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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Mar 15
      Replying to @NumbersMuncher

      The history of the Christian faith is full of collisions between the people who believed and the people who did not. Adhering to the faith when it is unfashionable, unpopular, even dangerous is the true test of whether you joined a church or a social club.

      10 replies 33 retweets 359 likes
    2. Josh Jordan‏Verified account @NumbersMuncher Mar 15
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      Yes, but the history of Christianity changes based on how we interpret writings as our knowledge advances. There's a vast difference between a very fundamentalist religion and one that is more 'liberal/progressive' in their teachings, but both would claim to believe in Christ.

      6 replies 1 retweet 10 likes
    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Mar 15
      Replying to @NumbersMuncher

      Adhering to Scripture, tradition, & two millennia of learning is not fundamentalist, it just takes religious sources as the starting point rather than a malleable tool to fit where we want to go. Like MAGA folks who decide on a leader, then rewrite their principles around him.

      7 replies 9 retweets 132 likes
    4. Josh Jordan‏Verified account @NumbersMuncher Mar 15
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      I can't agree with that simply because since the Bible was composed/compiled ~1,500 years ago we have learned so much about the history behind it. That doesn't mean you throw it away, but that you learn from the teachings within it and understand that it's not literal history.

      4 replies 1 retweet 8 likes
    5. Josh Jordan‏Verified account @NumbersMuncher Mar 15
      Replying to @NumbersMuncher @baseballcrank

      I think there's more power to the teachings of Jesus when you focus on the lessons he taught and treat everyone with kindness, forgiveness, and love. To me fundamentalism is trying to view everything through the lens of a literal Bible, which is just not a tenable position to me

      15 replies 1 retweet 20 likes
    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Mar 15
      Replying to @NumbersMuncher

      If you're asking the Church to walk away from the words of Christ in the Gospels and the letters of Paul, you're asking it to walk away from its very reason for existing.

      8 replies 15 retweets 183 likes
    7. Josh Jordan‏Verified account @NumbersMuncher Mar 15
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      The thing is that Paul was a man just like everyone else who was trying to push his narrative on how a church should be founded. Again, that doesn't mean that there's no value in his writings, but Paul was writing his own worldview as a man - not as God.

      23 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
    8. Sean T at RCP‏Verified account @SeanTrende Mar 15
      Replying to @NumbersMuncher @baseballcrank

      I sort of nodded along like different strokes for different folks until this one, which is where things really start to go off the rails.

      2 replies 0 retweets 43 likes
    9. Sean T at RCP‏Verified account @SeanTrende Mar 15
      Replying to @SeanTrende @NumbersMuncher @baseballcrank

      (unless you're just interpreting Christianity as a philosophy like stoicism except it claims a God, in which case fine, but I'm not sure any Christian denomination embraces this (except maybe Episcopalians?))

      2 replies 1 retweet 30 likes
    10. Josh Jordan‏Verified account @NumbersMuncher Mar 15
      Replying to @SeanTrende @baseballcrank

      I don't know of any Christian churches that teach the gospels were written by anonymous authors long after Jesus died, but that's the history of it. I've never claimed to speak for any church's beliefs - I'm simply saying that historically isn't not what I was taught growing up.

      11 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Mar 15
      Replying to @NumbersMuncher @SeanTrende

      Wait, what? The historiography of the authorship of the Gospels is a subject of extensive scholarship taken seriously in Catholicism. I last attended a lecture on the topic last week, given by my wife, who has an advanced theology degree and teaches Scripture courses.

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        2. Josh Jordan‏Verified account @NumbersMuncher Mar 15
          Replying to @baseballcrank @SeanTrende

          I have yet to hear a major religion state that the four Gospels were written by anonymous authors long after Jesus' death except for those who are willing to dig into them on their own. I can only speak to the two religions I grew up in and went through, but (1/2)

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        3. Josh Jordan‏Verified account @NumbersMuncher Mar 15
          Replying to @NumbersMuncher @baseballcrank @SeanTrende

          Those are typically subjects that are not spoken of in church, but when people are interested there are outlets for it. Perhaps Catholics teach that, but I have never seen that talked about before with regards to it being a mainstream thing that they teach all members.

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        1. Professor of Logic, University of Science‏ @tiufek Mar 15
          Replying to @baseballcrank @NumbersMuncher @SeanTrende

          Furthermore the entire premise of this argument is flawed. SSM becoming universally accepted is a uniquely western phenomenon. If the Vatican won’t allowed married Catholics to use contraceptives I don’t think they will budge on an even more settled doctrine.

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