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    It’s Time For The Catholic Church to Lead The Way

    Anyone who knows anything about Christianity would know that Jesus is not set to return until the second coming. When all the dead will be resurrected and judged. So, according to the Church, when Jesus returns people will notice. Nothing you've written here even approaches a rational point...
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    Early Christianity was anti-natalist

    No, the claim that the Church only permitted marriage so as to prop up the empire's workforce is beyond silly. Paul is clear that there is no sin in choosing to marry over staying celibate. As per the teachings of Christ: marriage is a natural good intended by God. Man shall cling to his...
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    Early Christianity was anti-natalist

    While it's true that the early Church encouraged celibacy as the higher calling, I think it's overstated to claim that it discouraged the having the children. Also, the suggestion that the Church had conspiratorial intent in allowing marriage is downright silly.
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    Christians need to idolizing cultural artifacts like the ten commandments

    I forgot to add. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Good deeds alone do not save the soul. You must also avoid sin and grow in sanctity.
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    Christians need to idolizing cultural artifacts like the ten commandments

    The law from which Christians are freed is the Mosaic Law of the Old Covenant. The moral law is still very much in effect. Matthew 5:17-19
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    Christians need to idolizing cultural artifacts like the ten commandments

    The corporal acts of mercy are important but Christians are not called to them alone. Sin ruins the soul and a ruined soul separates you from God forever unless it is remedied by repentance. The notion that Christians can overlook sin and the moral law so long as they perform charitable acts is...
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    Christians need to idolizing cultural artifacts like the ten commandments

    By values of Christ, you really mean your values, which I bet will conveniently align with the values of secular progressivism.
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    How Odd Is Putin's Russia?

    I don't care how much of an independent thinker you believe yourself to be. Putin's concerns are Russia's claimed right to imperial domination over eastern Europe. Or at the very least, Ukraine and the Baltics. As much as I predict that the Ukrainians will have to accept some loss of territory...
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    How Odd Is Putin's Russia?

    Putin is mad because NATO guarantees countries he sees as Russian vassals, not because he fears a NATO offensive. Peace with Russia on Russia's ideal terms would be for the west to hand it political control over everything east of Germany. Which is delusional. Russia's empire is gone. Russia...
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    How Odd Is Putin's Russia?

    Russia and its apologists believe that Russia as a great power is entitled to hegemonic control over eastern Europe. Under this view, any assertion of Ukrainian independence is a provocation because Ukraine is a non-negotiable part of the Russian sphere of influence. For Russia and its...
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    How can God have a son while he has no companion.

    There is nothing contradictory about it. One God in three divine persons. Christians hold it as a revealed truth that cannot be understood within the categories of human reason. Which is fitting. God is rational but God is not ultimately definable. There is no reason to expect God to make...
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    How can God have a son while he has no companion.

    I don't think Muslims comprehend the Christian doctrine of the Trinity. Christianity claims that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are all God eternal. The Logos (the Son) was not begotten at any point after the Father. Rather the Son has always existed as part of the Godhead. All three...
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    The Next Pope

    I don't understand how so many are blind to a simple doctrinal reality. A Catholic Church that substantially changes its moral doctrines admits its claims to divine guidance were false. A Catholic Church that dispenses its claims to indefectibility disproves Christianity.
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    The Next Pope

    What I am against is a Church that presented itself as the indefectible custodian of divine revelation attempting to smooth over its own religion because its own doctrine has suddenly become inconvenient. The Catholic Church doesn't get to claim an infallible religion: it doesn't get to claim to...
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    The Next Pope

    You have just touched upon the big incoherence of this pontificate. On the one hand, Francis has systematically replaced conservative bishops with liberal/progressive ones. He has spent his entire pontificate signaling a desire to reform Catholic teaching and practice along liberal/progressive...
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    The Next Pope

    You have habit of missing the point. No conservative or traditionalist is denying anyone the opportunity to avail themselves of either baptism or confession. The issue is that the progressives the Francis pontificate has empowered deny the existence of sin. They deny the fashionable vices are in...
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    The Next Pope

    You're right, if the Church is what it claims to be. It is not conservatives keeping sinners from entering the Church. Conservatives are not preventing people from going to confession. What is keeping sinners from the Church is their rejection of the moral law as taught by Christianity. Those...
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    The Next Pope

    I am going to quit for the night because I am getting frustrated. I am not talking about the Tridentine Mass. My replies to you have been concerned with the competence of the pope, the Church and the faith it claims to maintain. Yet you keep missing the point entirely. You and I are having two...
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    The Next Pope

    The traditionalists and the conservatives want to practice or at least believe as the Church has taught them perennially. The Catholic Church has legitimacy only in so far as it faithfully teaches what it claims has been passed down to it by revelation and tradition. The notion that the pope can...
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    The Next Pope

    As much as I dislike this pontificate, I agree that this pope has suffered from bad faith criticism. It is also true that the media is not particularly trustworthy when it comes to covering the Catholic Church. Nonetheless, I think the hole Pope Francis has dug himself into is largely of his own...
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