This guy is saving Christianity

>>1847611
Why isn't this retarded Turk fuck permanently banned? Every fucking thread.

>>1847611
The guy who thinks he's funny. "Selim bin Peri". You're so pathetic. Worthless shit.

>>1847601

How I would love you are right.

>>1847631
You're so pathetic anon. You hate Islam so much that you're trying to act funny "bin". BTW it is Ibn. But kill yourself.

http://youtu.be/W-n0yM6Bv5o

>>1847650
Do you really think he's turkish... You're hopeless.

>>1847601
>These ideas can have a place today and might just make the church stay relevant.

Except it won't, because all the virtue-signalling fags praising Pope Francis as "the best pope in like, forever!" still aren't going to turn up to church, or convert to the Catholic faith.

You would've thought Catholics might've learned something from the collapse of the mainline Protestant churches in the US, but apparently not

>>1847670
They don't give a shit about Protestants and the US, generally about heretics.

>>1847601
>This guy is saving Christianity
Only if he sends all conservative Catholics to Orthodoxy and keeps all the liberals, faggots and lukewarm Christians that don't go to church anyway.

>>1847619
>>1847624
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>>1847656
Lel, what did he do to trigger you all so hard?

>>1847731
he was a shitposting tripfag who was an obvious /pol/tard trying too hard to b8 people.

>>1847601


>[X] had pretty much nothing to offer in this day and age.

If you think like this, you are in fact part of the problem.

http://thefutureprimaeval.net/why-methodists-dont-go-to-heaven/

>>1847601
You make a good point

Catholicism just doesn't appeal to younger people anymore. I should know, I was once a Catholic

What Pope Francis is doing is essentially a liberalization of the catholic church, making it more appealing and more soft

It's pretty much in line with the teachings of Jesus- love thy neighbor as thyself

>>1847670
>First Great Awakening
You faggots, tuning down the "you will go to fucking hell and there's nothing you can do about it because God already decided his plan!" won't save the church
>Second Great Awakening
You faggots, tuning down the "you will go to fucking hell unless you repent right god damn now" won't save the church

>>1847670
Too bad atheism is increasing in an unprecedented rate in the US.
>>1849347
Those awakenings just made already Christian people more Christian, maybe turned some Catholics Protestants, but didn't really convert the few atheists and non-Christians who were in America back then.

>>1847731
that was probably samefaggotry

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Why men are loving Orthodoxy
ttp://journeytoorthodoxy.com/2010/10/why-orthodox-men-love-church

>The Orthodox Church Stays in the Dark Ages

>Pope Francis' enormous popularity -- his Twitter accounts in different languages have a total of about 30 million followers, about as many as Bill Gates and more than Adele -- is a consequence of his openness to diversity and a softer approach to dogma. He represents a modernized Catholic Church. By contrast, the world's second biggest Christian denomination is proving so resistant to modernization that its plans to adopt some timid changes for the first time since the year 787 have fallen through.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-06-16/the-orthodox-church-stays-in-the-dark-ages

>>1848722
>Imagine for a moment that we conducted science the way we conduct theology. Every week, we gather at the lecture-hall of one prominent scientist or other who gives a talk on his theories and is supported by donations from attendees. Anything that’s too counterintuitive or has too much math would meet with empty pews. Forget quantum mechanics, I don’t think we’d even have moved past geocentrism!

spoken like someone who never took a science or math class

>>1847601
>Christianity had pretty much nothing to offer in this day and age
did you even read your own post?

>Pope Francis is instead focusing on grace/works, which were a central part of Jesus' teachings: empathizing with the least fortunate, helping the poor out, loving your neighbor etc. These ideas can have a place today and might just make the church stay relevant.
If all he did was *refocus on core Christian values, how does Christianity have nothing to offer?

>>1850147
That's awesome.