Taylor Marshall said he decided to be almost exclusively TLM-attending because one NO parish had a guy in a Cookie Monster shirt give him the Consecrated Host (I think he mentioned it was on a spoon but I thought that was only a Byzantine Rite/EO thing?) Also regarding Taylor Marshall's rigorism/issues, he recently tweeted that Head Coverings are a requirement for women.
I was going to say that that sounds so far-fetched, but I've seen people wear a lot of strange things at Mass (once, someone wore a Barak Obama campaign t-shirt, which I would say is pretty scandalous). Also, hot take: I believe that veils are fetishized more often that not.
Much of Islam is derived from Paganism. Allah existed as the high god of Meccans who was the most powerful of all of the Gods and had many children like Zeus in Greek paganism did. Since the rise of Islam Arab-Christians have used the word "Allah" to refer to the one Abrahamic God, but Allah as a separate god existed before he became God.
Likewise, before Islam religion in Arabia was syncretic. Christian/Jewish-Arabs were pagans who believed in all of the pagan gods alongside the one Abrahamic God.
Don't the Satanic Verses that Salman Rushdie talked about reference these pagan gods that Meccans used to worship?
Sort of on topic, but this interview of an ex Muslim now Catholic is pretty good
God, this was such a good interview. Also highly recommend the Apostate Prophet x Matt Fradd interview if you want to learn more about Islam. I believe both AP and Ismail were Sunnis, so there is some things they used to believe that the Shia don't, but I still highly recommend both interviews.
10000000% accurate.
I see this all the time at my parish especially because we have TLM available. Very few cradle Catholics are out there reading Aquinas or Canon Law. Oddly enough many of them wind up switching to Eastern Orthodox after a few years.
In my experience, the cradle Catholics who are especially interested in TLM, Aquinas, Canon Law, etc. tended to become interested via converts to Catholicism. Of course, some cradle Catholics were simply always interested in it.
Anyway, I wanted to sperg out about something I'm struggling with. Apologies if this isn't the right thread to talk about it in, but I promise it's Catholic-related. When I was talking to my boyfriend (who is Muslim) recently, something clicked and I realized that we were unequally yoked and that our relationship would never work out. So, I broke up with my boyfriend. The other reason why I broke up with him though was because I developed a crush on one of my friends who is Catholic (and conservative). The more I talk to my friend, the more I realize how alike we are and that he would be a good person to date. Unfortunately, he is going across the country to get a PhD. Luckily, my job is remote, but I'm currently saving up money before I move. I don't want to move across the country just for a guy, but I also want to try dating him. Luckily, we talk online every day, and we both have each others phone numbers so we could call if possible. I just wish I could see him in person, it would definitely make things easier. Does anyone have any ideas of what to do? I've been praying about it a lot.
