America = the great satan

Neo Sodom

Hald the world is Neo Sodom, though

the whore of babylon

@Deleted User @Wzl I live in America

It is the Whore of Babylon, or at least a whore of Babylon

@de ton America richly deserves to be destroyed several times over for its acquiescence to and embrace of globohomo

Its cities are worse than Sodom and Gomorrah

But yes, @Wzl, I do have a connexion to Hong Kong, namely that my father was born there and baptized in an Anglican church when he read the Bible to get ready for a debate and was convinced by the Holy Spirit of his sinfulness before God and his need for a spotless Saviour of infinite merits

I don't know what autistic Hongkongers you've seen, and autistic Calvinists, of whom there are many; but I'm decidedly not autistic, even figuratively

Although I have done some rather mechanical work such as copyediting

As for when, or rather if, I'll swim the Tiber

I refer you to the able defences of the Protestant doctrine of justification by John Davenant, Lord Bishop of Sarum, and of the legitimacy of the Reformed Church of England by Richard Field

Reading Davenant, you will not easily think Bellarmine was the clear victor in their scholastic debate on justification, and indeed Bellarmine himself respected Davenant enough that, it is sometimes reported, he kept a portrait of Davenant in his study; and if Bellarmine respected Davenant, I do not suppose many moderns have the quali to judge Davenant an autistic idiot

As for the doctrine of the eucharist, I think perhaps the best book is Daniel Waterland's *Review of the Doctrine of the Eucharist*

If all you ever engage with are meme versions of Reformed Protestantism (which far too many Protestants themselves embrace because they know no better), you have not reckoned with the real thing and more than stupid Protestants have reckoned with Rome when they attack straw men of Romanism

I'm fairly sure @Mogy is willing to vouch for my not being a complete idiot, though I am often enough an obstinate fool

And may the Lord by his Holy Spirit speaking in the holy Scriptures bring us all to the fulness of the truth +

@Kike of Kaifeng really? I thought you were just really good at speaking English

@Deleted User yeah, I was born in Alabama

Oh based

I was in Alabama for like 3 hours last spring

Seemed nice enough

I guess I just proved myself autistic by writing that wall of text, contrary to my intentions 😁

@Deleted User haven't been back in Alabama since I was a baby

I've lived in Virginia for many years

Last time I was in Hong Kong, if @Wzl wants to know, was the spring of 1997, before the ChiCom takeover on 1 July

My grandfather was a WW2 spy and a KMT loyalist, and eventually found himself exiled in HK much longer than he'd expected

I hope he would not entirely disapprove of my being NazBol 😎

But the important thing is that he came to trust in our Lord in the last months of his life

And at the Last Day he will be counted among the righteous, whom God holds in everlasting remembrance

Who remember

https://bbc.in/2MFNrGI

Oof

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fgXB3pD5JI

>protestants talking about "the real thing"

Invited a 🅱agan on who is having a faith crisis and is considering Catholicism
Hope you lads let him in

🅱️egome Gadolig :DDDDD

Think it's going to take a bit more than memes

Always takes a little more, we just need to show him the true about Christian faith and theology