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Originally posted by eThneoLgrRnae
@squall: you seem to be confusing roman catholicism with true christianity. They are NOT the same thing.

It wasn't true bible-believing christians who committed atrocious acts during the crusades (which were only started because of islamic aggression, btw). They were roman catholics.

And it certainly wasn't true bible-believing christians who committed tortorous acts during the Inquisitions. In fact, real christians made up most of those who were tortured and murdered at the hands of roman catholics because true christians were teaching the true gospel which the jesuits called "heresy" punishable by death. True christianity has never been responsible for such unspeakable horrors. True christianity is what Jesus taught and Jesus never taught people to commit acts like what happened during crusades and the Inquisitions... ever. Period.

True christianity has never needed to reform because it is flawless in what it teaches. 👆

No doubt some God-hater is gonna come along now and bring up some [b]old testament verses about stoning or something as if that would actually dispute what I said lol. [/B]

At first I was going to tell you to STFU, you dumb motherf*cker but then I kept reading.

You're right. The early Christians were truly followers of Christ's teachings. Like all things truly of God, they will get diluted, perverted, and twisted into evil; harnessed and exploited for temporal benefits, forgoing the eternal perspective.

But I still disagree about Catholicism. There are genuinely and truly righteous Catholics following the teachings of Christ. It's not never okay to paint with broad sweeping generalization brushes. With brushes that big, you'll get paint on yourself.

There are some genuinely good atheists, too. People who, deep down, and in their heart of hearts, are sincerely righteous people. The loving Benevolent God I believe in wouldn't condemn an atheist, He created with an inquisitive and intelligent mind, to an eternity of damnation. It's kind of stupid and petty and God is far more broadminded than that.

The big problem with catholics is that they give way too much credence to what the pope says. He is merely a man. A flawed human being just like the rest of us. He is not infallible, divine, or "holy" as roman catholics delusionally believe (nor is Mary; she was a sinner just like the rest of us and she was not a perpetual virgin either as catholics falsely teach).

To a true christian, the Bible (the real one, the King James only) is the ultimate and only authority when it comes to doctrine, prophecy, biblical history, our true origins (we didn't "evolve" from ape-like creatures lol regardless of what the lying pope claims), and how our world and the universe was created. To a roman catholic though, he or she puts more faith in the flawed pope than what the bible says. Sadly, if they don't break away from that then it will lead them straight to hell.

edit: I'm sorry if I offended any roman catholics on this forum with either this post or my previous one.

Originally posted by eThneoLgrRnae
The big problem with catholics is that they give way too much credence to what the pope says. He is merely a man. A flawed human being just like the rest of us. He is not infallible, divine, or "holy" as roman catholics delusionally believe (nor is Mary; she was a sinner just like the rest of us and she was not a perpetual virgin either as catholics falsely teach).

To a true christian, the Bible (the real one, the King James only) is the ultimate and only authority when it comes to doctrine, prophecy, biblical history, our true origins (we didn't "evolve" from ape-like creatures lol regardless of what the lying pope claims), and how our world and the universe was created. To a roman catholic though, he or she puts more faith in the flawed pope than what the bible says. Sadly, if they don't break away from that then it will lead them straight to hell.

edit: I'm sorry if I offended any roman catholics on this forum with either this post or my previous one.

That's fair.

Based on these words of yours, that means you're willing to give up the concept of the Trinity since it was a new concept, not found in any of the canonical texts floating around, before the Council of Nicaea, right? They canonized the concept of the Trinity and as well as shopped for the books they thought were best fits for the bible. This was a council of politicians and church leaders, alike.

Usually, if a Christian gets to this point in their thinking (rejecting the absolutist authority the Roman Catholic Church had on the Christian canon), they are open to rejecting post-early Christian beliefs that were created hundreds of years after Christ's dispensation.

Interesting enough IIRC, was that early Christians were split on what happens after death. Split between what is now the traditional Heaven and Hell belief, Annihilationism (the worthy go to Heaven, the unworthy just stop existing rather than being tortured forever), and Universal Reconciliationism (all are eventually reconciled to God in Heaven).

Originally posted by Emperordmb
Interesting enough IIRC, was that early Christians were split on what happens after death. Split between what is now the traditional Heaven and Hell belief, Annihilationism (the worthy go to Heaven, the unworthy just stop existing rather than being tortured forever), and Universal Reconciliationism (all are eventually reconciled to God in Heaven).

The catholics teach that besides just Heaven and Hell that there is a "purgatory" where people are in limbo and have to suffer (be "purified"😉 by burning for a period of time depending on just how sinful they were in life. If I understand it correctly, people already in Heaven or still on earth can pray for them to get their time reduced. It is a totally unbiblical doctrine (one of the many that roman catholics teach and believe).

Catholic superiority.

Originally posted by cdtm
You also get a very distorted retelling of history where Christianity were evil warmongers or something, against the innocent competing religions, such as Islam. Context is reduced to "Christian's bad", as if Islam was just minding their own business, instead of violently expanding their turf.

We don’t even need to look that far back. All we need to do is look at World War 1. If we didn’t win WW1, Islam would have ruled the West.

Was there ever a time when some generally honest people were in charge, acting in good faith?

I head Ted Turner actually gave a damn about the news. For him, it wasn't just about makingmoney, any way you can, he really did prioritize good journalism from his employees.

That's both inspirational, and disheartening, because when AT&T took over, they were just after the money. And more importantly, I'm not so sure there are too many true believers at his level out there.

Originally posted by eThneoLgrRnae
The catholics teach that besides just Heaven and Hell that there is a "purgatory" where people are in limbo and have to suffer (be "purified"😉 by burning for a period of time depending on just how sinful they were in life. If I understand it correctly, people already in Heaven or still on earth can pray for them to get their time reduced. It is a totally unbiblical doctrine (one of the many that roman catholics teach and believe).

This is one doctrine/teaching that I wish was true. Seems really awesome that decent folks only have to pay so much penance to purify themselves and then they get to go to heaven with full paradisaical glory.

Seems like the easy way out.

With my sins, I'd probably have to pay 300,000 years penance. I haven't killed anyone. Mutilated or tortured anyone. Nothing too terrible.

I gotta say though: if we all had a gun put to our heads and were told that there is going to be one religion from now on in the entire world and we get to choose and if we don't choose we die and those two choices are Islam and Christianity...lol, is anyone here choosing the former? Anyone that crazed?

Does anyone think our world would be a happier place if Islamists had the power the Christians do? What would this country look like?

Originally posted by dadudemon
Cancel culture strikes again.

I don't understand why people are this retarded over racist jokes.

Being offended over a joke is a low energy way of showing how virtuous you are. Come on, would you rather show how good a person you are by: Volunteering to work with orphans, working at the local soup kitchen, or raging about something a 16 yr. old tweeted 8 years ago?

There was no reason to do such an in depth background check in this case unless you are just looking for dirt.

But if I hear one more joke about how Irish people are drunk and violent, I'm going to set my beer down and punch them right in the face.

The only thing I hate more than jokes about the Irish being drunk and violent are: racism and Asians.

Black girl who accused white students of forcibly cutting her hair made the whole thing up

Shocking.

Democratic Party: Disaster for Blacks.

Looks to be an old story from the 80's, about how the black vote came around to the Democratic party in only a few years. It involves a lot of deception, such as old black leaders who weren't even involved in modern day riots, getting painted as the leaders of a movement, with the express purpose to fizzle out the young and angry protestors and being the votes over to the Dems.

One thing that disturbs me, is how the Democratic party supposedly opened up lines to the media. If the media jumps when the party says to, that is NOT the watchdogs of power they pretend to be. More like a propaganda arm.

Originally posted by cdtm
Democratic Party: Disaster for Blacks.
One thing that disturbs me, is how the Democratic party supposedly opened up lines to the media. If the media jumps when the party says to, that is NOT the watchdogs of power they pretend to be. More like a propaganda arm.

This is the crux of it. The Media is the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party.

They've done a good job spreading Trump hate.

Ivanka Posts Pic Of 3-Year-Old Son In Star Wars Costume; Luke Skywalker Actor Lashes Out

Another example of a leftist who just can't let shit go. Is he mad Luke got turned into a gigantic pussy? Mad the new movies are shit?

Originally posted by Surtur
Ivanka Posts Pic Of 3-Year-Old Son In Star Wars Costume; Luke Skywalker Actor Lashes Out

Another example of a leftist who just can't let shit go. Is he mad Luke got turned into a gigantic pussy? Mad the new movies are shit?

That’s ****ing stupid of Hamill.

Originally posted by Surtur
Ivanka Posts Pic Of 3-Year-Old Son In Star Wars Costume; Luke Skywalker Actor Lashes Out

Another example of a leftist who just can't let shit go. Is he mad Luke got turned into a gigantic pussy? Mad the new movies are shit?

He's probably mad for both reasons. It's sad that Mark Hamill is acting this way. I thought kids were supposed to be "off-limits". Oh, that's right... it's only kids who've been indoctrinated into leftist BS that are beyond criticism and attack.

Originally posted by Surtur
Ivanka Posts Pic Of 3-Year-Old Son In Star Wars Costume; Luke Skywalker Actor Lashes Out

Another example of a leftist who just can't let shit go. Is he mad Luke got turned into a gigantic pussy? Mad the new movies are shit?

I strongly dislike news articles that post a bunch of tweets using Twitter's tweet API call tweet-ID crap.

It's low-effort journalism that can be 100% automated by bots.

Also, I think Hamill is suffering too much from TDS. I dislike Trump but...come on, it's just a kid. Imagine a kid loving Star Wars and idolizing Luke Skywalker just to be attacked because his grandfather is a douche? That's not fair.

This isn't the Han Dynasty, China, where all family members are slaughtered because of the mistakes of one minister at court.

Originally posted by dadudemon
I strongly dislike news articles that post a bunch of tweets using Twitter's tweet API call tweet-ID crap.

It's low-effort journalism that can be 100% automated by bots.

Also, I think Hamill is suffering too much from TDS. I dislike Trump but...come on, it's just a kid. Imagine a kid loving Star Wars and idolizing Luke Skywalker just to be attached because his grandfather is a douche? That's not fair.

This isn't the Han Dynasty, China, where all family members are slaughtered because of the mistakes of one minister at court.

I think you have to take it on a case by case issue. I do not like when articles go "Twitter thinks (insert whatever)" and then they cite like 6 tweets and act like it represents all of twitter.

But this is regarding a specific tweet from a celebrity.

What do you think would happen if the entire Government was filled with Trump like trolls, who fanned the flames instead of bent over backwards to appease?

Personally, I think there's be a lot of riots, and that they'd eventually burn themselves out when they realized they weren't accomplishing anything. except for destroying their own homes.