I might not have made this thread over here but a few of our resident have taken it upon themselves to criticize His Holiness this morning so I thought I'd balance it out with something wholesome.
@Eleganza remember the other day when I said he doesn't accurately represent the positions of Protestants let alone Catholics/Orthodox? Well, he agreed and decided to call it quits.
!Christians !Catholics Be respectful and I won't any heretics.
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I'm pretty sure he's going to end up Catholic, half of the videos he's posted lately are better arguments for Catholicism than Presbyterianism. I wish his reconquista movement success in the meantime though.
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The Catholics I know who follow him have said he'd become increasingly hostile to us in the last year with insta posts (?) or something so I'm not sure where he'll end up. I wish him no ill but will admit I'm glad he's calling it quits until he's taken more time reading and engaging with other points of view.
William Lane Craig and Gavin Ortlund are presently the only frequently found on YouTube Prots who I've found are generally capable of defending their views without strawmanning Catholics/Orthodox belief.
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This is just cope to try amd deny his true feelings, like Republican senators being homophobic
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I don't follow him but hope he is not engaging with trolls or Tradcath Larpers
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His videos were interesting, but I did get the feeling he was just talking out of his butt a lot of the time. I'm not very informed about Christianity in general but he seemed to have an easily digestible answer for everything which I know in religious debate is rarely if ever the case
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This site made me take up Buddhism
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Repent and find God, heathen.
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No crusade has ever reached the Himalayas so I'm safe
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This one just did.
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The Pope mobile grows stronger every year
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What's your take on holy rollers
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Pentecostals are the most visible present iteration of them, but they go back further to 19th century Methodists. My views are generally negative, they mistake positive emotional experience for God and private revelations. I think this is a criticism that could be levied at the expression/nature of faith of many lay Evangelicals, as well. A term coined by sociologists that has filtered into usage in Christian circles is "moralistic therapeutic deism":
This type of belief is neither Orthodox nor orthodox to more serious Protestants and I find holy rollers would be a prime example. Having said that they're sometimes funny for memes etc.
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Globohomo the religion
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It's no coincidence many of the problems of modern society are directly traceable to the protestant reformation.
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Hmm...I wonder if this means the kiddo is going to do that weird "non-denominational" route, or (perhaps more likely imo) end up losing his faith and becoming like, idk, one of those chuddy "Christcuckery is a bluepilling perversion created by (((them)))" euphorics...
(I do hope he sees the other light in all of this lol)
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0% chance he's going to a nondenom dance club church, 99.9% chance he's going to convert to some meme offshoot like Eastern Catholics not in Communion with Rome or something or Conservative Anglicans disavowing the Church of England
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Who?
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He's a YouTuber/memer that became popular in the last few years for making easily digestible (but admittedly inaccurate) apologetics videos with him playing Minecraft in the background. He's Presbyterian and started a whole "retvrn to tradition (but Protestant)" thing for the zimzooms.
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"Retvrn to tradition" by going all in on a denomination with lesbian priests and an average age of 75
I'm glad he got engaged or married recently though, maybe his wife told him he needs to stop spending as much time arguing online lol
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Arguing about religion online insulates my wife and family from my by giving it an alternative outlet. Love you guys.
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I believe he got the gf from his instagram page where he argued online lol
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Orthodoxy wins again
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I can't believe his methods like being an r-slured cute twink and building churches in Minecraft weren't more successful...
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Literally thousands of years for extremely neurodivergent religious scholars to document their studies, but "waaaaaah Protestantism can't be defended".
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Jew up and down
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Honestly any retvrn to tradition Protestant is probably gonna trend the opposite direction if they actually do any reading on what Luther, Calvin etc. had to say about Rabbinic Judaism. Anyway, no antisemitism here, please.
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"O Lord, grant us that love which can never die, which will enkindle our lamps but not extinguish them, so that they may shine in us and bring light to others. Most dear Savior, enkindle our lamps that they may shine forever in your temple. May we receive unquenchable light from you so that our darkness will be illuminated and the darkness of the world will be made less. Amen." - Saint Columba of Iona
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Here's the /r/Catholicism thread discussing his announcement, I don't use unlike our jannies and it's not my fault the announcement was made there:
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bro is is literally 21 and has publicly said he has the 'tism.
I can probably imagine that having half a million subs is quite an unexpected and stressful thing, probably best he focuses on his wife.
....but I do have to a little bit when he takes an L because he said my denom shouldn't exist
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