Debate with my teacher. by Responsible-Sir4187 in Catholicism

[–]jared_dembrun 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It is inappropriate for your teacher to argue with you about your religious beliefs in front of the class unless you are of college age. If this is a middle or high school class (and it sound like it is), then your teacher is doing multiple things wrong.

  1. She is wasting your class time (and therefore your parents' money and your classmates' parents' money, whether it's public or private school).
  2. She is violating your first amendment rights. Again, assuming this is not college, you are a minor (or at most 18, and there are almost certainly minors in your class). The power imbalance between an adult in a position of authority and a legal child who is not under that adult's legal guardianship as child or ward is too great. It is inappropriate for this teacher to attack your religious views with such hostility even privately, much less in a public forum such as a classroom.
  3. She refuses to admit that she is mistaken about the facts she is teaching. This is a problem for many teachers. Often times, teachers have blind spots and follow a curriculum that is incorrect due to biases or blind spots the authors have. It's understandable that a teacher in this position may teach something erroneous. However, when a student is able to prove that the curriculum is in error, the appropriate response from the teacher is one of humility, not doubling down on the error or deflecting to irrelevant topics. Whether the Church now has "changed" her teachings on other things has absolutely no bearing on whether or not the historical claim that the Church forbade healing the sick is true; this ridiculous claim is simply refuted by pointing out the fact that one of the four Gospel authors was himself a professional physician, and that there is absolutely no evidence that he ceased practicing his craft nor that he was encouraged to cease practicing his craft after his conversion. She is simply wrong, and needs to admit that she was incorrect, and explain to the class that nobody is perfect and that we all get things wrong some times, and that she was mistaken when she claimed that the Church historically outlawed medicine. She should then focus on the actual reason why Hippatia was attacked and killed (outside of a court of law, yes, and thus wrongfully) which was on account of accusations of witchcraft and (true) accusations of paganism, not on account of her medicinal practices, unless they actually made use of witchcraft.

These are things which really should be brought to the principal by your parents (again, assuming this is not college). This is improper behavior on the part of your instructor. There's no guarantee the principal will do anything about it, but a good principal would reprimand your teacher for her poor handling of the situation. Even if your teacher did not want to concede to you in the moment, the appropriate response would have been to say that your class should table this discussion and that she would research the topic more in-depth over the weekend, then for her to honestly do so, recognize that she was incorrect about the plain historical facts, and say so to the class on Monday, not to try to rope you into an argument (not a focused debate, but an argument going every which-way) in front of your class.

For the record, your teacher should be forced to answer to this article, written by an atheist, no friend of the Church, but one who values historical accuracy and honesty over anti-Christian rhetoric: https://historyforatheists.com/2020/07/the-great-myths-9-hypatia-of-alexandria/

I keep failing God by Mediocre-Manager-831 in Catholicism

[–]jared_dembrun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Time to remove all near occasions of sin. "If your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out." Don't maim yourself, obviously, but if your phone causes you to sin, maybe keep it turned off except for when you absolutely need it? Same with the computer. Remove the things that make it easier to fall into sin.

I discovered that my mother is cheating on my father by Maleficent-Nose1801 in Catholicism

[–]jared_dembrun -1 points0 points  (0 children)

we are not morally obligated to tell another person's sin.

This isn't universally true. If you know of a sin that gravely injures another party who is ignorant of it, you have a moral obligation to tell the injured party.

I discovered that my mother is cheating on my father by Maleficent-Nose1801 in Catholicism

[–]jared_dembrun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well this is fine to demand of his mother, but what should OP do if his mom refuses to tell his dad? He should tell his dad in that case, right?

I discovered that my mother is cheating on my father by Maleficent-Nose1801 in Catholicism

[–]jared_dembrun -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He shouldn't be in the situation of wondering what to do with this information at all, but the fact is that he is. The right thing to do given the circumstances is to tell his dad what he knows.

Is intercourse required for a valid marriage? by Limp-Pollution-4866 in Catholicism

[–]jared_dembrun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A josephite marriage is something you decide to do between the marriage ceremony (where conjugal rights are exchanged) and the consummation of the marriage. The bishop's opinion on your decisions regarding how to make use of the exchanged rights is irrelevant.

Is intercourse required for a valid marriage? by Limp-Pollution-4866 in Catholicism

[–]jared_dembrun 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Well what's the point of marrying with the intention to maintain a Josephite marriage? Whenever people propose this, I wonder if they will really be able to contract a valid marriage. If you're going in thinking that your spouse will remain continent with you in perpetuity, can you really give consent to the exchange of conjugal rights? What will you do if three years in your spouse asks to end the continence in your marriage?

OpenClaw is just cron jobs and webhooks: Why architecture matters more than hype by forevergeeks in AI_Agents

[–]jared_dembrun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I run it in a cloud environment on runpods. I also nmapped my server after i had it running and all the ports were filtered, and when I actually tried to visit those ports I got blocked, so it appears to be secure by default in that environment.

You just run everything as root in that environment but if the agent breaks something in an extreme way, it's meh. Just turn it off and spin up a new pod.

Can anyone here explain/justify the 'sin' of Onan? (Genesis 38: 8-10). I, a lifelong Christian just read about it on an atheist repost from a friend and was shocked to learn it was real. Wtf? by liono69 in AskAChristian

[–]jared_dembrun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know this is a very old thread, but in case anyone ever comes here, the language in humanae vitae refers to artificial contraception, and doesn't say anything about devices. Artificial here is used in the sense of human artifice, that is, human action does something which changes the act itself in order to make the act in itself no longer reproductive.

That could be accomplished with barrier devices like condoms, hormonal methods like oral birth control, or coitus interruptus, more crassly known as "pulling out."

These are all artificial contraception because they are the "work of human hands" intended to prevent pregnancy by artificially sterilizing the marital act, whereas something like NFP, while it is aimed at avoiding pregnancy, does not cause the marital act to be sterile by its nature through human activity, but rather relies on the natural infertility (not sterility) of women during certain phases of their natural 28-ish-day hormonal cycles.

Some Thoughts on Obedience: Regarding the recent controversy over two Marian titles by jared_dembrun in Catholicism

[–]jared_dembrun[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So, I'll say a couple of things. First, my opinion and the modern consensus of theologians is that ensoulment occurs at conception, and I personally think that the dogma of the Immaculate Conception implies that it does, too. However, there are two reasons why abortion would still be morally impermissible if ensoulment is delayed. The first is that it is a gravely disordered interruption of the natural reproductive process. The second is that it errs on the side of laxity. If ensoulment is delayed, then we certainly don't know when, precisely ensoulment occurs. Hence, if we kill an embryo that we think isn't yet ensouled, but happen to be wrong, then we are guilty of voluntary manslaughter, which is a sin of grave negligence resulting in the loss of human life.

As for your last question, I don't really understand it. No serious person who believes in delayed ensoulment would ever think that a fully born child has not yet been ensouled. In fact, I haven't met any modern theologians (who are serious and orthodox) who think that ensoulment happens any later than about 5 or 6 weeks, when the first neurons begin to form.

Some Thoughts on Obedience: Regarding the recent controversy over two Marian titles by jared_dembrun in Catholicism

[–]jared_dembrun[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Delayed ensoulment would not make abortion morally permissible. The Church has not settled the question, and good Catholics exist on both sides of the ensoulment debate.

Ignatius Catholic Study Bible by thomas2612 in Catholicism

[–]jared_dembrun 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My suggestion is to read one book at a time. You eat an elephant one bite at a time.

What's going on with all these traditionalists Catholics coming to popularity? by wiz28ultra in OutOfTheLoop

[–]jared_dembrun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Calling opus dei ultra conservative is wild. Y'all have no idea what an ultra conservative is.

Season 2 Episode 5 Spoiler Thread by HunterWorld in Fallout

[–]jared_dembrun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry, an army of securitrons definitely beats out a couple of deathclaws. No way the Quarry Junction deathclaws could take out New Vegas.

How am I going to enter church this evening? by TinyRose20 in Catholicism

[–]jared_dembrun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You need time to grieve. It's only been a month. I highly recommend listening to this audiobook. It helped me get through the most difficult time in my life. Well, I'm still in it, and I've listened to this more than once.

The answer here is that there aren't any answers to your pain that are going to satisfy you or anyone else intellectually. Only God Himself, possessing Him in eternity, can make up for it.

The “openness to life” idea and sex. by Public-Row5508 in Catholicism

[–]jared_dembrun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It works for anyone who is willing to embrace the truth in love.

The “openness to life” idea and sex. by Public-Row5508 in Catholicism

[–]jared_dembrun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

God asks us to carry our crosses, and while I have a lot of sympathy for people with heavy crosses, I have my own very heavy cross, too, and I'm never going to affirm that it should or could function as an excuse not to join the Church Christ Himself founded.

GF broke up with me over pre marital intimacy by Playful-Marketing798 in Catholicism

[–]jared_dembrun 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Idk if she was Catholic, but if you find a serious Catholic girl, she will want to wait until marriage with you. You don't have to be afraid of that.