Best China causes unreal seethe among christoids

There was a great bit about this in a book, Portuguese Jesuits landed in China and were trying to ingratiate themselves with the civil society using some very highly educated people for the times on stuff like engineering on which Europe had a major edge over China, so they were becoming sought after people to talk with at social events. They adopted their dress, language etc. Then Dominicans began to land too from Spanish Philippines and they would go around with massive crosses handing out pamphlets about masturbation that absolutely rekt the whole carefully crafted image.

They still remained fairly highly placed and used some convert governors to build up church significantly across different Chinese regions(as they were transferred around) but then there were doctrinal issues over ancestor worship, the Emperor said it was a secular act and local Jesuits agreed but Dominicans went back to Pope and he ultimately ruled it wasn't secular and couldn't be performed by Chinese Christians. This was directly opposing Emperor's order so the whole group were thrown out. Only going back in after the Opium War.

>"Be polite to guests."

-some cap ohio neighbor

Remember that Tricky Peepee singlehandedly did more than any US president to end the cold war by going on a secret trip to China with the boys, getting shithoused drunk with Mao on their first meeting and shit-talking Kissenger while he sat across from them

I really like that older churches often incorporated local tradition or retained some pagan architectural influence and thus you get mosaics of zodiacs and satyrs in Greece and dragon head carvings in Scandinavia and all that stuff

Read Moby Peepee. There's a kino scene set in a nautical church

Yes I won't eat anything this cute.

Chickens look ugly and so do goats I'd rather eat those

Because they play too much Crusader Kings instead of studying doctrine

!Catholics the Liberal Protestants paid a Catholic artist $800k (because we're the only ones who understand art) to paint the major Roman (Greek) deities Neptune, Vulcan, Mercury and Minerva surrounding George Washington in heaven on the rotunda of the state building because they place enlightenment rationality and nationalism above God.

Why is it when we propose that their values are out of wack and their finger-pointing an exercise in vanity they all chimp out? At least Mormons like @ACA don't have cognitive dissonance about treating the Constitution and Declaration of Independence as divinely inspired, but I'm not sure how our iconoclastic !Christians can justify this one.

give to Caesar what Caesar is due

Jesus Christ himself explained to his people not to constantly have a stick up your butt and constantly cause problems for everyone. Neighbor if you need me of all people to remind you of the fricking gospels then you need to work more on your biblical literacy instead of being smug on the internet. I'm talking about the actual words of Jesus, not the latest youtuber who plays Roblox and Instagram.

It's such a bullshit thing. The North Koreans (yes, I'm gonna just call them that) did that with the wife of the South Korean president recently. Stuck a bag into her hand at a public event and then called it a scandal because inside that bag was a smaller bag which cost... $2,000!!!

Can you imagine? I've certainly never met a Korean woman who could afford to drop $2k on a handbag without thinking too much about it. Because I was born in the fricking 1870s or something and don't know how much money is worth.

there is an egyptian obelisk in St Peters Square that the Romans left there i think

It's cute when @Rad_juju's kittens do it because they're just children. Not cute when "adult" humans do it.

Very funny to see Catholics work themselves up about idolatry, the sin which is actually the foundation of their sect.

I thought we'd be to Taiwan++ by now.

They do it too when arguing with protestants about whether ecumenical councils are binding (not all protestants hold to decisions made by ecumenical councils, the catholic church does) where in one breathe they will say that decisions from councils are binding and then in another breathe do nothing but seethe endlessly about vatican II.

When arguing with these wannabe-canon-lawyers its always fun to ctrl+f their profiles to see how often Jesus gets mentioned

Technically he's only infallible when speaking ex cathedra, which is extremely rare. Otherwise you're fine to disagree.

Most of these "Catholics" are larpers, or sedevacantists, and they just use Catholicism to guise their racism and hate because they have no theological understanding and just think its the "trad" religion. Also, he is not always infallible, only under certain circumstance and ceremony.

Prots/Nondenoms always get the last laugh.