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The Steve-O sect, where every Easter, they reenact the Crucifixion, but instead of their hands nail their balls to a cross

Syriac Christianity or go home

>>7104821
Why?

>>7104826
It's the OG nigga

>>7104804
It's all subjective. The orthodoxies for those who like the pomp but don't like the papacy. Anabaptist are better than Calvinists imo.

How about bizarro protestantism? Satanism

>>7104830
But I can't read Aramaic

>>7104835
Orthodoxy probably appeals to me most but what the hell are anabaptists?

Liberation Theology.

>>7104804
Gnostics
The Christian mystics are second only to Jewish mystics and are labelled heretics because the power hungry sexually frustrated church fathers couldn't keep up.

Gotta build that personal relationship with the divine or you're just interfering with the real message of Jesus.

>>7104843
>But I can't read Aramaic
Then you're doomed to remain a pleb.

Pleb.

>>7104863
Fuuuck

>>7104843
Mennonites, Amish. Austere and strict, but not complete dicks like Calvinists.

>>7104855
Loved read up on the Gnostics too. Considered myself one once.

>>7104804
Whichever one has me listening to Bach at 3 a.m. while I cry.

>>7104868
Anabaptism doesn't sound too bad. Do they resist male authority like many Pomo evangelical churches do now?

>>7104873
Beethoven and Bach are part of the reason I feel drawn

The depth of art created to honor Christ is of another tier to the pagan gods

How high do Jesuits and the order of Saint Augustine rank in the patriarchy?
Or rather, is scientific devotion even a patrician attribute for such a sect, you know, if considered under the broad spectrum of Christianity?

>>7104884
>scientific devotion
*devotion for science

dammit

Baptists are literally worst than Sunnis

>>7104886
Okay

>>7104874
>Do they resist male authority
How new are you?

>>7104879
>The depth of art created to honor Christ is of another tier to the pagan gods
They hijacked European culture for some 1600 years, so you're bound to get some saturation effect.
I listen to the sirens and resist, plug your ears and tire yourself to a mast if you can't

>>7104884
Augustine literally proved he died a virgin

>>7104905
Are you drunk, buffles?

>>7104905
>How new are you?

Pretty new

I don't get your comment about sirens. I get the reference, but are you warding me away from Lutherans?

>>7104933
Butterful is just an atheistic lesbian with some theistic tendencies.

Whichever sect comprehends the Scripture.

>>7104971
Some of you may see a reference to the Book of Enoch in Jouda.

This is the conclusion of Paulo's Epistle to the Hebrews.

>>7104804
Catholicism.
Seriously, read meister eckhart, john of the cross, or even the more recent ones like kierkegaard, hans urs von balthasar (henri de lubac too), and jacques maritain.
Okay sure kierkegaard wasn't catholic but that was honestly the one place where he fucked up.

>>7104879
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjJprIS4zQE
Bruckner is my personal favorite.

>>7104905
>sirens
Kek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKj1iK2WKS8

>>7104931
Ye bby
(No, not really)

>>7104933
Amish are stupidly traditional and patriarchal is all I meant.

>>7104943
Theist background, not tendencies

>>7104971

https://youtu.be/4aVNEQ0GieA

>>7104804
Roman Catholics, Orthodox, and Anglo-Catholics.

For the symbolic-minded:
https://youtu.be/WnxJyEF4qLE

>>7105019
Have you asked /u/ReallyNicole out yet for a candlelight dinner where she tells you all that's wrong with Epicurus?

>>7104804
>Orthodoxy and Catholicism
>both worship the priesthood and the Virgin Mary instead of Jesus

Heresy. Sola Scriptura, fuck the pope.

Neo-Orthodoxy is the only good protestant school of thought tbh

>>7105016
>2015
>Catholics STILL don't realise that the pope is LITERALLY an Anti-Christ

>>7104804
Gnosticism. Literally too patrician that the plebian christians wiped them out

>>7105040
This tbh, pick one of these if you're serious. anything else is either shit or you're trying real hard to be edgy with gnostic bullshit.

>I love the history of the Catholic Church but they're clearly pagans.

Do they worship beings other than God as divine?

>>7104905
Augustine had a son

>>7105181
>what is the pope
>what are the saints
>what is the virgin mary

>>7105233
there is nothing in Catholic theology calling these divine, that would be heresy and worshipping any of these as divine would be counted as a great sin.

>With the whole Church I acknowledge that Mary, being a mere creature fashioned by the hands of God is, compared to his infinite majesty, less than an atom, or rather is simply nothing, since he alone can say, "I am he who is". Consequently, this great Lord, who is ever independent and self-sufficient, never had and does not now have any absolute need of the Blessed Virgin for the accomplishment of his will and the manifestation of his glory. To do all things he has only to will them.

>However, I declare that, considering things as they are, because God has decided to begin and accomplish his greatest works through the Blessed Virgin ever since he created her, we can safely believe that he will not change his plan in the time to come, for he is God and therefore does not change in his thoughts or his way of acting.

>God the Father gave his only Son to the world only through Mary. Whatever desires the patriarchs may have cherished, whatever entreaties the prophets and saints of the Old Law may have had for 4,000 years to obtain that treasure, it was Mary alone who merited it and found grace before God by the power of her prayers and the perfection of her virtues. "The world being unworthy," said Saint Augustine, "to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her."

>The Son of God became man for our salvation but only in Mary and through Mary.

>God the Holy Spirit formed Jesus Christ in Mary but only after having asked her consent through one of the chief ministers of his court.

>>7104804
mystical orthodox christianity

>>7105248
He's right, and you've got to remember that most Calvinists worship captains of industry far more than any Catholic had ever sought to worship Mary.

Still not the best denomination though.

>>7105131
Define Anti-Christ

>>7105080
She sounds dreadful, why would I ever?
/u/ is a dreadful place too.

>>7105215
A MIRACLE! No wonder they made him a saint.

>>7105040
O-okay

Catholicism

Its the biggest and has had more greater cultural works created under it

>religion
>patrician

True patricians will always look down you.

>>7106365
Like you? :-)

>>7105248
It still seems strange to me that they are put on such a pedastle. I dont worship Mary, or even consider her as some kind of middleman for prayer. As an outsider looking in, it does seem very paganisitic.
>mfw I'm protestant scum

The sect of Christianity that believes Jesus was a Buddhist and was resuscitated after the cross and went on to be a holy man in india

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acqgY04hhzM

Mystical forms of Christianity.

>>7106365
who says it can't? you?

I think God is a more trustworthy authority

Traditional Catholicism.
FSSPX is life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp95rKOjIf4

>>7106387
She literally gave birth to God. Of all human beings she had the closest part to Christ in our salvation. Just as the Ark of the Covenant carried the tablets of the Law of the Old Testament, she carried the covenant of the New Testament in her womb. She is literally God's most perfect creature in that no other creature better reflected His own goodness than her. Honestly, the Protestants lack of devotion to Mary shows a lack of religious sensibility on their part.