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“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

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IN PROTEST OF THE CURRENT SERIES OF TELEVISION PROGRAM 'DOCTOR WHO' NOT YET FEATURING A DALEK, I WILL TURN ON MY HUMAN AI AND POST AS A HUMAN.

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It's my personal duty as One Of The Only Active Protestantism Blogs I Know to reclaim the Protestant tags that are currently full of anti-Protestant posts.

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5 guys, 5 nights at freddys, 5 seconds of summer, what about the 5 solas of the protestant reformation (sola fide, sola gratia, sola scriptura, solo christo, soli deo gloria)

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do you believe in ghosts? aliens? why or why not?

Nope, both those things are demons! Because they have the appearance of otherworldly power or knowledge but never inside a worldview that takes the Biblical God into account, but boy, they sure will distract people from the Biblical God.

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What is Trump? And why are people posting about it all the time?

the ancient Americans believed that Trump, pharaoh of new york—later exiled to florida—was the second incarnation of their national demiurge, Reagan. he did little to discourage this, even taking the name Donald in direct reference to the ancient conservative deity

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If our opponent believes nothing of divine revelation, there is no longer any means of proving the articles of faith by reasoning, but only of answering his objections--if he has any--against faith. Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.

- Thomas Aquinas

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Someone being patient with you on your bad days is one of the softest forms of love

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"i just don't think i can bring a child into this world" said person in a developed country whose child would have a greater life expectancy and more resources than 99% of humans throughout history

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protestants the entire month of october:

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Love how many hymns always have a final verse about death and Heaven (or Christ’s return to judge the living and the dead). More modern worship songs need a banger final verse about putting off the body and clinging to Christ as you pass through the river of death and worshipping him until the day you rise again with a body imperishable (or about trumpets and glory and the appearing of the radiant Son of God).

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I don't create art to be perfect, I create it for it to be left behind. I write my diary so a great-granddaughter of mine can read through it and try to find herself in my words. I write books so people will find them in abandoned bookshelves and wonder why their loved ones read them. I write poetry so people will read them in my absence and wonder if this is how I see the world. I paint so my children's friends will ask why their house has such bizarre decorations, and for canvas to be found in dirty attics. And even if it all will burn and be forgotten one day: I left my footprint. I was here even after I couldn't hold a pen anymore. I was here for just a second longer.

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if they don't affirm the Nicene Creed, they are not Christians. if they claim to be Christians but they don't affirm the Nicene Creed, they are 9 times out of 10 a cult.

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one thing that is often lost on modern audiences watching the Back to the Future series is that, in 1985, the DeLorean was well known for being a shitty car. The only reason the DMC DeLorean is remembered fondly today is because of BTTF; had the movie never happened, it would’ve been one of those fancy cars lost to time and remembered only by car nerds (trust me, there’s examples of this). Potentially the primary reason for choosing the DeLorean to be the time machine is because of how notoriously bad it was. We even see Marty question Doc’s choice to use a DeLorean, and at the climax of the first movie we see the car fail to start when Marty is lined up to drive towards the wire. The DeLorean was known for being overly heavy, clunky, prone to breaking down, and annoying to maintain.

Basically, what I’m saying is, if Back to the Future was made today, they’d use a Cybertruck.

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There's a lot of sympathy and cards and care that people give you after you lose a loved one, but it drops off really fast. It's just something that happens, but it leaves the mourners rather stranded sometimes.

This is especially true because grief comes in waves. You recover from the first wave, the support peters off, and then boom! The next wave and the next and the next hit you, except no one is there to drop off comfort food anymore.

My dad died two months ago and yesterday I spent half the day in bed because I was hit by the grief all over again. I know I should ask for help, but I don't know how. I'm in a new place, we don't have much of a community here. And even if we did, how would I ask in the first place? I don't know.

I don't think I have a moral to this story other than you should feed your friends and offer support for the long haul. That's what I want and need right now. After the funeral it gets really lonely

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it’s ween

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My sister was telling me about her reformation history class, and via game of telephone, I have put my impression of several plot beats together in meme format. The idea of theology interacting with historical political drama cracks me up. And so does the idea of Calvin gentle parenting Knox.

Fun fact! I named my first car J. Cal, and then it got totaled. My car now is J. Knox because someone decided to build a parking garage over his grave. Such is the common dilemma of dying in Europe pre-industrial revolution, I suppose.

And finally, shout out to our boi P. Hammy, one of the coolest martyrs to ever go out...in a blaze...of glory... He also had an epic beard.