minouroufail.bsky.social
No Kings 🇺🇸
Come hither, solicitations, 0 posts, and trolls will be blocked. she/her
1,106 posts
569 followers
540 following
Prolific Poster
Conversation Starter
comment in response to
post
This has been going on for years…
comment in response to
post
It sure has seemed that way this century.
comment in response to
post
Yep.
comment in response to
post
It's bullshit. OK, so practiced religion is very elastic, fine, but Christianity isn't just whatever. The gospel writers vilified the rich, for crying out loud. Their Jesus was a moral perfectionist who preached the way of compassion.
Not exactly what the the tech bros are pushing.
comment in response to
post
--"Or, as Daniel Francis, the Catholic founder of the AI start-up Abel, put it, “You have a duty as a founder to make really good products and get them into people’s hands. You’re making God real in people’s lives when they experience that."--
What? 😂 No.
comment in response to
post
From the VF article:
"To have two of the world’s richest technologists, worth a recently estimated $400 billion (Musk) and $14 billion (Thiel), speak admiringly about biblical teachings challenges the view that Christianity is anti-capitalist or even anti-intellectual."
WHAT?!! Where to begin. 🤦🏻♀️
comment in response to
post
Thanks for that Vanity Fair article. I see Girard does get a mention. Had to stop short at this:
--“Like, how are you a smart person,” she asked, “and a Christian?”--
Nonsense, nobody but a few militants think Christians can't be smart. Obvs the problem is authoritarianism, fascism, and theocracy.
comment in response to
post
I did NOT know that. I thought René Girard, a Catholic convert (or revert, not sure which) had been the prime religious influence on Thiel.
comment in response to
post
You got me. 😂
comment in response to
post
Certainly. The Catholic Church describes very narrow boundaries on what constitutes an acceptable family.
comment in response to
post
2/n Pope Francis did NOT approve of the Catholic-Evangelical alliance promoting Christian Nationalism. The following article appeared in 2017, almost certainly with Vatican approval.
www.laciviltacattolica.com/evangelical-...
comment in response to
post
1/n That Slate article gets a lot right, but also a few things wrong. Vance's puppetmaster Thiel is a radical libertarian (neither is he Catholic), and the whole social teaching-inspired element of some integralist thinking has been jettisoned by MAGA Catholicism.
comment in response to
post
I may be apostate, but every molecule of visceral Catholicism in me cries bullshit at Vance's conversion.