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@WilliamBennet30 @MrCasey62 @ShamelessPopery @needGod_net Augustine was a Manichaean before he converted.

@MrCasey62 @ShamelessPopery @needGod_net Augustine was not baptized as an infant Augustine wasn’t baptized till his death Not sure universal practice is demonstrable

Joe, @ShamelessPopery, to Ryan, @needGod_net: “The Apostles taught baptism and, according to Ephesians, the Early Christians seemed to have gotten it, & NONE of the Early Christians that we can find agree with you, doesn’t that resoundingly disprove your interpretation? 🧵

@rockreborn22 @MrCasey62 You don’t know what worship, veneration, or graven means. Literally, you are too stupid to understand it so you reflexively shout “word games!” because you are intellectually slow and possess an empty, meaningless faith.

@MrCasey62 Catholics actually think they’re gonna give God a lesson on what worship means on the day of judgment “We were just venerating the graven images”

Evangelicals, incapable of understanding big words, invariably default to the anti-Catholic accusation “it’s WORD GAMES!” It’s both an admission that they’re uneducated and a pathetically lazy cop-out.

@rockreborn22 @SpaceReno @MrCasey62 Your opinion on what the Bible says is meaningless.

@SpaceReno @MrCasey62 No, I don’t think that you intend to commit idolatry. However, self deception is a very real thing and the Bible talks about it a lot.

@rockreborn22 @SpaceReno @MrCasey62 You don’t know what idolatry is.

@SpaceReno @MrCasey62 That won’t be your excuse when he calls you to account for your idolatry?

@ConceptualJames Whoops, here comes the wall-kissing goy with more opinions on Christianity!

I find this mind-boggling, to be honest, and I'm not arguing that Christians should be pacifists or whatever. The example Wilson gives here about selling your cloak to buy a sword comes from the Gospel of Luke. I'm an agnostic and even know this story. He exegetes it wrong. In fact, he exegetes it completely wrong. The point of the story in Luke is that Jesus knows he's about to be taken by the Romans, so he instructs his disciples to get armed, even telling them to sell their cloaks to buy a sword if they must. The point is not to fight, though, as Wilson uses it to mean. The point is completely otherwise. Jesus actually makes this clear IN THE NEXT SENTENCE, BEFORE HE'S EVEN DONE SPEAKING to his disciples. He is doing it so that when he is taken he will fulfill the prophecy in Isaiah about the Messiah being "numbered among the transgressors." The context is that Romans would see an armed band as transgressors and thus take Jesus into custody upon those terms. When Jesus' disciples say they already have two swords, Jesus replies "it is enough." Enough for what? Fighting off Romans who are there to keep the law? No way. For looking like an armed band of transgressors, which would fulfill the prophecy in Isaiah? Yes. But it's not just speculation. The swords are explicitly NOT for fighting back. When Peter draws his sword in the forthcoming scene and slices the ear off a Roman in Gethsemane (where I have stood), Jesus rebukes him for it, saying whoever takes up the sword will die by it. That's one of the MOST FAMOUS STORIES IN THE WHOLE GOSPEL. His disciples weren't armed to fight back. Fighting back wasn't part of the equation. It's bewildering to me that Wilson would use this particular example to make his point. It reminds me of the time I mixed up the point of the story about the wheat and the tares because I wasn't actually all that familiar with the story but knew of it vaguely. Romans 13 (Paul, not Jesus) makes a better case for the authorities being invested with the authority to use force to maintain safety and order. Even the apt example of Jesus chasing moneychangers out of the Temple with a whip makes the case, but this other thing is simply mind-boggling to see. Even I know better.

@Sport76586 @CapturingChrist Krishna is particularly funny to lie about you fuckin goof lol

@Sport76586 @CapturingChrist Oh also none of that virgin birth bullshit potato jpg you sourced off Zeitgeist is true lol, literally fifteen seconds of googling any of these figures will show how dumb it is

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@seethroughit2 @Know_More_News @triggerpod @paleochristcon The Christian passiveness:

@Know_More_News @triggerpod @paleochristcon Omg he did the "muh whipped the money changers" line to counter Christianity's passiveness lol What a complete idiot

“Christianity was never a ‘be passive and get walked over’ religion.” Andrew Wilson @paleochristcon pushes back on the idea that Christianity is a pacifist religion. Forgive your enemies, yes, but that doesn’t mean allowing harm to continue. He points to Jesus forgiving on the cross, yet also cleansing the temple and speaking about the sword. What do you think? Where did the idea that Christianity = passivity actually come from?

@Atlantean69 @Wise_Alakazam @JRuebl47185 @triggerpod @paleochristcon This must slap if you know nothing about western history

@Wise_Alakazam @JRuebl47185 @triggerpod @paleochristcon Christians inherited an Empire. Try again

@JRuebl47185 @triggerpod @paleochristcon LOL

@triggerpod @paleochristcon Christianity is a foreign middle eastern woman-hating cult that destroyed the true ethnic gods of Europe. It’s a horrible religion, not much better than Islam that needs to be removed from the West. I was raised Christian so I should know.

@LizzieMarbach @redeemed_zoomer Heretics patting the backs of heretics 😆 You’re both welcome to repent of your manmade heresies and join the Church that Jesus Christ founded.

@redeemed_zoomer And God bless Presbyterians. 🫡 I appreciate the challenge to take ecclesiastical matters more seriously. You’re still always invited to our potlucks, Zoomer!

.@redeemed_zoomer describes the reaction he received when he began to respectfully defend his Protestant beliefs against RCC and EO. “There was a severe hostility and nastiness from those communities the second I began to criticize them slightly, which reminded me a lot of the leftist I encountered in high school.” Yup, unfortunate reality. This is the exact same thing that I’ve been saying for a long time too. Same exact experience.

@andydacus78 @HabitualLinest @Rach4Patriarchy “If one church goes rogue…” lol rogue from what? Who is the standard bearer? Guess it depends on what Eastern European country you were born in!

@HabitualLinest @Rach4Patriarchy Wait, so you're saying Rachel hasn't called things Orthadox church has done to go against true dogma?You,sir,are a liar. Also, the Orthadox church doesn't have a central authority.If one church goes rogue and says dumb things, that doesn't make all churches follow,like Catholics

Roman Catholics, please help me understand how you guys rationalize this absolute 180 by the papacy. How can you watch the church modernize in so many ways like this and say you’re the one true church?

@redeemed_zoomer @pr1nglegr0yper Catholicism is the only truth that matters, actually. You’re a Jewish teenager who thinks your 16th century Scottish heretic church matters at all lol sit down kiddo

@pr1nglegr0yper Right I forgot. Truth doesn't matter in Catholicism. Representing people well doesn't matter either. Just vibes.

@redeemed_zoomer @Stand_4_Liberty He isn’t lying. You’re lying. Because you’re a liar with a Catholicism complex, because every day you feel the weight of your incomplete and insufficient heretic church bearing down upon you.

@Stand_4_Liberty I mean you guys would call Protestant "scholars" morons if they lied about Catholic doctrine after supposedly being Catholics

@redeemed_zoomer @ErikKron9 He isn’t lying, though. Maybe your particular 16th century heresy doesn’t exactly view the Eucharist as “just a meal,” but the vast majority of protestant sects very much do, and you don’t have any authority whatsoever to adjudicate your position over theirs.

@ErikKron9 Why? Would you say it's shameful to call Protestants who lie about Catholicism morons?

@ProtPhilosopher Yeah, demons are famously interested in bringing people to Christ 🙄 What a ridiculous notion that only an anti-Catholic Christcultist could cook up

Are the Fatima miracles demonic in origin? Watch my debate review with Redeemed Zoomer and Sean Luke to learn about many of the key issues. youtu.be/zphlNB9TN0E?si…

@WiseWolf52 @5Solas2 @bp061122 If he did it once, it disproves your entire theology lol

@ALPHAQUINAS @5Solas2 @bp061122 Paul baptized the household of specific people. It doesn't say he always did that.

This is how infant baptism started and eventually became a common practice. It was NOT taught or practiced by the apostles.

@WiseWolf52 @5Solas2 @bp061122 That’s not how reading comprehension works.

@ALPHAQUINAS @5Solas2 @bp061122 And where does it say that specific one mentioned does?

@5Solas2 @bp061122 Do you think SOME households might have infants? Like holy fuck man try for a single second of your miserable life to not be the most obvious bad faith liar on the internet.

@bp061122 Every household has infants?