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Religion: Communion Toast Crunch

Today, I recall Julian the Apostate. Dude declared himself more powerful than Jesus, started a fight with the Pope, and started and lost a war in Persia due to his avarice and dumbassery.

No real reason I'd remember this.
 
At the super well attended toilet paper usa event in georgia, ol' couch fucker said the pope should "be careful when talking about theology"...
 
Can't tell you how sad I am to see MAGA fighting with the Catholic Church. They really should be allies considering their shared top priority is protecting pedophiles.
 
Proud2baLaker said:
At the super well attended toilet paper usa event in georgia, ol' couch fucker said the pope should "be careful when talking about theology"...
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So...the very matters of faith and morals that he's supposed to be infallible on to confirmed Catholics?

JD is just another Catholic of Convenience.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
So...the very matters of faith and morals that he's supposed to be infallible on to confirmed Catholics?

JD is just another Catholic of Convenience.
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American Catholicism is just an excuse to hate women and gays and polish the knob of secular rulers in exchange for real estate tax waivers, while still getting to dress up in fabulous outfits.

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So, why don't we just make JD the Pope? He seems to know more about it than the actual Pope.
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JD is echoing a long running authoritarian msireading of Matthew 10:34.

34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 And a person's enemies will be those of his own household. 37 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
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Righties love to quote the first line as an excuse to murder people. It's obvious from including the context that Jesus is saying, "Don't think this life is going to be easy. Your own loved ones are going to come at you with everything they've got, because, just by existing as this new thing, you are challenging their self-image as righteous and good."

Indeed, Jesus is anticipating the very sort of fury JD evinces in his comments, and which so many conservative American Catholics parrot. Just by declaring yourself a Believer and going around spouting scripture, you aren't what Jesus had in mind. In fact mostly the opposite, as he counseled you should pray and observe in private in an intimate relation with your own personal Jesus.

Shorter Jesus: "The Kingdom of God is within you, asshole."
 
Typically you only get excommunicated for really serious theological offenses, like suggesting women, as equal human beings, can be priests.

It is chef's kiss that the last high profile excommunication was over real estate.

Word of the day: "sedevacantist."
 
I'm just waiting for Kegsbreath to use Austin 3:16.

You sit there and you thump your Bible, and you say your prayers, and it didn't get you anywhere. Talk about your Psalms, talk about John 3:16... Austin 3:16 says I just whipped your ass!
 
While I applaud Pope Leo for this quote/snippet from his speech in Cameroon yesterday…

“Blessed are the peacemakers! But woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain...“
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…this the very foundation that has resulted in Christianity being the most popular religion in the Western Hemisphere (along with other areas). If only the time would come where humanity would adhere to the wisdom inherent to that quote, but I’ll be dead by then (possibly at the hands of those who fail to understand it).
 
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That's unfortunate. I have read his early books and they are nuanced and smart.

It seems like whenever a serious science guy gets into the public pundit game, they get stupider, even in their own field. Bertrand Russell, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Noam Chomsky, Ben Carson, Jared Diamond, Neil deGrasse Tyson. Maybe it's from rubbing shoulders with celebs. A contact dumb.
 
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Kepler said:
That's unfortunate. I have read his early books and they are nuanced and smart.

It seems like whenever a serious science guy gets into the public pundit game, they get stupider, even in their own field. Bertrand Russell, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Noam Chomsky, Ben Carson, Jared Diamond, Neil deGrasse Tyson. Maybe it's from rubbing shoulders with celebs. A contact dumb.
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He has really lost it over the last 15 years (or more). Agree, his early evolution books were great but he is in a stage where every opinion he expresses would be best kept to himself in a farm upstate.
 
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