Oh wow, a splinter sect from Catholicism. First time for everything I guess
Splinter sect? Are we about to get some great schism in our historical shitshow soup?
Catholics have always struggled with the idiot conservatives in their midst in leadership. They should finally excommunicate and defrock the lot of them and not just let them leave, but toss them bodily out the door while calling them fascists and rapists who are bad for the church and bad for humanity.
I would not call it a crisis when the catholic church finally gets rid of a bunch of right-wing lunatics. More like "long overdue".
Jesus the hardline Orthodox Jew from first century Galilee would not recognize any of this and would be appalled that gentiles had created an entirely new religion out of the worship of his idol
And they're from Kansas, of all places.
The USA really does have a Christian fundamentalist problem, doesn't it?
The schismed sect runs in 77 countries but sure it's only the USA
Kansas is a nowhere flyover state with little influence. The whole state has a population roughly the size of a medium sized west coast city like sacramento or portland. We need to stop letting flyover state population minorities dictate politics.
Their headquarters is in Switzerland. Their founder was a French archbishop who spent a lot of his time in Africa. What makes you think they're from Kansas? They just have a base there.
Totally not. Just like Afghanistan or Iran don't have a Muslim fundamentalist problem.
Oh yes. These people have more in common with the Taliban than they'd like to admit.
TBF a lot of the Church's "strength" comes from its ability to borrow local customs so that locals are willing to adopt it (after you kill people that strongly oppose it), so it makes sense that in Kansas they're fundamentalists.
This isn't that hard of a crisis, just excommunicate the nazis.
Boom, problem solved. Being the pope is easy, next try selling some of your gold and jewels to feed the hungry.
they do
they do
just excommunicate
Yes, this is exactly what a schism is: An Excommunication of a group. The roman pope excommunicated all the other popes a while back (or it was the other way around, I forget), which is known as a schism which created the roman catholic church
That said, it will probably end in excommunication/schism
Not much of a "schism" if one part is just an insignificant splinter group consisting of loonies. Catholic and Protestant was a schism, but not this handful of Church Taliban.
The pope himself called it schismatic. That's why I bring up schisms.
The gold and jewels are totally necessary in order to instill the feelings of awe and reverence to god.
God all powerful creator of the universe, omni benevolent knows every hair on your head and oh man is he bad with money because he always needs your money
Traditional? No. They are not more traditional.
I think this is relevant
From Henri Nouwen:
"Our lives as we live them seem like lives that anticipate questions that will never be asked. It seems as if we are getting ourselves ready for the question "How much did you earn during your lifetime?" Or "How many friends did you make?" Or "How much progress did you make in your career?" Or "How much influence did you have on people?" Or "How many conversions did you make?"
Were any of these to be the question Christ will ask when he comes again in his glory, many of us could approach the judgement day with great confidence. But nobody is going to hear any of these questions. The question we are all going to face is the question we are least prepared for. It is: "What have you done for the least of mine?" As long as there are strangers; hungry, naked, and sick people; prisoners, refugees, and slaves; people who are handicapped physically, mentally, or emotionally; people without work, a home, or a piece of land, there will be that haunting question from the throne of judgement: "What have you done for the least of mine?"
I don't think even the Christian God really cares about the straight and narrow dogma, and would not appreciate the in group/out group focus of the hardliners. The bottom line is the point of their religion, caring for those who are not cared for by others.
I often figure if Jesus came back, he would always appear to you as the person you least want to help.
Always happy when the dissenters in the Roman Catholic Church are the traditionalists. It means the RCC is moving in the right direction.
You know you're fucked in the head when THE CATHOLIC CHURCH is too progressive and not traditional enough for you! 🤦🏻
Pictured: woke modernity run amok
A lot of Christina Talibans left the church over time. Most of them went into the USA. Go figure why the US is so f-ed up.
Another schism before GTAVI.
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