I don't care much for the pope but I am planning on going through the process of confirmation in the fall. My church has a good priest and I feel like I need church in my life. And these days the most punk rock thing a Millenial can do is join the Roman Catholic Church.
Wim Wenders made a documentary about Spielberg and two other directors called Room 666, and just a quick look at his wiki made one thing abundantly clear.
He said that his "favorite movie of all time" was his documentary about Pope Francis, entitled Pope Francis: A Man of His Word.
I don't want to sound like Dennis Miller, but if we juxtapose these seemingly contrasting ideas, it's pretty obvious that something ain't right.
Catholicism has been gone since the great schism in 1054 AD. Pope Francis is just another realization of a deeper problem. Stick to the Holy Orthodox Christian Church which never changed for 2000 years. So many Catholics convert when they understand the history.
It goes back father than that. Rome was sacked by Arian Gnostics as far back as the 400s. Wars have consequences. Honestly, I think the whole reason Constantine left Rome was so the church there could be taken over by satanists. Up to that point, all the persecution of Christians had done is make Christianity more popular. Nothing kills a movement like success.
The kingdom of God being within you and where two or more are gathered together in my name I am there, can both be true at the same time.
I'm not a big pusher of the Catholic "one true faith" stuff because I recognize Orthodox Christianity as just as valid...and further I don't go after Protestants because denomination wars are dumb and they are also brothers in Christ.
But if you go to a Catholic Church looking for Jesus, chances are you are NOT going to be disappointed. Also, the Bible is a Catholic book, and that's the best place to start.
Your first comment it seems to me misses the point. Gathering together ≠ church.
I am not unacquainted with the Catholic Church. Quite the contrary. I was raised a Roman Catholic. I have family members in it, some who have dedicated their lives to it.
It is an evil organization that stands between you and God. Presuming to be your intercessor. One could say that the Jesuits are the worst of them, but there are plenty others that qualify as "worst".
No intercessor is needed. Especially one involved in grift, graft, human trafficking, pedophilia, and God-knows-what-else.
I'm not going to play Catholic apologist, Satan has done a fairly good job lately, though I do agree with you that while there is evil in the Catholic Church, it is not evil in total. The same can be said of most large organizations, for that matter. But the part is not greater than the whole.
The church doesn't presume to stand between you and God, it acts in the person of God when it gives sacraments. That's a fundamental misunderstanding you've got there.
You don't have to, nor that you don't doesn't make you right. I wanted to get where I was coming from on record, though, and I'll leave it at that. In online denomination debates (even more than other online debates) people sling chapter and verse at each other, firing them like bullets they are sure will make a hit. They all bounce off. Thanks.
For the leader of the church to be doing photo ops with a highly commercial comics character completely demeans the name of Christ. That was just vile, obscene, and disgusting.
I became a Christian in 2020 but I'm staying well away from Catholicism.
All you need to do to be a Christian is admit that Jesus Christ was the living God incarnated into human form. You must also admit that you are a sinner and confess your sins directly to Jesus and ask for his forgiveness because you want to be with Him in heaven in the afterlife.
You will become filled with the Holy Spirit and gain the armor of God as your protection from satans influence over you.
Okay, folks, the Catholic Church has been around in one form or another for 2,000 years. Saying "it's toast" or going away is historically ignorant, when the Church has suffered worse crises than Francis' stupidity. People were saying "the Church is toast" when Napoleon locked up the pope for 4 years in France, or the Protestant Reformation, or the Arian Heresy, etc. etc..
Francis has a mixed record on orthodoxy. He confirmed that priests cannot bless same sex unions (though the Germans are still doing it), and that anyone who tries to make a woman priest is automatically excommunicated.
This topic has been covered extensively in consume.win, and not conspiracies.win.
Now, will Catholic Church membership continue to decline? Depends on where and who we are talking about. Frankly, I'd rather have the Church 1/2 its size but filled with those who are trad, than a huge ecumenical modernist monster.
I don't care much for the pope but I am planning on going through the process of confirmation in the fall. My church has a good priest and I feel like I need church in my life. And these days the most punk rock thing a Millenial can do is join the Roman Catholic Church.
I've been away but I always needed Church in my life. We just need to find the right parish fren.
Hitler was a good Catholic. Alois made sure he was raised right. Gave him every inch of his love.
Catholicism is a form of gnostic satanism. Wars have consequences. When the Arian hordes conquered Rome they set up a gnostic church.
I feel this is rather pertinent.
A user on Reddit shared this post about Spielberg.
Wim Wenders made a documentary about Spielberg and two other directors called Room 666, and just a quick look at his wiki made one thing abundantly clear.
He said that his "favorite movie of all time" was his documentary about Pope Francis, entitled Pope Francis: A Man of His Word.
I don't want to sound like Dennis Miller, but if we juxtapose these seemingly contrasting ideas, it's pretty obvious that something ain't right.
Catholicism has been gone since the great schism in 1054 AD. Pope Francis is just another realization of a deeper problem. Stick to the Holy Orthodox Christian Church which never changed for 2000 years. So many Catholics convert when they understand the history.
It goes back father than that. Rome was sacked by Arian Gnostics as far back as the 400s. Wars have consequences. Honestly, I think the whole reason Constantine left Rome was so the church there could be taken over by satanists. Up to that point, all the persecution of Christians had done is make Christianity more popular. Nothing kills a movement like success.
I'm at a Catholic religious crossroads lately. I hate the "deep church" and the Dioceses, and the pedophiles.
Last Sunday I went to a parish 45 minutes away for a Beach Mass.
To see the priest offering Mass in the sand with the wind and the waves was as close to experiencing the Apostle's worship as I have come.
Jesus also said, "whenever two or more are gathered together in my name, I will be there."
Right there in the Bible - kind of sounds like Jesus is trying to tell you churches are a good thing.
That first quote was about hypocrisy, not communal worship. He took a whip the the money changers at the Temple, not the worshipers.
Jesus is telling you that churches are not needed. In my opinion, of course.
"The Kingdom of God is within you."
If you go to the Catholic Religion looking for YHWH, Yeshua/Jesus, and salvation, you are most likely going to be disappointed.
The kingdom of God being within you and where two or more are gathered together in my name I am there, can both be true at the same time.
I'm not a big pusher of the Catholic "one true faith" stuff because I recognize Orthodox Christianity as just as valid...and further I don't go after Protestants because denomination wars are dumb and they are also brothers in Christ.
But if you go to a Catholic Church looking for Jesus, chances are you are NOT going to be disappointed. Also, the Bible is a Catholic book, and that's the best place to start.
Your first comment it seems to me misses the point. Gathering together ≠ church.
I am not unacquainted with the Catholic Church. Quite the contrary. I was raised a Roman Catholic. I have family members in it, some who have dedicated their lives to it.
It is an evil organization that stands between you and God. Presuming to be your intercessor. One could say that the Jesuits are the worst of them, but there are plenty others that qualify as "worst".
No intercessor is needed. Especially one involved in grift, graft, human trafficking, pedophilia, and God-knows-what-else.
I'm not going to play Catholic apologist, Satan has done a fairly good job lately, though I do agree with you that while there is evil in the Catholic Church, it is not evil in total. The same can be said of most large organizations, for that matter. But the part is not greater than the whole.
The church doesn't presume to stand between you and God, it acts in the person of God when it gives sacraments. That's a fundamental misunderstanding you've got there.
I understand how they describe it.
I am not buying it.
You don't have to, nor that you don't doesn't make you right. I wanted to get where I was coming from on record, though, and I'll leave it at that. In online denomination debates (even more than other online debates) people sling chapter and verse at each other, firing them like bullets they are sure will make a hit. They all bounce off. Thanks.
God Bless.
For the leader of the church to be doing photo ops with a highly commercial comics character completely demeans the name of Christ. That was just vile, obscene, and disgusting.
I became a Christian in 2020 but I'm staying well away from Catholicism.
All you need to do to be a Christian is admit that Jesus Christ was the living God incarnated into human form. You must also admit that you are a sinner and confess your sins directly to Jesus and ask for his forgiveness because you want to be with Him in heaven in the afterlife.
You will become filled with the Holy Spirit and gain the armor of God as your protection from satans influence over you.
Okay, folks, the Catholic Church has been around in one form or another for 2,000 years. Saying "it's toast" or going away is historically ignorant, when the Church has suffered worse crises than Francis' stupidity. People were saying "the Church is toast" when Napoleon locked up the pope for 4 years in France, or the Protestant Reformation, or the Arian Heresy, etc. etc..
Francis has a mixed record on orthodoxy. He confirmed that priests cannot bless same sex unions (though the Germans are still doing it), and that anyone who tries to make a woman priest is automatically excommunicated.
This topic has been covered extensively in consume.win, and not conspiracies.win.
Now, will Catholic Church membership continue to decline? Depends on where and who we are talking about. Frankly, I'd rather have the Church 1/2 its size but filled with those who are trad, than a huge ecumenical modernist monster.