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Georgia, USA Katılım Ekim 2019
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@Pontifex This is indeed not the message or meaning of Easter.
Praise God for the risen Saviour, the Redeemer of my soul.
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In the light of #Easter, let us allow ourselves to be amazed by Christ! Let us allow our hearts to be transformed by his immense love for us! Let those who have weapons lay them down! Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them!
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@libsoftiktok The Windsors know how to stay in power and they know the future of England is Islam. Why would a Muslim nation keep a Christian on the throne?
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King Charles won't give an address for Easter, but he'll give one for an Islamic holiday
The UK has fallen.
GB Politics@GBPolitcs
🚨BREAKING: Buckingham Palace has confirmed King Charles will not issue an Easter message this year
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@Pat_Stedman @mns7390 It also reeks of pride from both sides of the argument.
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@mns7390 It's not that I am telling Catholics to accept Protestantism or vice versa. It's rather to band together and focus more on what unifies rather than divides you. Oneupmanship is destructive and autistic behavior in a crisis where you share the same enemies and problems
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The Protestant Reformation was in response to corruption in the Catholic Church and decentralized access to the Bible. It was an inevitability.
And it "succeeded." The Catholic Church today bears little resemblance to the Catholic Church at the time. Catholics do their own Bible study in vernacular now; even the mass is done this way. Most Catholics have their own relationship with God and do not launder their salvation through a Priest, even if they do sometimes go to confession (many do not). They basically ignore the Pope and what he says.
If you talk to any regular, non-trad Catholic (who are so trad they are actually doing things Rome doesn't do) and ask them what they believe, they would likely speak from personal conscience rather than defer to doctrine. This would have been considered heretical Protestantism by the Church 500 years ago.
This is not to disparage Catholicism, which rejuvenated itself in the counter-reformation (competition improves things) and has evolved on many issues while preserving its essential rituals, structure, and tenets of faith. It is also not to endorse the myriad twists and often absurd directions modern protestantism has taken.
It's simply to say yes, fundamentally these arguments are irrelevant. 95% of Christians don't know what Arminianism or Semi-Pelagianism is, and even if they fall into one camp or another inadvertently this doctrine is not a motivating factor in their lives. 500 years ago conversely the Church had such authority (excommunication was essentially exile) that this rebellion over the nature of salvation was very real and indeed existential. For thirty years across Europe people bled out over it, wiping out nearly one third of the population - a proportion so high, World War casualties are a joke in comparison. Speaking in 2026 like "we've gotta go back and address this" when none of the conditions or stakes of that time exist anymore is a LARP. And it's especially a LARP when there is a genuine and acute illness within Christianity today of a different nature (the demonization of masculinity and male sexuality) that needs addressing. Those who focus on old fights instead of the one in front of us are attempting to look pious while really acting like cowards.
You may say the Church does not need to address these contemporary secular issues because it is "not of this world." But you will have to square this with the fact that the Church behaves very much in this world: both the Vatican and various Protestant denominations have been involved in funding the relocation of migrants en masse. They lobby and attempt to influence politics. And by what they choose to morally address and omit in their sermons or homilies each week, they impact the cultural dialogue.
I am not saying this is wrong, simply that it is the reality - and it has always been this way. 800 years ago the Church and the Holy Roman Emperor were at war with each other. 40 years ago Pope John Paul II was using his position to undermine the communist regime in Poland. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. The Church has always been a political entity that engages in the world because a) power is persuasive and expands influence and b) if it cannot meet people where they are in their lives it is useless to them. In the end, the proof of the Church's spiritual arguments lies not in the abstract but in its practical use to people - whether the fruits of what it advocates are good and bad.
So it should be unsurprising that whenever the fruits are bad, as they are now, the flock speaks up and demands reform. Churches that create men and women who are unable to pair bond and procreate are Churches that are failing. Churches that shame men for resisting the mass migration of hostile elements into their societies are cancers. Saying "well this is what God demands" in response to these concerns is a very dangerous line of argument, because it means what God demands is people adhere to a self-destructive belief system. It is functionally little different than an Imam encouraging a Jihadist suicide bomber. "Yeah what I told you to do made it impossible for you to live but you'll have your reward in heaven." I think I speak for most Western men when I say: no thanks.
Religion is supposed to offer people moral guidance and wisdom that improves their lives. If it is not doing this, there are only two possibilities: a) the scripture itself is fatally flawed or b) the interpretation and application of the scripture is incorrect. I care about Christianity's survival so I am going with the latter.
Peter B@PeterB585337060
I think I get where you’re coming from, but when the subject is the teachings of a Man from two thousand years ago, I don’t think a dispute being 500 years old makes it irrelevant. But if you’re looking to the Church for secular political action, you’re looking in the wrong place. His Kingdom is not of this world.
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@Official_Ogiis There’s a 300 lb old man that comes to my gym just to do these stretches and then leaves.
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@Real_jaeflex How does one not believe in the “concept” of religion or God?
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BMW is slated to release its own Mercedes G-Class rival soon, and we have an exclusive render as to what it could look like.
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@SydSteyerhart This plays out on every season of Love Island.
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There are direct corollaries to this today but we're not supposed to talk about it.
All day Astronomy@forallcurious
🚨: Human and Neanderthals interbred - but it was almost exclusively male Neanderthals and human females
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@reddit_lies I think that we will have to move to in class hand written essays.
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@HankFrank I’ve seen this exact thing happen at my run club a couple of times now.
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Deleted the dating apps.
Joined a run club.
Met her on a random Wednesday night run.
Moved in together 10 months later.
She’s my best friend.




Krista Doebel-Hickok@KristabelDH
I’ve pretty much given up on dating apps. Maybe try the local run club. Couldn’t be more dismal.
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@FilmUpdates Where is the American Indian representation?! Incredibly racist casting.
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@WhiteHouse @AROD I swear they just do the “every like I’ll add more gold” thing
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