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[Ethan Good @EthanDGood]

Christianity is the only religion where, instead of man attempting to bridge to gap between them and God through works-based righteousness, God bridged the gap Himself.

God came to man to offer salvation through His OWN merit, because our own merits alone will always fall short.

[Ethan Good @EthanDGood]

@realMaalouf The United States, and Europe especially, needs to adopt this approach to Islam.

[Ethan Good @EthanDGood]

I am a Southern Baptist who plans to convert to either Catholicism or Orthodoxy after discerning between the two.
Unfortunately, no other denomination is the "correct one" because none of their beliefs were present in the Church prior to the 16th century.
In other words, Christ, the Apostles, and the Church Fathers never taught Protestant theology, so I cannot be the correct theology.

[Ethan Good @EthanDGood]

Are there any GOOD Muslim apologetics? I have never seen any, much less as compelling as that of Christianity.

[Ethan Good @EthanDGood]

@ChristandGuitar Not Catholic, but there are absolutely records of the succession of bishops in Rome after Peter. This is post is completely ignorant, willfully or not, I cant tell

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

What an appalling speech the Mayor of New York delivered for the 250th anniversary of the nation.

Sadly, it reflects the view of America propagated for years by Howard Zinn and his like-minded colleagues in the universities and believed by armies of the young: a dark, oppressive country where common people are denigrated by tyrants and oligarchs, where immigrants are treated with contempt, where those with ���soft hands” hold the wealth created by those with dirty hands.

No sensible person would claim that our country is without flaws, but the relentlessly negative picture painted by Mayor Mamdani is just absurd.

And it is the fruit of the Marxism that, sadly, is all the rage today.

[Nicholas J. Fuentes @NickJFuentes]

Muslims cry about Western colonialism and genocide, then scream that Islam will dominate the world and gloat about White Genocide in the next sentence.

They deserve ZERO sympathy. I’m done.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

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

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Let us learn to be rich in a different way: more attentive to relationships, more intent on valuing the common good, more attached to the local area, more grateful in welcoming and integrating those who come to live with us.

[Ethan Good @EthanDGood]

@farmingandJesus Why does Protestant apologetics on X basically amount to an ignorant or willful misrepresentation of Catholicism/Orthodoxy, followed by a simple repetition of Protestant belief?

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

What if the west isn't the villain they told you it was?

We’ve spent years accepting accusations about racism, intolerance, and slavery without challenging the bigger historical reality:

The societies most condemned today are also the ones that led the world in ending slavery, expanding rights, and building the most tolerant nations on earth.

That’s the conversation nobody wants to have.

[Ethan Good @EthanDGood]

@trad_west_ God bless South Korea for her increased piety to our Lord.

[Oliver Burdick @oliverburdick]

Plato:
209 manuscripts proving his existence.

Alexander the Great:
13 manuscripts proving his existence.

Genghis Khan:
8 manuscripts proving his existence.

Julius Caesar:
6 manuscripts proving his existence.

Jesus:
25,000 manuscripts proving his existence.

[Ethan Good @EthanDGood]

@JesusSavesUs777 There is only one simple answer: No.

Muslims reject the notion of a Triune God, therefore the Christian God and the Muslim God are fundamentally different in nature.

I'm sure any Muslim worth his salt would agree.

[Ethan Good @EthanDGood]

@DanBurmawy In what world are Jews "required to praise the name of Jesus"? And how does this connect to your point on "when a Jew does something and gets punished"?

This is a completely disjointed post. What point are you trying to make?

[Ethan Good @EthanDGood]

As a formal Protestant on my way to Orthodoxy, I can confidently say that many Protestants have good intentions and sincerely follow Christ.

However, the sad reality is that Protestantism cannot draw a line because it has no source of authority beyond personal, sometimes dishonest, interpretation of Scripture.

Ultimately, Protestantism can be twisted to suit whatever sins you choose to excuse. No doctrine is truly dogmatic in the Protestant world.

[Bishop @BishopJaxi]

St. Paul warned us about the Protestant spirit long before Protestantism had a name. 👇

"For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths."

-2 Timothy 4:3-4

[Ethan Good @EthanDGood]

@David_wthebeard This is Ecumenism and, as you said, it is Satanic.

Only Satan would tell you that you have options for the path to Heaven.

Yet, Christ says "I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."

[Ethan Good @EthanDGood]

"When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Christianity is NOT a pacifist religion
Christians are supposed to be pacifists? Just say you know nothing about Christianity.

Modern culture wants you to believe that Christianity is a religion of passivity, that a "good Christian" stands by while evil triumphs.

This is a lie.

From the early Church Fathers to the great Doctors like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, the Church has always taught that some wars are just, AND HOLY.

War is an evil, but sometimes necessary to restore just peace and avoid greater evils.

The Church does not glorify violence, but the Church does teach that peace is the fruit of justice, not cowardice - Is 32,17

If tyrants threaten the innocent and if evil crushes the weak, then Christian men may, and sometimes MUST, take up arms in defense of the good.

St. Augustine (4th Century) taught that war is sometimes a tragic necessity. In City of God, he wrote: “It is the injustice of the opposing side that lays on the wise man the duty to wage wars.” He taught war can be an act of charity and justice.

Just wars are those meant to punish injustices, when a people or city failed to return what was unjustly taken or neglected punishing evil.
Sometimes, the only way to restore order is to fight.

St. Thomas Aquinas codified the "Just War Theory," laying out the conditions (Legitimate authority; Just cause; Right intention - these must all be present, otherwise war becomes sinful) where taking up arms is not a sin, but a moral duty to protect the innocent.

And then there is Holy War. St. Bernard of Clairvaux, preaching to the Knights Templar, wrote that when a Christian knight kills an evil-doer in defense of the Faith, "he is not a homicide, but a malicide (a killer of evil)."

Christ Himself is not a pacifist. He drove out the money changers with a whip - Jn 2,15
He called His apostles to be fishers of men, but His Book of Revelation shows Him returning as a rider on a white horse, with a sword (Rev 19), waging war on evil.

Francisco Suárez, a theologian, said: “War is not intrinsically evil, but can be honest and indispensable, when waged to restore justice and protect the innocent.” This is echoed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (n. 2265–2266).

Even the saints fought. St. Joan of Arc led armies to defend Christian France. St. Louis IX led Crusades to recover the Holy Land. St. Fernando III of Castile freed Spain from Islam by the sword, and was canonized.

Holiness and heroism are not opposites.

A Christian is not a pacifist, a true Christian is a peacemaker. And sometimes, the only way to make peace is to destroy the evil that threatens it.

Make no peace with evil, destroy it. Tolerance of evil is not a Christian virtue.

[Ethan Good @EthanDGood]

@rshereme As a Christian who voted for Trump, I think this is laughable. It doesn't represent the whole of Conservative Christians, though. This is obviously a crazy X-user minority.