How to Prove the Existence of God Most Effectively

https://youtu.be/s07weTfPVvc?si=_YHF0rDk6alcfjVq

Our love of God is measured by our hatred of sin, and our malice towards God is measured by how lightly we treat of sin

To say the Son is in a state of actual obedience to the Father within the inner life of the Trinity would be tantamount to subordinationism. However, in order to properly understand the redemptive value of His human obedience on the Cross, we must still trace it back to Trinitarian dynamics, namely, the Son’s eternally receptive relationship to the Father, which, while distinct from obedience itself, nevertheless forms an analogical basis for His human redemptive obedience

okay the mr birchum show is as abysmal as it looks. i didn’t expect it to be any good, but thought okay well maybe it will be amusingly unfunny. it wasn’t. dreadful cheap animation. “we have family guy at home” down to the cutaways but not a funny moment throughout the entire half hour. 5 minutes in you forget it’s supposed to be a comedy and not one of those drab educational series they used to make us watch in elementary school. the only group that actually gets made fun of are lgbtqs, who are represented by some dei administrator with a man bun (yes man bun jokes in 2024). he drives a scooter with the license plate LGBTQIA2S+XRW%* because that’s ben shapiro’s oh-so-hilarious running joke about what he thinks they should be called. it sounds like he wrote all the jokes himself btw if that’s any indication. that was really the only dig at them, which i don’t even think would outrage the the most flamboyant faggot in west hollywood.

the main character birchum is basically matt walsh in 10 years. voiced by adam carolla, he’s an “old school” flannel wearing fat boomer who runs a wood working shop at public school, because, grit. he constantly “triggers” the students who want a “safe space,” even though those terms haven’t been heard in 10 years.

the producers thought that the way to win the culture wars would be to have some old man make out of touch “jokes” about outdated references like lady gaga’s poker face. adam corolla tried to shop this show for decades but apparently he never updated the jokes.

birchum is sooo old-school, in fact, that his best friend is black. it would appear they’re trying to offend “all the wrong people” except, of course, the critics who would accuse the show of being racist. so just like the little mermaid and the latest production of romeo and juliet, they too felt it important to have a black main character.

conspicuously missing is mr. birchum’s faith —despite a rather heavy handed emphasis on how traditional he is. but because jewish shapiro produced it, obviously they couldn’t make the main character manifestly christian. so instead “traditional values” is reduced to being a grumpy old man with gravel in his throat who loves manual labor and his coffee (BLACK OF COURSE MILK AND SUGAR IS NOT FOR MANLY-MEN).

the white son is a deadbeat incel gamer who lives in his mom’s basement in a not-so-subtle nod to the only insult the daily wire team knows how to serve anyone under 25 who disparages jews in their comments.

but the daughter, on the other hand is a brilliant, tough, level-headed, whip-smart conservative, who always has the right answer —much like any woman you’d see in a modern-day liberal commercial: “oh mom, that just sounds a lot like the green new deal to me” she says in some reference to waste, fraud, and abuse. and then i think we’re all supposed to laugh. even though it’s not 2019 anymore.

the wife, megyn kelly’s character, is i think supposed to be a mockery of the modern day working wine mom career feminist, but the producers were so afraid to upset any woman that it’s not actually clear.

and that’s really the theme: a bunch of half-jokes petrified of being too offensive, which is literally antithetical to what the show was purported to be.

at the end, mr birchum says “that’s what america’s all about. building things.” and he doesn’t mean building a civilization, or a national identity, or a culture, or a society. he means building roofs and porches and shelves. because the jews at the daily wire want sucker white americans to say “hell yea hoooah” and continue their menial manual labor jobs servicing rich people in order to afford the $10 daily wire plus subscription and continue consuming this insipid tripe.

Speckzo needs all of our prayers rn. Please say a rosary for him if you can

Turns out I’ll be having a son! Prayers for him would be appreciated!

This should not dissuade us from thinking freely on these things in the prudential order, but as is the case with all decisions of practical reason, we must allow the Church to form the basis of our thoughts and concepts. This docility and openness to be taught by the Church is a precondition for a well formed conscience.

A perfect example of this is on marriage and the family

No Catholic should speak publicly on these issues from a theological standpoint in my opinion if they haven’t at the very least read entry level magisterial documents like Arcanum divinæ, Casti connubii, Humanæ vitæ, and Familiaris consortio

If this is not done then the Church’s treasury of wisdom on these issues will absolutely be diluted in favor of laxity or mistaken for unnuanced half truths

the most straightforward way to get a handle on what the Church teaches on a myriad of moral, social, and political issues is to just read papal encyclicals on the matter

while you’ll stumble upon occasional potential conflicts in continuity, those are very rare and the encyclicals themselves also typically very insightful in their own right and easy to read

it’s a shame that very few Catholic thinkers have much familiarity with these writings

while focusing on the historical guilt of the Jewish crowds in the Passion narrative won’t really do anything for your spiritual life, ignoring it altogether is an insult to the Gospel writers and to the Holy Spirit Who intentionally used the malice of the Jews to allegorize our own contributions to the sufferings of Christ