Recent content by BlueKumul

I've always believed that sex and romantic love are things that complicate life. This is also valid from a non-Christian perspective: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evil-deeds/201207/sex-celibacy-and-spirituality-why-the-dalai-lama-doesnt-date

As for this point, you are wrong: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/kepler-retrospective-earth-like-planets-common/ It is just easier for astronomers to found planets which are bigger and closer to their stars ("hot Jupiters"). Expect Earth-like planets to keep being discovered.

It's crucial to distinguish between scientific discussion of this topic and ufology. The universe is simply too big for intelligence to evolve only on one planet. There are at least 100 million habitable planets in this galaxy alone, and there are millions of other galaxies. But the distances...

I actually included Stalinism in my article. So this is not a left vs right issue, this is a totalitarian vs radical individualist issue. To some extent it was also a generational issue, as the G.I.s (WW2 veteran generation) have supported totalitarianism of both styles at least while young...

I have practised my writing style on a rather toxic forum, Personality Cafe, where I posted very often during my personal "dark age" in the late 2010s. Before that, I have edited Wikipedia.

I would never post an AI-generated text on a forum. This sounds so lazy!

I wrote the article :) The upshot is that people no longer have a clear idea about the Good, but have learned that Evil is fascism. So, for many, it is easy to imagine that the opposite of fascism is some approximation to the Good.

Some people don’t want to marry and have children, is this acceptable? Or is everybody save priests and nuns commanded to “be fruitful and multiply”?

It is impossible for God to do something wrong, but it is possible to misunderstand God. In this case I don’t understand why Jesus ordered the Apostles: “Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel.”(Matthew 10:5-6) Of course we know...

11 Corinthians 8:9 “For man did not come from woman, but woman from man; neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.” Yet the catechism says men and women were created for each other, does it mean the catechism is at odds with the Biblical worldview as some protestants would suggest?

It’s a new religious movement, advertising itself as a “feminine monotheism”. It looks a lot like Catholicism, only in an all-feminine setting. So instead of the Father and the Son, they have the Mother and the Daughter. I didn’t know plagiarism is a thing in religion! It also borrows a lot of...

I’ve once talked to a rabbi, and he said they have a duty to discourage people who want to convert to Judaism. So they want only people born into Jewish families to practice Judaism. They question is, why is that? If they think they have the truth, they should be spreading it to everybody. Even...

Is the neoreactionary / alt-right worldview compatible with the Church teaching? I find its tenets despicable, but many of them claim to be Catholics. Their cult of machismo doesn’t look much like Jesus-like meekness, and their praise of ethnic identity isn’t compatible with the universal...

I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but I see no “saints” category. Why was Constantine canonized if he killed people and run an authoritarian dictatorship? I’ve also heard St Nicholas was demoted since there are no solid proofs that he existed at all. Well, Nicholas seems to...

Is there an official Catholic definition of spirituality? My idea is that spirituality is a detachment from purely human, terrestrial concerns which allows you to see things from God’s perspective. Being finite creatures marred by sin we can only attempt this, so our spirituality will never be...