No live today, guys. Dealing with a little bit of a bug.
I’m also probably going to change up the schedule, moving forward.
I’ll post the new plan shortly. Hope everyone has a good weekend
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sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
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I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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Sometimes, when he fails badly enough, Trump can be forced to do the thing he says he never does: back down.
Today is just one more turn on the roller coaster - but it is more evidence of why we can't give up or let up.
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We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
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I refuse to be the kind of person who loses their mind over a delayed train or lets a spilled coffee set the tone for the whole day.
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To paraphrase a friend, unless you treat every allegation of misconduct as worthy of investigation, then no allegation is worthy of investigation. No one is incapable of doing monstrous things, and no one should get a pass from scrutiny just because they code Trad or Lib.
And that's the rub of this whole thing. People want to believe Fr. Martins is innocent because he's on "their side." And maybe he is innocent. But that doesn't mean he just gets handwaved on accusations.
Nobody should get "handwaved on accusations," but when the parish priest basically does the same thing at the same event, then things start to look like two-tier justice is being applied. Also, when clarifications and definitions are not offered, it isn't unreasonable in the context of historical abuse scandals for many people to jump to conclusions.
I think the Pillar's reporting contributed to the issue by going out of its way to express skepticism of Fr. Martins overal…
the issue with anything pertaining to an exorcism is that its unfalsifiable. It's doubly challenging when you have a dramatic retelling of an exorcism. We have no way of whether they're accounts of actual exorcisms or not, and thus, we'd feel obliged to use similar language even in the case of Benedict XVI or something.
I can see how, in the context of a story about a priest under suspicion, it seemed like we were adding fuel to fire and that's a good insight. I'm not sure how else to talk about…
I hear what your saying, but I still have questions. By that logic, almost every story about things in the past is unfalsifiable. So, when Pope Francis tells a story about an interaction that he had with someone as a young priest, would a journalist say "Francis allegedly spoke with a woman about her difficult marriage situation..." I have a hard time imagining that any journalist would do that. Now, maybe they would if the Pope produced a documentary of it, but I can almost guarantee that any …
we would say, "Francis reported speaking to a woman about her difficult marriage," or "Francis said he .. " or "Francis reportedly ..." Maybe even "Francis allegedly..."
We would never say, "Francis spoke to a woman about her difficult marriage situation" because we have no way of knowing it was true!
And thanks for the great and very kind note.
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You did it! We have a solution for more neutral wording above! If you had said "Fr. Martins said he..." it wouldn't carry nearly the emotional weight as the words "allegedly" and "claimed", both of which tend to insinuate disbelief in today's culture (especially when used redundantly in the same sentence). Maybe that's just me, but I don't think I'm alone in that assessment.