Christian L. Macías Dove ⳩

"Fr. Dove, I'd attend a UEC parish if there were one near me, but there isn't. In fact, there isn't anything resembling Protestant Catholicity anywhere for a hundred miles! Woe is me!" Brothers, the solution is simple: if a parish thou lackest, then a parish thou must plant!

@Meadein95 Not a Christian Nation, whatever else it may have been.

@RevDove Eh what was Orban’s Hungary then?

Christian Nationalism is fundamentally incompatible with the modern state. Any call for a Christian Nation without a concurrent call to abolish the state and install a Christian Prince & Established Church is nothing but empty posturing and a dog whistle for unsavory prejudices.

@Xtopher_Uzo "Protestants" Yet exclusively describes Post-Revivalist 20th Century American Evangelicalism.

Reason why people are converting to Catholicism. This explanation deserves an award

@Rog973521 I composed this with a mind to cover all the bases because of these types of quips. x.com/RevDove/status…

@RevDove The fever is strong with this one. Can you explain which definition of Christian Nationalism you are using?

@JohnHMcCallum1 Just because it was architected by Christian men doesn't make it compatible with Christian civil theology. The form of government in the USA is rooted in Enlightenment modernity and religious pluralism. It is fundamentally incompatible with true Christian governance.

@RevDove Not antithetical. 'Twas devised by an (overwhelmingly majority Christian Continental Congress and made the law is the land in a majority Christian Country. Also: the establishment clause isn't the only clause in the 1st amendment about religion. There's a Free exercise clause too

@JohnHMcCallum1 It isn't complicated. The form/system of governance we currently operate under is fundamentally antithetical to the Christian religion. It cannot be redeemed. The modern state cannot be "Christian" at all, and therefore cannot be a means of organizing a Christian Nation.

@RevDove How can you even say that when everyone who uses the term "Christian Nationalism," whether supporting it or opposing it, means something different from everyone else who uses it. You can't make blanket statements against something that is so vaguely defined in the first place.

There is such great evil at work among the sphere of e-Christian nfluencers.

@EthelflaedAegis Many do adapt well, but it is a function of humility and the causal process of the departure from baptist/evangelical into a more catholic tradition. For those highly visible online (the terminally online ones) this typically applies.

As a former Baptist, is it always that obvious? Lol. Yes, sometimes. I've found the Protestant world in America is full of former Baptists and I've found that most of them make better confessional Protestants than anyone who grew up in it, often knowing the theology and understanding why it's important far, far better.

Ex-Baptists: the degree to which your ecclesial trauma completely dominates your theology, thinking, aesthetics, & behavior makes you stick out like a sore thumb. You may have been taken out from the Baptists, but the Baptist hasn't been taken out of you.

@KCPayTreeIt It is notable that the older folks give lower ratings than the younger folks. I would imagine it demonstrates the difference in severity of genuine racism and vitriol they have have encountered in their lifetimes.

This is glorious and sad— it shows that it is NEVER about reality. It’s always about what is fed to them through the propaganda machine.

@eval_hub It isn't the new child they are afraid of.

"You're arrogant." Perhaps you shall succeed in teaching me humility—it is a virtue I have never really mastered. 🏔️

@AnonClaaaa What are you talking about? Who is "you" here? I didn't kiss my wife until a month before our wedding. 🤣

@RevDove You're mentally ill and a hypocrite. You're the first on to say "homosexuality is a sin" but you cry when we tell you that heterosexuality before marriage is a sin. Yall are so weak. Facts dont care about feelings.

"And when thou kissest, thou shalt neither kiss thy girlfriend, nor thy fiance, nor thy sidepiece, nor the harlot that is within thy midst. Thou shall neither kiss them nor embrace them—for such leads unto death. Thou shalt kiss thy homies alone, as pleasing unto the LORD."

Some measure of mental illness is a fundamental prerequisite to the office of clergymen, but the acceptable upper limit of that mental illness seems to be getting more flexible all the time.

People are talking about the Didache. It is available via my parish website. Read it before commenting. drive.google.com/file/d/1tAHIO9…

@______punished Khajiit found the moon sugar stash.

If I were to critique my generation in generalization, I would summarize it thus: Wisdom sufficient to identify problems, yet insufficient to identify true solutions.

@RyanMReeves A big part of this is the lack of general awareness (across all gens) as to what qualifies as AI. For example, many young people have very strong opinions about generative AI (which is the primary AI in focus at the moment), but are perfectly fine with AI in "smart" technology.

@RyanMReeves What I am seeing is scrupulous vs. unscrupulous adoption. The younger generations are adopting AI only in areas within which their ethical sensibilities allow and are rejecting when it does not. The older generations are adopting it largely devoid of scruples.

We seem to be witnessing the first time in history (off the top of my head) where a younger generation rejects the latest technology while older generations rapidly adopt it.