"My god's better than your god so there!"

(July 2, 2024 at 11:02 pm)Ferrocyanide Wrote: Christianity didn't improve anything for europeans.

I think europeans got lucky. They had the various bits of technology to make glassware, to make chemicals. As science developed (~17xx), they started to put more importance on logic, discovery, philosophy and along with that, there was social change.
Or maybe it is the renaissance period that put europeans on that path.

I'm not exactly sure how europeans got out of the theocratic mess. 

Most likely the process started with the Portuguese discovery of the sea route to Asia. This presented them with a lot of stuff contrary to what dogma told them despite the fact that effort was a crusade to find Prestor John and outflank the Muslims.

Obviously this wasn't a knockout blow but the accumulation of information from around the world would have been consistently challenging to the church.
The current decline of Christianity is progressing at a rate of ~25% of the congregation over a period equal to average life expectancy less the average age of the congregation. The average age of the congregation is increasing at a rate of ~6 months per annum and will likely see the collapse of Christianity in Britain during the 2030s.
If those rates are projected backwards the start of that process was around the 1920s.

(July 2, 2024 at 12:52 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: "The Devil Came": How Our Lady Saved Fr. Donald Calloway From a Demon in His Room

Father Donald Calloway, MIC, is a well-known American priest and promoter of devotion to Saint Joseph.

But something happened to him that terrified him to the point that, 20 years later, he prays that it does not happen again.

“A creature appeared in my room and started to manifest itself–like literally taken on a physical form. I was so terrified that I couldn’t even move. If anyone has ever had sleep paralysis, it’s a terrifying experience magnified by a trillion.

But this was a living creature that wanted me,” Father Calloway explains.

“I was so terrified, I had to close my eyes. I was absolutely petrified. I couldn’t do anything,” he said, adding that he once used a Ouija board.

“I think the devil thought that I belonged to him,” he said.

According to his account, he did the only thing he knew to do: “From my soul, I cried, not audibly, but in my soul: ‘Mary!’

“And do you know what happened? Annihilated. The demon was completely obliterated. And I experienced the most amazing peace that I have not experienced to this day, and probably will not this side of eternity.”

But his mystical experience did not end there.

Suddenly, in his soul, he heard “the most pure, feminine, motherly voice” say, “‘Donnie, I am so happy.'”

“Nobody calls me Donnie but my mom. Nobody,” he said. “It was the mother of Jesus Christ telling me that she was also my mother…the devil could not touch me, because I was in the arms of Mary.”

https://www.churchpop.com/the-devil-came...-his-room/

That's some "holy shit" right there.

Clearly a dream, but that had never occurred to him.  Like Bugs would say: "What a maroon".

(July 3, 2024 at 12:15 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: "My god's better than your god so there!"

More like "I'm free to practice my religion and you're free to practice mine. Ain't that divine?"

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Anyway, Jesus is allowed to show his penis in the Church, but when Mary shows her vagina it's controversial.

(July 3, 2024 at 2:36 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:

(July 3, 2024 at 12:15 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: "My god's better than your god so there!"

More like "I'm free to practice my religion and you're free to practice mine. Ain't that divine?"

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Anyway, Jesus is allowed to show his penis in the Church, but when Mary shows her vagina it's controversial.

I don't understand, they claim Mary gave birth to Jesus, so how is depicting the event sacrilgious?

(July 3, 2024 at 4:36 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote:

(July 3, 2024 at 2:36 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: More like "I'm free to practice my religion and you're free to practice mine. Ain't that divine?"

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Anyway, Jesus is allowed to show his penis in the Church, but when Mary shows her vagina it's controversial.

I don't understand, they claim Mary gave birth to Jesus, so how is depicting the event sacrilgious?

She's on a rock, not on a mound of hay. Not an admiring animal to be found. And what's up with the body builder thighs?

(July 3, 2024 at 4:41 pm)brewer Wrote:

(July 3, 2024 at 4:36 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: I don't understand, they claim Mary gave birth to Jesus, so how is depicting the event sacrilgious?

She's on a rock, not on a mound of hay. Not an admiring animal to be found. And what's up with the body builder thighs?

He or she also has huge feet. She is white skinned and face looks european.

Anyway, she looks hot.
Reminds me of something Madonna would do.

So unless you're specifically Catholic you won't have an eternal life






But I don't get this because don't all people have eternal life according to Catholic and some other Christian mythologies? Because all people live forever but some live in heaven and some in hell.

The young man who built a chapel and heads to the priesthood



Lucas Gordia Andrade, 17, is a young man from São João do Triunfo, Brazil, who from an early age harbors the dream of becoming a priest. This desire accompanies Luke from preschool, where he liked to play the game of saying Mass. He bought images of Virgin Mary and saints instead of toys.

At the age of six, Lucas came up with the idea of building his own church, a dream that, with the support of his family, came true when he was 13.

The Chapel Sacred Heart of Jesus and Our Lady of Conception, located on the grounds of the house of Luke, is an impressive building in neo-Gothic style, about 8 meters high, with, 5 Meters long and 2.5 meters wide. The project was funded by the Lucas family, who invested approximately $5000. Friends of the family, who are bricklayers, helped build the chapel following Lucas' guidelines.

https://pt.churchpop.com/o-jovem-que-con...acerdocio/