Oh No

Mary being treated as if she was sinless makes me so so sad. Like talk about erasing the wonder and glory of Jesus’ birth

I feel like people treating Mary as sinless kind of destroys the point. Like she was a normal person, just as sinful as the rest of us, but she submitted herself completely to God's will. Making her some sort of sinless deity is...not right imo

Bingo

I imagine they'll come up with something. Probably something along the lines of insisting the slaves had some kind of cultural rank and thus it's not the same as chattel slavery. Which is an excuse I've seen for African slavery. Wouldn't be surprised at all if they applied it to the Ottoman Empire.

pretty sure i've seen someone argue that the slaves kept by muslims (which, mind you, there still are to this day) aren't really slaves over some semantics.

That is explicitly what we learned in AP World History back in Highschool. They only talked about the Janissaries (briefly) and glossed over the part where they were captured or forcibly removed from their parents in conquered parts of Europe, forcibly circumcised and converted, and said it was actually good for them because it allowed them to have some learning in Ottoman society, so it wasn't "technically" slavery. And no other forms of Ottoman Slavery were mentioned.

Happy All Saints Day!

I'm actually a fan of the versions of Daredevil and Nightcrawler in my head who are orthodox Catholics who don't sleep around and go to Mass every Sunday.

So… he’s a cringe boomer that can’t handle the fact he accidentally made a story about hope. Lol, lmao even

Reminder that this is literally a hypothesis made by 19th century scholar Jacob Grimm, who no credible historian takes seriously anymore. Easter, the Christian holiday, was celebrated more or less universally by Christians before the year 325 - we know that because the Council of Nicaea debated how the date of Easter would be observed. You'll also note that the name of this holiday in non-Germanic languages is typically the same word (or words derived from the same root) used to describe the Jewish Passover. In Spanish, both are Pascua; in Romanian, Passover is Paştele and Easter is Paști; in Greek, they are both Πάσχα; in Russian, Passover is Песах and Easter is Пасха. The English "Easter" does come from Eostre, which is related to Ostara. But that is simply because after Charlemagne's conquests of the Saxons between 776-782, he gave Germanic names to the months of the Latin calendar that he imposed on his new subjects. The Christian holiday fell in the month of Ostarmanoth (Eostre's month), and eventually became identified with the month that it took place in among the Germanic languages. So while the name "Easter" may be connected to a goddess named Eostre, this relatedness involves several degrees of separation, and to claim that Easter is "actually a pagan holiday" based on its name in English is like saying the Fourth of July is "actually a holiday about Julius Caesar."

Other movies spend so much time asking “why is there badness in the world” and Free Guy, movie of the decade, assumes from the beginning there is badness, of course, the code is stolen and corrupted into a stupid shooter game, and so it asks instead, “so why is there any good in this world?” And then it answers with “because it’s made by someone who was creating a love letter to you.”

new atheists deride religion as “primitive superstition” but when you hear their take on what religion is it’s clear they have the shallowest concept of it

Y'all are the ones with holy books about talking snakes and blood sacrifices, but go off I guess

see what i mean

I will start believing the day you introduce me personally to your god(s).

see what i mean

What exactly is there deeper to understand that y'all worship a genocidal maniac and that you only read one book???

see what i mean

Religion is useless. We will all die eventually and your phony gods cannot help you

see what i mean

Heritage post

This is the actual post!!!

@the-kiibo-anon ^ More to look at too!

Highly recommend Ligonier Ministries/Renewing Your Mind, Alpha & Omega Ministries, Cultish, Revealed Apologetics, The White Horse Inn, Core Christianity, Alisa Childers, and Tim Challies. These are just a few I can think of off the top of my head.

Chief, imma need some evidence m, cause I know that PP is fuckin vile sometimes, what with the eugenics and all that, but this is a little too far fetched

I mean, it’s literally common knowledge that pp aids traffickers, but here, here, here, here, and here.

For all proaborts love to scream about a 12 year old girl who was forced to go to another state to get her abortion, they’re certainly silent about these other children.