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@Ianmoss1992 @Dastrunk @ShamsCharania I’m sorry you hate your dad.

@DJfromIndy @Dastrunk @ShamsCharania Religion should be outlawed

The Chicago Bulls are waiving guard Jaden Ivey after his recent anti-LGBTQ comments amid several rants on religion and other topics, sources tell ESPN.

@LJersey77 @RevBWarr I rest my case

@DJfromIndy @RevBWarr No clue what you mean.

I still can't believe you don't know what Protestants teach. I eat Christ's true body and drink his true blood every Sunday in His Supper.

@Dastrunk @Ianmoss1992 @ShamsCharania Sorry, meant to reply directly to the other guy

@DJfromIndy @Ianmoss1992 @ShamsCharania I feel like everything went over your head. I’ve stated clearly here in multiple threads that the gays deserve a voice and the religious people deserve a voice.

@Dastrunk @Ianmoss1992 @ShamsCharania So religious people aren’t allowed to actually believe in their God or religious texts in your America, but everyone has to agree with your religious beliefs in your America? How is that not a theocracy of anti-theism?

@Ianmoss1992 @ShamsCharania Or you could just have thick skin and not care that someone sees the world differently? Men use to fight wars and now they are scared of words. Who cares if you think it's disrespectful, respectfully. It's just as disrespectful to silence religion. Let people have opinions.

@Mukelei2 @ImprecatoryOne Ah, You assume I’m Roman Catholic. Your mistake is thinking that if I hold to the historic views of the church about the Eucharist, or baptism for example, that I couldn’t possibly be protestant. Upon study, you’ll find many modern evangelical inventions are novel to the church.

@DJfromIndy @ImprecatoryOne Dont be a disingenuous moron. The church is massively corrupt and has been for a millennia. Dont hide behind dishonest rhetoric and begin recognizing objective fact. Your “holy” church actively protects homosexual ped0phil3 r4pist! Your church is the liar, not me pointing it out

You should question your theology on a topic if it didn’t exist for the first 1500 years of the church.

@Mukelei2 @ImprecatoryOne Ok… so your contention is that Polycarp, Ignatius, John Chrysostom, Augustine… they burned people alive? Also, the reformation happened for the reasons your citing… but the church wasn’t lost before the reformation. To say so is to call Christ a liar.

@DJfromIndy @ImprecatoryOne Church history, as in the church that burned people alive over 400 years? Female pope? Orgies in Vatican? Medici Pope? Indulgences? Actively protecting r4pist priests?? The church is massively corrupt and youre all eating up medieval psyops. Adherence to the bible is all we have

Not necessarily. But, if it’s new, it’s wrong.

@doulospur @ImprecatoryOne If it’s new it’s wrong.

@ImprecatoryOne If it's old it's right....?

@LJersey77 @RevBWarr “Ick, you sound like the universal church” lmbo

@RevBWarr Ick, You sound like a Catholic. You're eating bread and wine (perhaps grapejuice), That's it.

@Mukelei2 @ImprecatoryOne When it comes to doctrine, I’m not sure genetic fallacy should be dismissed. If we all are working from the same set of scriptures, and you interpret them one way, I interpret them another way, a belief existing in majority for much of church history should add a lot of weight.

@ImprecatoryOne You should begin by looking up what a genetic fallacy is

@qumoporo @ImprecatoryOne @Rdubz316 Idk if I agree with you or not. What specific belief are you talking about?

@ImprecatoryOne @Rdubz316 Apparently you don't

@dragodimitrov I am actually in general opposed to chemical contraception, not barrier or withdraw contraception. My situation is unique, my wife had a near death experience with our second pregnancy. Now she’s working on getting her blood pressure down, but out of medical necessity, we use con

I think attachment to contraception is the #1 thing holding Protestants back from becoming Catholic.

@OGBURGKATHOLIK I am at a LCMS church in zionsville Indiana, started by Hans Filene’s father. It’s my first Lutheran church. I am realizing I really lucked into it. 2 divine services only, common cup, Eucharist on tongue common, encouraged private confession and absolution, biblical studies.

If you are a young man in the LCMS, and you are a regularly attending a local congregation or have already become a confirmed member listen this is for you. Get a copy of your congregations Constitution and Bylaws, read it, study it, know it well. Become a voting member of your congregation and then begin the work of being a positive force for change in your local body. The chances are your congregations voter assembly is a small group maybe one tenth the size of your congregation, consisting mostly of 55+ year olds that think the way to reach your generation is with contemporary rock songs or making the church behave like a non denominational church. These brothers and sisters aren’t evil, they are just misguided, and a product of their own time. Go into the assembly of voters and speak up about the concerns of the younger generations, speak up about the identity crisis facing young men, speak up about the harms that shallow modernity have brought to the young people. Most importantly of all encourage your board of elders and your pastor to continue to faithfully deliver Law/Gospel preaching, and reverent worship. I recently made the move to do this in my local congregation, and I was shocked to find that out of the maybe 160-200 regular attendees our church has, the voters assembly consisted of maybe 30 people. Me and my friend were the youngest in the room in our early 30s, the age gap between us and the next youngest person was roughly 30 years. Let me tell you this is not due to a lack of young men in our church, it’s due to laziness, inaction, and in some cases ignorance. Be involved in your congregation. It is your local family, it is the bastion of truth in your community. It’s important, not just for you and your family, but for the future of the Church.

@Young_Anglican @redeemed_zoomer The LCMS is starting to gain young families. If they can get out of their own way, ditch COWO impulses, and get some loud, competent apologists saturating the market we’d see a major gain.

There aren't ANY short term solutions to the loss of traditional institutional Protestantism in the US. Reformation of TEC will take generations. The development of ACNA/Continuum into Institutions that actually influence our society would also take generations. Pick your war.

@Philly__Nation @danorlovsky7 Yes it is. If anything it’s more funny. It’s great to see a guy on TV acting like an adult and poking fun at himself.

@danorlovsky7 Not funny when you do it

What BIG GAMES Has Danny Hurley won?

@CatholicRob @progredi63 Should you be pushing those considering further away? Because this confirms their worst fears and my understanding is most ease into these things once they have better understanding. What you’re doing here opposes every Catholic apologist I’ve ever listened to.

@progredi63 Once again, thank God, no. I have been blessed to be Catholic my entire life.

If the average Evangelical would see you, a Catholic, as a fellow Christian, you’re probably doing Catholicism all wrong. You need to be Mary-maxxing. You need to be indulgence maxxing. You need to be asking the intercession of the saints constantly.

@5Solas2 Neither are any extra-biblical writings during the time the Bible was written, but scholars use them all the time to understand the context. Why is it ridiculous to find a consensus among those taught by apostles and say- “this is likely what the early church taught & believed.”?

The church father's writings are NOT inspired.

@GoldandBurner I’m an IU fan so what I’m about to say should be all the proof you need. The refs were AWFUL in that game, and Purdue got hosed. They were literally getting the crap beat out of them all game.

This is what we’re up against. Refs are already letting Arizona get away with murder. TKR being held with both hands by the Arizona defender on the inbounds. Foul on TKR.

@dmsevoac @RevBWarr Do you think it’s possible that you’re reading something into Galatians 4 that actually isn’t there nor intended?

@RevBWarr Infant baptism is not needed. They are under the head of the family until they reach of age, according to Galations 4.

If justification is not by faith alone, then baptizing infants becomes unclear and even contradictory. What is Baptism in this scenario? If justification relies in any way on human choice, understanding, or effort, then an infant, who cannot think, choose, or act, would be excluded by definition. Baptism would either become an empty ritual, just a sign waiting for future significance, or it would be delayed until the child can meet the supposed requirements for justification. Infant Baptism only makes sense when justification is fully God’s work, where grace is not a reaction to human action but the source of faith itself. In this perspective, Baptism is not a symbolic act based on human qualifications, but a way for God to act: forgiving sins, giving the Holy Spirit, and creating faith when and where He chooses; even in infants. If you deny justification by faith alone, Baptism must change from being a divine gift to a human statement. Once that change occurs, infants no longer fit. However, if justification is truly by grace alone through faith alone, then infant Baptism is not just reasonable, it is a necessary and consistent affirmation that salvation belongs entirely to God, who gives His gifts freely, even to those who cannot contribute anything of their own.

@Freedom__Works @genericuser76 @HoldenCCole @sola_chad This is the second time you’ve made this claim. Please show me where he explicitly states this. What Augustine is saying is that if how we interpret scripture seems to contradict what is obviously true, we most likely are getting the text wrong and may need to revisit its meaning

@genericuser76 @HoldenCCole @sola_chad This isn't true. Augustine explicitly stated if Scripture contradicted Plato he would reinterpret Scripture to make it fit Plato.

“I genuinely think that there are born-again believers within the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Church, not because of but in spite of what those churches are often teaching.” -Wes Huff