I'm bored. Give me a spicy, explosive subject and I will give my hot take on it. We may even start a hellthread. :jahy_proud: It's like Russian Roulette, but with posts instead of bullets. :jahy_scared:
Some folders that I have acquired since this post include incels, racial relations, and more. :jahy_oooh:
@William_The_Dragonborn I do believe the Church needs to be more militant in methodology. Justice is much harder on capital crimes under a proper theonomic government than what the West currently has.
@SuperSnekFriend For true Christians to retake their homeland and religion, they must be as aggressive as muslims in eradicating the degenerates and subversives, leave the forgiveness up to God.
@SuperSnekFriend I'll ask for a niche one: The "Satanic Panic" and other similar "Christian" movements in mass media. :watching:
(Any of them will do - vidya is evil, Harry Potter is witchcraft, etc., more looking for a general overview than a take on any one specific event :zt_naruhodo: )
@Giganova8@SuperSnekFriend Those are usually done by Protestant groups and not like Orthdox or Catholic. They usually care about more important stuff rather than being moral busy bodies unlike Protestants
@MordredSimp@SuperSnekFriend@Giganova8 Yeah, this isn't really a theology issue as much as there is no one to tell pastor Bob that burning copies of Doom is a waste of time and that family issues are more harmful to children than some video game.
@wgiwf@MordredSimp@SuperSnekFriend@Giganova8 I'm continually amused by the fact that gamers, people the religious right has disrespected for years, offer the only meaningful resistance to the poz, far more than the church
@Giganova8@SuperSnekFriend@MordredSimp America has, and even more so had, a glut (even if they're a small portion overall) of attention seeking pastors who will dumb things like denouncing Pokemon as the work of the devil and burn them in public to get media attention instead of actually tending to the needs of their congregation.
@SuperSnekFriend@MordredSimp I think the reason that take comes about is that most of America is Protestant, and this whole mess mostly took place in the US alone, with limited participation elsewhere. So it was all the Protestants, but really only because they happen to be the majority in the US, not because of anything unique to Protestants as a group. :zt_shrug:
@PanzerTan Would I want to intervene? Yes, because it is the right thing to do.
Would I intervene if the hypothetical was real? I don't know, not because I don't want to but because I don't if I would succeed or fail out of cowardice. I hope I never have to.
@SuperSnekFriend have this spicy bad faith hypothetical: Imagine that you are in public and you saw greasiest looking kike you ever seen grab and start dragging away a White child that wasn't his in broad daylight. Would you intervene? Also you see this in a fairly liberal city and there has been a major news report of a neo nazi attacking a kike fresh in the public's memory
@PanzerTan@SuperSnekFriend the only true answer is to slice the filthy kikes throat with a swastika throwing star after suddenly appearing in a hugo boss uniform with a nazi flag cape.
@Tadano@SuperSnekFriend I was speaking mainly of Baptism of water, because, in so far as I know, no one else believes in the spiritual gifts on fedi (or at least such things net me zero interaction xD).
But, when Luther speaks of "Trusting in your Baptism" I am pretty sure he was talking about water.
Regarding communions, the Trad churches, insist you ignore your sense of taste and smell, which tell you, you are not drinking blood nor chewing flesh. And, saying that they are "spiritually" present, is slightly better, because you aren't having to gas light yourself about the sensory feedback you are receiving. But, you are affirming that something is happening, that can neither be seen or felt.
If we consider "spiritually present", the only thing anyone can truthfully affirm is that, they believe something is happening, they have no idea what it actually is, and it is happening even though there is no external nor internal evidence. An earnest testimony of nonsense is still nonsense.
And, all that, stands against it, even before we dig into the fact that, a metaphor can never become truth of the thing it describes. It is only true, when it represents the limited relationship it has with the original thing.
Jesus went through an ordeal to provide for us. The bread breaking is like His body being broken, eating the broken bread is like us receiving what He has done for us. But, this bread is not the thing it describes, it has no power. And, yet, the world partakes of it unworthily, thinking the bread has Christ present in it, they eat and drink damnation into their bodies. (the Greek is clear that it is not ultimate damnation)
... I am willing to accept that, sometimes the truth is unacceptable, so, I wont say any more on the topic. I honestly don't know how to present this matter more clearly, and I can only fight, if I engage in repetition of points xD
Both of you are my brothers in Christ, and we are going to Heaven.
@hazlin@SuperSnekFriend Regarding communion, I disagree. It is not only a symbol, Christ's real presence is in the Eucharist. Christ himself explicitly states that the bread and wine are his body and blood, and gives a commandment to eat them in commemoration of him (Matthew 26:26-28, Luke 22:19-20). 1 Corinthians 10 and 11 are also very explicit regarding the Eucharist's real link to Christ. As for baptism, do you refer to baptism of the holy spirit or baptism of water?