David Oatney ✝️⛪🇻🇦🇺🇲

Catholic Deacon, Dad, Conservative, lover of Jesus, my girls, the Liturgy, the Church, and America. Based & happy to be. The opinions expressed are mine alone.

[David Oatney ✝️⛪🇻🇦🇺🇲 @oatney76]

@agreatdayinnc Most American Protestant theology is some variation of Calvinism. Baptists have a soteriology that is essentially one point Calvinism, since they believe in eternal security (except Free Will Baptists, but that' another post). American Protestants are mostly cultural Calvinists.

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@agreatdayinnc St. Paul tells us "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." (Philippians 2:12). So it is up to each of us to work out our affairs with God. The church does not teach that we are justified by works, but neither are we justified by faith alone. The two are in tandem.4/

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@CraigOnan It is a great irony that this nonsense is peddled by someone with the last name Onan...

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@ServusDeiVivi @BrianJohnCole I don't have any problem tipping people. I do not believe I should be compelled or forced to tip, and I certainly should not be told to tip a certain amount. If tipping is not voluntary, completely voluntary, it's not a tip at all.

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@EWErickson It actually happened. Doesn't seem like mental illness to me.

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@MgPaladin @roddreher The original Tennessee Constitution (1796) required voters to go to the county seat, and elections took two days for that reason.

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@roddreher @kalezelden I don't have a problem with early voting as long as it's done the way we do it here in Tennessee. In person at a designated early voting station, with poll workers present, and you have to sign the roll and show ID.

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@SteveDeaceShow I have long believed, for about 20 years or more, that we can't share our country with the Democratic Party. I'm not talking about individual Democrats, everyone is different. But this mindset is cultural rot. That it persists means that it must be rooted out or the country dies.

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@MAGACatholic28 @father_rmv @Catholicizm1 Yes, deacons can and do. Deacons are ordinary ministers.

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@lukei4655 @emuse1955 I hope you'll stream this...

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@KenShepherd @tedsbestblogs I have often wondered what would have happened if Calhoun had lived long enough to Lincoln's time.

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@DougVegas @ryanburge Yes, and unlike Catholics who don't target Protestant Converts, they just come, The Mormons come gunning for Evangelical converts. Mormon growth is not among their own statistically, a great many Mormons born into the Mormon faith leave it.

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@ryanburge The patriotism and political conservatism of Mormons is not in doubt. The current internet debate based on the War Department list is on weather Mormonism is Christian. Theologically, Muslims are more Christian than Mormons are.

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@tedsbestblogs @KenShepherd Publicly, he did an excellent job at the use of religious language as a political figure in both a country & a region where that was expected. Many of his speeches are replete with Christian language, but there is too much evidence to suggest that he himself may not have believed

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@tedsbestblogs @KenShepherd And to be fair, the Episcopal Church in the South in those days was a much more conservative body than the Episcopal Church we know today. However, Calhoun never formally identified as Christian even as he moved away from the unitarians. 3/