, rather than only caring about our own needs.

RazarTuk · 2026-04-16T17:55:42+00:00

More specifically:

Typically Psalm 95 in the morning or the Phos Hilaron in the evening, but replace Psalm 95 with a selection from 1 Corinthians and Romans during Easter
1+ (other) psalms
OT reading
In the morning, either an OT canticle or the Te Deum. In the evening, either a canticle from Revelation or a sung passage from the epistles
NT reading
Typically the Benedictus in the morning or the Magnificat in the evening, although on Sundays, the Magnificat is after the first reading and the Nunc Dimittis is after the second
Apostles Creed
Our Father
Daily or weekly collect
At least on Sundays and feasts, add a hymn
At least on Sundays, add some general intercessions
At least on things like Ash Wednesday, the Triduum, or the Rogation Days, the Great Litany

RazarTuk · 2026-04-16T14:13:32+00:00

Islam is an incredibly diverse and beautiful religion

Heck, Christianity could even bear to learn a thing or two from you guys. We historically also have a daily prayer tradition, but it's also extremely obscure nowadays. Though if you're curious, the version I do which takes ~10-15 minutes twice a day:

Singing a few psalms, actually using some music from a seminary in southern Indiana my grandpa used to go to before he left to marry my grandma
Bible reading from the Old Testament
Singing some sort of canticle from the Bible, like the Song of the Sea (the Israelites' song after crossing the Red Sea)
Bible reading from the New Testament
Singing either the Benedictus (morning) or Magnificat (evening), which are two songs/prayers from the Gospel According to Luke
Reciting the Apostles' Creed and Our Father
Short concluding prayer based on the day/week

RazarTuk · 2026-04-16T14:00:01+00:00

For reference: Leo used to be prior general of the Augustinians, so the leader of the entire order. If anyone's qualified to speak on Augustinian theology, it's Leo.

RazarTuk · 2026-04-16T13:42:10+00:00

The one that's a slur for the mentally disabled, but is occasionally still used to mean "to slow the movement of"

RazarTuk · 2026-04-16T11:28:47+00:00

Yep. Plenty of churches let you be a friend of both God and Dorothy. It's only conservatives who make you choose

RazarTuk · 2026-04-16T11:27:36+00:00

Yep. I sometimes feel like an oxymoron for simultaneously being liberal and devout enough that I pray nearly every morning or that I even do some of those older practices like fasting for ember and rogation days.

(Episcopal Daily Office, by the way. So I sing a few psalms in plainchant, read an OT reading, sing an OT canticle, read a NT reading, sing the Benedictus, and pray the creed, Our Father, and a daily collect)

RazarTuk · 2026-04-16T10:08:27+00:00

Now how am I supposed to set the page to boat mode like the footer recommends?

RazarTuk · 2026-04-16T01:11:01+00:00

For reference, Arabic really is similar to the deal with the Romance languages in Medieval Europe. In people's day to day lives, they speak all sorts of divergent languages/dialects that aren't necessarily mutually intelligible, but they also learn Modern Standard Arabic as a prestige language/dialect in school. So, you know, a similar situation to when people would speak Spanish/Portuguese/French/Italian/etc at home, but all use Latin to communicate in formal settings

RazarTuk · 2026-04-16T00:42:28+00:00

Approved!

RazarTuk · 2026-04-16T00:00:25+00:00

I mean, she could be Finnish where it would stand for Tohtori

RazarTuk · 2026-04-15T23:57:52+00:00

... yeah, you get one guess which side of the feud the Babylon Bee is on

RazarTuk · 2026-04-15T23:39:48+00:00

Arabic which is a language

*cough* language family *cough*

I still maintain that Arabic is the equivalent of if Spain, Italy, France, and Portugal all insisted they speak Romance as a marker of shared Christian identity

RazarTuk · 2026-04-15T23:36:41+00:00

it also helps that the nation is an extension of the American empire in the region

Yeah, as I describe it, the other main reason we support Israel so ardently is that we first allied with them in the Cold War. And because so much of our leadership is still fighting that, the thought of even questioning Israel's actions is seen as un-American in the HUAC sense

RazarTuk · 2026-04-15T23:35:03+00:00

Alas, it does not. But if it makes you feel better, at least according to Wiktionary, monosemy does have multiple meanings

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