>why are so many people leaving our church? we've tried everything. more guitars in church. more lgbt ministry and outreach. more annulments. more telling people they're fine just the way they are and don't have to confess their sins. countlessly apologizing for the crusades and inquisition. we've tried everything. except bringing back the latin mass of course. that's evil!!!
But... what about my hecking Youtube Pastor! I paid him a lot in charity and god gave him another private jet!
It's still trendy!
Vatican II was the Catholic church's own little reformation. Primarily to get rid of Eurocentrism.
This.
The future of Christianity is black.
The future itself is brownish black.
Yeah, making no one understand the mass would make people believe in god again.
Seems to work just fine for Islam despite 80% of the Islamic world not being able to understand Arabic.
Source on that one?
Catholicism is a heretical, polytheistic cult that is a transformed version and the direct continuation of the corrupt and political Roman state religion. Simple as.
As opposed to? The protestants who base their beliefs on scripture selected by that same roman catholic/orthodox church?
>heretical
What church were they committing heresy against? What is it called, who are its priests, does it still exist today? Jim Bob's First Baptist Church founded in 1990?
Heresy against Jesus and God
The Bible doesn't seem to include any wholesale invention from the 4th century, even the corrupt Nicean homosexuals didn't dare do something that obvious. So yes, I'd say actual faiths based on scripture (as opposed to corrupt political enterprises) are objectively better.
>the bible speaks for itself. that's why there's 33,000 protty denominations.
got it.
>Heresy against Jesus and God
> accuses others of Heresy
> denies the Godhood of Christ
Prot moment.
What are you gonna do pope boy, cry to a saint?
You didn't kiss the koran often enough.
>It must be some detail we're doing wrong, let's change!
>It must be because we changed, we have to go back!
It's because on a fundamental level, people aren't finding the answers they need from organized religion. People are no longer see a connection between the spirituality of religion and the material world they live in. In the west especially. Globalization has also put Christianity up against all the other religions and philosophies of the world. In a global market place of ideas, puritanism will always lose out to syncretic philosophies that alloy the strengths of others. Rigid dogmas struggle to compete since they can't eject the weaker parts of themselves.
The other part of it is that the Church has repeatability wrecked itself on all levels by trying to conceal child predation. From local parishes to the Holy See, the church leaders for decades put themselves above the congregation and chose to let pedophiles run free rather than to look bad in the press. It's hard to take the Church's claim to being the guiding light of God on Earth when even the Pope is complicit in morally outrageous crimes. This has undermined the Church on such a fundamental level and it is amazing that the bishops still can't figure this out. The Church demands weekly confession of sin to receive the eucharist, yet the institution has never had it's own confession. Only weasel words and empty platitudes.
>tl;dr arguing over details of canon law is pointless when the ground in which the Church was built is no longer there.
>It's hard to take the Church's claim to being the guiding light of God on Earth when even the Pope is complicit in morally outrageous crimes
I'd call it a scandal, but that word seems better fitting for some passingly superficial tiff. What this is can only be described as a complete debasement of the RCC. I honestly don't think they'll ever recover.
I can tell you why I left. Because they started to side with gommies and _against_ the conservatives. I can say that _they_ are the traitors.
btw, their pro-left snippets are much more rare than the mainstream "sources" suggest and actual position is much more balanced but there were enough of leftist moronation in their "teaching" that it was enough for me. They give the bullets to the destroyers of the Western Civilization.
>I can tell you why I left. Because they started to side with gommies
never happened
its more to do with the genes though
you can see conservative peoples becoming even more extreme by time and their children too
through this they managed to ban abortion
plus they have the highest birthrate
At least if church doubled down on conservatism and traditionalism they still would have some sort of identity. Right now they aren't that much different from virtue signalling politicians
Catholicism, and Christianity in general, started bleeding churchgoers before Vatican II because modernity has replaced worship of God for worship of Money and Wealth, at least in the West.
The Free Market is the new God of modernity, the Stock Market is its temple, economists are its evangelists. Christianity was doomed the moment it allowed capitalism and capitalists to assert its authority over society. This one paradigm shift completely changed societies outlook from the next life to the present, the spiritual to the material.
That’s also why traditional church’s remain empty while new age church’s that promise earthly rewards are full.
Protestantism used to be perfectly in line with modernity AND capitalism. Catholics should have followed the way of Protestants, not fricking gommies.
>Christianity was doomed the moment it allowed capitalism and capitalists to assert its authority over society.
Damn..it's almost as if cardinals came from wealthy families of merchants, politicians and warlords... who could've imagined they'd worship money...
The Novus Ordo is the most boomer fricking thing I have ever had to endure.
>Europe & America becomes less Christian
>Instantly have lower birth rates and more dependence on immigrants
>Africa becomes more Christian
>Instantly has higher birthrates and more people immigrating to Europe
Hmmm..... I wonder if those two are connected somehow...
oh and here's the pic to show what I mean
becomes more Christian
has higher birthrates
???
>Catholics should have followed the way of Protestants, not fricking gommies.
what?
Neither of these is correct you braindead mutt.
Who are you quoting here?
Death to christianity btw
Why? Are you not European decent? If you are it's likely that most of your ancestors were Christian for the last thousand years.
descent*
>If you are it's likely that most of your ancestors were Christian for the last thousand years.
And...?
So were Ethiopians and Armenians, who cares?
Vatican popedog worshippers are weak catholicism is a fake religion who attack the Orthodox regularly we are against you now. The whole Orthodox world is united against you infidel pigs.
Racism is impermissible whining atheist bastard. Blacks have more honor than white pigs like you we will replace you. Atheist racist dog.
Maybe they should start approving abortions, women find pro-life authorities suffocating influence?
>the reason i stopped going to church is because they have too many rules
Despite this being a common trope no one ever actually says this. The reason people stop going to church is because the church is too liberal. Every single time.
>The reason people stop going to church is because the church is too liberal. Every single time.
feel free to post source
>>the reason i stopped going to church is because they have too many rules
I guess most people don't "stop" going to church
They simply never went because they weren't interested in the first place
Most of my family has more or less ignored mass since we hit age 18. Some of this ties into the natural taking of time becoming an adult requires, but most of our discontent on a family rests with how poorly the Church has handled their many pedophiles
>culture changes drastically over the course of 2000 years
>instead of adapting to the times you should double down for a tiny pool of die-hards before fading into non-existence
Christians baffle me, religions that refuse to change do not survive
Hence why Samaritans and Parsis are almost extinct
You of all people should know that
Even the israelites have changed with the times
>Christians baffle me, religions that refuse to change do not survive
judaism and islam didnt change
They quite literally did.
First Temple Judaism is not Canaanite paganism.
Second Temple Judaism is not First Temple Judaism.
Rabbinic Judaism is not Second Temple Judaism.
There were several different versions of the Quran before Abu Bakr eliminated the others.
Salafi Islam is a very new movement.
>There were several different versions of the Quran before Abu Bakr eliminated the others.
False.
Orthodox are unchanged corrupting unfidel bastard. It is the dogma we will nevwr change. Atheist pig. You will go extinct bastard.
Bruh
There’s like a bazillion different orthodox churches with their own freaky deaky customs
No we did not change lying atheist bastard we fought to keep our religion and waged blood struggle to butcher lying infidel pigs like you who try to destroy us.
Why point to the catholic church? This is happening to literally every organized religious institution in the west. Islam included. You think the children of these Muslim migrants are going to remain Muslim? HAH! Don't make me laugh. They'll become atheistic shitskins that integrate with the established population. The officials already know this, that's why they went concerned about importing Muslims because they know the 2nd generation will be indoctrinated.
The question every TLMsperg/ortholarper needs to ask themselves is if they're gonna be going to that same mass doing the same thing in 20-30 years. It's cool and exotic now (and let's face it, every time you talk about the "beauty of it", you mean you like how different it is from your prevailing culture), but will your kids feel the same way? is right on the money, religions now are based more on getting converts or filling the ranks with babies, because those converts will have the zeal to at least carry on for a little bit until they get bored, and those babies will at least fill the pews for 18 years. But cradle catholics continuing to stay devout from cradle to grave? not gonna happen, whether you take them to SSPX or a NeoCat mass.
Orthodoxy is older than humanity lying atheist pig. You white atheist vermin are weak which is why you have to bomb and kill innocent people. Orthodoxy is growing in middle east and africa we have already made latin dogs extinct in the Balkans. Atheist dog.
Nothing you said contradicts what I said. You’re merely replacing the dwindling Med and Slavic populations with Africans, who will go along with whoever gives them food and a purpose. Show me 100 Russians under 30 who are devout Orthodox in practice. You cannot because once you’re born into a culture and then taste what it’s like to have the restrictions of the repressive parts of that culture taken away, you never go back.
But sure, call me an atheist dog while your churches become revolving doors for converts who go onto the next reactionary phase, and while your children become drunkards and prostitutes who always find an excuse not to go to church.
Lying dog Orthodoxy is stronger than ever we are converting people left and right the unchanged dogma can never die. Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Balkans are resurgent in Orthodoxy.
As for Russia, I swear to God Almighty that when the SMO started , I started to think of VVP as the true and front ‘SOLDIER’ of Jesus Christ, thus Mr.Putin in addition to be protected by the Most High, has allied with the Persians and great Eurasian powers and will also be under the umbrella and companionship of the Supreme leader of Iran .
Nothing will happen to the brave nation of Russia under the wise leadership of Mr.Putin , which is now triple protected . I don’t want elaborate further, Amen….
>we've tried everything. except getting rid of the pedos in the church of course. that's evil!!!
FTFY. And I'm Catholic.