#chatholic

I keep getting asked which AI companion site is actually worth it, so I'm just going to put my thoughts down once and link people here. Short version, after trying a bunch of them, SweetDream over at sweetdream.ai is the one I tell my friends about without hesitating.

Let me run through why. First, the personalization goes deep, you design your companion's appearance, voice, personality and history instead of settling for someone generic. Second, the conversations feel natural and warm and she remembers context, so it never resets back to that awkward stranger phase. Third, the photos and videos she generates are honestly some of the best I've seen, consistent and detailed.

The Church may teach that same-sex acts are sinful, however Jesus never did.

Futher: when reading the Bible and taking into account context of Paul's letters and rudimentary knowledge of Hebrew, Latin, and Greek, it's not hard to realize that in the bible at no point does God say being gay or any letter of the LBGT+ is sinful.

Paul only wrote letters to individual churches to help them in specific situations they independently wrote him about. At no point is their any indication that Paul intended his letters to become a guide for everyone. Nor did Paul actually say being gay was sinful. He does call out pedophiles though and using sex as a form of worship like the Roman's did. He blasted the Roman's a lot. They did after all keep putting him in jail. (Specifically the letter 1st Corinthians was written to an early church in the trade community of Cornith.)

If you look at non-English texts, the source of this error is simple: Malakoi and arsenkoitai.

Malakoi meaning: "effeminate".

Malakori is greek.

It means literally to be "soft", usually used to define fine clothing in other New Testament verses.

In (moral) context with the rest of the passage Malakori means to have "a lack of self control" "weakness, laziness, or cowardice".

The bible itself (in hebrew) also plays it very fast and loose with gender. Adam is called They, She, Eve is called He, They, etc.

God specifically recognizes a spectrum of gender, not a binary again and again. From the very beginning of Genisis God refers to themselves as "we" and "us" and if we are all infact made in God's image, then God must not be a binary.

Illiberal Undemocrats Now Hate Catholics As Well As White People, Britain & Heterosexuals

authored by Paul Embery for Unherd

A political scandal broke earlier this week — though if you blinked you’d have missed it. Not so long ago, the story would have commanded column inches across the national press and extensive comment over the airwaves. Instead, however, there was next to nothing. Quite simply, the reason the story passed by virtually unnoticed is that our society has changed so…