(August 8, 2018 at 3:15 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(August 8, 2018 at 1:47 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: How are you defining what a Christian is? Are Mormons Christians? What is the litmus test, and more importantly, why is that the litmus test?
A litmus test would imply a clear line designating a difference of kind. Personally, the issue is this. Out of all the doctrinal differences which churches share the most doctrines and which reject most of the commonly held ones. Mormons and JW are Christians but in my opinion share far fewer doctrines with other Christians than say RC, Orthodox, and Protestant churches. Quakers also seem to be further out on the bell curve, but clearly not as far out as Mormons. Nearly all the gnostics, such as the Cathars, were branded heretics but IMO they still fall within the Christian community. I guess what I am saying is that one can be a Christian even if other denominations consider your type of Christianity heretical. But those are just my opinions. Jack Chick clearly disagrees.
If you have something that I find desirable, then you are a heretic (if you're not a heathen scum).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Co...ple_(1204)
The siege and sack of Constantinople occurred in April 1204 and marked the culmination of the Fourth Crusade. Mutinous Crusader armies captured, looted, and destroyed parts of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. After the capture of the city, the Latin Empire (known to the Byzantines as the Frankokratia or the Latin Occupation)[5] was established and Baldwin of Flanders was crowned Emperor Baldwin I of Constantinople in the .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_Crusade
The Bosnian Crusade was fought against unspecified heretics from 1235 until 1241. It was, essentially, a Hungarian war of conquest against the Banate of Bosnia sanctioned as a .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish%E2%80%93Novgorodian_Wars
The Teutonic Order's attempts to conquer Orthodox Russia (particularly the Republics of Pskov and Novgorod), an enterprise endorsed by Pope Gregory IX,[1] accompanied the Northern Crusades. One of the major blows for the idea of the conquest of Russia was the Battle of the Ice in 1242. With or without the Pope's blessing, Sweden also undertook several .
The Battle on the Ice (fought between Russian Orthodox and Catholics).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKZPgGbUuX0
if you like classical music.
I liked the parts where these old yahoodies tolchock each other and then drink their Hebrew vino, and getting onto the bed with their wives' handmaidens.
