/lit/ - Literature

My dad went on a church mission trip and he said that one day while they were doing a prayer walk around a neighborhood, this Jewish guy wearing a gay rainbow shirt and yamaka hat came up to them and started mocking them for their Christian beliefs and calling them homophobic.
He said that the gay supporter said "Well I'm Jewish but I'll do a prayer with you" and he mockingly did a sign of the cross and pretended to pray to God in a sarcastic way after calling my dad and the rest of the group hompphobic.

>>22089418
Not true. It is a gnostic idea to say that anything in the natural world that God created is evil. God created everything good. It was sin that corrupted the world.

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>>21700198
You know that feminism is largely promoted by Jews don't you? Such as Betty Friedan (who was also a Marxist) and Judith Butler.

>>20414452
Another problem with materialism is nominalism, which you implicitly assume if you are a materialist. Nominalism is the belief that there are no universal categories. In other words, in the nominalist view, any particular object has no essence. It is merely a collection of matter and the name that we give it is only an arbitrary label that we use for the sake of convenience, but has no ultimate truth to it. For example, if you are a nominalist, then what we call a table is only a collection of particles arranged in a certain way (based on an ideal which does not actually exist except in your mind, which is only matter if you are a materialist), and it does not share an essence with other objects that we call tables. Nominalism is the opposite of what we might call essentialism or Platonic realism, which holds that all objects of a certain type have an essence which exists in a realm of ideals called Platonic forms. Thus all particular tables are instantiations of the Platonic form of table. In this view, we can see how objects have a permanent, ultimate meaning. That is not the case in nominalism, wherein all objects are only arbitrary groupings of particles, and thus a "table" does not actually exist if we take nominalism to its conclusion. Nominalism also led to the false theory of evolution. In the nominalist view, a biological species is not a real category, but only an arbitrary label of many individual organisms, and we can follow this false logic to the incorrect conclusion of the transmutation of species, which means these types of organisms change into other types, seeing as how species are not real distinctions but only made up names. The Christian philosopher Maximus the Confessor, who lived over a thousand years before Darwin, already showed that it is impossible for a species to change into a different species (he used the term "species" in a more broad sense which would include biological species but was not limited to that) because species are quite literal, real, and distinct categories in the metaphysical structure of the world created by God. If a species could change into a different species, that would mean it was according to the nature of that species from its origin to change, and if that is the case, then it could never stop changing because that is according to its own nature and it cannot become of a nature that does not change. Something that has a nature of not changing could not come from an origin of a changing nature, nor could it become a species with a nature of changing because that would violate its own nature. It also is impossible for a species to change and never stop changing because what has an origin must also have a telos. A created species cannot move in a direction infinitely because that would require a property of what is uncreated.

>>20310277
You are saying that God created death. That is wrong! Death is a result of sin. When Adam and Eve fell it corrupted all of creation. There was no sickness or death prior to the fall. The animals would have lived forever. This also is one reason why we know that evolution is wrong.

>>19748322
As I understand it there are many other issues in addition to Rome's papalism, such as absolute divine simplicity vs the essence energy distinction, the filioque, Thomism vs Palamism, priests and marriage, beards, ecumenism, liberalism, and so on

>>19429686
>my entire line of thinking is relative to 1984
No not really. I am OP and I have made some strong criticisms of Orwell and his worldview throughout this thread. But nonetheless, the overall point of 1984 is basically correct and we are seeing it happen right now.

>>19308876
quintessential pseud cocksuckers
Jordan Peterson has NO CLUE what he's talking about and neither does Sam Harris.
https://youtu.be/PjQh8ij4R4o

>>19301575
I like Italo-disco
https://youtu.be/kw3mlykbAfk

>>19300244
My eyes are blue not dark

We were better off before the "Enlightenment".