Ask someone why he is a muslim

Oh, I'm well aware of all this

And the answer will be some vague parroted garbage

Mfw I see a Christian Marxist

No such thing

>mfw I remind Christian Marxists that Christ was a taxpaying tradesman.

I once got into a theological debate over the Trinity with a semi practicing Jew

That was fun, considering I used the Protestant method at the time

>talking to jews

>not gassing them

hold up I didn't go that far

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@Mozalbete ⳩ is right that there are different kinds of inferiority

God loves everyone, and everyone is a sinner before him and æqually in need of salvation from outside

but of course not everyone is morally æqual

likewise, not everyone is æqually intelligent or prone to certain kinds of sins

@Romanus Drevo two people brought up the same way will be more similar than otherwise, of course, but I think all parents know there are differences between their children which came from genes and not from different upbringing

Excuse my ignorance but I fail to see why people say rights come from God
Stuff like this is just being thrown around and never explained

What have the privileges my goverment has given to me anything to do with it

Well that was the first aproximation to the theory of fundamental or human rights, normally founded in the fact that we are created creatures, but not at the same level as animals or plants, since we are created at image of God. Therefore, we have some kind of rights that the State can't violate, since humans are created at image of God and those violations means a violation of the dignity God have gave us

Thank you

You're welcome fam

I’ve just spent my evening trying to explain to an Irishman how his country is heading for the gutter if his fellow countrymen don’t make serious and drastic changes, only for him to respond gloatingly about how terrible England currently is.

This is why blind nationalism is terrible.

A substantial part of loving your country is being prepared to admit that she’s becoming horrifically bad, whilst trying to change such.

Yet now when I wish to reconcile with him, he continues to respond with anti-English jokes and insults.

I don’t know why I try.

The more you get to know them, the more you tend to realise how quite politically unsound even conservative Irish people are.

The problem with Ireland is that it was a country built on clericalism enforced by democratically elected leaders.

Whilst clericalism is all well and good, you cannot trust a representative democracy to uphold it.

The founding principles of the Irish Republic caused nothing more than a Frankenstein state.

Clericalism, Catholic social policy, no distinct separation of Church and state, yet with regular elections, a secular head of state, unending social freedoms, and absolute equality.

It makes no sense. It’s a bastardised hybrid system.

It’s for the exact same reason that we ought not be too excited about the newfound socially conservative successes in the US and Italy.

Democracy and Christian virtues never successfully cohabit for more than a few decades (at most).

I hope you’ll forgive my rant. I’ve just become incredibly irritated by some democracy-supporting Christians as of late.

I'm not sure any other political system can work in the modern age without falling into despotism.

Man has tried just about every single form of government imaginable and they all suck.

Democracy just sucks the least on balance

Some kind of monarchy has its benefits but then you get the inevitable bad ruler and you're in worse shape than democracy at its lowest points

Monarchy is the only form of governance for anybody who wishes to permanently enforce Christian social teaching.