Huh

The language is fine. It's the urgals I can't stand.

At first, the urgals are made out to look like Tolkien's orcs. Fine. And there's a lot to prove that: they slaughter innocent people, and they're pretty much the only ones who side with the main villain. And then, starting in the second book, it's slowly revealed that they're actually misunderstood, and that they can be good guys, too, without changing that much of their culture.

Also, there's this mountain that some of the badguys worship in a twisted way; but you can see that it's a mockery of Christianity, Catholicism/Orthodoxy in particular. The mountain is three topped, and there's a constant debate as to whether there's one god or three. There's also a fourth spire, lower than the others, and it's debated whether it should be worshiped at all. But the main ceremony proves it: all the worshipers drink the blood of the high priest. Sound familiar?

Sure, I enjoyed the first couple books. But from then on, things just got weirder and weirder, and I couldn't follow, and didn't really want to, either.

I didn't really draw that comparison at all. But now that you mention it I would be interested in knowing what kind of religious views the author has.
All I know is he was homeschooled and wrote book 1 at 15

I don't know his religious views. But not all homeschoolers are good Christians, unfortunately.

yeah obvs
A lot are evanjellyfish

A lot finish homeschool and get into the real world then kinda go full thot/fratboi cause they finally have freedom.

I knew a girl who went to good private school with Christian home and friends, then got to highschool and got pregnant by her sophomore year and got an abortion. She just parties all the time and still does it today.

TFW not fratboi
Feels good man

That sucks though

I'm glad God has protected me from that lifestyle

I just bought a complete LXX translation with the variants of Daniel, Esther, and Judges and including 4 Macc and Psalms or Solomon.

And a hardcover NKJV while I was at it for Masoretic Text and Textus Receptus

Lmao, just after he made a talk wanting to make baby murder after birth legal
https://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/virginia-gov-ralph-northam-s-yearbook-page-shows-men-in/article_c29e0f55-6284-5bde-8d93-8804ad507d5d.html

<@&273567579946090498> i invited Pendarric who is in vetting and possibly haras if he clicked the link also

http://m.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/wikileaks-publishes-crucial-papal-letter-on-order-of-malta-affair

>pediatrics
>wants baby murder
What a sick, twisted fuck

People like him should be on death row

@Byzas Can you now repeat that in non-potato?

There should be 9 bans here

@Mozalbete ⳩ maybe if you were hwyte

holy shit

self defence?!

what is the baby actively attempting to kill or harm the mother? that's so fucking absurd

Western Europe was retarded, lmao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YiEfN_iDH8

https://youtu.be/qh7rdCYCQ_U

Western Rome got ruined for a lot of reasons. Mostly elites screwed over the empire in all sorts of ways.

Good to hear our Swede chaps have the TLM

Prayers and whatnot for our Scandy chaps

What's your guys' thoughts on the rite of mortification of the flesh? Pic related.

The constantly whipping yourself is obviously just some sadomasochistic demon bullshit

Lol it exists in Eastern Orthodog tradition too

My understanding is that it's far less of a thing in the eastern tradition because our monks actually fast

The flesh is mortified with fasting, vigil, obedience, other things like that primarily

Well, I mean, first off, our monks fast too. Secondly, I know the Orthodox Church accepts the practices of the early Church, and the early Syrian monks did practice mortification of the flesh, not by using a discipline (a flog, basically) but by wearing hair-shirts or sack-cloths. Heck, it was actually a regular practice in the Old Testament religion as well.

I distinctly remember hearing something from a fellow parishioner about an orthodox monk who visited a catholic monestary and was in his cell praying, when he was disturbed from prayer by the sounds of the whips, and saw how the monks didn't keep any fast except for fish friday, and ate pretty normal/extravagant by monastic standards food