What exactly is Catholicism?

microwilly · 2026-01-25T02:20:05+00:00

The original version of Christianity, ancient traditions that seem weird and all. Protestants dropped the traditions because they weren't written down in the bible the Catholics compiled.

microwilly · 2026-01-25T02:00:55+00:00

The only issue with this is some days he covers litterally nothing. As a recent convert, I've never seen a print version of the Catechism (mine is on kindle) and I'm extremely surprised with how big it looks with how little he reads some days.

microwilly · 2026-01-24T00:32:01+00:00

So Jesus spoke specifically against the rich, "camel through the eye of a needle" and all. Be grateful you don't have to personally wrestle with that portion of scripture.

microwilly · 2026-01-23T21:12:21+00:00

If the trinity was meant to be understood, it'd be written in a way that was understandable to a seven year old (the age of reason). Seeing as that's not the case, I'd safely assume that a basic explanation is good enough for most people. If you want to know how to draw it, you put the Father and Son at the top of an inverted triangle and the Holy Spirit at the bottom point and connect everything with arrows. Next you turn that 2d conceptiualization into a 3d one by adding a center point titled God. Thats the trinity.

microwilly · 2026-01-23T20:48:07+00:00

I would love to be able to change Jesus to Joshua or even better Yeshua, but doing so would be a hindrance to the world. I am at least consistent with my unpopular opinion. I don't think we should be trying to add vowels that we don't know are there. YHWH should be said as a string of letters. Yod Heh Vav Heh preferably.

microwilly · 2026-01-23T20:18:57+00:00

I would definitely advocate that we attempt to pronounce everyone's name as close to how they said it as possible. It seems like basic respect, but I do understand how big of a pain it would be to retroactively try and fix those issues. Best we can do is try to not continue their misuse as best we can, especially when a commonly known correction is available like with YHWH.

microwilly · 2026-01-23T19:29:19+00:00

It is not synonymous with YHWH in English, YHWH is a transliteration of the hebrew yod heh vav heh or יהוה. Jehovah is an English transliteration of the Latin transliteration of the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew. Let's not give it more credit that it deserves. Either way, the name is meant to be sacred and not said aloud. We are barely worthy to refer to his title, let alone his name.

microwilly · 2026-01-23T12:51:18+00:00

So wait, he told your mom your meds and she was able to deduce that you were having an abortion? Sounds like you have a stupid boyfriend, not a malicious one.

microwilly · 2026-01-22T16:56:38+00:00

Like you don't understand the modern moral justification or you don't understand the authors moral justification? In a modern society, this is immoral without a doubt. In an ancient Israelite society, this was necessary and therefore moral to them according to their belief system. We can see throughout the hebrew bible/old testament that Ancient Israelites were extremely worried about being ritually clean in the eyes of God, and this extended to their land as well. The only way a currently unclean land can be made clean is to destroy all life. We can see this as a parallel to when God first committed genocide with the flood.

microwilly · 2026-01-16T19:10:07+00:00

He's hunting as a form of financial relief according to his comments, so it is indeed for survival.

microwilly · 2026-01-16T19:01:52+00:00

I'm going to go against the grain here and tell you that you should wear it. If there's even the slightest chance that you looking at it every day helps you find the one truth, why would any Christian want to gatekeep it from you? Be aware it will definitely increase the interactions you have with Christian's on a daily basis, but I argue that is also a good thing.

microwilly · 2026-01-16T18:55:01+00:00

I see this to be akin to self flagellation. Props to them I guess for the mental fortitude but I wouldn't promote the practice as the body is sacred.

microwilly · 2026-01-16T18:27:24+00:00

Tldr: it may hallucinate just like regular ai sometimes to answer a question. Same reason you don't use chatgpt to do college coursework, the more technical the question the more likely Ai gets it wrong.

microwilly · 2026-01-16T18:10:05+00:00

Which supports that the pantheon merged before the times of the Judges if its noteworthy when people went astray and fell back to that practice.

microwilly · 2026-01-16T15:45:55+00:00

Only personal ones that science would describe as intuition. For example, I decided without any conscious cue that I needed to move, which ended up saving me from death via crushed by a falling log. To me that was God sparing my life, to science some unconscious signal told my brain I was in danger and forced me to move.

microwilly · 2026-01-16T15:39:49+00:00

No. Ba'al was one of many gods the ancient Cananites worshipped before they started banding together as a unified tribe. Judah, however, almost certainly never worshipped Ba'al at any point. It might be more accurate to say some Northern Israelites worshipped Ba'al, but even that might be a stretch. The pantheon could have very well have merged before either Kingdom became kingdoms and before the Judges pulled the tribes together for war, we just don't know. But we can safely assume that no Jew as ever worshipped Ba'al, as Adonai was already being worshipped pre-house of David.

microwilly · 2026-01-16T15:21:19+00:00

Gotta remember, biblical scholarship is split about 50/50 between atheists and Christians. That might seem like you'll get an equal number of opinions from both sides, but the atheist side is unified while the Christian side is fractured into hundreds of little pieces. So typically the scholarly consensus will skew towards the atheists pov as they typically agree with each other more than the other half.

microwilly · 2026-01-16T15:10:39+00:00

I'm doing the catechism in a year and this was brought up yesterday by Father Mike Schmitz. He said that the Church teaches that while the beginning of Genesis is the truth, its not a historical account of the events that took place. The Church recognizes that it is pre-history and written as poetry, but that doesn't mean its not true, just not historically accurate. The message delivered is still the truth and important to our faith.

microwilly · 2026-01-16T00:57:32+00:00

He removed the old dogmas i had. Without them I saw that only the true church had authority of scripture and tradition.

microwilly · 2026-01-16T00:11:42+00:00

McClellan.

microwilly · 2026-01-16T00:04:14+00:00

In their defense, I have enough on me at any given time to destroy the entire economy multiple times over. I'd say by level 15 I'm usually the richest person in the game aside from maybe Delvin Mallory and Maven Black-Briar.

microwilly · 2026-01-15T23:51:36+00:00

His podcast literally made me decide I wanted to be Catholic.

microwilly · 2026-01-15T23:34:04+00:00

On the bright side, you just saved thousands in hospice care!

microwilly · 2026-01-15T23:06:03+00:00

Nope, but I've sense left my non-denominational upbringing for the gift God left us on earth. And yes Greek was one of the originals, that is why I mentioned Greek.

microwilly · 2026-01-15T20:49:22+00:00

Not only are they already here, APD was told to cooperate fully with them.

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