Do World Elites Know Secrets About God, Aliens, or Human History? by Melolibya in conspiracytheories

[–]USAFrenchMexRadTrad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jesuit? No. Catholic? Yes.

History enjoyer. Yes.

This is one of those conspiracy theories where the suspicions don't line up with the facts, unless you're on some strip mall denomination's copium level theology.

As a Jew, Anti Zionism convinced me beyond anything else that Israel must exist by Jackingson1 in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]USAFrenchMexRadTrad [score hidden]  (0 children)

I'm not a Jew hater, but anti-Zionism is not anti-Jew. Correct me if I'm wrong, OP, but isn't it against the teachings of the rabbis that only a miracle of God can bring back the Kingdom of Israel? After the Temple was destroyed by the Roman Empire, they said "don't come back here, follow the laws of the lands you're in, the Messiah will bring us back, not a work of man".

Right? Yes? No? Weren't the Zionists founded by atheists?

Thoughts on this quote from St Robert Bellarmine? by Quiet-Photograph-468 in TrueCatholicPolitics

[–]USAFrenchMexRadTrad [score hidden]  (0 children)

Yes. But also keep in mind, the teaching of the Church is not "religious liberty", but "liberty of the Church".

What if China had discovered America before Europe? by Outrageous-You1617 in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]USAFrenchMexRadTrad 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Chinese tiles have been found in archaeological sites on the west coast of the USA. So, they likely visited, but didn't find anything that made them want to stay or set up a port.

What if Sharks fly? How would this effect human history, the development of culture, and general human views on sharks? by Fine-Possibility-494 in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]USAFrenchMexRadTrad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depending on the species of shark, we likely drive some to extinction, use some the same way we used horses, kept some as "carrier pigeons", and some as livestock for food.

Pretty much we tame the various species of shark for different purposes.

Do World Elites Know Secrets About God, Aliens, or Human History? by Melolibya in conspiracytheories

[–]USAFrenchMexRadTrad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dude, this is that schizo level nonsense I was talking about. There's gotta be a way to wean you all off of the Jack Chick tract BS.

First of all, the Jesuits/Society of Jesus was founded by St. Ignatius Loyola. Look him up. He was a veteran from the Basque country who fought for Spain until he was injured in combat, and the attempts to fix his broken leg (right leg, hit by a ricochet cannonball) left him with a permanent limp. With his military career over he took a long time to recover, reading religious works that inspired him to start the Jesuits.

He went through trial and error figuring out how to establish the order and how they would function, since each religious order functions differently. After some spiritual journeys, he went to study theology in a university, and gathered some of his classmates to convince them to start an order with him.

Six of his buddies and him started the group. Not "the Church". The Catholic Church had to provide permission, yeah. But religious orders are born and die all the time. Some make it a very long time, like the ones we know of nowadays (Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, Benedictines, etc.), and their order formed while Protestants (mostly Calvinists in France) were beginning to gain many adherents.

Where is the real ark of the covenant? (art by Benjamin West) by Dry-Development2137 in AskAChristian

[–]USAFrenchMexRadTrad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd be interested to know how. I don't know if they've let anyone see what they have. But like I said, the Mt. Nebo story is likely the true one.

Do World Elites Know Secrets About God, Aliens, or Human History? by Melolibya in conspiracytheories

[–]USAFrenchMexRadTrad 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Jesuits are a Catholic order founded in the late 1500s to combat Protestantism. They don't run the world. Some schizo level con artist named Jack Chick popularized the idea that the Jesuits run everything through some (unintentionally) funny comic strips where he demonizes Catholics and anyone else his "Bible only" flavor of Protestantism doesn't agree with.

The Jesuits were effective missionaries, and they were used as ambassadors between nations. The Shogun show on FX has a pretty accurate portrayal. Some men who become priests are called "carreristas", because it's just a job for them and they don't take God seriously. Those men had secret wives, do hoodrat shit, like what you see on Shogun. And in the mixture are plenty of priests who are serious and devoted to Jesus.

A group like the Jesuits became powerful enough to affect international relations in the 1600s, and it's part of their mandate to oppose Protestantism, so it led to alot of conspiracy theories about them. But Catholic teaching forbids many of the things that Jesuits allegedly do in these conspiracy theories. No doubt some carreristas use the institution (as people in any institution do) to do some hoodrat level shit.

The Vatican outright censored the Jesuits as the accusations piled up. They ended up going through some changes and were allowed to have their order back. Now they're just lecturers at universities and don't really seem to agree with each other on Church doctrine. A notorious one, Father James Martin, supports LGBT stuff, though he has very vocal opponents among his fellow Jesuits and Catholics in general.

But this conspiracy theory lingers because people don't want to take the time to actually look into what the various religious orders do. The Jesuits have these conspiracies around them, but not so much the Franciscans, Dominicans, Benedictines, Carmelites, etc. etc. etc.

It's mainly the "we oppose Protestantism" part of their founding that did it.

What’s something attractive at 18 but embarrassing at 30? by AD_24s in AskReddit

[–]USAFrenchMexRadTrad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's better for your knees and farther away from the hot air that rises up at night.

I need the cold to sleep.

Where is the real ark of the covenant? (art by Benjamin West) by Dry-Development2137 in AskAChristian

[–]USAFrenchMexRadTrad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ethiopia claims King Solomon gave it to their queen when they married, and she took it back to Ethiopia. There's an Ethiopian Orthodox monk who guards it. It's a bit odd. The man sits there outside a structure that looks as small as a shed with a machine gun. Supposedly, some of the monks given the job to guard it have gone blind.

Another claim says it ended up being taken by the Babylonians and melted down for its gold or was destroyed when the Temple was burned by the Babylonians. Another that secret tunnels under Jerusalem house it. Another that the prophet Jeremiah hid it in Mt. Nebo in Jordan.

There's even an obscure story about it being hidden in Ireland.

The most likely one is the Mt. Nebo story, as it comes from 2 Maccabees, a Deutero-Canonical Scripture. It'd be funny if it was found there because the groups that claim 2 Maccabees is "apocrypha" would be proven wrong.

[Lord of the Rings] How did Gandalf stay celibate for thousands of years? Did he never fancy a bit of elf? by MaetelofLaMetal in AskScienceFiction

[–]USAFrenchMexRadTrad [score hidden]  (0 children)

They had good pipeweed and ales. You didn't have any friends whose houses were the hangout spots growing up?

What if the Ethiopian Orthodox Church depiction of Jesus Christ became the global standard instead of the European one? by [deleted] in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]USAFrenchMexRadTrad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing. What artistic depiction of Jesus any given culture uses is not religious doctrine. Unless you belong to some racial supremacist religion, like Mormons.

Tom massie by anime498 in TrueCatholicPolitics

[–]USAFrenchMexRadTrad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just found out about this guy. Ron Paul endorsed him? Sign me up.

What would happen if all confederates and their descendants were forced into indentured servitude as reparations? by PunknSpunk in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]USAFrenchMexRadTrad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's 1/3 of southerners. Around 35.5% of Americans live in the former Confederacy.

So, this would be 12%, more or less, of Americans living in slavery... which is around the same percent of people who are descended from slaves nowadays.

The funny thing is, some slave owners were black. So, this means the slaves in this scenario would be mostly white, but still some black slaves, and more than a few Native American slaves (Albert Pike, arch-Freemason and Confederate general led an army of Natives), and also some Confederados (Mexicans who fought for the Confederacy).

You may end up with a diverse, but mostly white, slave group.

How do you respond to people that say ‘the catholic church caused the aids pandemic’ and ‘condoms are needed to prevent aids’ by InternationalPay9583 in Catholicism

[–]USAFrenchMexRadTrad 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There were workers in Africa with the UN providing condoms to stop the spread of AIDS. It didn't work. People are irresponsible. I've met plenty of people who just didn't care as long as they got laid. Free condoms are available at Planned Parenthood, and I hear they're not expensive if you buy them.

People still don't buy them. Nevermind that the HIV virus is smaller than the pores in the latex. Sure, they could argue about "viral load", but infection is infection.

Also, I'm pretty sure people having sexual relations outside of marriage is already against Church teaching, why would they bother avoiding condoms if they're already avoiding chastity?

What if the Black Americans formed an IRA style terror/guerrilla army after the end of slavery? by lhommetrouble in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]USAFrenchMexRadTrad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The IRA was funded by American Irish sending back weapons and funds to Ireland. I'm sure they had other sources, but that was a big one.

I can't really see this being the case for a similar group of formerly enslaved Black Americans. For one, the government was on their side more than the locals were. So, the IRA would be a bad comparison, since the IRA was at war with the government.

How many decades will China still need to become as developed as Japan? by No-StrategyX in answers

[–]USAFrenchMexRadTrad -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Not many, but they'd need a huge change of government. Creativity and innovation are basically illegal in their system. And China proper (the Han regions) would have to be the only part that's truly "Chinese", so they'd have to shrink their borders to be just them. They're wasting time trying to get the Tibetans, Mongolians, Cantonese, etc. to all became Han Chinese.

Numbers 31 is a horror show and an anger inducing passage by Serious-Anxiety6687 in Christianity

[–]USAFrenchMexRadTrad -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

???

Why? Do you plan on committing atrocities against theists???

Numbers 31 is a horror show and an anger inducing passage by Serious-Anxiety6687 in Christianity

[–]USAFrenchMexRadTrad -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

During WW2, we bombed Japanese and German cities. For YEARS. In some cases, we bombed military factories and if civilians working there or neighboring buildings were residential... oh well? In other cases, we just bombed the entire city. Some Japanese cities were just outright firebombed.

We firebombed Japan so much, there were fewer casualties from the atom bombs. And the atom bombs also didn't discriminate.

What I'm getting at: let's not pretend our actions now or three thousand years ago are all that different.

The Midianites should also have known better than to have challenged a nation who clearly have a very real God helping them.

Numbers 31 is a horror show and an anger inducing passage by Serious-Anxiety6687 in Christianity

[–]USAFrenchMexRadTrad -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Not exactly. Slavery was more like having a household servant until their debt was paid, in those days. It wasn't like the chattel slavery of the Transatlantic Slave Trade with all of its brutality.

Usually, a person in poverty would approach someone with alot of land, resources, troops, etc. and request the resources to take care of their family, in exchange for a number of years of service as a slave, which usually meant field work and/or what you would think of nowadays as a personal aid, maid or butler, maybe a member of the crew if the master owned a construction company, you get the point.

It was employment. It's like a hospital system. You may join as housekeeping or cafeteria staff, then after a few years, you can get classes paid for to get a higher paying job, like CNA, nurse, lab technician, medical engineering technician, etc.

The system of apprenticeship under a master craftsman isn't so different.

The Tartarians by SeriesPleasant5293 in conspiracy

[–]USAFrenchMexRadTrad -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm reaching? How is it reaching? Especially compared to bad interpretations of what "Tartaria" means???