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   Shadowman311 (shadowman311@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 23:59:48 JST Shadowman311

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   The entire ensuing hell thread is a problem I see with certain protestant sects, some protestant with a middle bell curve IQ rolls into a thread about a historically significant church in the holy land getting glassed, spouts off some "buildings don't matter people do" platitude (even though he probably doesn't really care about the people inside either) and doesn't understand why Catholics and Orthodox Chistian's, sects that value their history and holy sites quite a lot are mad at that tepid take. Dudes probably a part of some hard-core Sola scriptura protestant sect, the kind of people that if they visit the holy land at all, they go to Bethlehem and maybe the wailing wall and that's about it since everything else is owned by those evil papists/orthodox dudes and is therefore heretical because it has metal near the altar or because there's people in there praying the Rosary or whatever.
   
   Christianity isn't just the Bible, not anymore, our holy sites make up some of the most awe inspiring and incredible places on earth, people travel from thousands of miles and multiple continents away just to sit quietly inside of them. They deserve protecting even if Jesus didn't explicitly say their names.
   
   RT: https://poa.st/objects/37a572ae-31d6-4953-a4a5-17c48187a758
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     Shadowman311 (shadowman311@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 23:59:46 JST Shadowman311

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     @TheWanax @ProfessionalNEET "Purely Spiritual battle" mfs rolling up to the pearly gates and getting a weird side eye from St Peter asking why they didn't even try to apply a basic amount of force or physical power to try to protect themselves and those around them.
     
     Martyrs do exist for a reason, but there's a thin line between Martyrdom and just dying needlessly.
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     Archivist (thewanax@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 23:59:46 JST Archivist

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     @Shadowman311 @ProfessionalNEET If we weren't to defend ourselves, Christ would never have appeared to Emperor Constantine and taken over the Roman Empire.
     We lost Egypt to the Muslims because the Egyptian church became so passive and monastic that they stopped worrying about protecting themselves.
     Alexandria was a crown jewel in Christendom. It's loss was one of the great tragedies in the Church's history. They just thought nothing bad would happen until it did, so they weren't ready.
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     Archivist (thewanax@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 23:59:47 JST Archivist

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     @ProfessionalNEET @Shadowman311 American Protestants make up a huge number of the tour groups to the Holy Land and the European churches every year. It's not accurate to say they don't care about history, or they wouldn't go.
     Do Dispensationalists specifically have issues? Yeah.
     No one here has roasted Dispensationalists more than me.
     But even a number of them care about history and authenticating our history.
     That being said, there is a strain of being above-it-all and acting unattached to the world that has infected across denominations. I've met people from every denomination that bought into that crap, and it's really disturbing.
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     Shadowman311 (shadowman311@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 23:59:47 JST Shadowman311

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     @TheWanax @ProfessionalNEET Yeah, the whole "purely spiritual battle" people are off-putting to say the least.
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     professionalneet@poa.st's status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 23:59:48 JST ProfessionalNEET

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     @Shadowman311 Prots when told to value anything created (The Church, The Saints and their Works) other than the Bible.