This is a phenomenal post
A body is not a disorganized collection of organs.
So why do Protestants treat the Body as a disorganized collection of churches?
Understanding how the hand connects to the shoulder is just as important to the integrity of the Body as understanding how the hand connects to the Head.
Otherwise, we are no longer describing a Body, coordinating as one through a principle of united operation, but rather we are referring to some unspecified aggregation of disconnected body parts, which lack the visible "ligaments" that St. Paul spoke of. (Ephesians 4)
The universal Church is one Body, with one Lord, one Faith, and one Baptism. It is a unity of order, not a unity of aggregation.
We are not a mere collection of individual Christians referencing a head. We have normative relations among us that constitute our participation in a social body. The parts connect normatively to the whole, which has a very specific form.
The Catholic Church is the only institution on the planet whose existence testifies about what it means to be one Body.
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"Periodically, progressives will reverse engineer healthy sexual morality and act as if they've discovered Atlantis."
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"2 year age gap? Woah that's problematic my dude. Heckin pdf file fam."
"13 year age gap?! Holy Gaza! That's so good!"
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“American Catholics will now flood the world with their soft power”
Je suis triste quand je vois toute cette effervescence autour du catholicisme, je prédisais cela depuis des années et j'ai l'impression d'être un agent de la CIA qui assisterait impuissant au retour de l'Union Soviétique.
Dans 45 ans la France redeviendra catholique et nous n'aurons plus que nos yeux pour pleurer.
Je suis bon joueur néanmoins les catholiques sont beaucoup mieux organisés ainsi que plus déterminés que nous les musulmans et même que les sionistes, il faut savoir reconnaître la force de l'international catholique.
Les catholiques américains vont maintenant inonder le monde de leur soft power au détriment à la fois de l'hégémonie spirituelle musulmane en Europe de l'Ouest et du lobby sioniste.
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being married is funny because you'll be chilling, having a bowl of cereal, and your wife will say
i hate these bowls, don't you?
and you'll shrug becuase you don't care and she'll say
i do, they've bothered me for a while now. we need new bowls.
and you'll shrug again because you have honestly, not once, ever considered the bowls at all
then a few days later there will be all new bowls in the kitchen.
and you'll be eating the same cereal in a different bowl, chilling, and she'll say
i love these new bowls
and you'll shrug again because you still don't care but she's happier and the cereal is still good and you didn't do anything at all
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Have tried to sit this one out but there's one thing about this entire debate that's hasn't been addressed and it's well-worth talking about.
There are thousands of comments stating that restricting immigration and preferring to live in a nation that looks like you is not very Christ-like. The argument is that having a nation predominantly based on race or ethnicity rejects the Christian belief that the gospel is for all nations and that we are to care for and integrate with those who may not look like us.
Whether you agree with this take or not isn't the point - don't argue about that in the comments. The point is this: since when did Christian ideology become the standard by which normies and non-Christians determine how our nation develops its laws?
There are seemingly quite a lot of non-intellectuals who think that immigration should be left unchecked because preventing it is "mean." They'll dress this argument up in biblical language and tell you that Christ would not allow us to segregate ourselves. They don't seem to understand that this mentality is quite literally the definition of Christian Nationalism, which we've been told that for years is completely and utterly unacceptable as well as unconstitutional.
When we apply this standard to, say, abortion or p*rn, all the sudden this becomes Christian Nationalism (but bad!) and they threaten violence over it. Accepting millions of third-worlders because Jesus would want us to is also Christian Nationalism (but good!).
I am a Christian and, ostensibly, do think that there is no biblical foundation for maintaining ethnic enclaves. However, if we are using the bible as the foundation for our state decision-making process, then let's go all the way. Every immigrant coming here will be forced to be baptized, denounce their former religion, and adopt all other Christian values. No more abortion, no more p*rn, no licentiousness, no usury, etc. Islam and Hinduism will be banned, we'll put the bible in schools, and all will be well.
If this does not sound appealing, it might be because you don't actually want Christian Nationalism. Why then is it allowable to create an entire narrative favoring immigration under the authority of Jesus while rejecting Him in nearly every other arena? Something tells me that this narrative actually has very little to do with Christianity at all. Instead, "they" are using it as a bludgeon towards people with which it will likely work but is not a belief "they" themselves hold.
Forcing Christians to adopt tens of millions of non-Christians who will inevitably out breed and entirely replace Christians does not seem to be a good long-term investment for us.
Ultimately, one needs to decide whether immigration is an issue that belongs to Caesar or belongs to God. Virtually every other issue seems to belong to Caesar, and I'm inclined to think that this one should too.
