There is still a use for liturgical fossils since they help to keep the signs for the significance even when a generation forgets. The danger of super low church movements is that they remove the ability to recover what was stored within the inheritance they received.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 28, 2026
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Latin is a great example of a useful liturgical fossil since most people do not have more than a passing understanding of it but the language is also well documented enough that you could extract extremely precise meaning from Latin texts using a dictionary and a grammar.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 28, 2026
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Every time I remember that hocus pocus is possibly a folk corruption of hoc est corpus, I remember the danger of liturgy becoming a museum of fossils.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 28, 2026
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Western culture is right for valuing spiritualities, since spiritualities orient all temporalities and reveal their ultimate purpose in God.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 12, 2026
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Westerners like talking about Chinese underground churches, but from what I can tell their overall catechism is at least as bad for laity here and is combined with a broader culture that at the end of the day does not care for even the semblance of logical debate.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 12, 2026
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Young people seriously scoff at "old outdated beliefs" then get oneshot by the stupidest stuff ever.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 21, 2026
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And to be clear I think religion is also very important and many of the people who were perhaps oppressed by Christendom still were and are better off seeing the wisdom of the institutions of Christendom, incl. theology... but again, there needs to be breathing room.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) July 20, 2026
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Christians need the knowledge that Christ is the map of God that we can know and that we must read it by the Holy Spirit, to prevent certain idolatry.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) February 19, 2025
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Putting it another way, Chinese people are all very gungho about getting into an overcrowded idol's temple, while Westerners are lazy getting up for church service.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 12, 2026
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It is so important to spirituality to realize that God is speaking, but we are not yet in a place to fully understand and can only get there by his renewal of our senses and his condescension in communication (most of all through the incarnation).— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 13, 2026
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I cannot imagine something more worthwhile than dreaming, these days. For those of pure heart and moral direction, this will lead to a new age of flourishing.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 24, 2026
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The challenge for Chinese culture is to orient temporalities to spiritualities, and the challenge for Western culture is to connect spiritualities to temporalities.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 12, 2026
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It is male/schizophrenic to instrumentalize something, and female/autistic to adore something. The proper ordering is to act as Christ's bride and also act as creation's groom. (The people who understand this *pattern* best are unfortunately mammon worshippers.)— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 28, 2026
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To be clear, this does not give a free pass to those who complain about scholasticism in the context of classical Trinitarian theology, or those who believe that true faith is marked by anti-intellectualism or uncreativity.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) September 15, 2026
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Chinese is remarkably good for holding together the same *vibe* for thousands of years, but at the expense of passing on the same rigorous systematic understanding. Meanwhile, Greek and Latin have themselves undergone many vibe shifts, but wrap around a central classical logic.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 12, 2026
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We cannot choose only signs (apophaticism) or only significance (Charismatic). We need proper signs for the proper significance.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) February 19, 2025
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It is because we are not perfect that we are best off giving the benefit of the doubt and engaging in the usual cultural Christian niceties which give each other some wiggle room. But we should never forget that this is about letting God act, not about moralizing to God.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 13, 2026