Bastion of Christ

@jhwurleriii @Mtuatwy @MibshaD Fair enough, I can see how I jumped a step and considered a punishment of death as judgement; but ultimately the judgement is regarding the soul’ destination, which no man has the power to decide.

@Divin8tor @Mtuatwy @MibshaD Capital punishment is done by the state, to whom Paul in Romans says God gave the power of the sword for precisely this purpose. This applies also to imprisonment and other punishment. No vigilante justice.

If abortion is "playing God," so is chemo, insulin, and C-sections. Funny how only women's medical choices get called sacrilegious.

@lilbabygandhi It’s uncivilised—that’s all there is to it. We do things that are graceful; that do not make others feel uncomfortable. We don’t slurp our food or drink, we eat at a reasonable pace; not gobbling up our food. It is about manners and respect.

There hasn’t been a single good argument against eating with your hands other than “it looks weird” or “it’s the wrong type of food to eat with your hands”

It is fair regarding the death penalty to call this hypocritical; killing someone is literally taking judgement on them. But this is not the case for abortion. We should prevent lives from being taken at every turn, and leave only God to decide when a spirit must leave this world. This is what it means when we leave judgement to God—death is judgement.

Christians have a problem because they are hypocritical about this issue. They say only god can judge yet they try to make laws about abortion and the death penalty. That is ridiculous! But on the other side, women say it’s only their choice and that simply isn’t true. It take a man and a woman to make the decisions that lead to having to think about abortion. Personal responsibility needs to be taken and both need to make the decisions. Of course, it is different for minors, rape and incest. The biggest problem that should not be a problem is too many people try to force others to pay for abortion. Except for the above exceptions there is no reason why taxpayers should pay for this. It was voluntary to get pregnant and the two who did it need to be responsible and pay for their decisions. If they cannot then they go to their families and friends not the whole country!

@MibshaD It’s less about playing God and more about playing against God. So much is done to ensure we have the breath of life, and by Jesus’ example: we should only ever seek to safe life, not take it.

Jesus specifically tells the apostles to pray in his name. And he proves through scripture that he is God in the flesh. This is even prophesied in Old Testament Scripture. Isaiah prophesied about a Son who would be known as “Everlasting Father, God Almighty, Prince of Peace”. We also see prophecies about Jesus’ name—Emanuel—which in Hebrew means God with us. Is this not testifying about God in the flesh?

@basic_chanel What is Scientology? I assumed these were science labs people were raiding. Am I missing something?

I don’t really understand why it’s so universally accepted to mock this faith. imagine the trouble you’d get in if you did this in a mosque or synagogue?

@cessonmute We didn’t say periods are murder, we said abortion is murder. It’s when the two come together—sperm and egg—that life comes about. Without both, life would not be a possible outcome.

if abortion is MURDER, then every time you ejaculate into a tissue, you’re committing MASS GENOCIDE. let’s be CONSISTENT.

On a cellular level your body is strikingly similar to most life on earth. Most of what we share is probably genetic instructions that instructs everything on a cellular level. Mortality is also the thing every life form shares, and so with it we could assume a large portion of DNA goes towards that. The point I was making is that we share more DNA with Neanderthals and the genetic record spoken of in the OP means that we likely mixed with a small percentage of them and interbred/took them into our encampments, essentially absorbing additional features from them.

@Divin8tor @_OKJ__ I share 98% of my DNA with an elephant, and so do you. I have zero characteristics of an elephant, I can’t speak for you though.

I saw a video where Neil deGrasse Tyson narrated how racist 19th century anthropologists set up human racial hierarchies with white males at the top of the evolutionary ladder and Blacks and other non whites lower down, still evolving and closer to the apes. He explained that back then, calling someone a Neanderthal was a straight up insult because Neanderthals were seen as brutish and primitive. But then in the 1990s, once genetic testing became possible, scientists discovered that Europeans carry 1 to 3% Neanderthal DNA while Africans have 0%. Suddenly, research papers started coming out praising how creative, imaginative, and skilled with tools the Neanderthals must have been. Tyson pointed out it was a complete u-turn of the Neanderthal image that began right around the time they learned this genetic information. Interesting example on how bias can shape science… and this is true mostly in anthropological research…

I don’t see what you are objecting to here, there are scholars debating on these facts all the time, it wouldn’t be a question of debate if it was all false. These are my specific takes: Noah’s ark happened, I doubt they were the only family but it doesn’t change the fact there were life devastating flood everywhere. Adam and Eve also has complete plausibility, especially when you understand the Bible, for the 6 day creation story is a prophecy, it lays out the 6000 year redemption work God carries out. The real Adam Jesus refers to is the first man to know God, the first man of faith, that is the real Adam that once walked this earth, not the prophetical Adam which is extensively described in the NT as Jesus’ second coming (Last Adam). In regards to the pole that cured snake bites, it is clear this has been misunderstood. That story is a stark warning against idols. God was curing the snake bites, just as Jesus healed the sick, the pole was rather a symbol God made to show the Israelites that they should not ha teach the Israelites. The moral of the story was that the Israelites became corrupt and believed the pole itself was healing them instead of God.

@Divin8tor @dannyphiltalk Jesus "was the example to us"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Christians telling me that Jesus is just as human as me is way worse than saying that Superman is just as human as me. Jesus has all the powers of Superman plus infinitely more - but they maintain that he and I have the same nature? Lol, only in appearance!

The crucifix has no power. Did the Bible not already teach us about the bronze snake and all those that believed this idol had any power. All power and glory belongs to God. There is no object that will bring you any more security than God. Stop idolising the cross, it is in direct opposition to the Ten Commandments God gave us.

I get that this is supposed to be a "gotcha question", but how sick does a person have to be in order for this to be the example they think up???

@poperespecter1 Intercessory prayer is through Jesus alone, praying to Jesus is intercessory prayer by every definition. It is the only example the Bible ever shows for us.

These people's whole attack on Catholicism relies on pretending not to understand the concept of intercessory prayer.

@FuentesUpdates This is not Christian behaviour. Trust in the Lord your God, for when it is your time, there will be nothing that can stop what happens. To assault anyone is pointless, it is a sin not worth committing.

Case dismissed, bitch 😈

The fact is the Neanderthals by any standard we can measure are more capable than us. To be frank that is the truth and it’s an empirical truth in many cases. In all fairness it’s hard to explain why the Neanderthals were ever portrayed poorly. And an important note; we always knew they resided in Europe, it would have been logical from the beginning to assume they were most commonly related to Europeans.

@jasonjo84849666 @_OKJ__ Regardless of that if we share genes with Neanderthals that means we share similarities with them, so in regards to Neil’s point it still stands even if evolution doesn’t exist.

@_OKJ__ Personally I think anyone who takes this evolution nonsense seriously is probably an idiot. It’s completely baseless and seems to change every time it needs to just to be relevant. The fact that there’s zero actual evidence of it has always just made me dismiss it.

A girl at my school who I was friends with for a short while had a few stories. In her past school she was raped three times by people at the school (not actually on school grounds but by attendants of the school) One of them genuinely raped her, she was buying drugs and the crazy part is that she brought from him again, and was raped again. Considering the trauma I don’t think she spoke up at the time and people at her school didn’t really know about it until much later From there things got out of hand. She then accused a boy of raping her at a house party, by all accounts from other people at her school this guy was very sound and super nice. Nonetheless, she was drunk and so was he, and when she gets drunk she gets on top of whoever she can. Eventually when she had a boyfriend every time she got drunk she was kissing other dudes and doing all sorts that should have ended the relationship but the guy must have enjoyed it idk haha. Nonetheless after pursuing this guy and regretting having sex she accused him of rape, gets the police involved and everything. Pretty peak for the guy considering the school put him in suspension for weeks and from the outside in it looked like he did it. The case was dropped because people were at the house party and saw everything, this is why I believe she accused him in the first place because she had sex with him in the pool and it was not all that discrete. Whilst the party was inside almost everyone knew and it was basically the highlight of that party. The guy is lucky there were as many witnesses as there were and not just a few people as the overwhelming evidence pointed at her doing everything consensually and perusing him more than anything. It still ruined his school life so he moved to a different area and disappeared from here.

¿Alguien conoce UN SOLO CASO como el que explica la viñeta? Fíjate que no te pido 1000, ni 100, ni 10. Dame 1.

@RedWallet80 @JAviQt1 @JesusIsLord0405 Yeah same here lol, haven't logged into desktop for a few weeks but it was necessary for this

@Divin8tor @JAviQt1 @JesusIsLord0405 I know the feeling. i have to switch to desktop for these haha.

Ngl I’m struggling bad with the Faith atm Please pray for me The state of the Catholic Church in Germany is slowly killing my faith. Idk how I’m supposed to survive this. Also, I started to doubt the Magisterium on multiple issues, including some core teachings of Catholicism. I’m scared rn

@RedWallet80 @JAviQt1 @JesusIsLord0405 It took me quite some time to respond haha. I apologise for writing so much, I definitely got carried away a few times.

@Divin8tor @JAviQt1 @JesusIsLord0405 Thank you for the response, please give me some time to digest and formulate a response.

You need at least one parent to stay at home, kids need supervision. You could argue to hire a nanny but you are still relying on a parent to watch over the kids. So, given that nannies don't have the emotional attachment of a true parent its suicide, best that you supervise and raise your own kids. Since men are far more capable economically than women, you most certainly want the man to be out working, and that leaves the mother staying at home.

@Divin8tor @ma1ybe And you failed at it spectacularly. You shouldnt encourage stay at home moms either since it has no added value for society.

What a waste, these guys should have become stay at home dads, they could have raised 25 scientists.

A video far trumps the account written in a book that may well have had any agenda behind it. There is also far more evidence through history that shows the British were the most compasionate. Africans enslaved Africans, the whole world did it, nobody ever abolished it, until the British did. The largest empire in the world that could have enslaved multiple continents if they so pleased. Based on the amount of slavery in Africa we can stipulate than many African nations in the shoes of the British empire would have enslaved multiple continents. Though there is no strong evidence to support that claim so its more of a thought experiment to show that things could have been much worse off and we should be thankful to the British empire for their compassion and effort towards ending the slave trade and ending slavery across most of the world.

@PsyGuy007 We're very sure, the British have done far worse to a 15yo Africans, for the past 800 years It's literally in history books.

🇬🇧 London: A group of around fifty Africans violently assaulted a 15-year-old white British girl, leaving her in critical condition. She collapsed not far from the scene before being rushed to hospital, suffering from internal injuries and a concussion. 🗣️ If it were your daughter, what would you do?