Christian Discussion Thread XI: Anicetus’ Revenge

[Sundiata]

I'll try news again, maybe it'll go better this time.

25-year-old Anna-Nicole Heinrich is the youngest person to be elected president of the EKD synod. Here's an article in German and here's another article in English.

That's fascinating; it will be interesting to see the direction she takes her church.

[Tarsonis]

I'll try news again, maybe it'll go better this time.

25-year-old Anna-Nicole Heinrich is the youngest person to be elected president of the EKD synod. Here's an article in German and here's another article in English.

Hmm so many ways to be toxic about this. I'll get back to you after I decide which route to take.

[Tarsonis]

Please pray for the people of Palestine, many of whom are our brothers.

Sure. Pray for the people of Israel as well. Pray both sides can bring and end to the conflict.

[Punished UMN]

Please pray for the people of Palestine, many of whom are our brothers.

Sure. Pray for the people of Israel as well. Pray both sides can bring and end to the conflict.

The Israeli government doesn't want an end to the conflict, Hamas today offered a ceasefire and Israel rejected it, saying that they will "bomb Gaza until it is silent forever."

[Tarsonis]

Sure. Pray for the people of Israel as well. Pray both sides can bring and end to the conflict.

The Israeli government doesn't want an end to the conflict, Hamas today offered a ceasefire and Israel rejected it, saying that they will "bomb Gaza until it is silent forever."

Maybe Hamas shouldn't have used Gaza as a staging point to launch hundreds of rocket attacks into Israel for years?

If you want to champion the palestinian cause by all means, but please keep it in the Isreal threads.

[Benuty]

The Israeli government doesn't want an end to the conflict, Hamas today offered a ceasefire and Israel rejected it, saying that they will "bomb Gaza until it is silent forever."

Maybe Hamas shouldn't have used Gaza as a staging point to launch hundreds of rocket attacks into Israel?

If you want to champion the palestinian cause by all means, but please keep it in the Isreal threads.

Being real here, the only way the middle east will ever truly stay silent is under the "benevolence" of a conqueror.

[Punished UMN]

The Israeli government doesn't want an end to the conflict, Hamas today offered a ceasefire and Israel rejected it, saying that they will "bomb Gaza until it is silent forever."

Maybe Hamas shouldn't have used Gaza as a staging point to launch hundreds of rocket attacks into Israel?

If you want to champion the palestinian cause by all means, but please keep it in the Isreal threads.

How dare Hamas retaliate for the constant murder of their children in the West Bank.

Many of the Palestinians are Christians. Do you want the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem to shut up about it? His flock is under attack, an Orthodox parish and a Catholic Church were bombed by the IDF last night.

[Sundiata]

Please pray for the people of Palestine, many of whom are our brothers.

Sure. Pray for the people of Israel as well. Pray both sides can bring and end to the conflict.

Sure. Pray for the people of Israel as well. Pray both sides can bring and end to the conflict.

The Israeli government doesn't want an end to the conflict, Hamas today offered a ceasefire and Israel rejected it, saying that they will "bomb Gaza until it is silent forever."

Prayers for peace.

[Sundiata]

Maybe Hamas shouldn't have used Gaza as a staging point to launch hundreds of rocket attacks into Israel?

If you want to champion the palestinian cause by all means, but please keep it in the Isreal threads.

Being real here, the only way the middle east will ever truly stay silent is under the "benevolence" of a conqueror.

Christ the King.

[Loeje]

I'll try news again, maybe it'll go better this time.

25-year-old Anna-Nicole Heinrich is the youngest person to be elected president of the EKD synod. Here's an article in German and here's another article in English.

That's fascinating; it will be interesting to see the direction she takes her church.

Especially now, when they're worried about young people not being interested in the church.

[Benuty]

Being real here, the only way the middle east will ever truly stay silent is under the "benevolence" of a conqueror.

Christ the King.

Ideally yes, but that might be a while hence why I put benevolence in quotes since it is probably going to be a fallible human.

[Tarsonis]

Maybe Hamas shouldn't have used Gaza as a staging point to launch hundreds of rocket attacks into Israel?

If you want to champion the palestinian cause by all means, but please keep it in the Isreal threads.

How dare Hamas retaliate for the constant murder of their children in the West Bank.

And how dare Israel defend itself as it has had to do from the very beginning?

Many of the Palestinians are Christians. Do you want the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem to shut up about it?

There are Christians living in Israel too my guy. I don't take sides based on religious affiliation.

Neither side is in the right.

His flock is under attack, an Orthodox parish and a Catholic Church were bombed by the IDF last night.

"Our Church has been clear that peace requires justice. Insofar as far as the rights of everyone, Israelis and Palestinians, are not upheld and respected, there will be no justice and therefore no peace in the city,” it said in a statement published May 10.

“It is our duty not to ignore injustice nor any aggression against human dignity regardless of who is committing them.”


Sounds like he agrees with me, more than he agrees with you.



Once again, there's a thread for this conflict, this isn't it.

[Immortan Khan]

The Israeli government doesn't want an end to the conflict, Hamas today offered a ceasefire and Israel rejected it, saying that they will "bomb Gaza until it is silent forever."

Maybe Hamas shouldn't have used Gaza as a staging point to launch hundreds of rocket attacks into Israel for years?

If you want to champion the palestinian cause by all means, but please keep it in the Isreal threads.

So we can bring up things such as what is happening in Tigray but Palestine is off limits? :thonk:

[Just-An-Illusion]

I'll try news again, maybe it'll go better this time.

25-year-old Anna-Nicole Heinrich is the youngest person to be elected president of the EKD synod. Here's an article in German and here's another article in English.

Always good to see that the younger generation is leading their Churches.

[Punished UMN]

How dare Hamas retaliate for the constant murder of their children in the West Bank.

And how dare Israel defend itself as it has had to do from the very beginning?

Many of the Palestinians are Christians. Do you want the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem to shut up about it?

There are Christians living in Israel too my guy. I don't take sides based on religious affiliation.

Neither side is in the right.

His flock is under attack, an Orthodox parish and a Catholic Church were bombed by the IDF last night.

"Our Church has been clear that peace requires justice. Insofar as far as the rights of everyone, Israelis and Palestinians, are not upheld and respected, there will be no justice and therefore no peace in the city,” it said in a statement published May 10.

“It is our duty not to ignore injustice nor any aggression against human dignity regardless of who is committing them.”


Sounds like he agrees with me, more than he agrees with you.



Once again, there's a thread for this conflict, this isn't it.

Invading and occupying your neighbors and then removing their people from their homes to replace them with your own people is not self defense.

Most of the Christians in Israel are Palestinian, not Israeli, and the mayor of Lod has said that any Arab caught outside when the army arrives will be shot, with the PM saying that there will be no criminal inquiries for the shooting of protesters.

The same statement also referred to what Israel is doing as constant aggression and called for intervention to stop the Israeli encroachment on Palestine.

The Christian thread seems like a plenty good place to ask people to pray for a country with a sizeable Christian population that is about to have a ground invasion against it and where the Christian population has been bombed within the last 24 hours. You don't have to grandstand against Eastern Christians on every political issue.

[Tarsonis]

Maybe Hamas shouldn't have used Gaza as a staging point to launch hundreds of rocket attacks into Israel for years?

If you want to champion the palestinian cause by all means, but please keep it in the Isreal threads.

So we can bring up things such as what is happening in Tigray but Palestine is off limits? :thonk:

Bringing it up is one thing. Nobody was debating the issue of Tigray, we all collectively agreed it was bad and called for prayers etc.

When UMN asked for prayers, we said sure, I said also pray for Israel. And that's where UMN crossed the line into making this a debate of Palestine vs Israel. By all means pray for the people, share information about the local Church's status in all this. But this isn't the place to debate Palestine vs. Israel. We have threads dedicated to that.

[Punished UMN]

So we can bring up things such as what is happening in Tigray but Palestine is off limits? :thonk:

Bringing it up is one thing. Nobody was debating the issue of Tigray, we all collectively agreed it was bad and called for prayers etc.

When UMN asked for prayers, we said sure, I said also pray for Israel. And that's where UMN crossed the line into making this a debate of Palestine vs Israel. By all means pray for the people, share information about the local Church's status in all this. But this isn't the place to debate Palestine vs. Israel. We have threads dedicated to that.

Yeah because you saying that when Palestinians are overwhelmingly the victims of the violence and the Israelis are the aggressors is just blatantly trying to get a rise.

[Tarsonis]

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The Christian thread seems like a plenty good place to ask people to pray for a country with a sizeable Christian population that is about to have a ground invasion against it and where the Christian population has been bombed within the last 24 hours. You don't have to grandstand against Eastern Christians on every political issue.

And I said sure, also pray for the people of Israel, who are also in the crossfire. I said pray for peace. that was all I said.
Your response to that was to go on a tirade about the evils of Israel.

Don't point fingers at me for grandstanding dude.

[Just-An-Illusion]

And here we go again.....

[Tarsonis]

Bringing it up is one thing. Nobody was debating the issue of Tigray, we all collectively agreed it was bad and called for prayers etc.

When UMN asked for prayers, we said sure, I said also pray for Israel. And that's where UMN crossed the line into making this a debate of Palestine vs Israel. By all means pray for the people, share information about the local Church's status in all this. But this isn't the place to debate Palestine vs. Israel. We have threads dedicated to that.

Yeah because you saying that when Palestinians are overwhelmingly the victims of the violence and the Israelis are the aggressors is just blatantly trying to get a rise.

I'm not obligated to be on your side of things.

[Punished UMN]

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The Christian thread seems like a plenty good place to ask people to pray for a country with a sizeable Christian population that is about to have a ground invasion against it and where the Christian population has been bombed within the last 24 hours. You don't have to grandstand against Eastern Christians on every political issue.

And I said sure, also pray for the people of Israel, who are also in the crossfire. I said pray for peace. that was all I said.
Your response to that was to go on a tirade about the evils of Israel.

Don't point fingers at me for grandstanding dude.

I'm not going to pretend your response wasn't intended to get a rise. Even so, I only said that Hamas had offered a ceasefire, which Israel had rejected, your response to that was to justify the rejection of the ceasefire. If you want to pray for both sides to bring peace, why support the rejection of the ceasefire?

[Rosmana]

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The Christian thread seems like a plenty good place to ask people to pray for a country with a sizeable Christian population that is about to have a ground invasion against it and where the Christian population has been bombed within the last 24 hours. You don't have to grandstand against Eastern Christians on every political issue.

And I said sure, also pray for the people of Israel, who are also in the crossfire. I said pray for peace. that was all I said.
Your response to that was to go on a tirade about the evils of Israel.

Don't point fingers at me for grandstanding dude.

And it is this US VS them that is the biggest problem, it turns groups of people into faceless masses.

The problem is that there are people on both sides that benefit from the violence, and regular people are the victim as always.

We just need to pray for peace, for everyone.

[Punished UMN]

Yeah because you saying that when Palestinians are overwhelmingly the victims of the violence and the Israelis are the aggressors is just blatantly trying to get a rise.

I'm not obligated to be on your side of things.

And you're not obligated to reply to every single post. You were looking for shit to start.

[Loeje]

I'll try news again, maybe it'll go better this time.

25-year-old Anna-Nicole Heinrich is the youngest person to be elected president of the EKD synod. Here's an article in German and here's another article in English.

Always good to see that the younger generation is leading their Churches.

I think it's a good sign for the future of the German church.

[Just-An-Illusion]

Always good to see that the younger generation is leading their Churches.

I think it's a good sign for the future of the German church.

Indeed I hope everything goes well for the church in Germany.