1 hit the gym or otherwise exercise regularly and vigorously (and stop eating garbage) you should be doing this anyway
2 get to know your neighbors even if they are assholes
3 find a non-pozzed church and join even if they are evangelical and you dont believe in jesus - show up once a week at first then try to participate in the community activities
They are, but at least Catholicism has the possibility of growing a spine if it chose to.
I was a Friend and it pains me to say that the problem in the Friends is that the sinking lifeboat analogy DOES NOT WORK. There are people who rationally believe that until America is dragged down to the level of the third world, we have a moral imperative to keep taking in more people from the third world. That sinking the lifeboat is morally correct. The immediacy of helping those who's need is greatest takes precedence over building the community.
And the thing is, I can't say they're wrong. I understand where they're coming from, my understanding of the divine leads me to the same conclusions they do. So all I have to fall back on is saying Friends shouldn't be voting at all.
I would tell them they are wrong because by sinking the lifeboat, they destroy the most amount of lives.
It is not moral to destroy yourself for others.
It is like how on an airplane when there is a cabin air failure, you take care of your own mask before helping your child and then the rest of your family and friends.
That analogy is how I feel about life, you help yourself so you can help your family and then help your nation. It is moral to put yourself, your family and nation before others.
I have no qualms in saying that I view the Quakers as soft and weak individuals if they want to continue to sink the societal lifeboat to help random people from across the world over their misguided and naive view of social justice.
Modern Christianity has created generations of weak men who turn the other cheek.
Kinda makes me wish I'd paid more attention in sunday school, because I swear there's gotta be some misunderstanding with this "turn the other cheek" business. The trope it's turned into doesn't match the other messages I've heard, so there must be some missing context.
Yet, I agree completely; this trope has been effectively made a reality thanks to weak men aplenty. The strong and righteous still exist, but they have little reason to announce themselves.
It's why Rome kept feeding Christians to lions, to try to get them to go rebel so they could crush in a proper standup fight like the Carthaginians. But they just kept stubbornly forgiving the Romans and dying without a fight. Eventually the Romans got bored of it, started believing as well, and then a short while later the Goths invaded.
It was a mistake of the Councils to preserve the Old Testament. The two texts and their perspectives are fundamentally incompatible.
But they still have a pope. Though it be unlikely, though it might take generations, with the right people wearing the mitre they could theoretically be steered back to where they were.
The same cannot be said about the protestants (aside from the Anglicans anyway). Protestantism knows no authority but god and conscience. There is no hierarchy to steer it.
People say that the SJWs took over the church. This is a narrow, nearsighted view. The reality is the SJWs are the end product of runaway Protestantism.
1 hit the gym or otherwise exercise regularly and vigorously (and stop eating garbage) you should be doing this anyway 2 get to know your neighbors even if they are assholes 3 find a non-pozzed church and join even if they are evangelical and you dont believe in jesus - show up once a week at first then try to participate in the community activities
Protestantism is partly at fault for what's happened.
I am not Christian so I can offer an assessment of it from an outside view, The Roman Catholic church is just as pozzed as Protestantism.
Even before Francis, the RCC pushed social justice which was precursor to the current wokeism.
Modern Christianity has created generations of weak men who turn the other cheek.
They are, but at least Catholicism has the possibility of growing a spine if it chose to.
I was a Friend and it pains me to say that the problem in the Friends is that the sinking lifeboat analogy DOES NOT WORK. There are people who rationally believe that until America is dragged down to the level of the third world, we have a moral imperative to keep taking in more people from the third world. That sinking the lifeboat is morally correct. The immediacy of helping those who's need is greatest takes precedence over building the community.
And the thing is, I can't say they're wrong. I understand where they're coming from, my understanding of the divine leads me to the same conclusions they do. So all I have to fall back on is saying Friends shouldn't be voting at all.
I would tell them they are wrong because by sinking the lifeboat, they destroy the most amount of lives.
It is not moral to destroy yourself for others.
It is like how on an airplane when there is a cabin air failure, you take care of your own mask before helping your child and then the rest of your family and friends.
That analogy is how I feel about life, you help yourself so you can help your family and then help your nation. It is moral to put yourself, your family and nation before others.
I have no qualms in saying that I view the Quakers as soft and weak individuals if they want to continue to sink the societal lifeboat to help random people from across the world over their misguided and naive view of social justice.
Sure you can. Suicide and condemning your own community is wrong.
Kinda makes me wish I'd paid more attention in sunday school, because I swear there's gotta be some misunderstanding with this "turn the other cheek" business. The trope it's turned into doesn't match the other messages I've heard, so there must be some missing context.
Yet, I agree completely; this trope has been effectively made a reality thanks to weak men aplenty. The strong and righteous still exist, but they have little reason to announce themselves.
Nope.
It's why Rome kept feeding Christians to lions, to try to get them to go rebel so they could crush in a proper standup fight like the Carthaginians. But they just kept stubbornly forgiving the Romans and dying without a fight. Eventually the Romans got bored of it, started believing as well, and then a short while later the Goths invaded.
It was a mistake of the Councils to preserve the Old Testament. The two texts and their perspectives are fundamentally incompatible.
Then follow the "rules" of LaVey's Satanism. Don't have to worship him to follow decent rules.
What are you smoking? The current pope is super woke.
Yes.
But they still have a pope. Though it be unlikely, though it might take generations, with the right people wearing the mitre they could theoretically be steered back to where they were.
The same cannot be said about the protestants (aside from the Anglicans anyway). Protestantism knows no authority but god and conscience. There is no hierarchy to steer it.
People say that the SJWs took over the church. This is a narrow, nearsighted view. The reality is the SJWs are the end product of runaway Protestantism.
There... are non-theistic universalists and friends, although they're rare and frankly the UU's are completely SJW humanists.