u/dazzleox

36th place, 7 vote points.

I love how the Evangelist Luke wrote the gospel who gives credit to Jesus' disciples who were women; women who apparently traveled with him.

I love that he wrote the gospel with the greatest emphasis on the universal nature of Jesus. His audience was clearly "Greeks" of many ethnicties and religions.

Related to my last point, I love that his gospel is the only with the Rich Man and Lazarus, the Good Samaritan, and the Prodigal Son.

I love how he emphasizes Jesus' empathy and forgiveness so clearly, even to his dying words.

I love that he had the style of a Greek historian who says he is going to deliberately write to report the truth in a clear order. I love that he also had literary references that we can still appreciate almost 2000 years later. And I love that his writing style and his references create reversals of readers expectations, mirroring how Jesus also came to turn the world upside down.

I love that Acts is one of the most exciting works of history I have read, and the only "sequel" to one of the gospels. You see in a short form how a religion of a few spread to the capital of the western world. The road to Damascus! Councils, riots, prisons! It's very gripping.

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It seems like we get a decent amount of posts that are either a variation of "I am thinking about becoming Catholic..." or generic theological inquires that aren't particularly related to "left Catholicism" in terms of having a socio-political nature but may be posted here instead of r/Catholicism (because that community is often closed minded and cruel) that get deleted.

Is the rule basically that posts should be on topic of things related both to Catholicism and social justice in some sense, otherwise it falls under rule 6?

Anyway, my question is sincere, and I do thank the moderator(s) for keeping this very useful place going. It's a very refreshing subreddit.

I would assume either filming Desperate Measures or just home here visiting his family.

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My dad's friend was a little star struck and said "oh, you, you're, you're..."

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And Keaton filled in the blank, "I'm Batman."

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-settlers-impeded-firefighting-near-christian-west-bank-village-2026-06-10/

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZYm2uNmBM-/

This is a town where Israeli settlers already built illegal housing and keep encroaching on one of the last more fully Christian villages of the occupied West Bank. This is also where there was the arson attack on the ancient Byzantine Church of Saint George recently.

Where are the sanctions against Israel from the western and Arab collaborationist governments who claim these settlements are illegal but do nothing about it?

The Queensberry Rules were created in 1867, so I just talked to a man who remembers a conversation with someone older than those rules who also watched boxing on a television. He walked into my dad's living room around 1955, saw a fight on TV, and didn't like that they were throwing "rabbit punches" to the back of the head.

I am 46, so if I am able to live to 99 like my great grandfather, this post will remain accurate until 2079.

Specifically if it could help me understand some of the differences between east and west on this issue, related to synergia and "pure nature".

Please help by suggesting any books, articles, even potentially a video if it's particularly high quality, but I generally think something written is best.

Thank you!

I don't know how else to interpret or explain e.g. that the Ethiopian Catholic Church uses the same books as the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, including Enoch and several others. Or how Syriac Churches use the Peshitta which has the additional Maccabees and Esdras. As far as I know, most or all Byzantine churches use the Septuagint.

Of course you can debate the word "use" in terms of liturgical reading/chanting, translations of Bibles, how texts are placed within a book.

Which makes me wonder if many of us (I attend a Byzantine rite church so take it as self criticism if you prefer) talk about the Bible incorrectly in these common Protestant vs. Catholic 66 vs. 73 sort of discussions?