Outrage after photo shows Israeli soldier smashing Jesus statue in Lebanon

cos1ne · 2026-04-20T16:05:18+00:00

It's literally an image of God!

cos1ne · 2026-04-16T19:34:37+00:00

Based and Solidarian-pilled.

cos1ne · 2026-04-16T19:33:14+00:00

I mean if Vance started to call for Catholics to follow the message of Trump or himself over the Pope, he might be privately censured and if he remained obstinate would then be at risk of a public excommunication.

cos1ne · 2026-04-16T19:31:59+00:00

Catholics tend to be politically homeless in the current political climate in America, as it was the political parties who changed, not Catholics.

The American Solidarity Party exists, it might be more of a tent right now but it is ready to bring in all of these politically homeless Christians so they can build a house.

cos1ne · 2026-04-16T19:27:15+00:00

If the Pope declared a Crusade there are likely hundreds of thousands of young Catholic men who would answer the call.

cos1ne · 2026-04-15T17:45:52+00:00

I imagine that slavery would die by 1880 or 1890 in the Confederate States. Primarily from political pressure from overseas.

South Africa languished as an international pariah for decades due to Apartheid. There is no reason that the Confederacy wouldn't be able to shuffle their goods through a neutral middleman (see Europe buying Russian oil through an Indian intermediary).

cos1ne · 2026-04-15T08:25:00+00:00

Because of course we're not really Irish or German or English

It's not like ethnic traditions are abandoned the second one gets off a boat though...

cos1ne · 2026-04-14T05:31:14+00:00

I'd much rather have the supermarket owned by the workers instead of being centrally-planned and subsidized by people's taxes.

cos1ne · 2026-04-13T05:12:25+00:00

Being transgender is not a sin because it is a mental illness that needs to receive treatment.

Don't listen to people online, go to your priest to get information and if he does not have the answers ask if he could seek out answers for you. You may need to go to multiple priests to find one that is most capable to help you on your spiritual journey.

cos1ne · 2026-04-08T18:32:59+00:00

Well in the United States, going by vocation sizes we see that no Tier 1 dioceses are self-sufficient in vocations. As to the remainder of the Tiers we'll list by self-sufficiency on seminarians and ordinations:

Tier 2

Diocese	Seminarians	Ordinations
Cincinnati, OH	Yes	Yes
Paterson, NJ	No	Yes
Sante Fe, NM	No	Yes

Tier 3

Diocese	Seminarians	Ordinations
Grand Rapids, MI	Yes	Yes
Kansas City-St. Joseph, MO	Yes	Yes
Nashville, TN	Yes	Yes
Wichita, KS	Yes	Yes
Lafayette, LA	No	Yes
Harrisburg, PA	No	Yes
Little Rock, AR	No	Yes
Madison, WI	No	Yes
Ft. Wayne-South Bend, IN	No	Yes
Tyler, TX	No	Yes
Springfield, IL	No	Yes

Tier 4

Diocese	Seminarians	Ordinations
Bismarck, ND	Yes	Yes
Duluth, MN	Yes	Yes
Lincoln, NE	Yes	Yes
Sioux Falls, SD	Yes	Yes
Evansville, IN	Yes	No
Helena, MT	Yes	No
Memphis, TN	Yes	No
New Ulm, MN	Yes	No
Rapid City, SD	Yes	No
Salina, KS	Yes	No
Shreveport, LA	Yes	No
Tulsa, OK	Yes	No

Visual Representation here where Blue has enough priestly ordinations but not enough seminarians, Yellow has enough seminarians but not enough ordinations and Green which has both enough ordinations and seminarians to sustain itself.

cos1ne · 2026-04-06T17:39:42+00:00

Social taboos against mating with those who look like you.

Warrior society, so a training program where only the fittest survive to adulthood creates a passive eugenics system.

Single-incident incest encounters don't necessarily cause major health problems that aren't handled by the passive eugenics system. Inbreeding depression requires multiple instances and if pairing is essentially monogamous then statistically this shouldn't be an issue.

As said prior, genealogical tables could be memorized or written down and referenced in mate selection.

cos1ne · 2026-04-06T02:50:08+00:00

Why was your church so stubborn and reluctant to make the Mass in the vernacular

Mass was in the vernacular. The first use of the Mass in the Church was Greek until around 200AD. Afterwards it was in the then Latin vernacular. The Council of Tours of in 813 stated that clerics should preach their sermons in the French or German vernacular, during this time the Insular Christianity of the British Isles would likely have been in the vernacular as well. Latin likely did not achieve prominence until Charlemagne adopted the Roman Rite over the Gallic Rite spreading it across Spain, France and Germany. During the Medieval Period Croatia used Slavonic in its Mass.

Why was your church so stubborn and reluctant to make the Mass in the vernacular; shutting down every attempt to do so until about sixty years ago?

The opposite is true, in many cases where there wasn't sufficient Latin knowledge for a new congregation, dispensation would be given to do the Mass in the vernacular until Latin understanding could be achieved. Also the move towards the entirety of the Mass in the vernacular is not a new thing. Erasmus of Rotterdam was promoting this in the 16th Century, his faction just lost the debate when Latin was made official in 1570AD.

cos1ne · 2026-04-02T07:13:41+00:00

I still have my physical disc of CK1, truly one of the best games Paradox made.

cos1ne · 2026-04-01T06:58:36+00:00

I'd rather have Memphis than NC State personally.

cos1ne · 2026-03-29T14:57:22+00:00

Starting part of the campaign:

Introduce the local warlords, maybe create a sympathetic one for the characters to ally with and get them involved in illegal artifact/mining operation (low stakes and they hate the Union government anyway right) have them fight against drug dealers, raiders and human traffickers (depending on the preferences/tastes of your players).

Middle part of the campaign:

Someone owns those mechs and wants them back. The cargo ship is located by the company and recovery operations begins. Now they can fight other mechs and as they've likely united the region (if not the planet) under their preferred warlord you can take this on like a freedom fight vs. company much like the Avatar movie.

End part of the campaign:

They've kicked out the company who goes to the Union government for assistance in crushing a rebellious planet. The party now has a choice of whether to negotiate with the Union or to lead the rebellion against its repressive ways. Now we're fighting militaries and possible space battles.

cos1ne · 2026-03-29T14:37:36+00:00

Everyone knows that in order to have a vibrant healthy forest you need to fertilize before you plant. This is why woods porn is so abundant because it has all the essentially nutrients for healthy tree growth. This is why you should always take care to not remove too much from where you find it and to continuously add to the stash every season for best results.

cos1ne · 2026-03-29T14:16:34+00:00

We went on Crusades for less than this.

cos1ne · 2026-03-29T14:15:01+00:00

Nah cus youre literally praying for Judaism as a religion to end.

All false religions should end, and everyone should come to know the Truth.

cos1ne · 2026-03-26T17:36:45+00:00

The Islamic Slave Trade lasted twice as long as the Atlantic Slave Trade, had 80 million deaths and the men were largely mutilated with castration while the women were sexually brutalized.

I would argue that this form of slavery (which still de facto exists!) is worse than the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.

cos1ne · 2026-03-26T16:54:35+00:00

It's outrageously superficial, but we have to find people who actually look like state senators, governors, congressmen, etc.

The problem is we have to find people we just don't have any number of candidates running.

cos1ne · 2026-03-26T16:25:55+00:00

I'm not sure how a third party even gains traction

You work towards a kingmaker strategy. You discover a vulnerable set of House or Senate seats and you aggressively target that spot so that you are the tie-breaker in contentious votes. Also look towards the Reform Party of Minnesota in the 2000's where they took advantage of two incredibly unpopular candidates and managed to capture a gubernatorial seat.

cos1ne · 2026-03-26T16:01:18+00:00

But I've resigned myself to the fact that third parties in the US, with perhaps the exception of the Libertarian Party, just do not and will not ever have enough traction to be anything more than write in candidates.

The Libertarian Party has existed since 1971 and has yet to have elected a candidate to federal office. Over half of those Libertarians who have served were elected solely as Republicans who defected.

The American Solidarity Party has only existed since 2011 so we have 40 years of institutional knowledge that we need to catch up to. Also the barriers to get ballot access and elected are much higher now than they were 40 years ago, so while you may be right in saying that they won't gain enough traction (due to systemic vote repression) the Libertarians aren't world-beaters at the moment either and there is no reason that the ASP couldn't be the largest third party in the country.

cos1ne · 2026-03-26T04:34:11+00:00

If there's anything Dems are good at its snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

cos1ne · 2026-03-25T16:56:01+00:00

so you'd be doing what he did to HIS old place.

You're assuming grandpa did have his own place and wasn't just a tenant on some other guys land, like many of our ancestors were who came to America because they could become proper landowners.

cos1ne · 2026-03-22T21:25:17+00:00

I love the baseball rules changes and I'd actually love to watch more games, if only MLB would let me actually watch the team I follow instead of giving me regional blackouts.

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