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Also, "good" does not mean "morally good" , when God says that creation is "good" he doesn't mean creation is moral. So something can be "good" but morally evil? I don't understand that. Whatever the opposite of the logical fallacy of "equivocation"...

I love the hypocrisy of the left whining that tariffs increase costs and create inflation, yet they deny that any other tax could have a similar effect. Tariffs are not the only tax that hurts the economy. The same people who claim tariffs are bad and that we should abolish them forever are the same...

By that logic, all stats and all records should have an asterisk. Some eras in baseball history are known for really strong pitching. Should, say, Bob Gibson, have an asterisk in the Hall of Fame saying "Sure he did well, but this was in an era where pitchers dominated, so it is less impressive...

Also, "good" does not mean "morally good" , when God says that creation is "good" he doesn't mean creation is moral.

Everyone is complaining that the Yankees are using a new kind of bat, and "they got 15 home runs in the first three games'". Do these people know that the Yankees are not the first team to adopt the torpedo bat? The first team to use it was the 2024 Chicago Cubs, a team that finished just ...

I don't know how this happened, I posted it once.

Well, it is a known fact that one's ability to determine the difference between shades of color is not universal. To a large degree, it is known that there is a significant population of the world who cannot tell the difference between green and blue, and I am not talking about people who are color ...

"Rose" is classified as a "shade of pink", the vestments are accurately described as "pink"

"Rose" is classified as a "shade of pink", the vestments are accurately described as "pink"

"Why did God create all those galaxies? Doesn't that make religion false?" I don't know what other plans God has. If you look at something computer programming, sometimes you need comparatively massive amounts of code to do something fairly simple. Back when I was young and stupid and tho...

You would think so but the rubrics say otherwise You may be right, and it went by so quickly that I never consciously noticed it, that is the problem with being so familiar with the liturgy, you come to miss things because you're narrowly focused on what you know is coming next. I will pay closer a...

peregrinator wrote: ↑Wed Mar 19, 2025 3:45 pm

zeno wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 4:25 pm It is optional, the Kyrie may take its place as you note.

Well if you say the Confiteor you're still supposed to say the Kyrie (even though some don't).

I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen both done, it is one or the other.

Are there any regulations on this? The only time we ever say it at my parish is during Lent, every other week of the year, we do the "Lord you X", Lord Have Mercy" call and response.

There is no reason to believe anything other than exactly what all 4 gospels and Paul in the First Epistle to the Corinthians say that the Last Supper happened "On the night he was betrayed" i.e. Thursday

It is supposed to be an organ instead of a piano, the problems with this are many: Pianos are cheap and readily available, while organs are insanely expensive and difficult to acquire. There are millions of piano players in the country, as many took piano lessons as kids, and pianos are very easy to...

That's such a weird hill to die on, a piano Mass is infinitely more reverant than a hippie dippie guitar mass, there is no other kind of guitar Mass, sorry, and the guitar is always being played (usually quite badly) by an aging hippie who is trying to be Bob Dylan (or whoever their early 60's folk ...

Putin & Trump are cut from the same cloth - nasty and evil bullies. Trump and his supporters can f*ck off. It is amazing that you think these kinds of childish insults and temper tantrums will either persuade anyone or prove yourself to be morally superior. You don't seem to realize that it is ...

I've been following Trump for over 40 years. In that time I know that he loves to bully people by putting them in a position where he will get what he wants from them. Towards that end, I have a feeling his treatment of Zelensky is a calculated move on his part. But for what purpose, I'm not sure. ...

The Babylon Bee's spin on this story is the correct one:

"Zelensky Tries Bold New Strategy of insulting the People he is Begging For Money From"

That is a great one sentence summary of what happened.

I've been following Trump for over 40 years. In that time I know that he loves to bully people by putting them in a position where he will get what he wants from them. Towards that end, I have a feeling his treatment of Zelensky is a calculated move on his part. But for what purpose, I'm not sure. ...