In this episode, SuperLutheran and Myles tackle some emails in the first half, and Super reads from the Scandinavian Pietists for our edification.
Are Jews the chosen people of God? No: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzHB5Caglgo
Age of Ruin: From the Ashes: https://poa.st/@Godcast/posts/ALVRT05jJfK3me3PtY
The first of what I hope to be many entries in a science fiction universe both by and for /ourguys/.
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APOSTACY in the Catholic Church, and hardly any exceptions in all the other Christian denominations either! Since the Second Vatican Council in the nineteen-sixties a TOTAL DISTORTION of the traditional Christian teachings by heretical Jewish Talmudic Freemasonic Satanists has taken place!
All in preparation of the “NEW WORLD ORDER”, the “GREAT RESET”! Among other agendas – a single “ONE-WORLD RELIGION” to be forced upon the whole world: the JEWISH DEATH CULT! Babylonian Talmudism – Baphomet Luciferianism – Satanism…
The subversive influence of hidden Jews claiming to have become Christians… of Jewish Freemasons, of “Cultural Marxists“, of L-G-B-T-Q-Pedocriminal child abusers has become overwhelming! They forced Pope Benedict XVI to retire, and installed a fake Satanic poop instead – an abomination!
The heretical anti-Christian teachings are accordingly – a total inversion of the true meaning!
Jesus washing the feet of his apostles – DOES NOT MEAN that Christians should serve the migrant-invaders as insinuated by the fraud Bergoglio washing the feet of Muslim immigrants
Do love your neighbor as you love yourself – DOES NOT MEAN that Christians should not protect and defend themselves, and hand over their homelands to the millions of migrant-invaders being systematically brought in by Jewish organizations (Soros, HIAS etc)
Virtue signalling JEWS WORK FOR WHITE GENOCIDE (“Jews for Refugees“)!
The Jewish Freemasonic COUDENHOVE-KALERGI PLAN means WAR ON THE WHITE NATIONS by weapon of multi-racial mass immigration into the white countries only! What Satanic Jews promote for the white nations to destroy them (“DIE!“-death spell! Diversity – Inclusion – Equity/Equality: “We are all the same“) they reject for themselves! No multiculturalism in Israhell…
The UN-EU REPLACEMENT MIGRATION PACT demands the REPLACEMENT & EXTERMINATION OF THE WHITE RACE by mass immigration and race mixing! The plan is the creation of a EURASIAN-NEGROID SLAVE RACE with a lower IQ to replace the homogenous white nations! A mongrolized slave race can most easily be ruled over by a so called Jewish “elite“, the Jewish slave masters on top…
Reader’s edition was great, I’d love to see more!
An episode or 2 back I have asked what your esteemed authors believe about the soul.
Godcast offered his take, but then recommended an expert.
J.P. Moreland (b. 1948 – ) is a professor at a Christian undergrad/grad school, Biola University in LA County, California.
Previously unregistered on my radar, I had some dog walking to do, so it seemed like a good fit to while away several miles.
Moreland lists 2 definitions of soul, one Cartesian (after Descartes, d. 1650) and one Aristotelian-Tomist (Aristotle d. -322) and St. Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274).
(I was waiting for the believing Christian scholar to emphatically plug in what hath Christ Himself {allegedly d. 33, or thereabouts} say on the matter, but that disappointingly did not come to pass).
Cartesian: soul is an immaterial individual thing that has the properties of consciousness: sensations, thoughts, beliefs of different kinds. Soul has desires and exercises willpower.
Aristotelian-Tomist view: goes beyond Cartesian. It is a particular individual reality that contains properties and powers of consciousness AND properties and powers of life. Soul doesn’t just possess consciousness, but it animates the body. The soul is conscious AND it makes the body live.
My 30,000 ft take on the good Professor. He is quite mellow and pleasant to converse with, although all the material of his I quickly downloaded (+/- 6.5 hrs of MP3s worth) included his solo speeches or interviews with people who were firmly in his camp. The most glaring weakness is that well over 2/3rds if not 4/5ths of his output is analogies, comparisons and allegories. About 1/8th-1/10th is recurring descriptions of his medical conditions (yes, big C sucks, no debate there). Purge both gambits and what, pray, have you brought for me?
Verdict: weak tea. Sale not made. For all the decades you spent soul-searching, what have you returned with, JP?
But I acquired something from JP Moreland. I could kind of sort of emulate his formatting on one point, indulge me.
If you own a wireless handheld device, it works so much better with the data bandwidth. I mean, it can do more than calculator, flashlight, camera, recording, MP3/MP4 storage/replay. What is data bandwidth and how do we get it, then?
Aah, that’s lots of tiny bits of information one gets 2 ways: from parabolic data dishes on tall towers or buildings and from satellites orbiting the Earth.
I have seen tens of thousands of data towers. The satellites get talked about a LOT. You can see them (computer generated images and photographs of contraptions said to be satellites). But I am skeptical of the situation where there is clear unobstructed view of sky and my handheld wireless iPhone Model XIX NanoTurbo with 19 lenses is not getting any bandwidth while my bill is paid up!
Consciousness is a brain at work. Bandwidth from satellites is a soul. Tear up data towers with their dishes and the brain goes dark.
But billions of dollars worldwide trade hands because of data satellites and souls.
My take: what a soul is matters to some atheists, some non-Christians, scholars, writers, poets, wimmenfolk, content creators, etc.
It matters very little (if at all) to the millions of pew-dwellers, because they already sit in the pew. They are content, the extracurricular programs are great, the pastor maybe has his foibles some days but it is just so convenient and everyone we know already goes here.
For the staff at the other end of the pulpit (the senders), the soul could be made of green cheese for all they care. As long as the pews have occupancy, folks receive the message! We’re doing something right!
Le Fin.
We don’t have anything other than comparisons to make to the human soul. There’s really nothing like it, so analogies are the best we can do. Asking “what is the soul?” is like asking “what is matter?” Both are so fundamental to to our experience, and there’s no frame of reference that exists outside of either from which we can apprehend them.
You observe rightly that tricky theological questions like “what is the soul” is of little interest to the average Christian. In the same way that the average pew-sitter isn’t particularly interested in the particularities of the building code of the county in which the church is. Pondering minutiae really is a privilege for people who don’t have to counsel parishioners about heavy topics like divorce or drug addiction.