Blessed art Thou, o Lord, teach me Thy statutes

God asks that we love her with all that we are, that we devote all our our energy and desire and labor towards her and her alone. And sometimes —IN RARE CASES THAT DONT INCLUDE ANY OF US READING THIS — that means martyrdom. But for most of us that means living a life of loving your neighbor.

Your life is indeed a sacrifice but liturgy the killing is not ritualized. The point is NOT death; the point of a sacrifice is to eat it, not alone but in community. The point is to bring the Self to God by means of food: inviting God and the community, especially the powerless, grieving, and debased among us, to eat together. And God is not a man: she does not require that we biologically die in order for us to be consumed. She can can and does consume us alive. She prefers her meals alive, her sacrifices living. Sacrifice is about love because eating is about love. And love is about Life, not death.

It’s a nice sentiment, I like the energy, I do. That said, I am actually descended from a “Salem Witch,” and my Ancestor, Mary Isham Towne, was not burnt at the stake, she was hanged by the neck until dead. We’re not savages y’know.

Furthermore, Mary Isham Towne was a churchgoing, god-fearing woman, who just so happened to be a widow who owned a piece of land that the local judge wanted to purchase, but which she refused to sell, and which he set out to acquire pretty much immediately after he sentenced her execution.

For anyone who doesn't know, "Massa Damnata" is a Latin phrase meaning "damned mass" that refers to two distinct-but-related concepts: (1) humans are damned by default and need to perform some action or have some action performed on them to not be damned and (2) most people will go to Hell.

My problem is the same as my main problem with Marxism - it imagines future positives and negatives so extreme that it abrogates all normal morality. For example, the obvious response is to ensure that as many people become Christian as possible by starting a theocracy were people are bribed or coerced into becoming Christian - what's a little suffering now if it prevents an eternity of suffering? But if you reject that, then the other solution is to have all Christians evangelise all the time and pour all their money and energy into evangelism. And, of course, all unbelievers' good deeds are meaningless to God and, if repented of, so are all believer's good deeds.

Plus the fact that most people either have never heard about Christianity, have never looked into it in any detail or don't find it convincing and so are damned. At which point you should conclude that God wants most people to suffer eternally.

A major bill funding ICE passed the House and it is really important we bombard our senators into voting against the bill and holding strong against it. Even if there is no chance that your senator will budge, I urge you to bear witness to our neighbors in need.

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Regulators and activists are the reason you didn't grow up in a factory prison orphanage with suicide nets outside every window, the 40 hour work week exists, and why you didn't have near-fatal lead concentration in your blood by age 21. Violent crime has collapsed since the 90s, yet you're going on about some 2020-brained moral panic. If I was into psychoanalyzing people on the Internet, I'd say that you have an existential grudge against anyone who isn't absolutely enchanted by the idea of living a 996 human centipede lifestyle in San Francisco. No, what's really funny is that the people responsible for you not having 5.6 right now aren't even the Regulator™️Great Satan that you spent 3 paragraphs constructing. They're people who use the Ask Gemini button on YouTube to summarize a minute long Theo Von clip. They're slurring dipsomaniacs like Hegseth who tried to do corporate murder on Anthropic, ended mandatory flu shots for US troops in the name of 'health freedom' despite the obviously predictable flu breakout actually happening as a result, and bombed a school full of kids in Iran while leading a crusade to purge the woke from the DOD. They're people like David Sacks and the All-In crew who begged Biden to save SVB, yet act like any kind of regulation on Roblox fentanyl casinos for children is the most evil thing in the universe. They're endemic Wall Street creatures like Lutnick, who was less than honest with Congress about being pals with Epstein and sent the export control letter that pulled Fable. They're people who do insider trading on Polymarket, while the platform itself was recently exposed for completely fraudulent ads. They're people who just rolled back limits on forever chemicals in the water supply last month. They're the people who completely gutted the CFPB so that those with connections to this admin could continue to carry out unlimited crypto scams. You should be happy that these are the people in charge! You just don't like how it turned out. Instead of a predictable release licensing regime with boring panels and committees, you got an arbitrary kiss-the-ring circlejerk run by the most solipsistic, dull, amoral, and capricious people on earth. The exact opposite of the caricature you've been shadowboxing