https://didacticmind.com/2025/07/we-lost-a-good-one.html Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:30:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://didacticmind.com/2025/07/we-lost-a-good-one.html#comment-9757 Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:30:47 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=22468#comment-9757 Julian LeFay and Hulk Hogan passed away. End of an era. Seems like the old guard is dying off.

]]> https://didacticmind.com/2025/07/we-lost-a-good-one.html#comment-9750 Mon, 21 Jul 2025 04:26:01 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=22468#comment-9750 And he stood absolutely against the weird Catholic insistence that everyone can be saved eventually, by working off their sins through Purgatory,
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eh, i believe you’ve got the Roman emphasis slightly backwards. Purgatory is for those who die “in Grace”, but aren’t fully shriven or confessed ( which, given the practice of selling Indulgences, it seems like very few Catholic laity are / were ). Romans still think the damned are, you know, DAMNED.
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what the Roman position amounts to is that you can’t be saved without Christ’s salvic sacrifice
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but that Christ’s sacrifice may be insufficient to cover some of those pesky indiscretions you might have committed post-salvation. THESE are sins which imperfect Catholics ( given that they are continuing to sin, there can hardly be a pretense of perfection ) suppose that they are capable of redeeming themselves, in the afterlife.
i guess that whole Romans 3:23-31 thing doesn’t apply after you die.
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you’ll notice from the history of purgatory / indulgences / unmarried clergy / Mary’s “immaculate conception” and whatnot that a LOT of these novelties occur AFTER the Great Schism. and that the Orthodox reject them in whole or in part.
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kind of makes you question the validity of the supposed RCC “Magisterium”, given how many things they are in direct opposition to Churches WHICH PREDATE THE ROMAN CHURCH, ie – Copts, Oriental, Orthodox, etc

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