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submitted 1 week ago by IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

west west bad big bad very bad stalin good lenin good ignore starvation ignore deaths ignore everything just read state and revolution bro

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[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago

you're absolutely right, i'll try to be more genuinely sorry and even more correct in the future

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 1 points 5 days ago

you suck at finding out what the truth is

[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

the truth always seems to find me though

also it's like clockwork, check the modlog of fervent anti-communists, find a bigot! classic

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 4 points 5 days ago

"DO NOT HATE PEOPLE" is bigotry HISTORY is an even more evil type of bigotry EXPLAINING THE TEACHINGS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH is bigotry

im not an anticommunist, but Stalin was a genocidal dictator

[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

calling other people genocidal is an interesting accusation from a worshiper of the king of rome

the 'roman catholic' church even invented a theological doctrine to legitimate hierarchy and imperial power, exactly what anticommunists always accuse communists of doing

правда глаза колет

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf -2 points 5 days ago

the roman empire literally persecuted christianity for decades but ok

[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

correct, and then they became it

survived roman persecution to become the thing that burned 'heretics' for opposing the king of rome

i wouldn't even call it the same religion either, more like an inversion of it

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf -1 points 5 days ago
[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

yes, the 'church' that was burning heretics opposed to fealty to the king of rome then produced a schism that also burned heretics

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 0 points 5 days ago
[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

plenty of christians did not have interest in swearing fealty to the king of rome, and were killed for it, long before there was the protestant schism. you ask for proof, i point to your own 'church''s history

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 0 points 5 days ago
[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

this is your religions history, you really need links??

pre-schism imperial church violence:

donatists: north african christians who refused communion with bishops who had collaborated with roman persecution. augustine developed the theological justification for using imperial force against them. precursor to the inquisition

arians: christians who held that christ was subordinate to the father. it was a position enforced by some emperors and violently suppressed by others depending on who was in power. the nicene settlement was imposed by imperial authority, not theological consensus

paul of constantinople: patriarch of constantinople, exiled multiple times for refusing to accept the arian settlement imposed by emperor constantius. eventually strangled on imperial orders

eusebius of samosata: bishop who refused the imperial arian settlement, stoned to death by an arian woman while in exile

martin of tours: refused communion with bishops who supported the imperial execution of priscillian, arguing the state had no business executing heretics

bogomils: balkan christian movement rejecting church hierarchy, sacraments and material wealth. persecuted by both byzantine and later catholic authorities, their suppression in bosnia was a direct precursor to the albigensian crusade

violence against christian heretics and orthodox:

waldensians

albigensian crusade/cathars

sack of constantinople

the inquisition

spiritual franciscans

jan hus/hussites

violence against muslims and jews:

the crusades

rhineland massacres

spanish inquisition

reconquista

colonial and indigenous violence:

inter caetera/colonial americas

california missions

residential schools

violence against women and the poor:

witch trials

magdalene laundries

nazi collaboration:

ustaše

reichskonkordat

ratlines

pius xii and the holocaust

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 1 points 5 days ago

most of the Arian Controversy deaths were because of Arianists, who are not Catholics

Arianism is not a belief of the church, what re you trying to convey?

[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

what re you trying to convey?

in support of the point i made here

the conflation of imperial and spiritual authority that became catholic doctrine was already killing christians who resisted it prior to being established

they then continued that practice once they secured imperial power, as well as exterminating plenty of other people who got in their way

hence why i said calling other people genocidal is an interesting accusation from a worshiper of the king of rome

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 1 points 5 days ago

the king of rome?

The Vatican is not an empire, nor does it plan to expand anytime in the future as far as I know.

Arianism was a heresy indeed, and it is no longer being practiced today

and it was the Arians that were persecuting the non-arians

[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

the pope holds the title pontifex maximus, inherited directly from roman imperial religion. one of his other titles is 'sovereign of the vatican city state' which literally means king of rome.

the vatican was a temporal kingdom for a thousand years.

unam sanctam declared total papal supremacy over all earthly rulers, and it wasn't abandoned on theological grounds, it was abandoned because they no longer had the armies to enforce it

yes, arian emperors persecuted christians that's the point, conflation of imperial power and spiritual authority results in tremendous abuses, something 'catholics' were more than happy to continue.

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 1 points 5 days ago

the Vatican is not a temporal kingdom anymore, and the Pope is technically the ruler of the Vatican, thats why he is referred to as that, not the King, just a Ruler.

And Unam Sanctam declares papal supremacy over all earthly rulers because in the Catholic Faith, you should listen to the Pope way more than your earthly ruler and Jesus told us not to worry about what we will eat, wear, drink, etc and the nations of the world, and to focus your desires onto the kingdom of God

The Vatican is again, NOT CURRENTLY, an empire, so it does not have imperial power

[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)
  1. so you concede that it was a temporal kingdom, for over a thousand years. the pope still holds all the kingly titles, he just lost the armies to enforce them

  2. this completely confirms my argument- this is exactly the kind of conflation of spiritual authority and temporal authority which the catholic church has used to exterminate its enemies. it just lacks the power to do it these days.

  3. 'not currently an empire': you are arguing against a point i didn't make

i accept your concession

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 1 points 5 days ago

when I realize some people will never change their minds when they have become stiff necked but if I sigh and stop, their soul is my burden.

[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

you mistake your own pride for grace, that is prelest

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 1 points 5 days ago

I do not believe that I am spiritually superior to anybody, we are all sinners.

However, it is my duty to inform people of the Word

and it is often a Tragedy if they do not listen with open ears and most importantly, open hearts

I am not angry at you, only sad.

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 1 points 5 days ago

Not until they lost their armies, but until they realized "Hey, unchecked power is intoxicating and war only leads to more war" and spit it out

God does not bless any conflict

[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

Not until they lost their armies, but until they realized “Hey, unchecked power is intoxicating and war only leads to more war” and spit it out

this is intense historical revisionism, they did not graciously hand over power, the risorgimento forcibly stripped it.

pius ix called himself a prisoner of the vatican when italian troops took rome in 1870 and the papacy refused to recognize the italian state for sixty years.

the Lateran Treaty with Mussolini was their reconciliation with losing

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 1 points 5 days ago

If the Church suddenly gained an army today, they would disband it.

The Church has gone through a LOT of theological reformations and more findings since 1870. The Capture of Rome was forced, but most civillians

and most of the members of the Church did not want to keep power.

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Bruh it's the catholics who raped the kids, and you really think catholics didn't burn protestants? They were a lot more keen on it so just stfu already.

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf -3 points 5 days ago

Generalization fallacy here and an Ad Hominem there.

and PROOF for your statements please.

and Catholicism advocates the love of ALL humans, bbqing them is not love.

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

honestly I'm not even sure what you're trying to say here because who did you think killed those protestant martyrs of the church of england?

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 0 points 5 days ago

Henry VIII (1509–1547) and Mary I (1553–1558)

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

Yeah the protestant and the catholic.

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 0 points 5 days ago

all the monarchs are apart of the Church of England which is not catholic

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

You might wanna read up on that history there.. Henry VIII created the church of england, yes. Mary very much was a catholic my friend.

In case you want to read a really good story set in exactly that time with exactly this situation at heart is Column Of Fire by Ken Follet, a novel in a series about a fictional English town throughout different times.

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 0 points 5 days ago

even if she was, you cant blame the entire church for the actions of a SINGLE catholic

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Nope. Highly recommend that book again because it puts it in perfect perspective.

Now go back and read your own comments and see how you're basically contradicting yourself here and we'll see each other never again.

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