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the mainline isn't dying cuz of evangelical trauma, real as that might be, we're dying because we can't stomach the idea of demanding that our people treat Christianity like it means something
Nah, I'm sorry, that's not it.
Millions of mainliners walked out of church for the last time after Confirmation or graduating high school and never looked back, trauma-free. Our issues are not a result of evangelical misdeeds.
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what is your most confident controversial philosophical belief?
mine’s compatibilism
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when Jesus tells the rich man “sell all you have and give the money to the poor and follow me,” he is speaking to middle class Americans—not just the billionaires and capitalists
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this is michael curry. he is american, and also hardly a conservative. i dunno why you're using his image for this post
The rare good Episcopalian priest is someone from a foreign country. He'll exposit actual Christianity on the pulpit, and his congregation will hate it. They feel they have to stay and listen to avoid appearing xenophobic, however. High class denomination, very rich members.
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Given how theologically liberal Lewis is, I'm really unsure why evangelicals are so in love with him.
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and yeah people might see Christian and just be turned off bc of associations with conservative churches but instead of liberal Christianity what we've been offering is Christian-flavored liberalism
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deeply would like for ACNA and TEC to reconcile, but I also cannot in good faith be in a church which counts the greatest love I have known for any human being as so much worthless dung
#CovenantTLC
: For North American Anglicanism to thrive in the future, reconciliation has to be part of the plan.
#Anglican
#Episcopal
#ACNA
#theology
#church
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i think this is a good point us christians have to wrestle with and it’s disappointing to me that the default christian response in this thread is to say genocide and slavery and child murder are suddenly not actually totally forbidden
If you think an All-knowing, All-powerful, Perfectly good being inspired the Bible:
The Bible containing moral errors (or depicting God acting in immoral ways) is evidence for that view being false.
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men be like *posts video of a woman beautiful enough to make you weep* she’s a 5
Every man deserves a quirky mid to wake him up in the morning and make him breakfast like this
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one thing that annoys me is when people use the terms "moral" and "ethical" differently and don't explain what their idiosyncratic definitions are
(and they have to be idiosyncratic bc in standard English those are perfect synonyms)
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what's the deal with Catholics treating st Joseph as like second to Mary among the saints. it's weird. isn't that John the Baptist's role?
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@FlatCath
"till death do us part" has never been a part of the Catholic rubrics, TLM or NO. It's originally Anglican, and it's just done as a matter of Anglophone custom
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There is no sense of free will where we would have more free will if determinism were false.
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The primary reason I'm skeptical of high Marian claims (sinless ever virgin etc.) is that they seem to only become the dominant view quite late (5th century or later, even). Before then, the witness is very mixed, and the earlier we go the less acceptance we seem to see.
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@ilikeadamsmith
i was told once—don’t know how accurate it is—that the reason for the die/live variation is whether it’s a military or civilian choir singing
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@feralspamlet
I think just rejecting the premise there: in the first place, Elizabeth is far more to credit for the Church of England’s independence and reformation (not its birth) than Henry, and there were genuine desires for religious reformation even in Henry’s time
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@SlackfulCyclops
@LegoRacers2
atheist guy who has a very strong opinion that the Protestants are right about the canon just so he can avoid saying Alexander is fake when dunking on Christians
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i love how little understanding of what monotheism even is this betrays
There are about 5000 gods and divinities that humans have invented over millennia and are (still) worshiping.
Monotheists believe in one of them and do not believe in the remaining 4999.
The difference between the number of gods monotheists and atheists do not believe in is a
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what's wrong w this argument: the Bible permits chattel slavery (Lev 25:44-46), but chattel slavery is impermissible; so the Bible is not infallible on matters of morals.
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1 like = 1 take, will try to cycle between different topics
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@ReedUberman
@Billieiswriting
the context is that the hungry are filled. Christ’s coming turns the hierarchies of the world upside down. the oppressed will be set free, and their oppressors will answer on the day of the Lord.
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@BearandRoo2
you could look up the bishop and notify them—this seems like the kind of thing that they should be notified abt
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@rascalsandals
@sillynous
no. hedonic means relating to pleasure, it doesn't mean pleasurable. eating ice cream is pleasurable but not "hedonic."
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i think this is actually accurate
when i made a post on slavery in the bible the responses I got were along the lines of:
- slavery was very different back then
- God accommodated the ancients in his commands
but i see people unwilling to do the same thing with homosexuality
the theology that defended slavery is the same theology that believes homosexuality is a sin
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Feser can’t give a principled way to distinguish between violating the end of a faculty and merely acting besides it that gives him the result he wants. He invokes that distinction, but can’t explain how homosexuality falls on the first side and chewing gum falls on the second.
@SpeedWatkins
C’mon, man, these tired objections have been answered many times, e.g. in this essay:
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saying analytic theology "refuses the metaphysical" shows a complete and total lack of engagement with it, when almost all of it is metaphysics
Both analytic theology and phenomenological theology make the same mistake: in refusing the metaphysical they promote a thin theology that at once lapses into liberalism (since the creeds are metaphysical)and holds back from bold ‘theosophic’ speculation which Xn doctrine implies
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yeah because till death do us part is a protestant thing lol
We just enjoyed the clown show. The NO is much more bearable when you acknowledge it is not a Catholic rite in any way. I even found out people are no longer required to say, “‘Till death do us part,” but can, as per the rubrics, say, “All the days of my life.”
The NO is an
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The hard-universalist claim is not that we cannot reject God, but that we cannot reject him forever.
Another simple proof universalism is false:
There are two wills, God and yours. And God’s will does not essentially relate to ours, nor ours to His. As long as there are two wills – simply in virtue of being two – it is intrinsically possible that these wills fail to unite.
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orthodox friends helped bring me to christianity. for various personal theological and practical reasons, i am not orthodox, but i maintain a deep affection for my EO friends and *really* don’t like the recent shitfighting on the TL between my mainline friends and my EO ones
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Anglican friends: what makes an Anglo Catholic, as opposed to just a high church Anglican?
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90% of italian food culture is basically a postwar tourist trap
What's an Italy opinion that will have you like this
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@DavidDeutschOxf
@sapinker
Are you implicitly assuming it must be the same globally? While the trend in indo-european languages has been towards decreasing inflectional morphological complexity, the trend in other languages has been increasing, e.g. Finnic languages.
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unironically close to how the early church worked
Anglicans who venerate icons in communion with Anglicans who think iconodulia is idolatrous in communion with Anglicans who ordain women in communion with Anglicans who say women priests don't exist
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wrong. the war has just gone cold.
Nowadays Australians and emus live together in peace, and that's beautiful.
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ill be honest, i have no idea how anyone teaching eternal conscious torment is better off than Calvinists here? the chances all your kids are gonna make it into heaven are the same whether you think God damns people unconditionally or conditionally.
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aside from the horridness of it I can’t get over how hilariously incoherent many parts of the new encyclical are. it goes beyond having bad arguments into “what does this even mean and how is it even related” territory
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i really love mere christianity. it isn’t philosophically rigorous (its moral argument is just kinda bad) but it presents a beautiful vision of Christianity
~15 years ago I was on a job at a Christian university. A student was assigned to escort me around the school. During my time there we got to chatting about God and our respective beliefs. He was a genuine joy to talk to. Before I left he gifted me a copy of Mere Christianity…
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@JulieTheThird56
@TheRocketRalph
no one needs chiropractic adjustments; it's pseudoscience. Better to just pay for a nice massage.
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@ReedUberman
@Billieiswriting
reading “empty” as “unfulfilled” in the Magnificat is a new one
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lord have mercy upon him and rest his soul. may he do so for all his creatures slaughtered for our pleasure.
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@ReedUberman
@Billieiswriting
excessive spiritualizing risks completely losing sight of the apocalyptic quality of the Annunciation and Incarnation that the Magnificat is about.
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i don’t actually personally think the Nicene Creed *is* the boundary for “Christian”, at least not sociologically, but I think the Creed is a boundary that most Christian communities have decided on as defining what they consider themselves to be about, and that’s fine.
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i don’t actually think it would. i still believe in the virgin birth, but it’s more a show of God’s awesome work than something strictly necessary to the Incarnation and work of redemption.
Suppose the Virgin Birth is false: Jesus was not born of a Virgin. Why would that diminish Jesus in any important theological sense?
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it is always so striking to me that the primary marker of "orthodoxy" for these folks is political-social conservatism. I have issues with liberalism on issues of theology in TEC, but it isn't CWOB or process theology that gets these people so worked up.
"The goal of this article is to spread awareness of our fight to our fellow orthodox Anglican brothers and sisters and ask that they support us in any way God leads them to in this battle."
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it's all "hate the sin but love the sinner" until St. Isaac mentions demons
Vatican's Synod website p. 29: "What is a Merciful Heart? It is a heart on fire for the whole of creation, for humanity, for the birds, for the animals, for demons, and for all that exists." (h/t Fr. Z & Barnhardt.)
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the average argument from the encyclical is like “eating strawberries is inherently an offense against the dignity of your mouth”
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to be clear, this doesn’t mean being a billionaire capitalist isn’t *worse by far* than the average middle class American’s situation! but look how people live in developing countries and tell me that the passages about “the rich” in scripture aren’t about you
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as a historical thing, probably the Episcopal Church if done near the founding of the country. If done tomorrow, probably Catholicism (only denomination big enough to work for that).
If the US had an established (state) church or religion, what would it be and why?
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kinda sad we don’t do confirmation saints, i want to have st mary magdalene as mine
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actually all you need to be a woman is to be a woman, you don't need to be straight or feminine. common misconception ♥️
it’s one of the core components—romantic relationships with men, being the enticing partner.
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@Murdersmash
@BadmenBad
@anarchoboognish
I just don't see what good there is in saying "abolish time" rather than "abolish the social baggage we assign to the passage of time." I guess the former is shorter, but it's also just... not what's meant
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man i get why people aren’t illusionists but people treating a perfectly respectable position in the philosophy of mind with… not even disdain, but legit *hatred*, bc they don’t understand what it says, is… not sth i was aware of till today
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I know "it's mistranslated" is a bad argument for Leviticus and Corinthians but legitimately the Didache just does not say that. It says παιδοφθορία—"molestation of boys." It doesn't even say ἀρσενοκοιτία!
You may not commit sodomy or fornication (guess what is listed under fornication - incest, bestiality, and you guessed it ghey seggs)
- Didache (teaching of the twelve apostles)
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oh yeah? then I'm gonna gay Christian even harder, forever
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i can’t be very detailed here so a brief explanation of why im a theist should do. the best account of ethics, eudaimonist virtue ethics, centers ethics on fulfillment of natural ends; this involves the perfection or completion of our natural potentials; so goodness and actuality
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This, by the way, is not how you decide whether an issue is a core part of orthodoxy or not. All of these (except maybe the contents of the canon) are essential issues of Christian orthodoxy.
In 2,000 years the church has debated things as significant as…
- The humanity of Christ
- The deity of Christ
- The nature of the Trinity
- The content of the canon
… but in 2,000 years the church has been *unanimous* on homosexuality (Pope’s ambiguity notwithstanding)
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being a vegetarian and hearing people’s arguments for eating meat really helped me write my vampire villains
Many otherwise smart people lose their minds when they hear arguments against eating meat. They say things like:
-eating meat is natural to our species
-it's tradition
-other animals eat meat too
-it’s the purpose of animals to be eaten
-animals don't feel pain
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“most protestants” lmao
Most Protestants claim that the “Church became pagan” at the conversion of Constantine in AD 313.
But the underground church in the catacombs before Constantine already had images of Jesus, Mary/Saints on the walls and worshipped on Sundays.
Catacomb Church = Catholic Church!
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@eigenrobot
@pegobry
@selentelechia
"one of his viler stances"
This is John Calvin we're talking about, that's a high bar
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having sex with socks on is dualism, because if you do so you are refusing to give your whole self to the other person
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yes.
be a good person for the love of the Good.
A question for my Christian followers: Is it accurate that I can be the worst person ever, hurt people, destroy lives, but as long as I truly repent, I'll be next to you in line at Heaven's chow hall, with all the rights and privileges as you?
If yes, then why be a good person?
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i don’t know why people are making a hubbub about Rome’s document. it basically just says “you don’t have to interrogate the gay guy who come up for a blessing in the communion line,” which is hardly a change of anything
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Scripture both tells us that we are justified by faith (or faithfulness), and, often in the very same breath, that we will be judged according to our works. Any good exegesis of the Bible can't subordinate one to the other.
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Junia is one of those ones which I used to think was a bad argument for WO but now think could clinch the case. it hinges on the preposition I think: is she known to the apostles or notable among them? the name is obviously feminine (Junias isn’t a Greek name) and “apostle”
Wild that Junia was a woman apostle that Paul praised but women-shouldn’t-teach-men 1 Timothy got boosted hard by the Christian traditions and now a bunch of bearded trad dudes mostly ignorant of the New Testament go around explaining why only men should be pastors/priests.
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im kicking my feet fantasizing abt getting married to my gf 🥰🥰🥰
it's not gonna be for a good while but! you know
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YALL I lost a scrunchie while running yesterday and i was walking the same way today and found it!
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(i should also disclaim that this isn’t meant to be spiritual advice or anything. it is an ethical belief I hold, but remember I’m just a rando on the internet)
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while Gettier’s paper is obviously great I think people exaggerate how much of a consensus JTB was and how long it was consensus. it first became popular in the 30s, only a couple decades before Gettier, and was hardly a universal truism when Gettier published his work
Love this guy, Edmund Gettier
This total nobody blew up philosophy by utterly, elegantly discrediting the standard accepted definition of “knowledge” among philosophers, (‘justified true belief’)
Then he did absolutely nothing of note ever again
Patron saint of one-hit wonders
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@FlatCath
stop calling NO "too Protestant" if your complaints about it include that it doesn't steal enough from Protestant liturgies
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(and he was so right for that)
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sed contra: beef is also the least harmful farmed meat to the animal, so it should be the last one to go if you’re eliminating meat-by-meat, because animal suffering
completely swamps the emissions cost just in numbers game terms
Oh, one last thing. Beef is absolutely the highest contributor to global emissions when it comes to food (minus shipping impact). We should absolutely all be reducing our consumption of beef if possible, for that reason alone.
Doesn’t have to require quitting meat.
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ok this is a clear correlation/causation issue
Any time someone asks what use philosophy is, I sigh and tap the sign above my desk:
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you vile misogynists can just crawl into a deep dark pit where i hope you’ll have a life far away from me and anyone i care about
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BUNNY KIT LOOK HOW SMALL IT IS
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like, gosh, I'd love for a renewal of theological orthodoxy in TEC!
oh, wait. all you want is for gay people to stop getting married.
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people more Protestant than me: what's wrong/contradictory about saying Christ’s sacrifice was once and for all on the cross and unrepeatable, and the Church makes this sacrifice present again through the Mass
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why natural law ethics doesn't require being non-affirming
@Veins711
@2Philosophical_
Unfortunately that argument doesn't work. It needs a bridging principle. But what kind of bridging principle could work? Maybe one like:
(A) It is evil to use a capacity for something other than its natural end.
But no one holds this principle within natural law ethics. It has
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how do i block every account with more than 8 numbers at the end of their handle please
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why does this guy always have the wildest stories abt how the internet phenomenon du jour is actually something he has super deep background connections to
and why does it always end up being true
I literally went to elementary school with the guy in the pic and he wouldn’t agree with a single thing written here 😭
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@morallawwithin
unfortunately all your action is human action and all your action is part of living a human life. sad.
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God for us has defeated hell and stolen the crown from death. Only an empty shell remains, and on the last day even that shall be overthrown. Alleluia.
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on the facts the pharm is right here, but one thing that makes me super concerned that he’s allowed to do this is that, even in the comments, you have pharmacists talking about how they exercise the same rights to refuse people birth control and puberty blockers
this was painful to watch.
i hope this pharmacist always hits green lights and never loses their socks in the dryer.
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I know a lot of other gay Episcopalians feel the same way
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damn i just thought of the obvious answer to "what about the thief on the cross"
if Baptism is the delivering of God's promise to the baptizand (who must trust in it), then the thief was Baptized the moment Jesus said to him "today you will be with me in paradise"
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(not like the other girls voice) *I* like Lewis, but I'm mainline so it makes sense
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