Message from @Lowa

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2018-05-23 03:35:12 UTC  

Even the devil can quote scripture for his own purposes

2018-05-23 03:35:16 UTC  

Simple as that

2018-05-23 03:35:38 UTC  

indeed

2018-05-23 03:35:42 UTC  

Its sad that majority Christian nations are letting in massive numbers of nonbelievers like this and laying down like they're their doormats

2018-05-23 03:35:58 UTC  

Perhaps its the wave of "baby-Jesus" watered-down Christianity

2018-05-23 03:36:05 UTC  

Joel Osteen type shit

2018-05-23 03:36:15 UTC  

Where God loves you how you are and hates the sin, not the sinner

2018-05-23 03:36:28 UTC  

And God has no wrath

2018-05-23 03:36:48 UTC  

That, or the increasing wave of Secularism and Atheism/Agnosticism

2018-05-23 03:37:03 UTC  

Just as much of a plague as heresies and false gospels

2018-05-23 03:37:11 UTC  

If not more, because it's "backed by science"

2018-05-23 03:38:04 UTC  

yeah its very annoying but us believers must go through serious struggle.

2018-05-23 03:38:08 UTC  

Besides the pope not taking a harsh stance on it

2018-05-23 03:38:22 UTC  

As Europe has a large catholic "presence"

2018-05-23 03:38:35 UTC  

But then again, how many of those catholics are truly devoted?

2018-05-23 03:38:47 UTC  

Quite a lot less than one would believe, I'd imagine

2018-05-23 03:39:23 UTC  

Granted, I'd prefer to stay out of Christian infighting so I won't start ranting about Catholics too much

2018-05-23 03:39:31 UTC  

Seeing as a Baptist like me has some choice words

2018-05-23 03:41:18 UTC  

I believe in orthodoxy and I still am not baptized because I guess I just havent been ready but I believe in the teachings.

2018-05-23 03:41:52 UTC  

Honestly, the ideas of John Calvin as far as communities go aren't that bad of an idea in theory

2018-05-23 03:42:08 UTC  

Where the ideal community is centered around the church and all people of the community are members of the church

2018-05-23 03:42:21 UTC  

Issue is that it'd be just as much of a breeding ground for corruption as any other

2018-05-23 03:42:32 UTC  

A great example is the massachusetts bay colony

2018-05-23 03:42:39 UTC  

They had a witch scare and boom

2018-05-23 03:42:42 UTC  

Salem witch trials

2018-05-23 03:43:44 UTC  

In the spiritual section of Calvin's philosophies, however, that's where a large portion of Baptists place reasoning

2018-05-23 03:43:52 UTC  

There and parts of Luther's 95 theses

2018-05-23 03:44:28 UTC  

Of course, there's more, but there always is when talking of Christian Denominations

2018-05-23 03:44:52 UTC  

What I really cant stand is churches who put females and lesbians in these preaching roles and act like its fine

2018-05-23 03:45:02 UTC  

Prots are not the brightest

2018-05-23 03:45:26 UTC  

There are some protestant denominations which have gone extremely sour

2018-05-23 03:45:30 UTC  

Or non-denominationals too

2018-05-23 03:45:51 UTC  

Yknow, the traditional "Mega-Church" that has thousands of attendees and has a TV broadcast

2018-05-23 03:46:08 UTC  

and teaches watered-down theology

2018-05-23 03:46:33 UTC  

The problem is they curve god around their life and not the other way round

2018-05-23 03:46:35 UTC  

If you make the church more like the world to attract attendees, you are teaching heresies and lies

2018-05-23 03:46:36 UTC  

Exactly

2018-05-23 03:46:49 UTC  

And the thing about the church

2018-05-23 03:46:54 UTC  

Is that people go to IT

2018-05-23 03:47:02 UTC  

The church does not go to THEM

2018-05-23 03:47:04 UTC  

and honestly