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This is uncontroversially correct. There is virtually no data to support the claim that any doctors save God

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I'm a firm believer in traditional, Biblical marriage, and so is my wife, my wife, my wife, my wife's servant, and my wife

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I regrettably watched the new Jordan Peterson video and gotta say, him closing with "You're churches for God's sake! Quit fighting for social justice! Quit saving the bloody planet!" really encapsulates everything wrong with him

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Listen anglicans, we *need* to steal the whole “having the church open during the day” thing from the Catholics. The ability to go into a church and pray by yourself is so valuable

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I have very little respect for non-Christian queer people who, when they see queer Christians being harassed and dogpiled by other Christians for being queer, decide to join in the dogpile by hating on their Christianity

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One point about LGBT-affirming churches that doesn't get talked about enough is that they are simply correct. Beyond being compassionate, loving, etc., they are also standing in the truth, and they should act like they know it

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@SomervillePD Omg is the car alright. Did it have to go to the hospital. Should we start a go fund me for the cars emotional damage. Should we invite bella hadid

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The real test for whether people were raised evangelical is if they know who this man is

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The doctrine of the virgin birth is important, not because it shows that Mary was "pure", but because it shows that God, unlike Zeus, does not use mortal women as means to satisfy His lust.

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I have a great uncle who died from AIDS. My family doesn’t talk about him; I only today learned his name. If you pray for the dead, please pray for my great uncle Steve

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alex orandi 🌹

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Being a pastor is super easy work if you've got the right congregation. You just need a congregation that doesn't sin, get old, die, get sick, get married, or need any other kind of guidance or help in any way

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Atheist claims that being a pastor is an easy con

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Ehrman: "Jesus never claims to be God outside of the book of John" Matthew: "And then one time Jesus told everyone that he was gonna be the judge on judgment day and that he would judge us based on how we treated him."

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Religion became so completely different for me once I realized that the Bible is basically just a bunch of different texts that the Church happened to like. That's the reason why it's valuable, and it can be valuable in that way without needing to be infallible

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Before reading Dante's Inferno, I thought it was theologically problematic. Now that I've started it, I can say it's theologically problematic and also dope as hell

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If all you knew about Christianity was the Gospel, and if you fully believed it with all your heart, I feel like LGBT inclusion and women's ordination would be no-brainers

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@Scuderiascoop Who cares? Athletes always look like they're bored during press conferences

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2 years

@Dhmcgrath77 @kukuxeru @ampol_moment The reply wasn't taking away from the positive message in OP's tweet. Clarifying language to make things more inclusive is neither an attack nor a detraction. How else are we supposed to learn better ways of speaking about these things?

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@VOIDTHROAT welcome to night vale

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The biggest shift in my attitude toward Christianity came about when I realized that not only is Christian mysticism possible, but huge parts of the Christian message simply cannot be understood in a non-mystical way

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So often affirming churches are characterized as being willing to compromise on rigid truth in order to be lovey-dovey bleeding hearts. But this is simply not the case. They simply hold fast to the moral truth of affirmation. No compromise of anything is necessary

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"Yeah I consider myself something of a mystic" my brother in christ you average 10 hours a day of screen time

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2 years

Went to my first service in box pews today and I think I kinda like them. Also I’m surprised I don’t see more “Christianity-is-about-raising-families” types using them

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The potential existence of gods like Baal, Thor, Hermes, etc. poses absolutely no problem for monotheism. The point is not whether other gods exist, the point is that only God is worthy of worship

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Call me a hater but I don't like reliquary stuff. Even if this is her actual skull, I'm not sure what theological good comes out of venerating like this

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The skull of Mary Magdalene in St Maximin Basilica in France.

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Isn't it wild how the 7 deadly sins are one of the most well-known parts of the Bible among non-Christians when they play basically zero role in Christian theology

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@waveturtlejake Theologically I think they are very spooky

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2 years

"There are no new heresies" give me 15 minutes and a Bible and I bet I could come up with one

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1 year

I know a lot of my fellow progressives are dunking on this, but this is actually the correct take. The Gospel is what God has done, not what you have to do. If the Gospel is the command to love my neighbor, it's not good news to me, who fails to follow that command every day

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“Love your neighbor” is NOT the gospel

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alex orandi 🌹

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2 years

Does anyone know of some theologically rigorous defenses for LGBT affirmation? I'm looking for something which grapples with the fact that church tradition has been explicitly against it for so long

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All Anglicans should be able to self-identify as Protestants imo. To believe that Protestantism is opposed to catholicity is to buy into the Roman understanding of catholicity, which is explicitly what Protestantism rejects

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@CornyBillups This isn't a "conservative talking point" in any meaningful way

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I'm becoming more and more convinced that a lot of the young men drawn towards Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and other conservative Xian branches are drawn because those are spaces in which women don't have to be listened to as authorities

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One of the reasons I've never felt any draw to Roman Catholic teaching on sexuality is that I simply cannot imagine it being morally relevant whether one is procreating or not

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Evangelicals will repeat this lie to their children ad nauseam and then be completely confused why their kids left Christianity the moment they encounter any evidence for evolution

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If you can’t read the book of Genesis as literally happening, then the rest of the Bible falls apart.

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"Only God can judge me" should be the most terrifying thought a person could have

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Isn't it so lucky that the Episcopal Church has so many 22 year olds who know exactly how to fix all the problems the Church is facing

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2 years

Got racially profiled today (was given a fork at a Chinese restaurant)

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3 years

If the Apostles had just "made up" Christianity they probably would have invented a religion that makes a lot more sense than Christianity does

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9 months

Happy ash wednesday

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@ExZed21 See this is exactly what I'm talking about. We queer Christians are the victims of queerbashing Christians, and rather than stand in solidarity with us you lump us in with the queerbashers.

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@DogHerny @vijayvinyl She literally said exactly that but ok

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I have performed a Christlike act by ruining my own YouTube recommendations so that you all might live

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1 year

Came out to parents today. Wish me luck!

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Every person in the Great Divorce, whether in heaven or in hell, is British. This implies that the afterlife is reserved only for professing Anglicans, and all non-Anglicans are instantly annihilated at the moment of death.

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The church is God's office and we, in our cubicles, shall serve him

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Guys I'm on my hands and knees begging you to realize that this guy is running a joke account. I thought it was painfully obvious but every single tweet he makes gets QTed by one of yall trying to dunk him. Please

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This is what my private Christian elementary school warned me public school was like

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The idealization of this kind of life is one of the things making men so unhappy. The domestic husbands in the 50s who had this "traditional" lifestyle were often unhappy! They had fears, mental illnesses, despair, and existential anguish just like you do!

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All a man wants is to come home from a long day at work to a grateful wife and children who are glad to see him, and dinner cooking on the stove. This is literally all it takes to make a man happy. We are simple. Give us this and you will have given us nearly everything we need.

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Hot take: the Jewish view of Satan as the Accuser is significantly better than the predominant Christian view of Satan as some sort of cosmic bad dude

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It's always queer solidarity until they find something to criticize you for

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I feel like the Minor Prophets are severely underappreciated. I never hear sermons about them and barely even hear them get referenced but they're fascinating.

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@BloodnVinegar This is just any relationship between two people. I don’t think it really has anything to do with heterosexuality unless you assume that a man and a woman must have opposite perspectives

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One of the things I love about TEC and Anglicanism in general is that it doesn't make an idol out of families, and it goes out of its way to include people who live alone. There are prayers for them specifically in the BCP and they're mentioned in petitions regularly

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I think my take on most theological controversies is just to take whichever side makes God more mysterious and beautiful.

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There are so many incredible, Gospel-based messages that affirming churches can be giving to people during Pride Month. Telling people "you're perfect exactly as you are" is not one of them

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@Dhmcgrath77 @kukuxeru @ampol_moment I feel like you got the exact opposite of my point. I'm criticizing you, not the person who clarified OP's language

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This kind of thinking relies on the insidious logic that queer people are either too disordered or too stupid to know when they're being loved and when they're not. It's a gaslighting tactic that's a trademark of abusers the world over

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@josh_a_scott This feels like a reductionistic take. I'm not sure how certain demonic possession narratives (eg Mark 9) can be read as a critique of empire without convoluting the text

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Absolutely no justification for this. "But the priest was protecting the Body of Christ!" No, the priest *bit* the Body of Christ.

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A priest in Florida bit the forearm of a woman he says was desecrating the Eucharist in a Communion line at church this past Sunday and has now been charged with one count of battery.

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@johnmarkharris @taylorsschumann It should absolutely be harder even for law-abiding citizens to get guns. Mass shootings are often perpetrated by people who use guns that belong to law-abiding citizens. The only answer to gun violence is fewer guns

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Doing religious stuff as a child, even if it's kind of weird in hindsight, does not mean you have religious trauma now. We should be careful how we use terms.

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My master plan to grow TEC is to make it more punk rock. More priests with tattoos and piercings. Really lean into the whole death motif, especially during Lent.

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Whether a woman is a virgin or not is in no way related to their "purity" or their worth, and absolutely no one should feel as though they are less than for their virginity or lack thereof.

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@AtheistTakes Horrifically unChristlike way to talk about your sister. Jesus himself told you that she would enter the kingdom before you

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"Christianity is just a way to control the masses" damn I wish it worked then have you seen the masses lately

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Especially for very introverted/socially anxious people! People who may not feel comfortable yet coming to a service but who want to pray in the beauty of the church

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@ExZed21 Also, Christianity isn't the cause of LGBT suicide, homophobia is. I and my queer siblings in Christ are doing what we can to rid Christianity of this homophobia and create a place where queer people can be safe as themselves.

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The Sermon on the Mount is one of the reasons I'm most skeptical of the distinction between mortal and venial sins. If looking lustfully is adultery and hatred is murder, it seems hard for me to say that there are any venial sins at all

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I would be super into catholicism if they believed different things

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The main difference between Catholics and Protestants is that Protestants attribute all pithy aphorisms to CS Lewis and Catholics attribute them to Chesterton

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Jesus: "my yoke is easy, and my burden is light" Also Jesus: "if you sin with your eyes cut them out"

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One advantage of Protestantism over RC or EO is that it allows for Christians to openly and honestly disagree on non-essential doctrines, while still allowing them to view each other as full Christians and complete siblings in Christ

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Hot take, for which I am prepared to stand before the Anglican Inquisition: Pianos are better for hymn accompaniment than organs

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Biblical marriage, if understood to mean "marriage as it is depicted in the Bible" simply does not exist in the vast majority of developed countries.

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I just realized that today is the one year anniversary of me getting my first Book of Common Prayer. Very grateful for how God has used it in my life

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Can we please go back to universalism discourse I'm so tired of trying to justify queer Christianity to atheists

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alex orandi 🌹

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People on Christian twitter are way too comfortable condemning people to hell imo

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alex orandi 🌹

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If you are from a small town, what's your town's claim to fame? Mine is that the voice actor for Patrick from Spongebob went to college in my town and the college theater is now named after him

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I would take Reformed theobros a bit more seriously if they stopped using the term "heresy" to describe beliefs that the Church has held for millennia

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My only take on the matter is that it would be very impolite for the church to die just when I got here

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Aesthetically it undeniably goes hard, however

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@eastgorteau YOU TRY ME WITH A SORRY RECEIVER LIKE CRABTREE, THAT'S THE RESULT YOURE GONNA GET

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"what you did to the least of these, you did to me" makes no sense unless Jesus is God.

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alex orandi 🌹

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TEC should stop commemorating non-Christians in its churches, not because these people are unworthy of being commemorated, but because doing so further entrenches the view that Christianity has a right to claim anything good as its own

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as a practicing Sunni Muslim, Malcolm X would be deeply offended in being portrayed on byzantine style icon by Saint Gregory's Episcopal Church in San Francisco.

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I think one big difference between conservative and progressive interpretations of Christianity is the question of whether Jesus founded an alternative culture or an alternative kingdom. 🧵

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In need of an Episcopal iconography timeline cleanse. Show me the cool iconography/artwork/stained glass in your parishes!

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I personally need the Roman Catholic Church to change all their doctrines to align with my beliefs so I can fulfill my fantasy of being a Catholic priest in some Italian village

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If I was a priest I would be very tempted to make horrendously big crosses on bald peoples heads

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I went back to this church today and they were just preaching heresy so maybe the anglo-catholics were right

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Low church Epsicopal worship is so good when you don't got an anglo-catholic in your ear telling you it's nasty

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@morallawwithin That’s the only consistently kantian way to learn a language. Why do you want to know how to say false sentences? So you can violate the categorical imperative?

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@stilling_time @ZachWLambert The stories you mention prove Zach's point - Jesus's message to all of those people is not "repent so that you can be accepted", but rather "you are accepted, so you can repent". And in many cases he never even said the second part!

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Me and my friends

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alex orandi 🌹

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Like the Catechism states that "sexual pleasure is morally disordered when sought for itself, isolated from its procreative and unitive [between spouses] purposes", and I just...don't think that's true? And I don't know any theologically-compelling reasons to believe it

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If you weren't your current denomination, what denomination (if any) do you think you'd be part of? I could see myself enjoying a lot that Lutheranism has to offer

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alex orandi 🌹

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Hot take but credobaptism is logically incoherent if you can baptize children this young. I was baptized at 12 and didn't know enough to know whether or not I believed any of it - I just knew how to repeat what my parents wanted to hear

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Also it can be contradictory! Paul says a lot of stuff about everyone being saved, John says a lot of stuff about not a lot of people being saved. And that's fine! There has never been a time in history that all Christians believed the same things, even on important issues

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"Traditional" views on sexuality ought to be viewed in the same category as young earth creationism. Each is a set of simply incorrect beliefs that aren't worth taking seriously, but we have to pretend they're serious cause the Bible

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Starting a side hustle by scalping tickets to the Cathedral

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alex orandi 🌹

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Hot take that I have put zero thought into: I think some non-human animals are intelligent enough to make some moral decisions and thus can be sinful

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