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The several hundred sects that make up that particular religion. Ya know, if one specific part of a group is a part, then the rest of the group is "the rest of" the group.
It varies, but I have had some of them be quite hostile when I start using my logic and forced knowledge of your fanfic to start tearing apart the inherent contradictions in your faith. Like the Bible being pro-choice. They get really mad when I tell them to look up Numbers 5:11-31 and other such verses.
only catholicism is Christianity
you need the Church for salvation, but only in some cases where you are PHYSICALLY unable to go to church, like the thief on the cross, you will be saved
Nah, bro. Just because your sect is hateful and doesn't recognize the other sects doesn't mean that you all don't have the same fanfiction as your source of knowledge.
The rest of Christianity exists, get your head out of the crusades.
Even Catholicism can't claim to be "first."
Catholicism was created by Jesus when he appointed Peter (Cephas, literally meaning Rock) as the Rock of his church
We dont practice Sola Scriptura
And then the apostles immediately split themselves and the church. Culminating in the split of the greco-orthodox and Catholic churches, which themselves have splintered, because you all are hateful people who are following a book written by apocalyptic Jews, converted into apocalyptic Christians.
I don't have to know the entire damn history of the founding of other religions, and their founding books in self defense. I have had to with Christianity in general, and Catholics specifically. You don't know what persecution is you practice it on yourselves and others constantly.
Saint Cephas is the First Pope, and Jesus Christ made him the Rock of His Church (The Catholic Church)
We know what persecution is
we were persecuted in almost every nation until the 300s and we are still persecuted a LOT in the global south
I don't care what lies you believe, about the history of your oppressive belief system. I will admit that your religion did face a fair bit of persecution in the first few hundred years of the various sects, until they turned around and became global persecutors. I will listen to the archaologists and historians, not fanfic weebs.
we were and are persecuted in a lot of places
As I said, you brought it on yourselves in the tiny amount of places that it might happen. You're a hateful religion that likes killing people who don't want shit to do with your hateful book.
how is the Bible hateful?
Because every single form of culture it has spawned used the book to be imperialist murderous fucks. That's how. It tells you to kill all sorts of people all the time. Though shalt not murder was immediately given terms and conditions.
Thou shalt not Murder is a commandment, no matter what, dont murder
and verses?
Well you fuckers don't follow that commandment as much as you possibly can. Why don't you try following your own shitty book and leaving people alone?
Numbers 5:21 these curses shall be thrown upon you: May the Lord turn you into a curse and an example among all his people. May he cause your thigh to rot, and may your abdomen swell up and burst out.
man I didnt know abortions were curses and you could only get them if you committed adultery and slept with another man
I forgot the exact numbers then, the verses tell you to give your wife "bitter waters" to abort a baby if you suspect them of cheating on you. The Talmud goes into how to make bitter water, and it contains an herb that can cause an abortion. It's probably the most barbaric way I've heard of doing it, but it is in there.
we dont follow the talmud
and a priest COULD give her those waters and if she was innocent she would be unaffected
and most of the old testament has been fulfilled by Jesus Christ
I don't care about your specific interpretation, if you didn't follow it at all the old testament wouldn't be in your fanfic book. The book never mentions abortion again anywhere else in either the new or old parts, therefore your book says that abortion is just fine and dandy.
That's not how medicine, or the real world work. Only your fanfiction.
the "fanfiction" has been proven real via many miracles
Prove it. None of those miracles have stood up to scientific inquiry. Science is real. If we lost all knowledge and had the global resources reset back to the stone age, we would reinvent science. We would also reinvent religion, the multiple hundred belief systems worldwide prove that. It is highly unlikely that either my religion, or yours would emerge the same way again.
The Documentation
On August 15, 1996, a discarded consecrated Host was placed in water according to standard protocol. Instead of dissolving, it developed reddish tissue and grew.
The Witness
Zugibe analyzed the tissue and identified it as human heart muscle — specifically from the myocardium of the left ventricle near the heart valves.
When Zugibe was finally told the sample came from a communion wafer that had been sitting in water for three years, he stated: "How and why a piece of a human heart is still alive, sitting in distilled water, is totally beyond my comprehension."
https://nacn-usa.org/wp-content/uploads/Zugibe-scanned-reports-26-3-05-and-15-3-05-RON-ack.pdf
That's not a miracle. There's some black woman whose cell cultures are still alive despite her dying in the '70s. Her family is suing to try to get some of the vast fortunes that have been made with actual medicine, based on the woman's DNA.
That's just something that can happen in certain cell lines.
yeah in a specialised laboratory enviroment not water
how do you explain the Cardiac Tissue?
I don't and don't have to. I'm sure an actual scientist in that field can, and probably several have already done so. It's certainly interesting enough to warrant looking into.
and the AB blood type matching with the Shroud of Turin and the Relic of Lanciano?
Every scientific analysis of the shroud has proven it to not be what it has claimed to be. Take your fake bullshit, and shove it. I don't care what you fakers fake. I certainly am not going to be convinced by someone who doesn't know history.
source?
If you're so interested go look. I already did and have no interest in your delusional lies.
you made the claim
Fuck off I own you nothing. I know what has been proven, you are a delusional liar and I have no interest in anything you have to say.
"I dont owe you proof for a claim I made"
Fuck off
please accept the truth
Fuck off.
Cardiac Tissue (live) just cant start growing out of nowhere on a piece of bread randomly in water where it is supposed to dissolve logically, that is a miracle
Fuck off you lying piece of shit. I've made it clear that you aren't welcome. Stop shoving your lies my way.
the atheist when presented with proof that insinuates that they have to change their lifestyle in the slightes
Not an atheist. Fuck off you brainwashed piece of shit. I'm thoroughly done with you. Stop forcing your shit into others lives. Go cry about how persecuted you are to people that you haven't persecuted. Fuck all the way off.
can you give me a "scientist" that has done so?
a researcher in that field looked into it, and said it was live cardiac tissue
Not how this works. You're making extraordinary claims, I'm not. Peddle your lies and bullshit elsewhere.
I showed you the signed letter of him claiming it
Gravity was once extraordinary as well
Fuck off.
https://apcz.umk.pl/TiCz/article/view/TiCz.2018.028
On October 12, 2008, during Mass in Sokółka, Poland, a consecrated Host accidentally fell to the ground and was placed in water to dissolve — the standard liturgical procedure. Instead of dissolving, it formed a red, blood-like substance.
The Metropolitan Curia of Białystok commissioned an independent scientific analysis. Two professors of pathomorphology at the Medical University of Białystok were selected:
They examined the sample independently.
The Witnesses
Both professors concluded that the sample was human cardiac muscle in the agony of death — myocardial tissue showing segmentation and fragmentation of muscle fibers at the intercalated discs, a pattern consistent with a heart under extreme duress.
But the finding that elevates this case above all other Eucharistic miracles is what they saw under the electron microscope:
The human heart tissue was physically, inextricably interwoven with the fibers of the wheat bread.
It was not a piece of flesh dropped onto a wafer. It was not blood smeared on top. The bread and the flesh shared the same cellular matrix. At the microscopic level, baked wheat fibers and living human cardiac tissue were seamlessly spliced together.
not mentioned = fine?????
what is this logic?
"You Shall Not Murder"
Nope. The very book states that killing a woman who is less than six or seven months pregnant has a lesser punishment than killing a woman who is pregnant more than their arbitrary timeline.
The only time it directly addresses abortion it tells you to do it before that arbitrary deadline, therefore the book doesn't think abortion is murder.
verse?
Somewhere in the rules and laws, it's your shitty book, why don't you actually read it.
its somewhere bro trust me bro just trust me
It's your fucking shitty book. Not mine. I took the time to learn why it's logically inconsistent, and outright bigoted. I got the fuck away from you cultists and I still have to deal with you. Read your own damn book, or don't. I don't care. You have more than problem my point that Christians don't know how to not shove their shit ass beliefs onto everyone else.