The Christian Discussion Thread X: Originally there were 15

[Tarsonis]

Please pray for me guys, found out today my department is getting turned over. As of now I don’t have a job next year.

*Prays to Marx, God of the proletariat*

Thank you for mocking my turmoil.

[Tarsonis]

You really want the Inquisition around as a Calvinist? Seems like a poor choice

Wouldn't the Inquisition just kill all humans* for either worshipping a false god or worshipping no god at all?

*: Obviously this excludes Elon Musk, who shall be turned over to the Mechanicus as he is one of the Omnissiah's faithful, and Mark Zuckerberg, who will doubtless teleport back to his tomb world before the torpedoes hit.

Actually the Inquisition never killed anyone. Secular authorities did upon the results of the Inquisitions findings.

[The New California Republic]

*Prays to Marx, God of the proletariat*

Thank you for mocking my turmoil.

Not mocking at all. If I thought that Marx was a God then I'd pray to him for you.

[Aeritai]

Please pray for me guys, found out today my department is getting turned over. As of now I don’t have a job next year.

Sorry to hear that Tars may God help you with your troubles.

[The Blaatschapen]

A good argument against the celibacy in the catholic church:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -them.html

[Jack Thomas Lang]

Please pray for me guys, found out today my department is getting turned over. As of now I don’t have a job next year.

Losing a job is rarely fun, so I'll pray for you.

Surely it's not that bad? You can get another job?

[Tarsonis]

Please pray for me guys, found out today my department is getting turned over. As of now I don’t have a job next year.

Losing a job is rarely fun, so I'll pray for you.

Surely it's not that bad? You can get another job?

I’m gonna worry about that on Monday

[Kowani]

Please pray for me guys, found out today my department is getting turned over. As of now I don’t have a job next year.

Ooh. Good luck, mate.

[Luminesa]

Thank you for mocking my turmoil.

Not mocking at all. If I thought that Marx was a God then I'd pray to him for you.

You could always just send...positive vibes I guess? I dunno.

[Luminesa]

Please pray for me guys, found out today my department is getting turned over. As of now I don’t have a job next year.

Oh lovely. Well, I will indeed pray for you. Don’t give-up, God will place you where He sees you fit. Stay strong!

[Kannap]

Not really a well enough known name to warrant a NSG thread of her own, so I'm coming here. Rachel Held Evans passed away this morning. If you believe in prayer, as I assume many of us here do, then please keep her family, friends, and community in your prayers.

She was 37, she had a bad case of the flu last month followed by a severe allergic reaction to the antibiotics. That was then followed by seizures, until they medically induced a coma - the seizures returned anytime they tried weaning her off the coma medication. She passed away early this morning.

Her last online post in March, for Ash Wednesday, feels appropriate to include here as well.

It strikes me today that the liturgy of Ash Wednesday teaches something that nearly everyone can agree on. Whether you are part of a church or not, whether you believe today or you doubt, whether you are a Christian or an atheist or an agnostic or a so-called “none” (whose faith experiences far transcend the limits of that label) you know this truth deep in your bones: “Remember that you are dust and to dust you will return.”

Death is a part of life.

My prayer for you this season is that you make time to celebrate that reality, and to grieve that reality, and that you will know you are not alone.

[Luminesa]

Not really a well enough known name to warrant a NSG thread of her own, so I'm coming here. Rachel Held Evans passed away this morning. If you believe in prayer, as I assume many of us here do, then please keep her family, friends, and community in your prayers.

She was 37, she had a bad case of the flu last month followed by a severe allergic reaction to the antibiotics. That was then followed by seizures, until they medically induced a coma - the seizures returned anytime they tried weaning her off the coma medication. She passed away early this morning.

Her last online post in March, for Ash Wednesday, feels appropriate to include here as well.

It strikes me today that the liturgy of Ash Wednesday teaches something that nearly everyone can agree on. Whether you are part of a church or not, whether you believe today or you doubt, whether you are a Christian or an atheist or an agnostic or a so-called “none” (whose faith experiences far transcend the limits of that label) you know this truth deep in your bones: “Remember that you are dust and to dust you will return.”

Death is a part of life.

My prayer for you this season is that you make time to celebrate that reality, and to grieve that reality, and that you will know you are not alone.

I will keep her in my prayers. What an awful way to go. May she rest in peace.

[Nioya]

OK let me get this off my chest.

Arguing against premarital sex is hard. It’s just like you can say promiscuity is bad because you use someone for pleasure, but love is what justifies a sexual relationship. But when teenagers have often they don’t just do it for pleasure. They’re like “We love each other. I met him in calculus last month. We’ve been together for a week. Oh my God mom this is not a phase. This the real me. We’re going to be together forever.” And they sincerely mean it.

[Jack Thomas Lang]

OK let me get this off my chest.

Arguing against premarital sex is hard. It’s just like you can say promiscuity is bad because you use someone for pleasure, but love is what justifies a sexual relationship. But when teenagers have often they don’t just do it for pleasure. They’re like “We love each other. I met him in calculus last month. We’ve been together for a week. Oh my God mom this is not a phase. This the real me. We’re going to be together forever.” And they sincerely mean it.

Maybe decades ago, when teens actually got married and stayed together (or until the marriage fell apart).

Nowadays, I really doubt that teens who have premarital sex are in it "forever". For most, it's just pleasure or affection, not necessarily love since marriage is expected to occur later in life. That might explain why teens are having less sex. Since I don't expect to get married until my mid 20's, I'm not looking for sex or relationships. There's also porn and growing acceptance of masturbation...

[Diopolis]

OK let me get this off my chest.

Arguing against premarital sex is hard. It’s just like you can say promiscuity is bad because you use someone for pleasure, but love is what justifies a sexual relationship. But when teenagers have often they don’t just do it for pleasure. They’re like “We love each other. I met him in calculus last month. We’ve been together for a week. Oh my God mom this is not a phase. This the real me. We’re going to be together forever.” And they sincerely mean it.

Maybe decades ago, when teens actually got married and stayed together (or until the marriage fell apart).

Nowadays, I really doubt that teens who have premarital sex are in it "forever". For most, it's just pleasure or affection, not necessarily love since marriage is expected to occur later in life. That might explain why teens are having less sex. Since I don't expect to get married until my mid 20's, I'm not looking for sex or relationships. There's also porn and growing acceptance of masturbation...

Everyone knows they're not. Except them, that is.

[Salus Maior]

Please pray for me guys, found out today my department is getting turned over. As of now I don’t have a job next year.

*Prays to Marx, God of the proletariat*

That's in poor taste, dude.

[Jack Thomas Lang]

Everyone knows they're not. Except them, that is.

Come again?

[Lord Dominator]

A good argument against the celibacy in the catholic church:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -them.html

[Nioya]

OK let me get this off my chest.

Arguing against premarital sex is hard. It’s just like you can say promiscuity is bad because you use someone for pleasure, but love is what justifies a sexual relationship. But when teenagers have often they don’t just do it for pleasure. They’re like “We love each other. I met him in calculus last month. We’ve been together for a week. Oh my God mom this is not a phase. This the real me. We’re going to be together forever.” And they sincerely mean it.

Maybe decades ago, when teens actually got married and stayed together (or until the marriage fell apart).

Nowadays, I really doubt that teens who have premarital sex are in it "forever". For most, it's just pleasure or affection, not necessarily love since marriage is expected to occur later in life. That might explain why teens are having less sex. Since I don't expect to get married until my mid 20's, I'm not looking for sex or relationships. There's also porn and growing acceptance of masturbation...

Yeah the affection part. One prominent pastor talks about a girl telling her parents “I don’t think it’s wrong for two people to have sex if they really love each other.” The lies in that love being all too fleeting and impermanent.

[The New California Republic]

*Prays to Marx, God of the proletariat*

That's in poor taste, dude.

Not really, as I explained previously.

[Tarsonis]

That's in poor taste, dude.

Not really, as I explained previously.

Nobody here is buying it dude.

[The New California Republic]

Not really, as I explained previously.

Nobody here is buying it dude.

That's fine.

[Nea Byzantia]

To all the Catholics, Orthodox, Anglicans and everybody else who commemorates the Saints; who is your favorite Saint, and why?

[The New California Republic]

To all the Catholics, Orthodox, Anglicans and everybody else who commemorates the Saints; who is your favorite Saint, and why?

If I was still Anglican then Saint Sebastian, because he took those arrows like a boss. Not so hardy against cudgels unfortunately.

[Maineiacs]

To all the Catholics, Orthodox, Anglicans and everybody else who commemorates the Saints; who is your favorite Saint, and why?

My favorite saint is my patron saint, St. Germaine Cousin. https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=52 I identify all too well with her story.