UnlikelyJacobin

This will be a pinned threat about Holocaust Denial posts I see on X. I will cover some of the most common tactics, and point out problems with the negationist position.

@greg16676935420 Yes, I value understanding the world.

I just remembered the periodic table and wonder if anyone has ever actually used that after being forced to learn it in school

@realCarola2Hope You're equivocating. The RCC is not synonymous with the ekklesia katholikos.

Before any denominations, splinter groups, or rebrands… there was simply the Church. The Catholic Church. Catholics are the original Christians, the ones with the direct line from the Apostles, the early Church Fathers, and 2,000 years of unbroken continuity. Everything else came later.

@invertedworld9 It doesn't flow uphill.

How’s that flow uphill on your ball?

@MichaeliArchang It's one thing to discuss and criticize doctrinal views, but I suggest strong hesitation before criticizing how someone worships.

Protestants: the Mass is unbiblical! Also Protestants:

@ElementasSeries It happens from time to time. Sometimes, it's just my mood. I need to read something different and come back later.

You ever read a book, and there’s nothing wrong with it, but you just can’t get into it? It’s so frustrating. I don’t want to DNF, but I don’t want to read it. 😫

@swamthetiber25 Christ brings the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

As Christians, God has made clear the ordinary means by which He saves us. For example, baptism is commanded by Christ and is the normal way a person enters into salvation. If someone desires baptism but dies before receiving it, we trust that God can save them in an extraordinary, non-normative way, because He is not limited by the sacraments. This does not mean that baptism—or the Eucharist or reconciliation—lack saving power. On the contrary, these sacraments are precisely the normal and regular means God has chosen to communicate saving grace. While God can act outside the sacraments, we are not free to disregard them, since God has made it abundantly clear that this is how He ordinarily saves.

@maximumpain333 They don't lose the momentum from contact with the Moon by jumping.

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@ElChandler Yes, when it is done well. It takes a particular type of writer to capture immersive feelings of the past, specifically character's mindsets.

Do you enjoy reading historical fiction?

@CatholicDrip___ Yes, a gay person can be saved by faith in Christ.

For Sola Fide Protestants Can a gay person who believes in Christ be saved? If no, how is that Sola Fide? Didn’t Christ pay the debt?

@TheStaad You don't know much about Islamic expansion, do you?

Islam isn’t the enemy that Zionists and Evangelicals would have you believe Eliminate Zionism, and radical Islam becomes far more manageable Most Muslims are peaceable people. The extremist sects of Islam exist for the benefit of the Zionist agenda It’s time people start realizing this Israel is a genocidal regime. How “extreme” would you become if your family and your people were displaced, targeted and killed off in mass attacks? Would you stand down just because it was perpetrated by “God’s chosen people” I wouldn’t

@Ltrain4241 @Yskyb33 @TerryNizzle But they are both oriented in the same direction. Feet towards gravity. Head towards sky. One is not upside down to the other because their shared plane is mapped across a spheroid. That isn't contradictory.

@UnlikelyJacobin @Yskyb33 @TerryNizzle The part about how people on the south pole are upside down from the people on the north pole. Since you claim the globe is an accurate representation on earth then that is also what you believe 🤦‍♂️Denying this means your denying the globe. You can't have it both ways.

@NorieTheDreamer You like what you like. The listed books just hit so many of the niches of epic fantasy, it seems weird someone would like the genre but bounce off so many of its best examples.

@UnlikelyJacobin Nah. I like epic fantasy. My favorite book is actually epic fantasy.

Idc if this is a real opinion or not but it is fully possible to like fantasy and not enjoy any of these authors' prose In the last 3 years I have read 194 fantasy books, so don't even try me.

@Crash49676428 @CatholicDrip___ Leo IX was the schismatic.

@UnlikelyJacobin @CatholicDrip___ Then definitively prove that orthodoxy didn't schism and left the church

As a Catholic I can say my church was stated by Christ (we got receipts🧾) But is Protestantism, the act of starting a competing church, Biblical?💧

@Emma506131772 @Xtopher_Uzo Well, you mentioned a non-Apostle (Mark) [aren't there like three claimants to this title?], a person who rejects specific Apostolic succession (Patriarch of Constantinople), and Thomas. Where is the of apostolic succession from John? Matthias? Paul?

@UnlikelyJacobin @Xtopher_Uzo But I've just listed to you the churches they are found in

Catholics didn’t invent the papacy - Jesus built it into His Kingdom. Let's go back in time. Abraham had Isaac. Isaac had Jacob. God changed Jacob's name to Israel, and Israel had 12 sons (12 tribes). God’s people always had structure. Now fast forward to the new testament. Jesus came preaching the Kingdom (Matthew 4). He was not starting something random. He was restoring Israel. So what did He do? He appointed 12 apostles. That was not coincidence. That was the 12 tribes being reconstituted. But here’s where it gets deeper: In the Davidic kingdom, the king didn’t rule alone. He had a chief steward - the one “over the house” (Isaiah 22). This man (chief steward) carried the key of the house of David: “What he opens, no one shuts; what he shuts, no one opens.” That is delegated authority. Does it sound familiar? Now read Gospel of Matthew 16: “You are Peter…. I will give you the KEYS of the kingdom..… whatever you bind and loose..…” The same imagery. The same authority. The same Same kingdom structure. Jesus, the Son of David, is restoring His kingdom - and He appoints a chief steward. Peter And this wasn't just about Peter - it is about AN OFFICE. - In Book of Isaiah 22, the steward is replaced (Shebna → Eliakim). But the role continues. Same thing in Acts of the Apostles 1 - Judas was s replaced. This office continues, so how much more Peter's office? You screamed right? 😲 Offices don’t die. They continue. So if the apostles have successors, Peter’s office doesn’t vanish. That’s the papacy. 👍 Jesus is King. The Pope is His servant - “servant of the servants of God.”

@Xtopher_Uzo Who is the current living direct heir of Matthias? Paul? Barnabas?

@UnlikelyJacobin Apostolic succession is a thing

@Emma506131772 @Xtopher_Uzo I know about the Pentarchy, that's the authoritative group that Pope Leo IX rebelled against. But as important as Apostolic Succession is, you don't know the lines of most of the 12?

While the unbroken line of succession for the Papacy (Peter) is meticulously documented in Rome, the lines of the other 11 apostles and their successors are not centralized in one place. The early church recognized five primary centers of apostolic authority—the "Pentarchy"—which still maintain unbroken lines of bishops that pass on the faith, though they are not all in union with Rome: Eg St. Mark: Traditionally recognized as the founder of the Church of Alexandria in Egypt. St. Andrew: Often cited as the founder of the Church of Constantinople (now the Ecumenical Patriarchate). St. Thomas: The Syrian Orthodox and Malankara Churches in India trace their apostolic lineage directly to Thomas.

@Xtopher_Uzo All those hints and you still don't recognize Leo X?

@UnlikelyJacobin Who ordered it? The Catholic church or a group of guys

THE "CATHOLIC CHURCH SOLD FORGIVENESS" MYTH, DEBUNKED. In the early 1500s, some preachers like Johann Tetzel pushed indulgences hard to raise money for St. Peter’s Basilica. Tetzel’s pitch ("As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs") was aggressive and misleading. But here’s what they actually were: Indulgences never forgave sins. Sins are forgiven only in Confession through God’s mercy. Indulgences only remit the temporal punishment (like penance) due to sins already forgiven. They come from the "treasury of merits" of Christ and the saints, not from buying God’s pardon. The Church never officially taught "pay money, get forgiven." That was an abuse by greedy individuals. Martin Luther rightly slammed the corruption in his 95 Theses. The Church listened. At the Council of Trent, it banned all "evil traffic" in indulgences and reformed the practice. No more selling. Ever! The Church never officially taught "pay money, get forgiven." That was an abuse by greedy or overzealous individuals, not doctrine. The Council of Trent later cracked down hard on the abuses while upholding the ancient practice of indulgences. The caricature of the Church "selling salvation" is a myth. What happened was human greed twisting a spiritual practice. Reformation-era anger was understandable, but the popular version often gets the theology wrong.

@___ZELIG___ @GringoPapist It was politics, all political maneuvering by courtiers and factions within the Spanish court.

@UnlikelyJacobin @GringoPapist Dude, go learn history. He has to let all his money go to be freed...

Christopher Columbus was a good man.

@___ZELIG___ @GringoPapist No, he was not.

@UnlikelyJacobin @GringoPapist He was convicted of murders, dude...