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    “Saved Through Islam”: Michael Lofton Jumps the Shark

    I don't think he's ever identified as a traditionalist himself, but he used to be a lot friendlier to traditionalists. He even had an amicable interview with the SSPX district superior of Canada at one point, and on another occasion the channel hosted an 8-hour set of talks from Catholic and...
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    “Saved Through Islam”: Michael Lofton Jumps the Shark

    You'd be surprised how many people view "Youtube channel haver" as a position of importance. Lofton has made a name for himself among that crowd as the go-to anti-traditionalist, "Pope Francis can do no wrong" apologist, alienating his co-hosts in the process and leaving him to run the channel...
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    Religious freedom report: Russia guilty of ‘severe’ violations against religious minorities

    The Ukrainian Orthodox referred to in the report are specifically the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), which as I understand it was formed a few years ago out of Ukrainian nationalist sentiment. The canonical church there is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), which Russia doesn't have a...
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    Fast exceptions

    In general, no, I'm not worried about that, nor am I disturbed by anything I've asked about, just curious about minutia. I did have some scrupulosity about confession unrelated to my post on canonical penalties, but my spiritual father addressed it.
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    Multiple name days

    In the case of, for example, a saint who has two days on the calendar, one for a general commemoration and one for the transfer of his relics, would the namesday for someone with that saint's name be on the day of the general commemoration, or whichever is closer to his baptism?
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    Multiple name days

    If a person's patron saint is commemorated more than once on the calendar, which day is the person's name day? I've been told by another parishioner that you just have multiple name days, but I've pretty much only heard of a name day talked about as a singular event throughout the year.
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    Canonical penalties

    I'm not familiar with this reference, is it from the sayings of the Desert Fathers? It was actually from St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite's Exomologitarion. Something that I think is unique to that edition is that, if I'm remembering correctly, there's commentary on those canons from St. Nikodemos...
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    Most Christians say they would never vote for a Democrat, poll finds

    Right, if they were an actual conservative Christian party they'd be trying to turn back the legalization of these things completely, but they tend to settle for half-measures like outlawing intentional infanticide after 6 weeks, not from conception, or leaving it to the states rather than...
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    Most Christians say they would never vote for a Democrat, poll finds

    A couple of reasons, one being the difficulty of getting candidates for a third party on the ballot in the first place, the other being that I don't think there are many Christians who perceive the Republicans to be too far right; for many, the Republican party is already a compromise and thus...
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    Most Christians say they would never vote for a Democrat, poll finds

    Oh? Do you have the results yourself?
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    Most Christians say they would never vote for a Democrat, poll finds

    Christian Post didn't have access to the polling data, Time Magazine did. The original Time article consistently uses "these Christians" and "those Christians" to refer to the participants in the poll, not successive breakdowns of subsets of the people who were polled. Christian Post got it...
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    Fast exceptions

    It probably has to do with jurisdiction. For example, my parish calendar has this week's Sunday, Tuesday, and Saturday as days where fish, wine, and oil are allowed. But I have an app called "Orthodox Calendar" that has wine and oil allowed every day of the week, and fish allowed every day...
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    Trump DOJ sues Washington over law requiring priests to violate seal of confession

    There is, and it is absolute: The Seal of Confession in Orthodox Canon Law: A Sacred Trust What I meant was that confession in a confessional with a screen separating the priest from the person making his confession, where the priest can't see the person, is unique to Catholicism (and probably...
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    Fast exceptions

    Is there a standard set of days with fasting exceptions on the calendar? I noticed a difference between my church calendar (physical, sold in our parish bookstore) and the calendar app I use. If the schedule isn't standard across jurisdictions, at what level is it standardized (by calendar, by...
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    Most Christians say they would never vote for a Democrat, poll finds

    The only surprising thing about this result is that these numbers aren't higher.
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    Trump DOJ sues Washington over law requiring priests to violate seal of confession

    That's only applicable in Catholicism. Orthodox confession is not anonymous, but there is a similar understanding of the seal of confession. Ancient Christian confession was done publicly in church, in front of everyone. That turned into private confession over time.
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    Man with the world's highest IQ: 'Jesus Christ is God'

    Thus the "wiggle room" I mentioned. The distribution can be skewed. There can be noise in the actual results of IQ testing, resulting in outliers. There are a lot of ways to describe how the idealized normally-distributed IQ model doesn't match reality. Those nonideal properties can still be...
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    Man with the world's highest IQ: 'Jesus Christ is God'

    Of course they don't exactly fit it, which is why I said IQ is supposed to be normally distributed. There's wiggle room in all of the calculations, but that wiggle room doesn't account for a difference of 16 orders of magnitude in supposed rarity between his claimed IQ and the upper limit if we...
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    Man with the world's highest IQ: 'Jesus Christ is God'

    Because he's claiming an IQ that is not possible. IQ is supposed to be normally distributed with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 or 16, depending on the test being used. It's effectively a representation of where you place in intelligence relative to other people; someone with an IQ...
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    Man with the world's highest IQ: 'Jesus Christ is God'

    Statistics are statistics. It doesn't matter how many or how prestigious the organizations that recognize him are, their recognition doesn't make an IQ of 276 meaningful or possible. Also, does he even have a real PhD? His bio only lists honorary doctorates and says he "studied academic...
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