Ranig
My Very Punctual Wife Gets My Night Worm can also be used to remember the order of the planets in the solar system!
Mercury Venus Pearth Wars Goopiter Maturn Nuranus Weptune
Wait so is the mandate of heaven and the divine right of kings the same kind of concept, or have I massively misunderstood one or the other?
divine right of kings: you can do whatever you want forever because you're god's specialest little boy!
mandate of heaven: do a good job ruling or god's gonna start sending hitmen
Ah, yeah, I see it now. This is the exact level of detail I needed of the key details of how to distinguish the two. Thank you.
So many people on this website, when talking about what rich people do with their money, want to pretend that they’re like Jesus talking about
how the poor woman who gave a few coins gave more than the rich people
donating big amounts, “for they donated out of their abundance but she gave all she had.”
In reality, they’re like Judas bitching that a
woman spent a lot of money on giving Jesus an expensive gift when “that money could have been
given to the poor,” when in reality Judas just wanted to steal the money
for himself.
I love the Tumblr account of Christian history it’s fucking great it’s just like:
33 A.D.: Jesus establishes Christianity, based entirely around modern-day American ultra-liberal political ideologies and nuances
34 A.D. to present day.: Apparently the Apostles were all secretly Trump-supporting evil yucky bigoted meanieheads who completely misinterpreted every single word Jesus said, they took over Rome, hated women, and plunged the world into the Dark Ages with their backwards beliefs.
That’s it that’s literally all there is to Christian history according to Tumblr.
When I'm in media illiteracy competition and Apothecary Diary anime only fan enters the room
When Jesus fed the 5,000:
“The crowds had followed Jesus, and He welcomed them and taught them and healed those who needed healing. Late in the afternoon, the Twelve came to Him and said, ‘we’re in the middle of nowhere and it’s getting late. You should send this crowd away so they can get some food.’”
How did Jesus reply?
“Jesus replied, ‘Send word to Caesar to collect all of the food and harvest from all the people in the entire Empire, then put that food into storehouses so that government officials can distribute them equally to these people’.”
- Nowhere in the Bible, at all, anywhere
“Jesus replied, ‘you feed them’!”
- Actually in the Bible
“But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, said, ‘Why wasn’t this expensive gift sold for a year’s wages, and the money given to the poor?’ He didn’t say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he had Jesus and the disciple’s communal money box, he used to pilfer what was put into it.”
- John 12: 4 - 6
One of the difficulties I keep seeing Catholics have when debating Protestants is very similar to the one fundamentalist Christians have with debating non-believers: they keep assuming that the other side has to recognize the authority of their source, and don’t know how to respond when they don’t.
If you’re a Christian and you’re debating a non-believer and you keep saying “the Bible clearly states [X]”, this is meaningless to someone who doesn’t believe that the Bible is true. You either have to A.) sell them on the authority of the Bible, or B.) make your argument compelling regardless of whether or not the Bible says it is.
Likewise, if you’re a Catholic debating a Protestant, stating that “the Holy Mother Church put out a canon that says [X]” is not an inherently compelling argument to a Protestant. You either have to A.) sell them that the Roman Catholic Church has the degree of spiritual authority you claim that it does, or B.) present your case directly from Biblical (and historically / culturally adjacent) sources.
They really stumble whenever I bring up their blatant iconography.
“we pray to a friend to help us talk to God”
God is… Y'know, God. You doubt the power of the one true God by praying to a mortal woman who was chosen by that very God to give birth to His human form. Knock it off.