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https://x.com/taiwanplusnews/status/1839319030278271357
Pope Francis has been presented with a gold statue of the Taoist sea goddess Mazu by a group from a Taiwanese temple. pic.twitter.com/ZAU1pssNSV
— TaiwanPlus News (@taiwanplusnews) September 26, 2024
Lmao the irony of an abrahamic saying this
Now go pray to their dead jew on a stick. Totally not an idol 
Why is the abrahamic mind so unable to comprehend non abrahamic faiths aren't mutually exclusive?
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I wish we had a sea god 
Would have made for very aesthetic themed temples. Imagine a conch shaped dome and the door guard statues being mermen 
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!Christians The papists paid Michelangelo to paint the minor Greek deity Charon (possibly a son of Uranos) as the ferryman who rows you across the River-Goddess Styx on the same Sistine Chapel wall featuring Jesus Christ.
In the Vatican museum they have a status of Perseus (son of Zeus) holding Medusa's head (daughter of two primordial sea gods), which they paid money for.
https://m.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani-mobile/en/collezioni/musei/museo-pio-clementino/Cortile-Ottagono/perseo-trionfante.html
They have a bust of Zeus. They have statues and paintinga of all these Greek and Roman deities.
Why is it when some slant eye gives them a tiny one for free that they all chimp out?
!lutherans !calvinists
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!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. 
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They were a lot of Quakers and Unitarians right?
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All over the place, there were a large number of Church of England/Episcopalians including Washington himself, Franklin was Methodist, most were Congregationalist (American Puritans). The Quaker Society of Friends actually formally denounced the revolution in 1775:
Their opposition continued, and in 1776 they actually excommunicated (shunned? I'm not sure the correct terminology for them) those who paid taxes/participated in revolutionary violence:
So while yes some of the Founding Fathers were of a Quaker background, they were by no means devout. !historychads !christians
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You really are a well of knowledge
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The Apotheosis of George Washington is such a ridiculous piece of art and it's absolutely hillarious to me that a good chunk of people, including the ones who comissioned it, just don't see anything wrong with it. But I guess it's hard to appreciate contextually appropriate art when one has murals depicting civil war in their churches lmao
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Remember when those ranchers took over the federal building for a few days?
They carried annotated copies of the Constitution with references to Mormon stuff. It's BAD.
Mormons are the most anti-American patriots ever. They love the country so much, they can't wait to overthrow it and institute a theocratic monarchy.
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We were supposed to pay taxes to your three feuding antipopes to pay mercenaries to ravage Italy for a generation and we are supposed to feel bad about it about because...
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We actually wanted to carry out what was agreed on at the Council of Constance.
Which one of us are the real schismatics?
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I don't see the connection between this, my comment, and OP.
You know perfectly well that the Reformation happened for different reasons, anyway.
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Get serious. The church was really fricked up in the 1400s. The Lutherans didn't just appear out of mid air. There were real grievances that real people had. (Many of whom stayed Catholic and made the church way more honest than it had been).
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Stop sidemarseying me old man.
I'm giving you the engagement you seek. I'll respond tomorrow when I'm back home since I don't want to half-butt it. 
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Remember that scene in that one movie where Worf says to Picard "If you were any other man, I would have sidevoted where you stand!"
That's how I feel about you.
If you've been sidevoted I'm dealing with a lot a stuff right now and it's possible that I just see everything you posted.
I notice that you sidevoted a lot of my high quality content about Nasrallah's death. Makes me wonder if you think I secrectly want Iranian girls to get beaten or something. You think I'm on Khamaenei's side?
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I have avoided all of the Israel/Hesbollah/whatever threads for weeks. My point here was
about iconoclasm/using Greek and Roman imagery across religious professions, I wasn't rehashing the Reformation on this thread. 
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But it looks cool
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Because they play too much Crusader Kings instead of studying doctrine
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