Topic: Old vs New Catholicism

Anonymous A started this discussion 1 month ago #132,897

Old Catholicism

- the pope is infallible and when he says that all who die along the way by sea or by air on a mad suicidal quest to conquer the holy land will receive immediate remission of their sins and skip purgatory for the 8th or 9th time in a row depending on who you ask everybody’s gonna get up and actually do it

- the pope gets to decide whether or not European monarchs can declare war

- the pope gets to decide whether European monarchs can get their marriages annulled

- the church gets to crown monarchs and emperors

- heretics are burned alive at the stake in public as examples of what happens if you question the authority of the church

- if you have doubts about god you will be taken in for questioning and tortured

- suicide is unforgivable and if you kill yourself you will be buried in a Jewish cemetery instead of a Catholic cemetery unless you died as a martyr of the faith

New Catholicism:

- war is bad

- migrants and the poor should be treated with dignity

- capital punishment is bad

- democracy is good

- suicide is sorta forgivable

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Anonymous A (OP) double-posted this 1 month ago, 5 minutes later[^] [v] #1,417,725

Sorta forgivable as in, you won’t go to hell, but you should suffer instead of taking the easy way out.

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 1 month ago, 29 minutes later, 34 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,417,727

They've been semi-cool with science so that's a start, but the entire organization is huffing their own farts with the robes and confessional booth and theater.

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 1 month ago, 8 minutes later, 43 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,417,729

@previous (B)
Make fun of confession all you want, but don’t disrespect the drip.

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 4 weeks ago, 23 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,417,929

Whta's the lesson here?

The more they veer from the original Church founded by Jesus, the better they get?

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 4 weeks ago, 2 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,417,932

@previous (D)
No, the lesson here is medieval Europe was medieval.

Anonymous E double-posted this 4 weeks ago, 55 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,417,933

Early Christians who lived in the Roman Empire when Christianity was still illegal were actually pacifists.

Anonymous E triple-posted this 4 weeks ago, 2 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,417,936

During the Middle Ages the Catholic Church was more powerful than governments and all of those governments were autocratic absolute monarchies, which is why all that stuff happened. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Anonymous D replied with this 4 weeks ago, 9 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,417,937

@1,417,932 (E)
So HIS kingdom was just copying the fallen world for the most part?

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 4 weeks ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,417,939

@previous (D)
The kingdom of God is heaven, the church is of this world and this world is fallen.

Anonymous D replied with this 4 weeks ago, 24 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,417,942

@previous (F)
What use is a church that copies that same fads everyone else in the world follows?

Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 4 weeks ago, 1 day later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,418,094

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 4 weeks ago, 2 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,418,095

@1,417,942 (D)
Well if you’re unhappy with that, then you’re unhappy with everybody equally.

Minichan