Some left-wing politicians here in Czechia are promoting euthanasia before elections. It seems nice, some people are really suffering but do you want to be the one responsible for their deaths? How would you legally treat this? The geezer above took his own life with his own death machine. This is almost poetic fuck up if you ask me.
I was always against applying modernist ideas to the Church. We live in a disenchanted world. Reformation, Copernicus and Darwin dealt a blow to the authority of the Church. Church is now in competition with modernist and often anti-clerical ideas. I don’t understand why embrace the discourse of movements that never had much love for the Church. Many spiritual seekers are looking for tradition in Church? They are looking for something arcane and ancient. It does not do the Church any good to accept modernist ideas like vernacularization (mass in living instead of liturgical languages), female clergy, or tolerance of sexual minorities.
In many Western countries, evangelical churches who persevere in a historical teaching on issues such as family, marriage, the protection of the unborn, and the rights of freedom of conscience, speech and religion; do not have a good press.
In contrast, Protestant denominations that defend ‘inclusion and plurality’ with LGBT priests and the blessing of same-sex unions are presented as a faith that has understood the social reality well.
Contemporary mainstream ideology in the West is borderline hostile to traditional Christian values.
Among many mainline Protestant circles, it is argued that Christianity needs to attract people with an open-minded approach to the Bible that reinterprets certain texts accommodating them to the trends and thinking of the social majority. In the past, the Bible and the ‘sola fide and sola scriptura’ may have said one thing about human identity, but today the say another.
The reality, nevertheless, is that the church attendance and membership in theologically liberal churches that support the LGBT agenda is not growing, quite the opposite.
Tempering with scripture is basically diluting your faith. Because your creed is completely dependent on the teachings passed on to you by your forefathers.
The Church of Sweden accepts homosexual marriage since 2009, and appointed the first openly lesbian bishop in Stockholm that same year. In the last months, they have moved towards pro-transgender positions.
These are data from recent years.
2005: 6,967,000 members (77% of the population)
2010: 6,590,000 (70%)
2015: 6,225,000 (63%)
2018: 5,899,000 (58%)
2020: 5,729,000 (55%)
Church of Sweden has female openly lesbian bishops.
These are the figures of membership of the Church of Scotland, in a country of 5.5 million people.
2000: 607,000 members
2006: 504,000
2013: 398,000
2017: 336,000
2018: 325,000
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Already in 2005, the UCC declared itself in favour of same-sex marriage. They celebrate gay marriages and they are expected to vote a ban on any therapy or pastoral accompaniment that implies the modification of a person’s attraction to the same sex.
Is this denomination filling the pews? Not really, according to their statistics.
1995: 6,145 churches, 1,472,000 members
2005: 5,633 churches, 1,230,000 members
2015: 5,032 churches, 915,000 members
2019: 4,852 churches, 802,000 members
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Has the theologically liberal approach of the Episcopal Church helped increase its membership? No. In fact, the denomination has lost one third of its members in only 20 years.
2000: 2,329,000 members
2005: 2,205,000
2015: 1,779,000
2019: 1,638,000
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Thousands of conservative Lutherans left the Church to join other congregations. Others stayed with a critical approach. Nonethless, ELCA’s membership has diminished. Ten years after the decision on LGBT matters and a continuous radicalisation of positions, the ELCA has lost one third of its members.
1988: 5,288,000 members
2000: 5,126,000
2007: 4,709,000
2011: 4,059,000
2019: 3,265,000
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It is the largest Presbyterian church in the US, born in 1983 with the merging of two large denominations. In 2012, it approved the ordination of homosexual priests and in 2014 the PCUSA redefined marriage as a union of “two people” (instead of “a man and a woman”).
One decade later, they have lost one third of their members.
1984: 3,100,000 members
2000: 2,525,000 members
2005: 2,316,000 members and 10,959 congregations
2010: 2,016,000 members and 10,560 congregations
2016: 1,483,000 members and 9,451 congregations
2020: 1,245,000 members and 8,925 congregations
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It is obvious that may [many] causes could be included in the analysis of the complex evolution of dying churches, but statistical evidence shows that embracing dominant ideologies in society such as the LGBT agenda is certainly not filling the churches with new believers.
If humans had taglines, what would yours be?
Biggus Dickus
Another tortured Sovok reality artist…
It all started with the above meme. LMAO
The author of this shit is fat ugly and tattooed…
Her art features a lot of cis white women with dark skinned men.
Black women seething.
Lenin and “govno” (shit).
Bread line…
Little Ashkenazi Jewish nerd getting bullied by blond Russians in USSR, Then he is bullied by dark skinned Jews in Israel.
There has been another Kerch bridge bomb attack recently…
Makes you wonder, why hasn’t the Kerch bridge ever been constructed when Crimea was part of Ukraine? Would there be war if the Kerch bridge was built before 2014?
The link it links to some dodgy Tatarstan independence website.
Kerch bridge will be destroyed like the whole empire. Every day the military machine if the aggressor is being destroyed. Ukrainian forces are firing at airports, storages, bridges. We believe the fall of the Kerch bridge is coming soon.
This isn’t just concrete and steel. This is a symbol of violence. Symbol of subjugation. And it will be erased. Just as handcuffs are erased from rhe hands of the freed. Just as the empire disappears, into dust, ash, and the past.
Crimea is Ukraine!
When empire disappears the only thing that will be left will be dust and ashes. 😆👌
And flag of Ukraine will again be raised above Crimea and next to him with pride, the flag of Crimean Tatar nation. All nations subjugated by Russia will become free.
Sure buddy, all hope is that the Khokols will win. 😆👌
Guys, Ukraine had the chance to build not only the Kerch bridge. They could have set up a grain cartel with Russia. They could have built rockets for Russia in Dnepropetrovsk. They could have built planes in Kharkov and ships in Nikolaev. But instead they chose differently. Sad I tell you, very sad. 😔
It looks like men under 30 in Korea voted for the populist candidate.
Hanania sneers at men under 30, who get no action with the ladies and out of frustration don’t vote for libshits. Somehow, vast numbers of men being ignored by women is not seen as a problem. Korea and other civilized nations have dismal birthrates but nobody ever dares make fun of catladies. That’s sexist and could get you banned. 😆👌 By the way, the writing behind those women is in Mandarin.😆👌
Maybe the men just want a hug, a meal, and a punani. 😆👌
Russia sent two tacticals…
After the Russians left Kherson, the Ukrainian military organized a massovka to show they are welcome by the populace.
One tactical was not enough. 😆👌
Full pussy is полная пизда which in Russian and Ukrainian means that something is fucked up.
Sternenko says the Russians are already little more than 20 km from Sumy. This is in the range of FPV drones and barrel artillery. He say he wants to direct extra drones to this theatre.
Insomniac Resurrected 