Steven Pratama

[Lutheran Answers @LutheranAnswers]

@BrotherTra21544 I mean, great.

Name the three that consecrated rebiba

[Lutheran Answers @LutheranAnswers]

This is a really convincing meme as long as you don't read this Wikipedia article about Cardinal Scipione Rebiba

https://t.co/76CIzp9oIY

[Matt Hedges @mattjhedges11]

EOs when Cleave apostatized: “TOP PROTESTANT APOLOGIST CONVERTS!!”

EOs when a trained priest like Joseph Schooping becomes Protestant: “Totally uneducated.”

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

“I’m here to learn from your housing model”

“In Singapore all housing has ethnic quotas to prevent ghettoisation”

“Right”

“Foreigners are not eligible for social housing either, we prioritise our citizens”

“So you’re saying put more Somalis in central London social housing?”

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

If you’re gonna force players to wear the rainbow, don’t get mad when they teach you what the rainbow actually means.

It’s not a celebration of sin, it’s a covenant with God’s people.

[James Kowalski @JamesKowalski88]

In 1st-century Judaism, the "mustard seed" was the universal idiom for the smallest unit of measure, it's used exactly this way in the Mishnah and Talmud (Niddah 5:2). Jesus was speaking the cultural language of His audience, not giving a 21st-century botany lecture.

[✝️🇺🇸 The Intern 🌐🔆 @EiratheIntern]

My mom told me "you are my sunshine," but why doesn't that IDIOT realize that sunlight is emitted in a nuclear reaction in the core of the sun while I am a great ape primate???

[Joe B @AstroJoeB]

@MrParrhesia @Rapierian No, I’m just able to distinguish between parable/poetry and historical narrative. You take historical narrative literally and you take parable non-literally, focusing on the message. It’s not “picking and choosing,” it’s basic reading comprehension.

[Ian Nowland @Rapierian]

@AstroJoeB Both Christian fundamentalists and atheists are far too intent on taking the Bible literally when it’s mostly written colloquially.

[Joe B @AstroJoeB]

Jesus: “it’s like an orchid seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth”

1st century Judean farmers: “what the hell is an orchid?”

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Two global powerhouses?

Oh please, I see only ONE.

Singapore is what competent governance actually looks like. It's pro-growth and has strong rule of law. They CANE vandals, graffiti scumbags, and anyone who thinks they can trash a world-class city. Imagine that? The streets are clean and safe for families. Merit and results are favored over feelings and cheap sloganeering.

You? You took one of the greatest cities in human history and ran it straight into decay and decline. Knife crime has exploded on your watch, phone snatchings have soared, and the rate of robberies and violent crime with injury are way up. Young Londoners are so terrified to walk certain streets that many have moved to safer towns in the countryside. The streets are filthier, the tube is far more unreliable and chaotic, and businesses and talent are fleeing London.

Your woke policies are the EXACT OPPOSITE of Singapore's and the results are clear.

And don't get me started on how you've poisoned race relations. London is now a seething cauldron of division and resentment. While Singapore builds unity through shared standards, forced integration, and zero-tolerance enforcement, you've peddled woke grievance politics that pit communities against each other. You've obsessed over "structural racism" and "anti-Blackness," pushing narratives that scream institutional guilt at every turn, all the while anti-white sentiment and antisemitism have surged to horrifying levels on your watch. Jewish Londoners living in fear, synagogues needing extra security, streets filled with chants that call for their destruction. You downplay it, equivocate, and let the marches roll on with kid gloves.

Two-tier policing has gone off the charts with police being harsh on some protests, soft on others depending on the identity or cause. Native Londoners and white working-class communities feel abandoned and demonized, while certain groups get a free pass.

Your own office even put out garbage claiming a White family "doesn't represent real Londoners." You've fanned the flames of resentment instead of demanding assimilation, excellence, and color-blind law and order.

So sorry, but London *was* a powerhouse, but that was before your tenure. It's not anymore.

In 1946, a young Lee Kuan Yew stepped off the boat into a battered London still licking its wounds from war.

Amid the mess, he witnessed something miraculous - an unsupervised newspaper stall at Piccadilly Circus. People stopped, dropped their coins, took their paper, and walked on. There was no attendant, no fear of theft.

“This,” he thought, “is civilisation. A high-trust society where men police themselves.”

He carried that vision home.

In the 1960s, as Singapore stumbled out of colonial rule - poor, swampy, fractious - Lee vowed to forge his city state into that London he saw first hand.

Over time, Lee transformed Singapore into an orderly, courteous, disciplined, garden of trust rising from a chaotic swamp.

Now the tables have turned as London, once the beacon, slides into low-trust decay. It's only accelerated under your leadership. It went from high-trust to low-trust to now, negative trust.

There's actually a huge trust deficit now.

The former colony has now surpassed its former colonial master as the latter forgot how to govern.

Singapore actually has the playbook. Since you're there, you might as well learn from the best.

[🎸 Matt 🎸 @ChristandGuitar]

The "pope" exists because of man's continuous sin and unwillingness to let Christ lead His Church.

In the Old Testament, God Himself was supposed to be the King of Israel. Yet the people demanded a king just like the pagan nations:

1 Samuel 8:5b
..."Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.”

God selected Saul to appease the people, followed by David. Over time though, and after many more human kings, the nation still drifted away from God until they were conquered and exiled.

Today, we Christians have Christ as our High King, we have Scripture, and we have the Holy Spirit. And yet, the Roman Catholic Church chooses to elect someone to represent Christ on earth.

What an absolute blasphemous and abhorrent mockery of God.

Colossians 1:18a
And he is the head of the body, the church.

No one stands in Christ's place. He needs no substitute.

[Konrad von Marburg @JustinusRomanus]

@Abathurchan Insofar as all knowledge in the intellect is mediated through yourself and not directly beamed into the brain via papal bull, everyone is "protestant". Some of us have at least realized it and overcome the genetic fallacy that "protestant = bad".

[符荣汉🧭 @Abathurchan]

What makes one religion more correct than another?

How can a person know which religion teaches the true interpretation of God's will?

These arguments would never persuade anyone outside of the shadow of Christendom.

[Matt Hedges @mattjhedges11]

Reminder that lying really isn’t a sin when you defend Eastern “Orthodoxy.” What actually matters is “owning the Prots.”

[Tim Kauffman @whpub]

Your prayer that I take your prayer before Christ, is a prayer TO ME. The prayers the saints and angels in heaven offer as incense before the throne were not directed TO THEM.

Therefore, there is no Scriptural imperative to direct our prayers TO THEM.

You're using Revelation 5 and 8 prayers TO GOD as a back door argument to claim Scriptural authority for prayers TO saints and angels in heaven, which is a non sequitur. The incense offered before God in heaven is proseuche that is directed TO GOD. There is no case to be made that because they offer our proseuche that we should therefore direct parakaleo to them.

[Red 🎸 @RedLeaderRobby]

@SydneyLWatson

[Anglican Aesthetics @AngAesthetics]

Or he does and ignores it. E.g. he's been shown his arguments about Protestants not worshipping God make no sense with Daniel worshipping God in Babylon, but he uses it still. He knows Thomists have the view of predestination he critiques but still uses it to argue the superiority of Romanism over Reformed thinking. He is aware of Erick Ybarra's work on PSA but also doesn't stop critiquing "Protestantism" for PSA without having interacted with so much as one of his own authors that do the same. He knows purgatory is retributive but thaf doesnt stop him from abusing CS Lewis to make it seem like post mortem cleansing is all you need. He claims fasting for virtue and mortification justifies aiming to inflict suffering on oneself to appease the vengeance of God due you and others.

I could go on.

[Matt Hedges @mattjhedges11]

Apparently, opponents of Calvin accused him during his lifetime of having been charged with sodomy as a youth.

Turns out, it was conflated with a Roman Catholic priest named "Jean Cauvin" who was imprisoned for this crime in 1534 in the city of Noyon. The charge against the Reformed originated from Jerome Bolsec, a notorious opponent of Calvin who wrote a pseudo-historical biography of him that is known to be fraudulent. Even some Eastern Orthodox scholars on Calvin reject the accusation and say that Cardinal Thomas Stapleton was untruthful in this regard. See Gary W. Jenkins, "Calvin's Tormentors: Understanding the Conflicts that Shaped the Reformed" [Baker Academic, 2018], pgs. 123-124.

But again, when you're a Papist in the likes of someone like Taylor Marshall, you can just lie and slander to your heart's content and get away with it (check the number of baboons that liked the post). What a fearful thing it will be for these men to give an account before Christ one day for their wicked slander of godly men.

[Tim Kauffman @whpub]

@theGUdGinge At issue is whether God could promulgate the canon of His scriptures without imbuing His Church with infallibility. Of you agree that He could or did, we are in the same page.