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Trump’s US doesn’t just think Europe is obsolete – it wants to see it dead
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But Europe has the literal Vatican! That's where the religion comes from!
Oh my sweet summer child, you just opened the door to madness.
Southern baptists don't...they don't consider catholics to be Christians.
Not 'catholics aren't real Christians' or 'catholics are heretics', they're not Christian at all, they're like Mormons or Muslims.
I have never managed to understand it, and I had a few SBC try to explain it to me, their attitude is just that it's not real Christianity like protestantism, it's something else, something alien.
This is why Irish and Italians weren't considered white for a long time too, only really white people can be Christian, because of the curse of Ham. Black people like Obama are straight Muslim, full stop.
Feel free to go down this rabbit hole, it won't get you anywhere good, and the sbc has been trying to quietly backpedal as best they can, but it's still really popular among the smaller congregations, at least the ones I met.
Which makes it extra ironic the so-called White House faith office is pulling shit like selling $1,000 Easter miracles.
That’s practically the old Catholic indulgences and those were literally one of the reasons for the great schism; that kind of shit is why Protestants exist to begin with THAT’S WHAT THEY WERE PROTESTING
They have so utterly and comprehensively lost the plot and betrayed everything they claimed to stand for
The sbc never, ever claimed to stand for anything except being pro-slavery.
That's why they schismed from the triennial convention, to endorse the Curse of Ham as core dogma for God to command white men to keep black people as slaves.
I was dumbfounded the first time my ex-wife tried to tell me that because I was a (former) Catholic at the time, that it wasn't actually Christianity.
My exact words were; "Bitch please! We were the fucking original christians, what the fuck are you on about?"
That was before we got married and I should have listened to my gut in that moment.
This heretic doesn't know about East-West schism. OG Christians are Orthodox
I was raised Roman Catholic and I was taught about the schism.
However, it was framed as the Eastern Orthodox Catholics broke off from mainstream Catholicism, therefore Roman Catholics were the "original Catholics."
It does kind of tickle me how much the folks that taught me that, value tradition so highly that they try to rationalize this kind of thing until they once are "traditional."
come at me, bro...
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Southern Baptiats after schisming in order to make the Curse of Ham their dogmatic rationalization of slavery:
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Interesting. Wild, but interesting. I consider Mormons to be Christian too, I didn't realize it was its own thing, I thought it was just the blanket term for religions that worship Jesus.
Don't sweat it, everyone is just gatekeeping, because only their specific religion is true and everyone else is just evil and siding with Satan.
And they’re all mutually exclusive! So if you’re religious and believe in one of the various Christian offshoots (or really, any faith of Abrahamic origin), no matter which one you pick, you’re going to hell according to most of the others.
https://youtu.be/D88DQIJmxRI