Yearly reminder that a baseball game can technically go on forever. We may all expire, but baseball contains the terrifying expanse of infinity. We are in the 11th.
@MattWalshBlog Being naturally called a citizen of a country you are born in is a normal human thing, it is the opposite that actually sounds weird. Some people abuse this privilege which is why government needs to curtail the abuse.
The left’s argument for birthright citizenship is obviously insane but it’s even more insane when you consider that they actually don’t believe in your or my “birthright.” We are on stolen land and don’t belong here, according to them. But the anchor baby whose parents got here from Guatemala 10 seconds ago has a “birthright” and is tied to this nation by blood for all time. That’s actually their position. It’s so psychotic that you can’t even argue against it. Like trying to have a political debate with a dog. These people are not rational.
After much prayer, deep study, and an intense personal journey of discernment, I have decided to leave Catholicism and become Protestant.
I can no longer remain in submission to a visible Church with apostolic authority, valid sacraments, saints, councils, consistency across centuries, and an actual historical claim to be the Church founded by Christ.
Instead, I have been led to the far more reasonable position that Christ left us a Bible, a highlighter, and me.
From this day forward, I will be my own final authority on Scripture, history, doctrine, and the meaning of Greek words I looked up 7 minutes ago.
I will now reject Sacred Tradition in the name of traditions invented in 1998, deny the authority of the Church that gave me the canon, and confidently explain Christianity through a sermon clip, a study Bible note, and a man on YouTube named Caleb.
I have also come to see that the best way to preserve Christian unity is by joining a theological system in which everyone is their own pope, every disagreement creates a new church plant, and "being led by the Spirit" simply means agreeing with my current opinion.
I will be launching my own denomination later this afternoon.
Our distinctives will include symbolic communion, invisible church membership, a 36 sermon series on Romans, and a firm belief that every Christian in history was wrong until my favorite pastor with a podcast arrived.
Please respect my journey during this delicate time.
@pythagoras999@boatgirl3@timburchett Knowing “how to google” is irrelevant when the consensus history and the conspiracy theory are in the same search. Skepticism of the consensus is healthy, and Google will affirm whichever belief you hold depending on how you, or Google, filters the results.
@pythagoras999@boatgirl3@timburchett I don’t care whether or not we landed on the moon, but saying that we’d have less conspiracy theories just because people can type words into a search box controlled and filtered by a multi trillion dollar corporation is just silly.
Also, the orientals didn’t split from just orthodoxy, they split from both of us, and yet they’re not even slightly interested in communing with you at all
We’re the closest we’ve ever been in history to recommuning with orientals becuase they retained the same conciliar structure we do and didn’t try to invent a super bishop. They did not protest the conciliar structure itself like papists did (do). Your argument is a self own.