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It’s all Tracy Jordan’s idiot protest from 30 Rock, basically.

If Italians and Irish and Jews and Black people and women can be presidents and CEOs, then why not guys who think Bitcoin is an amazing investment opportunity and ChatGPT is a great writer and raw milk is good for you and Big Pharma doesn’t want you to know about this one weird trick.

Most accurate post about Trump remains that Reddit post that was like “Stupid Americans are the new Irish Americans and Trump is their JFK”

Goes without saying that this is horrific.

If anyone, like me, is wondering why people in the replies seem to be saying Google and Apple allow nudify apps in their stores when both companies formally do not, the claim appears to be that any face swap app is a nudify app. I guess I get that but it should probably be spelled out.

Another one for the ‘actual, literal, Biblical Antichrist’ file

“Oh, you think ChristianRawMilkMomma237 is a more reliable source than your doctor?”

Antivax sentiment is motivated by the belief that Instagram moms are a more reliable source for medical information than doctors, it is fundamentally a crisis of authority and that’s what needs to be addressed.

The correct response is to point out that the people telling them this stuff are dishonest manipulators rather than coddling their “legitimate fears”

I hate this

Netflix is buying Warner Bros. for $83 billion But what will they rename HBO Max this time?

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This is also what happened with “originalism.”

I buy the Cabaret theory of modern politics: current right wing politics was, once upon a time, a thing elites sold to rubes while merely pretending to believe themselves while they pursued wealth, but now the True Believers are actually in charge and acting on sincerely believed insane nonsense.

I’m buying an SUV

This is really so unfathomably evil

Or as the USCCB calls it, great news about recognizing biological reality. Right @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social ?

the democratic response to this must be, in the words of @dennycarter.bsky.social, to go goblin mode on redistricting in the states where they have a trifecta. eliminate every republican district in those states.

That’s not what I’m saying. We object even though I think we shouldn’t, and the Orthodox could also do so even though I think they shouldn’t. Preserving a consensus practice on apostolic succession is a highly worthy goal on its own merits.

I think the JPII argument for the all-male priesthood is goofy. I also think it would be unwise for the church to try to move on this without a more ecumenical consensus, though.

Again, my objection is not “the church is not the bride of Christ,” my objection is “it does not follow from the church being the bride of Christ that maleness is essential to orders.”

Is it? “Marriage is the sacrament of Christ and the Church,” not “marriage is the sacrament of Christ and the church, this metaphorical sacrament is a theology of ordination, priests aren’t part of the church in this metaphor, and Christ’s maleness is essential to the idea of marriage here.”

Right. It is simply not true that scripture gets you from “God’s love for the church is like that of a husband for his wife” to “ordination requires maleness.” We might as easily say that all lay people must be women.

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Surely you can see that there is a difference between “an image exists” and “every possible way the analogy could be extended is a valid argument.”

The problem with this kind of reasoning is that numerous metaphors are possible and identifying the right one in these terms is impossible. What if I said the female diaconate is actually a profound image of marriage, as the deacon is the helper to the priest just as wife is helper to husband?

To use a less controversial example, “one should not wear a mask because a mask covers the Imago Dei” is not moral reasoning at all, it’s just an assertion of a metaphor (“the face is like the image of God”).

I’m prickly about this because I see the substitution of metaphor for reasoning as the overwhelming pattern of lazy thinking within Catholic discourse. Actions are described in terms of a metaphor, and then the (never stated) idea that one must act l so as to uphold the metaphor supplies the rest

To give an obvious example, spousal love is exclusive. But God’s love is for everyone. Or to give another one, God’s love is also compared to the love of a parent for a child. But one cannot marry their child! Does this make God a pervert?

The problem is the step where the image becomes something more than a metaphor. It’s fine to say “God’s love for creation is like the love of spouses for one another,” there are clear ways that that analogy works. But it is still an analogy and drawing certain implications from it is not productive.

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