Comments on: The man who would be king

By: Bardelys the Magnificent

Bardelys the Magnificent — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 14:26:10 +0000

In reply to furor kek tonicus. That likely came from an over-zealous TradCath. They give all of us a bad name. Latin is a better language for worship than English as it is more precise, and being a dead language the meanings of words never change, but I wouldn't call it the "language of God". That likely comes from Latin being the official language of the Church, which is fine and dandy, but I highly doubt they're only speaking Latin in heaven.

By: furor kek tonicus

furor kek tonicus — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 00:02:32 +0000

probably the dumbest thing i’ve ever heard from a Catholic is that Latin is “the language of Heaven”. followed closely by “all Protestant churches are built on the sites of former desecrated Catholic churches, which is why Catholic lay people shouldn’t enter them”.
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i have no problem with worshipping in Latin ( or Greek or whatever your native language is ) but that’s just absurd. fortunately, i don’t think that’s an actual position of the RCC.

By: LTC (Ret.) Thomas Kratman

LTC (Ret.) Thomas Kratman — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 18:14:55 +0000

Not 95%. Some percentage above zero, yes, certainly, but nothing like that high. Remember, the surface is not the depths.

Now is it polytheistic? Yes, by any human understanding. This does not rule out understanding of the divinity, but we’re only human and will have to work with what we’ve been given.

By: Dire Badger

Dire Badger — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 17:07:07 +0000

There is a reason ritual is so powerful. Even when that ritual is pagan. Young girls used to sometimes collapse from emotion after dancing around the maypole.

And 95% of Catholicism is Pagan as hell. Then again, so are most ‘organized’ religions. Why? Because that ritual, the Golden calf, the cross, the cheesecloth of Turin, Saint Bob’s penis trapped inside of a water sprinkler, these are all powerful tools for evoking emotion, and most organized religions figured out human psychology a thousand years before atheists started dreaming about cigars.

You can hate it, you can love it, you can throw yourself into it, or you can step away from it and try to be a real Christian, but don’t ignore it or fail to recognize it. Satan uses it too, because he knows it’s power, which is why he snuck it into so many churches.