@FischerKing64 This has always been how politics functions. The mistake of the right was believing naively that they would win on principles against an enemy that has never played fair.
@Absolutely_jenn@AFpost So you’d rather be dead than have a few policy disappointments each cycle? No survival instincts. It’s a wonder you’ve made it this far.
This depends on the church they are a member of. If they go to Billy Bob’s Bible church then you are correct. If they are apart of a mainline denomination, they are bound to its doctrine. PCUSA members are beholden to creeds and confessions like Nicene, WCF, Scots, Heidelberg, etc.
As a magisterial Protestant who holds that view, I don’t think that’s completely true. There are certainly magisterial churches that have poorly catechized laity, the same goes for Catholics according to issue polling. There are also Protestant churches that do this extremely well. Our goal should be to improve the catechesis of all laity, not strawman the actual doctrine based on the misunderstandings of the laity. Catholics attack Protestants for doing the reverse all the time (and rightly so, there is plenty to criticize actual Catholic doctrine on without needing to oversimplify or misrepresent it)
Erika Kirk seen crying: “She’s so performative! Look at those fake tears!”
Erika Kirk seen not crying: “Wow looks like she’s moved on pretty fast! Why isn’t she more upset??”
Erika Kirk seen laughing: “What’s so funny? Her husband just died!”
Erika Kirk seen frowning: “Why’s she scowling like that? What’s she so angry about???”
Erika Kirk seen existing in public: “She should be home with her kids! She’s abandoned them!”
Erika Kirk not seen existing in public: “Where is she? What is she hiding??? Why is she being so suspiciously quiet????”
Erika Kirk seen eating pancakes: “Look at this stupid bimbo eating pancakes! Too good for waffles huh?”
Erika Kirk seen eating waffles: “Really INTERESTING that she chose waffles of all things! Kind of suspicious if you ask me!”
So the wannabe shooter’s manifesto was just a list of media lies -
>Russia hoax
>blown up drug boats were fishermen
>Trump is convicted rapist
> Trump is pedo
>Ice raped migrants
>ice starved migrants to death
He basically wrote “CNN made me do this”
@ReformedToRome@tapanisimojoki That’s not true. Globally, the vast majority of Protestants are magisterial. In the States specifically, we have seen a rise in nondenominational evangelicalism in tandem with the decay of the mainlines. That said, there are still millions of magisterial Prots in the US.
It’s a good track but Lullaby mogs and I can think of 5-10 D1 tracks that go harder. Journey from vanilla D2 is also a contender. Destiny music has always been phenomenal but it undeniably declined as they slowly fired their music talent. Who do they even have left after Salvatori?
@dardog1305@Roach_VDB@deusimpera I’m not watching a biased 35 minute video from Catholic laity. Any historian worth their salt will tell you that what I have said is true.
Protestants didn’t start out as militants. They became violent after being violently persecuted by Catholics. Generally speaking, the isolated examples of Protestants executing heretics (as opposed to killing Catholics during religions national wars) were not executions of Catholics for Catholic theology. For instance, Luther argued for the execution of the Anabaptists for refusing to baptize infants and Calvin oversaw the execution of Michael Servetus for denying the Trinity. The Reformers weren’t executing people for being Catholic. They even held to many of the Marian dogmas that many modern Protestants would consider heretical.
Protestants never wanted to split from the Catholic Church, much less go to war with or kill Catholics. They wanted to Reform the obvious errors the church was falling into, many of which were rectified during the counter-Reformation with the exception of the Papacy.
On the other hand, Catholics have always violently persecuted dissidents even when the dissidents were correct. This dates back before the Reformation. Just look at Jon Hus 100 years prior to Luther. They executed Protestants for not affirming accretions like the Papacy or even for just asking questions about different aspects of doctrine or church history.
The Catholic Church at the time was heavily opposed to allowing laity to read the Bible. Much of the spread of Protestantism was due to people reading for themselves for the first time with the introduction of the printing press and the advent of mass literacy.
Church history is messy. Of course there are examples of violence going on both direction. My original post actually wasn’t even taking a stance on the violence itself, but instead pointing out the hypocrisy of a Pope who comes out and condemns the death penalty in all circumstances when his predecessors killed faithful Christians for reading Ephesians and coming to a different conclusion about salvation.