But to quote Samuel L. Jackson from Pulp Fiction: “You’re judging this shit the wrong way. I mean, it could be that God stopped the bullets, or He changed Coke to Pepsi, He found my f—g car keys. You don’t judge shit like this based on merit. Now, whether or not what we experienced was an ‘according to Hoyle’ miracle is insignificant. What is significant is that I felt the touch of God.” So yes, during little moments over the last few years, I’ve felt the touch of God. As much as it would make for a better story, I cannot say that any of these things made me stand up and say, “It’s time to convert.” The move was more incremental. I became convinced that Mamaw would accept Catholic theology even if its cultural trappings made her feel uneasy. There were the words of Saint Augustine and Girard and the example of my Uncle Dan, who married into our family but demonstrated Christian virtue more thoroughly than any person I’d met. There were good friends who made me see that I didn’t need to abandon my reason before I approached the altar. I came eventually to believe that the teachings of the Catholic Church were true... https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/how-i-joined-the-resistance
But then the second criticism that I get is, well, he's a crazy conspiracist, right? He doesn't believe that 9/11 actually happened or he believed 9/11 was an inside job. And look, I understand this desire to not be called terrible names. It's like, yeah, okay, this person believes crazy things. But I bet if you're being honest with yourself, every single person in this room believes at least something that's a little crazy, right? I believe the devil is real and that he works terrible things in our society. That's a crazy conspiracy theory to a lot of very well-educated people in this country right now. Even though, of course, they participate in it without knowing about it. https://www.propublica.org/article/jd-vance-alex-jones-leonard-leo-teneo-maddow-video
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Date: 2024-07-17 02:52 pm (UTC)But to quote Samuel L. Jackson from Pulp Fiction: “You’re judging this shit the wrong way. I mean, it could be that God stopped the bullets, or He changed Coke to Pepsi, He found my f—g car keys. You don’t judge shit like this based on merit. Now, whether or not what we experienced was an ‘according to Hoyle’ miracle is insignificant. What is significant is that I felt the touch of God.”
So yes, during little moments over the last few years, I’ve felt the touch of God. As much as it would make for a better story, I cannot say that any of these things made me stand up and say, “It’s time to convert.” The move was more incremental. I became convinced that Mamaw would accept Catholic theology even if its cultural trappings made her feel uneasy. There were the words of Saint Augustine and Girard and the example of my Uncle Dan, who married into our family but demonstrated Christian virtue more thoroughly than any person I’d met. There were good friends who made me see that I didn’t need to abandon my reason before I approached the altar. I came eventually to believe that the teachings of the Catholic Church were true...
https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/how-i-joined-the-resistance
But then the second criticism that I get is, well, he's a crazy conspiracist, right? He doesn't
believe that 9/11 actually happened or he believed 9/11 was an inside job. And look, I
understand this desire to not be called terrible names. It's like, yeah, okay, this person
believes crazy things. But I bet if you're being honest with yourself, every single person in
this room believes at least something that's a little crazy, right? I believe the devil is real and
that he works terrible things in our society. That's a crazy conspiracy theory to a lot of very
well-educated people in this country right now. Even though, of course, they participate in
it without knowing about it.
https://www.propublica.org/article/jd-vance-alex-jones-leonard-leo-teneo-maddow-video