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Well, yeah. There’s also the issue of forced conversions. Christianity won’t succeed in forced conversion at scale because it’s too disparate. If opphunter88 tried to force me to convert to Lutheran faggotism I’d hard reject it. I’d tell him to fuck off and if it escalated to violence I’d kill him. I bet he’d flip the fuck out if I tried to forcibly convert him to LDS, too, even though as far as the serious moral tests of the century are concerned my denomination is less flawed.

And to be clear, I wouldn’t blame him. Robbing people of free will is just cause to go on the warpath, and he’s suggesting exactly that because he thinks his e-ministry vindicates him.
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Caek Islove 🍰 💖 2y ago

In my opinion, Christian sectarianism is a feature, not a bug. It's why we don't NEED to convert by the sword, whereas Islam does.

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Dr. NEETzsche, GED 2y ago

Yeah and modern sectarianism seems limited to calling each other apostate/heretic/etc on the computer. “X aren’t REAL Christians” type talk. And then when you get into why it’s abstruse theological disputes and scriptural arguments about things that don’t matter on the ground floor like “we demand to eunuch your boys and make them wear wigs,” which basically none of us agree with.

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Clout Chaser 🗿 2y ago

If it was just a decentralized church and the doctrine was all solid, I would agree. We can have catholicity of faith without explicit communion in all cases, but a lot of these denominations don’t even believe in the real presence in the Eucharist; the center of all Christian worship. So I can’t really cosign division as a feature.

Neet is seething because he thinks everyone can be a spiritual Redditor like him, but that’s not how it works. If the hierarchy enforces something, as long as it’s not damaging the productive class, people are just going to go along with it. Animals naturally submit to hierarchy, and people are no different in this respect.