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GoGoGadget posted:I am in the process of converting to Catholicism, which requires you attend like six months' worth of classes called RCIA, or Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. Last class was about Catholic social teachings, and the speaker was talking about things like caring for the poor, showing compassion and working towards the greater good, uniting as workers and supporting unions, caring for babies even after birth, being against the death penalty; you know, typical Democratic views. Looking around the room, I noticed a lot of the men in the room getting uncomfortable. "Catholicism Boot Camp" seems to feed my perception that Catholicism is Christianity on Steroids with excessive Challenge and Response.
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Catholics just like to dog and pony up the Jesus experience. The ritual is the religion to some of them. And they love them some formalized rituals backed by organ music written in the 19th century. The saints, the transubstantiation, the fancy hats the priests get as they level up. Hardcore catholics are up there with people who are fascinated with everything the royal family does. Pomp and circumstance.
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# ? Feb 9, 2023 21:02 |
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Most serious Christian denominations expect you to actually learn what they're about. I know Orthodox Christianity has classes for converts as well (because I married into it, although I haven't converted). Every mainstream branch of Judaism would also make you do a ton of studying. And yes Catholics (and Orthodox) are a bit extra even by that standard, but contrast to the fundie evangelical standard of "oh you hate the gays and love rich people too? WELCOME"
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# ? Feb 9, 2023 21:03 |
What does the church of sasquatch preach?
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Arrath posted:I'm here wondering how large of a local electricity co-op I have to put together to get in on one of these new mini modular nuclear reactors. Lucifer’s Hammer, I believe.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:What does the church of sasquatch preach? Eat berries, smoke weed, pet bunnies, stick to the shadows.
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Discussion Quorum posted:I get the mindset of "I grew up Catholic and was taught all my life that this was anathema" and reacting badly. Dumb but I get it. But this was a convert? From what? Why are you mad at this religion you're still learning? He wasn't a convert, but a sponsor of one. And yeah, it is a bit odd to have to go through classes to convert, but the more I go through it the more I understand it. As pointed out, the ritual of it all is very important and you can't easily come into that without deliberate teaching. But what attracted me to it was the relative liberalism and actually caring about people I saw in those like the doctor running this RCIA group compared to my Southern Baptist upbringing where I was taught everyone was a sinner that deserved to burn eternally in the fiery pits of Hell.
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Aaaaaaaahahahahgauhagauahaga https://twitter.com/rmc031/status/1623775414962331648?t=641q_nJJ2B0CMElEItPVvw&s=19 quote:Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count
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YOU'RE FIRED, I KNOW MY POSTS ARE MORE POPULAR THAN THAT Edit: and here's what everyone is saying regarding how twitter dies - not at once, just slowly due to stupid quote:On Wednesday, the company suffered one of its first major outages since Musk took over, with users being told, inexplicably, “You are over the daily limit for sending tweets.” facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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GoGoGadget posted:He wasn't a convert, but a sponsor of one. I've struggled with this in Judaism. I love the rituals and sense of historical connection they provide but also the groups that most value ritual also tend to be the intolerant assholes. Whereas the the temples I've been to that I consider spiritually and politically just they've thrown almost all of the ritual out along with the problematic bits.
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someone said it before that post-fail-whale twitter was built to be as stable as a rock the fact twitter did not collapse and has not collapsed yet is a testament to how well they did their jobs that said, elon continues tweering the tweetanic into the iceberg
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facialimpediment posted:YOU'RE FIRED, I KNOW MY POSTS ARE MORE POPULAR THAN THAT "i am tired of all these goddamn bots in my replies, kill them" "wait, why are my popularity numbers down"
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facialimpediment posted:Aaaaaaaahahahahgauhagauahaga Rhodesian Lowtax=Springbok Trump
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facialimpediment posted:Aaaaaaaahahahahgauhagauahaga Yeah, and this is a Principal Engineer. Like top notch guy. The fact that Musk fired him on a loving whim during a temper tantrum says all that needs to be said about Musk.
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GoGoGadget posted:He wasn't a convert, but a sponsor of one. I spent 13 years in catholic school, which predictably means that I haven't been to church except for a wedding or funeral in decades, but I can still attest that the Jesus I learned about has nothing in common with American evangelical Jesus.
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facialimpediment posted:
It's really funny that you can determine what specific job a computer toucher does strictly based on their opinion of odds of twitter falling over in a dumpster fire. My friends in security/IT land are basically taking a dead pool, while my coworkers in management/programming town are of the opinion that twitter can't fail it can only be failed.
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A lot of Dev friends I know are also basically in a Dead pool as well, honestly the only people I've heard defending Twitter is management types.
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# ? Feb 9, 2023 22:35 |
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Well that corns it, censer pots are the most important part about religion!
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Look here folks, if your job is to DM death threats to the libs, you simply cannot be limited to 500 messages per day.
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# ? Feb 9, 2023 23:34 |
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the real question isn't if but when, and i imagine most of us lost pretty early on that one thinking it would die fast rather than slowly teeter ever closer to a slow, painful collapse very excited to see how the continued slow decline of twitter and musk's popularity gets to him, though.
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stealie72 posted:One of the few points in the catholic church's favor is that they generally fall on the works side of the "faith vs works" debate. I went to a southern baptist service once having been raised catholic, and never again lol, gently caress that noise. Me and the catholic church have disagreements but southern baptists are literal preaching the apocalypse and end times unless you are saved by baby jesus or some poo poo
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I think one of the best unforced errors my mom ever made was despite her being a Baptist, she opted to baptize my sister and I in the Episcopal church since that was my dad's families denomination (though he didn't give a poo poo) and basically just had us go to their services and programs growing up. I ended up working at a summer camp too for a few years when I was in high school, and made some life long friends there. I'm agnostic now, but when I still went to church and that camp, it was nice dealing with the sane version of Christianity instead of being told I was going to hell constantly. Got to experience that again at my mom's funeral service though. Pastor would not shut the gently caress up about how everyone there was DOOMED unless they subscribed to his brand of Christianity. gently caress that guy.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Catholics just like to dog and pony up the Jesus experience. The ritual is the religion to some of them. And they love them some formalized rituals backed by organ music written in the 19th century. The saints, the transubstantiation, the fancy hats the priests get as they level up. We get the added benefit of rules lawyering over things. Not quite to the point of rabbis, unfortunately.
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I had a baptist friend explain to me the heaven and hell thing when I was seven and have been an atheist ever since. Wow, this is what happens when a summer of '68 Berkeley student and hippy Nam vet let their kids choose their own adventure with religion.
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maffew buildings posted:I had a baptist friend explain to me the heaven and hell thing when I was seven and have been an atheist ever since. Wow, this is what happens when a summer of '68 Berkeley student and hippy Nam vet let their kids choose their own adventure with religion. Being trained to be that way as a Southern Baptist is what made me fall away from religion once I was old enough to think critically. I remember telling a friend that had just found out his mom had cancer that she was going to Hell since she wasn't saved. Seeing that (most) Catholics aren't like that is what attracted me to it, in addition to the works vs. faith and not being in everyone's face about religion. But as an apology for contributing to this derail: Missouri House shoots down proposal to keep children from walking around with guns
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stealie72 posted:One of the few points in the catholic church's favor is that they generally fall on the works side of the "faith vs works" debate. just wanna reiterate that the Ask/Tell religion megathread is really good GoGoGadget posted:Being trained to be that way as a Southern Baptist is what made me fall away from religion once I was old enough to think critically. I remember telling a friend that had just found out his mom had cancer that she was going to Hell since she wasn't saved. same, friends keep getting upset that I don't want to watch Handmaid's Tale no matter how many times I tell them no, these people are real and I'm from them shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Feb 10, 2023 |
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citybeatnik posted:We get the added benefit of rules lawyering over things. Not quite to the point of rabbis, unfortunately. Supreme court in recent history.txt
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Who had stealing puppies on their GOP crimes bingo card? Bonus points if you can guess the offender before clicking! https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/09/george-santos-was-charged-with-theft-in-dog-case.html
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do the southern baptists even do the fun speaking in tongues stuff that 7th day adventists do if not what's the point
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The Estonian foreign intelligence service just pulished their annual security report. Some interesting reading. https://raport.valisluureamet.ee/2023/en/ Executive Summary posted:1. The Ukrainians’ will to defend, the capabilities of their Armed Forces, and Western unity in supporting Ukraine surprised the Kremlin. Despite this, Russia’s strategic goal remains the same: subjugating Ukraine and changing the European security architecture. Read more in chapters 1.1, 2.1
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VSOKUL girl posted:do the southern baptists even do the fun speaking in tongues stuff that 7th day adventists do You'll think everyone is speaking in tongues after being stuck in one of their services for 2 hours and 45 minutes.
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VSOKUL girl posted:do the southern baptists even do the fun speaking in tongues stuff that 7th day adventists do
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My sister quit believing in a Christian god after her church group leader earnestly explained that no, pets don’t go to Heaven because they can’t profess their faith in Jesus Christ. If that’s true, God’s an rear end in a top hat for imbuing something with life and then condemning it to hell because they can’t participate in his popularity contest. That said, I did spend a few weeks of my summers at a 7th Day Adventist sports camp when I was a young teenager (mostly for wakeboarding and mountain biking) and had a good time with minimal religious pressure despite singing Christian songs at campfire and such. I remembered the names of some of my counselors and looked them up a few years ago and they all seemed to become good people. One of them became a rural hospital administrator and he and his wife adopted a bunch of kids when they couldn’t have their own, and they do medical missions pretty frequently.
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Calvin is where poo poo really started going off the rails IMO
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Fun fact: the snake handling thing is only present in the Long Ending of the gospel of Mark, which basically every scholar agrees is a later addition to the text.
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Is this the one across from the snake farm?
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pantslesswithwolves posted:My sister quit believing in a Christian god after her church group leader earnestly explained that no, pets don’t go to Heaven because they can’t profess their faith in Jesus Christ. Actually pets can’t go to hell because they can’t sin, and they don’t need to be baptized because they’re not affected by the original sin. Check SMDFB 69:420 And ye who disagrees shall face the wrath of my buttons.
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I disagrees (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Kesper North posted:The Estonian foreign intelligence service just pulished their annual security report. Some interesting reading. Lol, Russia is trying to make the Legion of Doom.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:My sister quit believing in a Christian god after her church group leader earnestly explained that no, pets don’t go to Heaven because they can’t profess their faith in Jesus Christ. If that’s true, God’s an rear end in a top hat for imbuing something with life and then condemning it to hell because they can’t participate in his popularity contest. i thought I was misunderstanding Calvinism, regarding the idea that billions of humans live their lives (including before Jesus was born) without having the option of being saved then are sentenced to eternal torment. And that this is how it is supposed to work, and God controls everything and is pleased with the system. And wouldn’t you know it, the elect are oddly concentrated among upper class white folk whose parents happened to also be elect. As this made no sense I was asking questions and got informed by a mansion dweller that this approach boosts God’s glory. Hyrax Attack! fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Feb 10, 2023 |
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