🧵 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.