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[insert joke about Jericho here]
But I'm at least glad this Pope is standing up to this in the only realistic way he can.
Nailed it. Jericho was supposed to be the first step in annihilating the occupants of the “promised land”. As I recall, there are Jewish prophets who claimed the various setbacks were due to the incomplete genocide.
Netanyahu thinks he’s finishing that work.
I love these interactions because they're just so over the top it's ridiculous.
The Pope says the most mild of things and the admin go bonkers.
It's always wild to me when adult human beings without any obvious brain damage start talking about what a made up deity may or may not be in favor of.
The sum of all human endeavor can be summed up in a fun little madlib:
My (god, penis, wealth) will (kill, fuck, buy) your (genetics, wife, life).
Feel free to swap things around as needed.
Way too many penises are buying genetics these days and I have had enough!
God sure fucked my life. 🤷♂️
Agreed, but it does make sense from an evolutionary/anthropological perspective. The thing to keep in mind is: it's perfectly rational for a person to act irrationally if it improves their survivability.
If your king declares that the country is now Catholic, and anyone who believes otherwise will be executed, then the people who survive are gonna be devout Catholics.
Rational Irrationality is real.
For those that believe there is an all powerful being who created everything and knows everything wouldn't every single war be because this entity wanted it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil
The problem of evil, also known as the problem of suffering, is the philosophical question of how to reconcile the existence of evil and suffering with the notion of an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient God.[1][2][3][4]
I guess the beat response I've received is God knows every single choice that will be presented to every single person in every single moment. God granted us free will, the knowledge of what's right and wrong and a holy text. After that, everything is up to us
such lazy writing
It's my understanding that all mainstream Christians believe that God is omniscient, and therefore knows the future in complete detail, because if he didn't know today what your were going to have for lunch tomorrow, that would be something that he didn't know, and therefore a limit to his omniscience.
BUt wE liFe iN a fALlEn wOrLd
God hates you, MAGA. And so do we.
Something something crusades
Go ahead, tell us how you really feel about the crusades. I'm not saying I disagree, but I think the church he's leading still has a lot of reconciliation to do with its past. No better time to start than now. They need to start being honest with themselves before anyone else should bother to take them seriously.
Forget the crusades, I want to see them reconcile with child abuse and smuggling fascists through the WW2 Ratlines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_vult
Robert the Monk, who re-wrote the Gesta Francorum c. 1120, added an account of the speech of Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont in 1095, of which he was an eyewitness. The speech climaxes in Urban's call for orthodoxy, reform, and submission to the Church. Robert records that the pope asked Western Christians, poor and rich, to come to the aid of the Greeks in the East:
When Pope Urban had said these and very many similar things in his urbane discourse, he so influenced to one purpose the desires of all who were present, that they cried out, 'It is the will of God! It is the will of God!' When the venerable Roman pontiff heard that, with eyes uplifted to heaven he gave thanks to God and, with his hand commanding silence, said: Most beloved brethren, today is manifest in you what the Lord says in the Gospel, "Where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them." Unless the Lord God had been present in your spirits, all of you would not have uttered the same cry. For, although the cry issued from numerous mouths, yet the origin of the cry was one. Therefore I say to you that God, who implanted this in your breasts, has drawn it forth from you. Let this then be your war-cry in combats, because this word is given to you by God. When an armed attack is made upon the enemy, let this one cry be raised by all the soldiers of God: It is the will of God! It is the will of God![18]
I'm not saying that I approve of Hegseth's deus vult tattoo, but I would point out that it's quoting one of your predecessors.
Apply the same standard to the enslavers that you guys call "founding fathers" any time a US politician makes some lofty speech.
I don't quite get the predecessor argument. It's pretty common knowledge that the church does not wear a white shirt, but why would you judge the modern Pope by the things a Pope a thousand years ago has said? Like, these are not the same worlds anymore. They didn't even have the printing press back then.
because supposedly they're all the final interpertor of an omnipotent gods will...every discrepancy/flipflop across time hust highlights the absurdity of this mass delusion
Looks like the Vatican is gonna need a regime change.