Christian Discussion Thread XI: Anicetus’ Revenge

[Nakena]

Woops.

Social Media Department failure.

[Albrenia]

Woops.

Social Media Department failure.

This Pope is my sort of Pope.

[Diarcesia]

Woops.

Social Media Department failure.

God created her, and God saw that she was good.

[Salus Maior]

Woops.

Social Media Department failure.

This Pope is my sort of Pope.

Like most of these public figure social media accounts, this is probably not run by Pope Francis himself.

[Esheaun Stroakuss]

Woops.

Social Media Department failure.

Sex positive Christianity.

[Salus Maior]

Well, there's always Byzantine Catholics.

We speak not of the fallen ones in Miklagard.

Fun fact, my priest does NO Latin, TLM, and Byzantine liturgies.

[Luminesa]

Woops.

Social Media Department failure.

Yeah it looks like that was an accident. Pope Francis is 83, it's understandable he probably mis-clicks things at times.

And the intern running his Instagram is like 75% getting fired.

[The Blaatschapen]

Woops.

Social Media Department failure.

Well, she is quite a blessed human being

[Lord Dominator]

Woops.

Social Media Department failure.

That article it also notes that the Pope has said masturbation is not a sin.

Catholics, is this true/not true?

[Salus Maior]

Woops.

Social Media Department failure.

That article it also notes that the Pope has said masturbation is not a sin.

Catholics, is this true/not true?

Not true. And regardless, he doesn't have the power to make it not so anyway.

Surprisingly enough, tabloids tend not to give the most comprehensively true information.

[The New California Republic]

Woops.

Social Media Department failure.

Well, she is quite a blessed human being

[Tarsonis]

Woops.

Social Media Department failure.

Hey just cause he's the Pope doesn't mean he's a eunuch

[Lord Dominator]

That article it also notes that the Pope has said masturbation is not a sin.

Catholics, is this true/not true?

Not true. And regardless, he doesn't have the power to make it not so anyway.

Surprisingly enough, tabloids tend not to give the most comprehensively true information.

That was rather the point of why I was asking.

[The Marlborough]

Lets be honest, liking a thirst post is among the more tame sex shenanigans in Papacy history. *looks to all the Pope's who have had kids*

Edit: Apparently it is more than one. Off to horny jail he goes. *bonk*

[Salus Maior]

Lets be honest, liking a thirst post is among the more tame sex shenanigans in Papacy history. *looks to all the Pope's who have had kids*

Edit: Apparently it is more than one. Off to horny jail he goes. *bonk*

I mean, again, it's more than likely that he is not personally running the account.

[Sundiata]

Hi everyone! This is a puppet country of Novo Portugal, don't really know if I've participated in here before. Anyways, I'm a Catholic from Portugal and look forward to read more of this thread, it seems really interesting. I actually came here thanks to Sundiata!

We're all happy you're here!

[The Marlborough]

Lets be honest, liking a thirst post is among the more tame sex shenanigans in Papacy history. *looks to all the Pope's who have had kids*

Edit: Apparently it is more than one. Off to horny jail he goes. *bonk*

I mean, again, it's more than likely that he is not personally running the account.

I know, I'm just joshing.

[Luminesa]

I mean, again, it's more than likely that he is not personally running the account.

I know, I'm just joshing.

Pope Francis: "Oh boy, what a wonderful morning, time to check my Instagram and to say hello to my followers."
Advisor: "Um...Your Holiness?"
PF: "Yes?"
Advisor: "Have you seen the pictures you liked?"
PF: "...Que?"
*Shows the pics in question.*
Advisor: "Your Holiness, would you like me to fix your timeline?"
PF: "Yes, and I'm going to 'fix' an intern. GIUSEPPE!!!!! YOU'RE CHICKEN SOUP WHEN I FIND YOU!"
*Cue terrified intern and a ton of screaming in Spanish.*

[Tarsonis]

Lets be honest, liking a thirst post is among the more tame sex shenanigans in Papacy history. *looks to all the Pope's who have had kids*

Edit: Apparently it is more than one. Off to horny jail he goes. *bonk*

as the mayor of said jail, he gets a pass.

[Neanderthaland]

Don't tempt me Frodo.

One liturgy to rule them all,
One liturgy to find them,
One liturgy to bring them all
And in the glittering candlelight bring them closer to God.

In the land of Hellas, where the gyros fries...

[Lost Memories]

This is an interesting graph.

Restrictions on religion among the world’s 25 most populous countries. (2018 data)

(pewresearch)

Surprising to see China, Iran, Turkey, with low social hostility.
May be an artefact of the lack of significant minorities to hate on, and the government restrictions already removing the possible targets of hostility.

France is just sad to look at. In the same sector of Bangladesh.

[Lost Memories]

What?

I think they misunderstand the fact that there's no such thing as atheist rules or belief. We're not like a divided faith, we're no faith at all.

It was self explicative, if the whole paragraph had been read. Hard to communicate with one-line-readers.

Here what you both missed:
Protestantism exists when it's necessary to attack someone or something, but disperses into dust specks when anything is said about it. Like the atheists do.

It's about group integrity, one second there is a whole circlejerk about generalizing what atheists do better than X, the second any critic is directed back, the reactions 99% of the times are: "oh, but atheists don't really exist, so you can't fault something which doesn't exist."
Fat chances, intellectual cheaters. Atheism, and atheists, can be criticized like anything else.

[New Visayan Islands]

Japan looks like it did a full 180, considering (because relevant example is relevant) the history of Japanese Christendom.

[Lost Memories]

The Roman Catholic Church is still easily the largest single denomination, and still easily the largest of the four churches with the best claim to apostolic succession; but you can make that point without functionally halving the membership of both the Orthodox Church and non-Chalcedonian Oriental Orthodoxy.

Yeah, but can the Russian Orthodox Church and the, Ukranian Orthodox Church, to pick a specific example, be said to be "united" ?

Sure, administrative unity isn't as important as doctrinal unity, the latter being much more important. (unless the administrative disunity also influences doctrinal division)
So you can have it, in the case of the orthodox and the other original churches, for the point i was making, there was no need to also include administrative unity.

The "beyond nationalisms" part is still relevant though.

[Lost Memories]

Japan looks like it did a full 180, considering (because relevant example is relevant) the history of Japanese Christendom.

Yeah, Japan was really a surprise. Both low government restrictions and low social oppression.
I'm curious though, if there is some indirect relation of those two, with the very low crime rate in Japan. Of how there, the social structure is already very traditional, which may have played a role in the scoring.

That graph only holds the 25 most populous nations, so there may be other interesting cases which didn't show up there.
I didn't read the full report yet, so no idea if there is a full table with all nations.