Posted on 10/31/2017 11:37:29 AM PDT by Gamecock
Edited on 11/01/2017 5:53:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Western Civilization in the 21st century is marked by religious pluralism, where people from all over the world have been able to come to various nations in Europe and North America to freely exercise their religious beliefs. That religious pluralism has also manifested within Christianity itself over the past five centuries.
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So do you think the change has been for the better or the worse?
It has left me with a lot of questions.
It has left me with a lot of questions.
Would have happened regardless of religious faith tradition. It is called “seperation of church and state”.
And do approve or disapprove of that separation?
Have heard of the Social Reign of Christ the King? The traditional Catholic Church has just celebrated its feast day this past Sunday.
If Western Civilization had continued on unabated under the Roman Catholic Church of the 14th century, we would not be exchanging electronic messages here, on the internet, using computers, sitting comfortably in heated homes with central plumbing. We would be living in circumstances rather more like the backward muslim hellholes of today.
Which crowns the liturgical year late in November.
Second it.
Not only in our hearts but in our societies.
Only in the Novus Church, due only to fear of interfering with "Reformation Sunday".
Which will help the enlightenment along.
I have read on FR some posts from the Protestant FRpers they do not know what that Sunday is.
Thank you. Just think how much better off the world would be today if the muslims had their own Luther a few centuries ago. Their shariah horror states could’ve been tamed down to sane levels. But some would still rather have the catholic “shariah” terror of the middle ages today! Boggles the mind, really.
Are you serious? You believe the enlightenment in a positive light?
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12652a.htm
And apparently many novus ordo catholics don’t know what that Sunday (Feast of Christ the King) is either, and the reason for its placement in the pre-VC II liturgical calendar.
This country is proof of its sucess.
Yeah, right.
Legalized abortion in 1973 and homo-marriage in 2015, all post VC II, post-enlightenment and post-”reformation”.
Unless I am convinced by Scripture and by plain reason - I do not believe in the authority of either popes or councils by themselves, for it is plain that they have often erred and contradicted each other - in those Scriptures that I have presented, for my conscience is captive to the Word of God, I cannot and I will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen.” “Since your majesty and your lordships desire a simple reply, I will answer without horns or teeth.
Sounds like you are a Sedevacantist?
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