I'd say the problem with Christianity in the west at least is they allowed their traditions and festivals to be mostly taken over by corporate interests.
And then those corporate interests got taken over by leftists so were given a backdoor to subvert the church, making the leaders ideologically indoctrinated and spreading a message of 'passive resistance' to the actual followers.
The Muslims are the more active 'we'll kill you' to disrespect while in places like Japan their population is mostly agnostic but the cultural traditions of Shintoism is so ingrained that even the agnostics follow the traditions and festivals from it.
It'll take Christians in the west to go full crusader bringing back Knight orders to reclaim the church from the leftists grip.
The problem with Christianity is it spent the past century/ies telling everyone they were Christians if they simply say some words and not actually live by the Bible.
Like for me a simple test for a church is where they stand on lgbt. By all means you can show love and compassion but being honest about what the Bible says is showing love. Churches who want to be popular just make me sad
Even that's not enough. The Seeker friendly movement cut a huge bloody gash through every denomination, even the reformed ones which is nuts. I saw quite literally today, some cuck sounding pastor in a chargers jersey saying "it's more important for our church to be easy for an unchurched person to walk onto than to be tied up in strict doctrine"
It'll take Christians in the west to go full crusader bringing back Knight orders to reclaim the church from the leftists grip.
Which is why I see attempts at reforming the Mainline Protestant Church from within, such as Redeemed Zoomer's "Operation Reconquista", as highly optimistic at best and a fool's errand at worst.
Bless his heart, but any mark that off the top of my head his movement has made is extremely small in the grand scheme of things in terms of wresting the Church back from the left. (EDIT: Also not helped by his barring of anyone from his movement that is NOT part of a mainline church, such as those part of the SBC, or the PCA which for some ridiculous reason he holds contempt for)
RZ is part of the PCUSA, the mainline Presbyterian denomination, and probably the 3rd most woke after the UMC (Methodists) and Episcopal Church (but is not himself woke, hence the movement). He is by his own admission a hard-line Calvinist.
The reason I called his contempt for the PCA (the conservative offshoot of PCUSA) "ridiculous" is because he considers them cowards for leaving in the first place instead of staying and fighting. Knowing how leftist indoctrination works, this would have been at considerable long-term risk to anyone who chooses to stay, and considering RZ looks the other way on female pastors or otherwise minimizes the issue (knowing full well what scripture says, he considers it a 'secondary' issue), he is of no exception.
Ah i wasn't aware of him, my interest in church figures is limited to a biography I read of machen in high school.
Fully on board with dissing the PCUSA.
I know virtually nothing about that later split, but from my estimation, the OPC one happened at about the last possible straw of "fighting back" since they were teetering on kicking him out anyway.
The continual problem of one saved, always saved crowd where modern sects of Christianity believe as long as they believe without honoring the traditions, without being one with the Church on Earth, and without living the Commandments, the Creed, the Tenants -- they can't be judged by peers and will be ultimately saved due to Divine Mercy. ... Sad, misguided fools may not have the ending they think they will gain.
Japanese shrine filed a complaint to ubisoft demanding that they remove the shrine from the game because they were offended by the video of Yasuke destroying it.
and some dipshits come along and say that Japanese shouldn't be offended by it because Christians didn't say anything about Christianity being insulted in the games. The same dipshits who in previous tweets have been complaining about leftists disrespecting Christianity.
It's nice to see Japan stand up for its dignity, while not being a dick about it.
I much prefer this than, say, when a bunch of Hindus raised a fuss over Smite's highly-accurate depiction of Kali, claiming that depicting her so accurately was disrespectful.
Read that again.
So the devs had to make her LESS ACCURATE to shut the Hindus up.
Had a Shinto shrine gotten destroyed, but this was portrayed as a BAD THING and they showed honorable people working to rebuild and restore it, with a festival at its re-opening, Japan probably would have been fine with that.
Honestly, I do get where the Hindus are coming from. If you believe in a god and then someone makes an accurate representation of that god, that’s clearly intended as that god, and then throws them in an arena where they can, on equal terms, fight and potentially lose to a bunch of gods you don’t believe in, that would be sacrilege, right? I wouldn’t expect to see “Jesus, son of God,” as a playable character in Smite.
Mind you, I think the devs should have said “fuck that, we’re not Hindus, we’ll treat this as any other pagan mythology if we want,” but I don’t think it was any sort of hypocrisy or overreaction for Hindus to get upset. If anything, it’s stranger that making her “not Kali (but still Kali)” appeased them. I just think they shouldn’t have been listened to.
Also, the whole thing is just wild. It's not like AC is known for destructible environments. If a church or shrine gets destroyed, that's intentional, not just incidental.
Social media engagement farming creates schitzo takes. Whiplash opinions.
We've learned over the last few years that authenticity is the new currency. We're also gonna learn that most of these recent climbers are fake as hell.
I'd say the problem with Christianity in the west at least is they allowed their traditions and festivals to be mostly taken over by corporate interests.
And then those corporate interests got taken over by leftists so were given a backdoor to subvert the church, making the leaders ideologically indoctrinated and spreading a message of 'passive resistance' to the actual followers.
The Muslims are the more active 'we'll kill you' to disrespect while in places like Japan their population is mostly agnostic but the cultural traditions of Shintoism is so ingrained that even the agnostics follow the traditions and festivals from it.
It'll take Christians in the west to go full crusader bringing back Knight orders to reclaim the church from the leftists grip.
The problem with Christianity is it spent the past century/ies telling everyone they were Christians if they simply say some words and not actually live by the Bible.
And don’t forgot they have totally abandoned the teaching that following Christ will make you unpopular with the world
That's probably a big component.
So many at least the past fifty years are more concerned with being "nice" than having principals and enforcing them.
And also Christians being tricked by Jews into thinking that they have to let everyone else do anything to them or else they're bad people.
Like for me a simple test for a church is where they stand on lgbt. By all means you can show love and compassion but being honest about what the Bible says is showing love. Churches who want to be popular just make me sad
Even that's not enough. The Seeker friendly movement cut a huge bloody gash through every denomination, even the reformed ones which is nuts. I saw quite literally today, some cuck sounding pastor in a chargers jersey saying "it's more important for our church to be easy for an unchurched person to walk onto than to be tied up in strict doctrine"
Which is why I see attempts at reforming the Mainline Protestant Church from within, such as Redeemed Zoomer's "Operation Reconquista", as highly optimistic at best and a fool's errand at worst.
Bless his heart, but any mark that off the top of my head his movement has made is extremely small in the grand scheme of things in terms of wresting the Church back from the left. (EDIT: Also not helped by his barring of anyone from his movement that is NOT part of a mainline church, such as those part of the SBC, or the PCA which for some ridiculous reason he holds contempt for)
Some people have a real hate boner for Calvin
Not quite in this case.
RZ is part of the PCUSA, the mainline Presbyterian denomination, and probably the 3rd most woke after the UMC (Methodists) and Episcopal Church (but is not himself woke, hence the movement). He is by his own admission a hard-line Calvinist.
The reason I called his contempt for the PCA (the conservative offshoot of PCUSA) "ridiculous" is because he considers them cowards for leaving in the first place instead of staying and fighting. Knowing how leftist indoctrination works, this would have been at considerable long-term risk to anyone who chooses to stay, and considering RZ looks the other way on female pastors or otherwise minimizes the issue (knowing full well what scripture says, he considers it a 'secondary' issue), he is of no exception.
Ah i wasn't aware of him, my interest in church figures is limited to a biography I read of machen in high school.
Fully on board with dissing the PCUSA.
I know virtually nothing about that later split, but from my estimation, the OPC one happened at about the last possible straw of "fighting back" since they were teetering on kicking him out anyway.
A shame what's become of westminster since.
The continual problem of one saved, always saved crowd where modern sects of Christianity believe as long as they believe without honoring the traditions, without being one with the Church on Earth, and without living the Commandments, the Creed, the Tenants -- they can't be judged by peers and will be ultimately saved due to Divine Mercy. ... Sad, misguided fools may not have the ending they think they will gain.
I don't follow. What the fuck is going on? This is a collage of seemingly unrelated posts aside from religion and people whining.
Japanese shrine filed a complaint to ubisoft demanding that they remove the shrine from the game because they were offended by the video of Yasuke destroying it.
and some dipshits come along and say that Japanese shouldn't be offended by it because Christians didn't say anything about Christianity being insulted in the games. The same dipshits who in previous tweets have been complaining about leftists disrespecting Christianity.
OP has an agenda and is using this board to push it.
His agenda is .jpg posting, correct? I mean he has multiple pics posted and we're just expected to follow his schizophrenic bread crumbs!?
I'll paste what I said elsewhere:
It's nice to see Japan stand up for its dignity, while not being a dick about it.
I much prefer this than, say, when a bunch of Hindus raised a fuss over Smite's highly-accurate depiction of Kali, claiming that depicting her so accurately was disrespectful.
Read that again.
So the devs had to make her LESS ACCURATE to shut the Hindus up.
Had a Shinto shrine gotten destroyed, but this was portrayed as a BAD THING and they showed honorable people working to rebuild and restore it, with a festival at its re-opening, Japan probably would have been fine with that.
Honestly, I do get where the Hindus are coming from. If you believe in a god and then someone makes an accurate representation of that god, that’s clearly intended as that god, and then throws them in an arena where they can, on equal terms, fight and potentially lose to a bunch of gods you don’t believe in, that would be sacrilege, right? I wouldn’t expect to see “Jesus, son of God,” as a playable character in Smite.
Mind you, I think the devs should have said “fuck that, we’re not Hindus, we’ll treat this as any other pagan mythology if we want,” but I don’t think it was any sort of hypocrisy or overreaction for Hindus to get upset. If anything, it’s stranger that making her “not Kali (but still Kali)” appeased them. I just think they shouldn’t have been listened to.
King David is playable in Fate/Grand Order.
Yes, the one that slew Goliath.
I was pleasantly surprised at the representation. He's not exactly one of the most powerful characters to use, but I was just happy he was there.
Hell, in Record of Ragnarok, Adam, Eve and "the Serpent" show up, and their scenes actually got a chuckle out of me--because I can take a joke.
That isn't why they complained tho, they complained that she was too bloodthirsty and stripperriffic.
Maybe I don’t get where they’re coming from.
To be fair, only that one cuck was cucking.
Also, the whole thing is just wild. It's not like AC is known for destructible environments. If a church or shrine gets destroyed, that's intentional, not just incidental.
Social media engagement farming creates schitzo takes. Whiplash opinions.
We've learned over the last few years that authenticity is the new currency. We're also gonna learn that most of these recent climbers are fake as hell.