Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 16hLiving the simplest is best. Don’t worry your head. Pray to God. The Lord will arrange everything. Don’t torture yourself talking about how and what to do. Let it be, as it happens — this is to live easier. — St. Ambrose of Optina 020
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 19hThe only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. — probably John Stuart Mill. (No evidence that Edmund Burke said it) 010
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 20hIn a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. — Confucius 140
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 21hNo matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people. — Marian Anderson 000
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 22hStudents have every right to say prayers in a public school. Adults do not have any right to tell those students how they are to pray. 100
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 22hPerhaps people are obsessed with the second coming [of Jesus] because, deep down, they are really disappointed with the first. — Fred Craddock 020
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 14/10/2026When he says something funny, we're supposed to laugh. Otherwise it would be rude. 020
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 14/10/2026She's really bad at lying. . . her entire presentation is a "tell". 000
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 14/10/2026uh. . . . "too corrupt for the Trump regime" ???? Is there such a thing? 010
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 14/10/2026It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose Him as an alternative to hell. — C.S. Lewis 151
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 13/10/2026We must be people of grace, so that whoever approaches us can rest. — St. Amphilochios of Patmos 041
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 13/10/2026so . . . she's really terrible at lying. . . . . . which is a prime quality for her position. 010
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The great citizens of a country are not those who bend the knee before authority, but rather those who, against authority if need be, are adamant as to the honour and freedom of that country. — Albert Camus 041
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Put not your trust in princes, in sons of men, in whom there is no salvation. When his breath departs he returns to his earth, on that very day his thoughts perish. — Psalm 145:3–4 (LXX) 062
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Atheism is unscientific. (And yes, it is a religious philosophy with no "proof") 100
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026why would anyone expect the scriptures to be history? Why read documents that are not history as if they were? 000
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This should boost donations for Ilhan Omar. 000
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Has the raid of Ilhan Omar helped out her contributions? Should she send a thank you to the DHS? 210
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions, but to destroy the capacity to form any. — Hannah Arendt 121
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026sorry .. . observing that scripture was written by men is not a shred of "proof" 100
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026but it is not my job to disprove someone else's allegation. 100
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026If you think that I am saying "Lucifer" is a bad medieval translation, then, yes, I am saying that. However, it is difficult to figure out what you are saying; it is all over the place. 000
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026It is not my job to prove your allegations. That's not how it works. 100
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026So. . ..no. . . God is not responsible for a bad medieval translation. . .. 100
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026And be careful; you are very close to opening up an argument wherein science can be dismissed because it made observations that later turned out not to be so. 100
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I have not asked you to take my religion (which is likely an assumption on your part) seriously. I have only asked someone to address the allegation "made up shit". 200
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026 by the way. . . it might be useful to ask why you think those are refutations of Christianity. 000
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026WOW. . things which have ZERO impact on Christianity. . Keep trying. 200
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Sorry. You need to read the original allegation. Insisting that your diatribe address the allegation is how things get established. No where have I pretended that this was about theism. That is something that you guys supplied. The allegation was "made up shit". Address that please. 000
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026But the original allegation was not a negative. (nice try on trying to shift it) I simply asked for proof for the allegation of "made up shit". 100
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026It is not manipulation to ask someone positing something he cannot prove to prove it. QED 100
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Dude, have you ever had to take a test where you were asked to prove a point? Or been in a debate where you had to prove a point? That's how it works. You allege something and then you prove it (Courts work the same way). It shows your unexamined bias. 100
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I asked for proof of shit being made up. No evidence has been provided. QED. 100
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026"5 year old boy sat unharmed" !!!! I assure you this child has been deeply harmed. !!! 010
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026pretending to change the argument after it has begun is to say that your evidence is weak or non-existent. Is if we are done here. QED. 100
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Again, I did not say "God exists". I merely asked one who alleged that 'religion is made up shit' provide evidence. 000
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026 The one making the allegation bears the burden of proof. Sorry, that is how it works. Might want to work on that "reading comprehension" thingy. I asked you to prove yourself right. Not prove me wrong. 100
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The innitial comment was that religion was made up shit. What does this comment have to do with this? I asked that the comment be proved. This has nothing to do with that 000
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026So .. . you are alleging anew that religion is "all fictional nonsense..." . . how do you know? What evidence to you have? 100
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Have I alleged that the scripture was not written by men??? I am confused; why are you debating a belief that I never brought up. 100
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Ultimately agnosticism makes more sense. Atheism is non-scientific. 000
Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026We are saved to become paradise to all those around us, including our worst enemy. — St. Simeon the New Theologian 1208