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A wounded love was my first love, paid out in full before I was formed in my Mother's womb or a twinkle in my Father's eye.
All paid out for me, given so much and taken so little. How late have I loved thee O Lord, giving only the slivers of my heart, my devotion. Yet, through it all, it is you that is there patiently waiting once again to humbly walk with me as I make that journey to Calvary.
I bind unto myself today
The strong Name of the Trinity,
By invocation of the same,
The Three in One and One in Three.
I bind this day to me for ever.
By power of faith, Christ's incarnation;
His baptism in the Jordan river;
His death on Cross for my salvation;
His bursting from the spicèd tomb;
His riding up the heavenly way;
His coming at the day of doom;*
I bind unto myself today.
I bind unto myself the power
Of the great love of the cherubim;
The sweet 'well done' in judgment hour,
The service of the seraphim,
Confessors' faith, Apostles' word,
The Patriarchs' prayers, the Prophets' scrolls,
All good deeds done unto the Lord,
And purity of virgin souls.
I bind unto myself today
The virtues of the starlit heaven,
The glorious sun's life-giving ray,
The whiteness of the moon at even,
The flashing of the lightning free,
The whirling wind's tempestuous shocks,
The stable earth, the deep salt sea,
Around the old eternal rocks.
I bind unto myself today
The power of God to hold and lead,
His eye to watch, His might to stay,
His ear to hearken to my need.
The wisdom of my God to teach,
His hand to guide, His shield to ward,
The word of God to give me speech,
His heavenly host to be my guard.
Against the demon snares of sin,
The vice that gives temptation force,
The natural lusts that war within,
The hostile men that mar my course;
Or few or many, far or nigh,
In every place and in all hours,
Against their fierce hostility,
I bind to me these holy powers.
Against all Satan's spells and wiles,
Against false words of heresy,
Against the knowledge that defiles,
Against the heart's idolatry,
Against the wizard's evil craft,
Against the death wound and the burning,
The choking wave and the poisoned shaft,
Protect me, Christ, till Thy returning.
Christ be with me, Christ within me,
Christ behind me, Christ before me,
Christ beside me, Christ to win me,
Christ to comfort and restore me.
Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ in quiet, Christ in danger,
Christ in hearts of all that love me,
Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.
I bind unto myself the Name,
The strong Name of the Trinity;
By invocation of the same.
The Three in One, and One in Three,
Of Whom all nature hath creation,
Eternal Father, Spirit, Word:
Praise to the Lord of my salvation,
Salvation is of Christ the Lord.
That's the body horror? That's just normal pregnancy
collecting posts of this type
Islam is a religion of oppression and conquest.
Judaism is a herd of rhinos. Sticks to itself, defends itself violently, isn't interested in expanding much, extremely durable. The rhinos must always be led by rhinos, but otherwise the rhinos don't care who their neighbors are. Their strategy saw them survive two falls of Israel until they had an Israel again.
Christianity is a viral bacteriophage. Devours bacteria that sicken the host (literacy rates, science, and equality flourish in its wake), crosses any 'species' barrier, spreads like wildfire, mutates to adapt for better propagation but many strains lose the core DNA and become something infertile or even malignant. Case in point, it is arguably the source from which "ideologies" (like Marxism) sprang. The pure strain of the Christian virus doesn't need to be the head of the host to live in harmony with it; it's just there to eat what makes the host sick.
Islam is a locust swarm. Explosive growth, rapid consumption, rapid decline when there's nothing left to invade and devour. They conquered the Middle-East, Super-Saharan Africa, and parts of Europe, but after their empire lost prominence and fell apart, they blamed science and abandoned the pursuit of truth for the pursuit of temporal power. Islam doctrinally demands Muslims seek to subvert countries to become caliphates, conquer and absorb countries into caliphates, or destroy countries that cannot be made caliphates.
I was initially opposed to what the above reblog was saying, but then I realized how accurate it was.
^^ I'm so used to seeing "Christianity is a virus" metaphors that I really had to slow down and reread that to see that it wasn't actually intended as insulting
Just read someone claiming that being ok with killing someone breaking into your house is a "facist usamerican opinion".
As a victim of a home break in, where I got beaten up for the sin of dropping a plastic bag holding snacks I had just bought, where I then had to witness an aunt and her daughter crying their eyes out tied to a bed, fearing they would get raped, myself fearing the same for them after I too was tied and gagged next to them.
And also as the son of another victim of a break in, who got stabbed in the gut and almost died of blood loss half naked right in front of his infant daughter.
I have to say
Kill all home intruders, if they have committed the sin of breaking into the place most safe for you and your family, with the intention of taking everything you worked so hard to get, not to mention the lives of you and your family, you have all the right in the world to respond with deadly force, no questions asked.
Friendly reminder that is morally right to shoot at home intruders, and whoever says otherwise is a potential home intruder.
The definition of fuck around and find out is home invasion. You better come armed and armored.
I'm from a third world country with strict gun control. Higher crime rate than the USA.
I'm friends with people who were robbed, at gunpoint, in their home.
Also, how is saying everyone should have the right to use force in defense of themselves fascist, exactly? Were they one of those people who go "Oh, burglars don't want any trouble! Just give them what they want!"
As if home invadors have never just capped their victims. Or threatened to kill them. Plenty of people, around the world, wish they had the kind of self-defense freedoms Yanks enjoy.
What an ivory-tower opinion.
For the record: I don't think home invaders should be killed on sight. I think they should be held to the same standard as any other criminal.
Which means that sometimes it's appropriate to stop them by any means.
Personally, I think the only circumstances it's not okay to stop them by any means is if they're fleeing the premises.
If you're already scared them off, then obviously you can't kill them anymore. That isn't self-defence. But if they're in your home, you should be allowed any means to get them out. And unfortunately, in such a situation, it's often safer to shoot them than try to hold them at gun point to get them out. If they valued their life, they wouldn't have broke in to begin with.
This post is basically ignoring all the systemic elements regarding crimes for the favour of condemning to death people who commit crimes.
Like... Yeah sorry to burst your bubble OP or Americans but it is quite close to fascism. It's barbaric to basically all of the countries that aren't fucked by guns culture (which is most of western Europe). The fact you don't even realize it attests to the brain rot you've been under and wow are we so surprised by the evolution of the US, really? The fact you believe you "worked so hard to get everything you have" too... Like yeah bruh, as if all of your life wasn't determined by where you were born or what kind of family you got. When life doesn't go our way it's other people's fault, when it does go our way it's because we * worked so hard *, it's never about luck or systemic shit going on. Those poor people and criminals should just have made better choices and work harder!
Legitimate trauma shouldn't have a place in justifying death sentences and punitive justice actually (or anything political, really), that's why I'm extremely dismissive of it. It's a call to feelings and I frankly do not care. Otherwise I'd start killing all abusive men I've ever known (self defense amirite), become a radfem (all men deserves to die if they do something bad to me or anyone, they cease to be people) and all that. Killing and retributive justice is not the answer to prevent crimes and traumas in the long run actually. But don't worry, the large majority of people think like you and will continue to do so because we're a species who likes the killing and the hurting of what we consider "bad people" and we don't like thinking about the complexity of crime. "Kill bad people, they deserve it."
Fascism… Do you people even know what that fucking word means anymore??
In Colombia we have one of the strongest gun laws in the world, yet when I got beaten up in what was at the time my own home, all four guys had revolvers, I got one jammed in my ribs as it was tied next to my crying aunt, her face which haunts me to this day.
Regarding the socioeconomic factors, both mom and dad grew dirt poor, dad had to join the army to escape poverty, having never finished primary school, mom clawed her way up by moving away from her shitty town and working from age 15 onwards while finishing high school at night, and even so they were never rich, they reached a good enough place in life to have me and my sister, and while they were poor, neither ever stole from anyone, let alone break in, because their parents (in case of mom her grandmother because her parents were completely absent) instilled in them the importance of an honest life, and how no matter how bad things were, they have absolutely no right to take away something from someone else.
You people disgust me, always willing to justify criminals while insulting victims, people CHOOSE to steal, to break in, to kill, socioeconomic status means nothing, it’s good morals and education that mark the difference between a good person and a cunt.
Breaking and entering your home carries the same responsibilities and code of conduct as if your country was invaded by a foreign aggressor.
I'm sorry, person who has no life experiences with violence and self-defense, but if some motherfucker breaks into your home - and you have no clear idea of their maximum level of intended violence aimed towards you and your family - they get treated with the assumption they intend on doing the worst.
Under the Geneva Convention if an enemy is retreating you are well within your rights to fire on them and if they play pretend and only claim to surrender now, that's the war crime.
because you had a bat day
you hang upside down
you echolocate just fly all around
“The devil doesn’t come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you’ve ever wished for.”
— Tucker Max
I'm not allowed to play paladin with one of my playgroups anymore, because the last time I did, one of the rogues in my party decided kill a townsperson in front of me "just to see what would happen," and the moment she did I used a smite evil and killed her instantly. Everyone else (except the DM) thought it was a dick move that I basically forced her to roll an entirely new character after one night.
That's the only proper way to play a paladin.
You pick a fight, you get the smite.
"it's what my character would do" says the rogue.
"samesys!" Says the paladin, cheerfully rolling a nat 20 smite to destroy the rogue.
