Watson on the 6th Commandment: mercy works adorn the gospel as fruit adorns a tree (Matt. 5:16)—they credit religion and silence its critics. Westminster-level conviction.
Contrast today: God is fine with our bad PR, gainsayers deserve snark, a few meals last month covers it. Watson’s question lingers: how do you let your light shine?
Puritanism -- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken
Puritanism -- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HLMencken #Puritanism
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico
Puritanism -- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken
Credit card companies in Canada (and elsewhere) have been imposing draconian restrictions on the use of their payment networks for anything even slightly racy -- digital Puritanism, enforced by a handful of companies that have a combined monopoly stranglehold on payment systems.
Risque video content? Racy text? Erotic drawings? All forbidden to one degree or another, by un-elected moral crusaders that you simply can't choose to not use. If you're a content creator depending on payments / subscriptions, you can be demonitized instantly, with no explanation and no recourse, at any moment. Goodbye, income!
This petition isn't perfect - it's written solely from the point of view of someone concerned with the effects on the videogame market, not any other type of content creator - but it's a start. If you're in Canada and want payment processors to not engage in such discriminatory practices, take a look at this (brief) petition and consider signing it.
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6695
#PaymentProcessor #CreditCardCompanies #Puritanism #demonitized #opaque #stealth #Canada #censorship #content #ContentCreator #mature #adult
📖 🎙️ **David D. Hall, "The Puritans: A Transatlantic History" (Princeton UP, 2019)**
"_A breathtaking work of scholarship by an eminent historian, The Puritans: A Transatlantic History (Princeton University Press, 2019) examines the tribulations and doctrinal dilemmas that led to the fragmentation and eventual decline of Puritanism._"
🔗 https://open.spotify.com/episode/65RzLYpTZwOcdJMvsorpEX
#History #Histodons #Puritanism #Christianity #Religion @histodons
Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io | Censorship | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/mastercard-visa-backlash-adult-games-removed-online-stores-steam-itchio-ntwnfb
Itch has been forced to purge adult content and our first issue has been caught up in it. In the case of zines, that looks as though that takes the form of removal from search results, rather than full delisting.
It looks like you can still download it for free and tip us for copies, so do that while you still can, I guess.
https://voidkvlt.itch.io/how-to-interact-with-transmasculine-people-without-being-fucking-transphobic-vol
Puritan terror is getting more and more Orwellian. Again, enough USA for today, in fact for the next week.
Thomas Skinner, Reformed Dutch pastor, quotes a French agriculturalist, Adrien Étienne Pierre on slavery. Enslaved families are ripped apart at auction, the marriage vow disruped, adulterous unions forced, miles away. All among devout Christians with their their assent.
Slavery disrupted families. Today, are the ones talking most about families also most ready to rehabilitate the reputation of slavery?
How can you protect families?
Greg Johnson
Wisdom in Space
C.
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋
Miro Collas
Void of Tranquillity 🔞
Thomas