🧵 I watched 94 minutes of Ripperger explaining demon psychology.

I took notes.

I made a spreadsheet.

I ranked the chaos.

Here are the Top 10 moments that made me question reality itself: #10: Cold Open Energy

"Just watch the politicians and you know we're dealing with demons"

No hello. No prayer. No warm-up.

Just STRAIGHT to "politicians are possessed."

Sir this is not how you start a theology lecture.

This is how you start a MILITIA.

The patron saint of Catholic schools covered up child sexual abuse in 1629.
This isn't speculation—it's documented in his own handwriting. Meet Joseph Calasanz, canonized in 1767, whose story reveals how the Church's playbook for handling abuse hasn't changed in 400 years.
🧵 In 1629, Father Stefano Cherubini was sexually abusing boys at the Piarist school in Naples. Multiple priests raised concerns about his "impure friendships with schoolboys."
Calasanz, founder of the order, knew exactly what was happening.

🧵 THREAD: Everyone thinks Thomas Aquinas condemned astrology.
He didn't.
He said it WORKS.
The "Angelic Doctor"—same guy who invented demon sperm delivery—spent pages explaining the exact physics of why your horoscope is probably correct. AQUINAS IN THE SUMMA:
"Astrologers are able to foretell the truth in the majority of cases"
THOMAS.
THOMAS THAT'S JUST SAYING HOROSCOPES WORK.
"No no, you see, it's PHYSICAL CAUSATION through stellar influence on bodily humors—"
MY BROTHER IN CHRIST

The Catholic Church isn't dying from lack of faith. It's dying from epistemological bankruptcy. 300 years ago, the Enlightenment began demolishing the Church's monopoly on truth. Humanae Vitae was just the final, spectacular implosion. 🧵 Hot take: Early Christianity had ZERO "obligations." No sexual micromanagement, no thought police, no guilt industrial complex. That control freak energy? Pure medieval innovation.

🧵 THREAD: Ready for the shocking twist in the Sant'Ambrogio scandal? "Father Giuseppe Peters," one of the main perpetrators, was actually JOSEPH KLEUTGEN - the Pope's chief theological advisor & co-author of PAPAL INFALLIBILITY. This story will blow your mind. 🎭 THE DOUBLE IDENTITY: "Father Giuseppe Peters," the Jesuit confessor found guilty of heresy, sexual abuse & supporting false mysticism, was living under a false name. His real identity: Joseph Kleutgen, one of the most influential theologians of the 19th century.

🧵 Meet Saint Hilary of Poitiers (c. 310-367), Doctor of the Church and the patron saint of "maybe we shouldn't be so quick to systematize the mysteries of God" While modern Catholics debate whether Pope Francis violated Canon 1752.3§2 by breathing incorrectly during Mass, Hilary was over here like: "Guys, maybe we shouldn't even TRY to put God in theological boxes???"

🔥 HOT TAKE: Your 13th-century theology professor was way more obsessed with body parts than your weirdest anatomy class.
Medieval theologians spent CENTURIES debating whether your fingernails make it to heaven.
I'm not joking. The question that kept Thomas Aquinas up at night: "If someone gets eaten by a cannibal, whose body do those atoms belong to at the resurrection?" Because apparently God's omnipotence has paperwork to file. 📋✨ #ScholasticProblems

🧵 You think the Kama Sutra was detailed? Cute. Medieval Catholic theologians said "hold my chalice" and proceeded to write the most obsessively specific bedroom regulations in human history. Buckle up for some truly unhinged systematic theology... Plot twist: your "traditional Catholic values" about missionary-only sex? That's not ancient Christianity, sweetie. That's a 12th-century innovation. Early medieval Christians were too busy arguing about feast day abstinence to micromanage your geometry.

🏰 Ever wondered what medieval theologians thought about sex? Buckle up for a wild ride through scholastic sexual ethics that would make your theology professor blush. These scholars analyzed EVERYTHING with mind-blowing detail... 📚 Medieval scholastics built their sexual ethics on Augustine's framework, but they went WAY beyond him. While Augustine worried about lust corrupting the soul, the schoolmen created detailed taxonomies for every sexual thought and act imaginable.

🧵 The Time the Catholic Church Casually Rewrote Marriage Law (A Thread) So apparently we need to talk about the Council of Trent (1563) and how the Catholic Church just... decided it could invalidate marriages that had been perfectly valid for over a millennium.

🧵Reading Catholic apologetics like Feser's "Last Superstition" and Bonnassies' "God: Science, the Evidence" reveals a fundamental problem. These aren't just bad philosophy - they represent a corruption of both reason AND faith. The Method: Start with Catholic conclusions → Find philosophical/scientific arguments that support them → Dismiss everything else → Call it "rational demonstration of faith." This satisfies neither genuine inquiry nor authentic religious belief.

Hot take: The endless divisions in Christianity prove Kant was right about pure reason's limits. The numerous Christian confessions function as a perfect real-world antinomy. Here's why this matters...

https://twitter.com/ulrichlehner/status/1958245053207351774

Kant showed that when pure reason ventures beyond experience, it generates contradictions - his famous "antinomies." Reason produces equally compelling arguments for opposite conclusions about the world's beginning, composition, etc.

Is modern anorexia really so different from the extreme suffering of female saints throughout history? Let's explore the disturbing parallels between "holy anorexia" and secular eating disorders. 🧵 Meet Gemma Galgani - canonized in 1940, died of Tuberculosis at 25 in 1903. Her life was marked by extreme fasting, self-denial, and "flamboyant suffering." Sound familiar? Her behavior mirrors both medieval saints AND the "hysterics" studied by Freud.

For centuries, art historians claimed Michelangelo's horned Moses was based on Jerome's "crude translation error" in the Vulgate. But this narrative is crumbling under modern scholarship—and anyone who prays the traditional Hours (1962) could have told you why. The traditional story: Jerome mistranslated Hebrew "qaran" (to shine) as Latin "cornuta" (horned) in Exodus 34:29, leading to centuries of "mistaken" horned Moses art. Simple case of linguistic confusion, right?
Wrong.