2D Respecter 🇻🇦

always listen to Christ

[Seamus (FreedomToons) @seamus_coughlin]

Guy living in Ancient Rome: That's not "roman architecture" lol that's just how buildings look

[Shameless Popery @ShamelessPopery]

Plenty of smart Protestants go to (Protestant) seminary and are confirmed in their views. Plenty of smart Catholics go to seminary and are confirmed in our views. Neither of these facts is surprising or particularly persuasive.

But there are also many smart and seemingly holy, devout Protestants who study theology and Church history and they realize they have to become Catholic. This happens with enough frequency that entire books have been written about the phenomenon, as well as collections of testimonies. I personally know several former Protestant pastors who are now Catholic. I don't know of anysmart and seemingly holy, devout Catholics who study theology and Church history and realized they needed to become Protestant.

To be clear, I know plenty of former Catholics (most of them now non-religious, some of them now Protestant), but invariably they didn't know or believe Catholic teaching even *before* they left the Church, and most will tell you that.

I think this should be cause for reflection on both sides. On the one hand, there's clearly a problem within Catholicism of not forming the next generation well enough (this is improving, but there's a lot of work to do). And I think if I was a Protestant I would be alarmed by the fact that the more people look at the evidence, the more likely they are to conclude that Protestantism is false and Catholicism is true.

[Red5 @Red5djedi]

Jesus actually just has like crazy aura. Imagine all of history revolving around you, like you are literally the main character and you choose to be a poor carpenter that saves the universe. unreal writing by God im ngl.

[2D Respecter 🇻🇦 @2Dpunished]

Guy at the gym with a Virgin Mary t shirt is not Catholic I asked

[skooks @skooookum]

If you want any shot in this one wild and precious life you can't be jerking off. I'm entirely serious.

[Become A Saint @BeSaintly]

A rich man is not one who has much, but one who gives much; for what he gives remains his forever.

—St. John Chrysostom

[2D Respecter 🇻🇦 @2Dpunished]

@KeithNester1 Common Keith W

[2D Respecter 🇻🇦 @2Dpunished]

What’s your best points for refuting 7th day Adventism?

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

You know what shook me when I was Muslim?

Psalm 22. A song written by King David a thousand years before Jesus.

It opens: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” The exact words Jesus cried from the cross.

But it keeps going, and it describes a scene David never lived:

“They have pierced my hands and my feet.”

“All my bones are out of joint.”

“I can count all my bones — people stare and gloat over me.”

“They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.”

David was never crucified. Crucifixion didn’t even exist in David’s time. It wouldn’t be invented for centuries.

So how does a man describe death by piercing hands and feet, and soldiers gambling for his clothes, a thousand years before it happened to Jesus exactly as written?

You know what really rattled me?

This was a photograph taken a thousand years early.

Pierced hands and feet. Gambling for the garments. Mocking crowds. Bones out of joint from hanging.

Every detail, at the foot of the cross, fulfilled.
Islam told me to doubt the crucifixion.

David described it in HD ten centuries before it happened.

You can’t erase an event that was prophesied in that much detail.

[Agiat 🎈 @countmaculad]

According to the Talmud, the Jews began to tie a red cloth around the horns of the scapegoat; God would miraculously change its color white to signify his forgiveness.

And according to the Talmud, starting forty years before the destruction of the Temple, the cloth never again turned white: I.e., 30 A.D.

[2D Respecter 🇻🇦 @2Dpunished]

What’s your favorite Catholic documentaries and movies?

[MotherMary @Mothermary0012]

“You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him."

- St. Teresa of Avila

[Become A Saint @BeSaintly]

Miracles happen all the time within us

[Chud Thomist 🇻🇦 @ChudThomist]

I’d encourage everyone to pray the rosary daily. There almost isn’t a better way to spend 20-30 minutes everyday.

[Catholic Images That Go Hard @hardflics]

The United States has been consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

[MrCasey @MrCasey62]

As St. Thomas Aquinas said:

“If you would like to know God, LOOK AT THE CRUCIFIX!

If you would like to love God, LOOK AT THE CRUCIFIX!

If you want to serve God, LOOK AT THE CRUCIFIX!

If you hope for eternal Happiness, LOOK AT THE CRUCIFIX!

If you wonder how much God loves you, LOOK AT THE CRUCIFIX!

If you wonder how He tries to prevent you from the yawning jaws of hell, LOOK AT THE CRUCIFIX!

If you wonder how much He will help you to save your immortal soul, LOOK AT THE CRUCIFIX!

If you wonder how much you should forgive others, LOOK AT THE CRUCIFIX!

If you wonder how much your faith demands of you, in humility, poverty, charity, meekness and every virtue, LOOK AT THE CRUCIFIX!

If you want to know what unselfishness and generosity are, LOOK AT THE CRUCIFIX!

If you wonder how far your own unselfishness should go to bring others to Christ, LOOK AT THE CRUCIFIX!

If you want to understand the need for self-denial and mortification, LOOK AT THE CRUCIFIX!

If you wish to live well, LOOK AT THE CRUCIFIX!

If you wish to die well, LOOK AT THE CRUCIFIX!”

[Catholic Answers @catholiccom]

Mormons and Catholics believe in two different Gods. Both call God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, but each means a totally different thing from the other.

In Catholicism, God is three persons in one divine nature. God is immaterial and absolutely simple. In Mormonism, the three persons are distinct in substance and essence. They are made of material and exist in a material world.

In Catholicism, God created everything ex nihilo (from nothing). He brings everything into existence, and all existence is contingent on him. God is the uncaused cause—the ultimate explanation of all things.

In Mormonism, God does not bring all things into existence from nothing. Instead, he organizes eternally existing matter. This matter has existed forever, and all things, including god, are made by it.

This should already suffice to show that Mormons worship an altogether different "god" from Christians, so Mormonism is not a type or denomination of Christianity.

But setting aside that debate for the moment, there is a more fundamental question: is the Mormon view a sufficient explanation for why anything exists at all?

It is not. Eternal matter cannot explain its own reason for existence, let alone existence itself. Only a theology where God is the very act of being can explain reality fully.

Why? Continue reading below 👇