#and Protestantism.

[lionheartlr]

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[enriquemzn262]

[gatheringbones]

interpersonal intelligences centered around honoring the dignity and personal context of other human beings are not a bourgeois affectation; your comrades need loving care and compassion and patient listeners who don’t project onto them, they need friendships based on trust and mutual respect, they need witnesses to meet them in their insanity and self-defeating behaviors with genuine love in their hearts, not objectification, not judges and cops, not military troikas followed by firing squads.

[apilgrimpassingby]

Roman Catholics and Orthodox have got to knock it off with "Protestants have brutalist corporate churches". A particular modern strain of Protestantism has hideous modern churches. It's a depressingly common strain, and arguably the dominant one in America, but it's either ignorant or dishonest to pretend as though all Protestants have ugly churches.

Behold:

Clockwise from top left:

St. Peter's Church, Geneva, canton of Geneva, Switzerland (Swiss Reformed)

Barnes Methodist Church, London, England, UK (Methodist)

Dutch Reformed Church, Newbury, New York state, USA (Dutch Reformed)

St. Jude's Church, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (Presbyterian)

[protestantworkthatethic]

[a-lil-strawberry]

I am a protestant, and have been raised in evangelical spaces all my childhood. I now go to a free Lutheran church, which is sort of basically like a cross between Lutheran and evangelical. Well, I have been somewhat removed from small groups of evangelicals for some time, but last night I went to a small group. Which was great! Except I forgot how little they think of Catholics and how casually they will say horrible, untrue things about my brothers and sisters in Christ. I have been working on undoing that propaganda that I was taught growing up, so to hear it again was simultaneously a shock, and so so familiar, because what was said is something I remember being told growing up and then myself regurgitating it to others.

One of the leaders of the group said (paraphrasing) "Catholics believe they can sin and do anything they want as long as they confess at the end of the week, so they go and do whatever they want during the week"

Yeah... Sure.... Some "Catholics" perhaps to this, but there could be "protestants" who do this same thing, but under the guise of grace instead of confession. "Christians" who use Christianity as a crutch through supposed loopholes they've found about grace or confession.

Anyways I don't fully understand the Catholic faith, but after knowing a lot of you from on here, I know now that this kind of thing is simply not true of true believing, devoted Catholics. I know you don't think you can just do whatever you want and run around sinning. I know you strive to be more Christ-like and put your sin to death.

[luceandfriends]

[creature-wizard]

Most Protestant allegations against Catholicism fundamentally come down to "they're bad at religion," which is patently untrue. Catholicism is very good at religion, all things considered. What they are bad at is human rights. However, many Protestants cannot actually call this out because they are just as deeply invested (if not moreso, at times) in being bad at human rights themselves, so they have to make up shit.

[girderednerve]

redwall revival is in the air & i just want to say those books are weird. like i enjoyed them too but they're weird. why is the rat named cluny. what's up with that, brian. why did you name your first scary villain creature for a monastic reform movement from the middle ages. did you have some kind of bone to pick with bernard of clairvaux? i'm sure he'd find a bone to pick with you, he was that type. but for real what was with the religious politics in those books. was it just english nationalism? is that the secret sauce???

[traumacatholic]

I've been seeing this more and more recently, so I'm curious what you all think about this.

Feel free to include in the tags why you voted a particular way.

[theunsleepinghimbo]

severance, since episode one’s dry, substance-less and foodless dinner, has been a fantastic vehicle to showcase how social and personal philosophies built on the backs of established hierarchies can both be interesting to unpack and still riddled with problems. it goes from ricken’s friends’ imposing questions about mark’s severance and their earnest belief that either he’s a child being taken advantage of or a grown adult on easy street and in full control, to the conversation with fields in season two about how innies have distinct souls. in both cases, the audience is shown the naked self-interest of these ideas. ricken’s friends are obsessed with either simplifying their lives or treating mark as an absent political cause to improve their moral image, and fields + burt Have to believe that innies have souls because if not, they won’t go to the same place. these are both fascinating positions to hold, but i don’t think the show shies away from trying to truly grasp them, and i’m happy the audience won’t either.

[religious-extremist]

Mistranslation by the KJV, Luke 11:28

27 As Jesus was saying these things, a woman called out from the crowd and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!”

King James Version

28 But Jesus said, “Yes, rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.”

Eastern Orthodox Version

28 But Jesus said, “Yes, and more than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.”

The Greek word menounge (μενοῦνγε), translated above in the text of verse 28 as “yea, more than that,” but rendered inaccurately in the KJV as "yea, rather," is the same word which occurs in Phil. 3:8, where the KJV gives Yea, doubtless, and in Rom. 10:18, where the KJV gives Yes, verily.

The force of menounge is that it corrects the previous statement, not by negating it, but by amplifying it.

Philippians 3:8 “Yes, without a doubt, I consider all things as loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things. I consider them as dung, so that I may gain Christ.”

Romans 10:18 “But I say, did they not hear? Yes, most certainly: Their sound went out into all the earth, Their words to the ends of the world.”

Evangelicals and opponents of traditional Christianity often frame this statement of Christ as proof that His Mother was not holy or deserving recognition, that she was merely a vessel with little importance, and this perspective directly results from a mistranslation of Christ’s words.

Indeed, blessed is she who contained the Uncontainable: Christ our God.

Understand that Luke’s Gospel was originally written in Greek, so perhaps we ought to study the original language that the scriptures were written in to have a better understanding of Christ’s life-giving message.

Edit: I made a Part Two, I might make it a series. The second part is linked below!

[enriquemzn262]

Anime has finally officially become CATHOLIC

[victusinveritas]

I hear so many Catholic conspiracy theories in southern Indiana and it's just like...if we were that powerful, we would have won the Thirty Years War and None Of This would be an issue, you heretics.

[illustratus]

Scene from the St Bartholomew's Day massacre: Margaret of Valois protects her husband, the future King Henry IV by Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard

[protestantworkthatethic]

*autumn draws nearer*

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