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Jesus' foreskin was cut off and has decayed. It plays no significance in Christianity. Maybe He got a new one with His glorified body, who knows.

Roman superstition around relics is actual paganism.



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I'm noticing a theme, it's a silver lining about living in a post Christian west: the theological debate between Protestants in the culture is almost totally centered on concluding what the Bible teaches. Evangelicalism has won the cultural debate.

Mainline Protestantism is hemorrhaging members and everyone (at least on the right) sees it as the joke it is. In our parents and grandparents generation we evangelicals would be arguing against people's childhood indoctrination coming from episcopalianism or Lutheranism, but now a cultural Protestant will consider your explanation on its own merit.

This of course is just my judgment about the state of the mission field.

Mainline Protestants used to be like Roman Catholics in their view of church authority, but now they're open minded enough to consider your exposition of the Bible. I pray that Roman Catholics will adopt the same prudent attitude, but I don't see it happening soon since being Roman Catholic is a more central identity to them and their church isn't quite as cucked as mainliners.


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Imageboard roman catholics are engaged in self deception. They are adult or teenage converts from non-catholic families, as a lifelong and certain catholic doesn't feel the need to behave this way. They probably arrived on catholicism because they bought the meme about ancient catholic traditionalism, or the broad systematic theology of the Roman church that seems to have a coherent stance on every issue, but instead of studying apologetics and theology they simply delve into ritual. 
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This is the same phenomenon as American prosperity gospel followers, "you just didn't believe hard enough" = "you just didn't pray the rosary hard enough".
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> They probably arrived on Catholicism because they bought the meme about ancient catholic traditionalism

Agreed.  The same can be said of imageboard/e-Orthodox.


> Pic related

However, other than the "Pray the Rosary" meme, I can't really tell what you're trying to get at with that pic.







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> Jarrid Wilson, a Southern California megachurch pastor and mental health advocate, died by suicide Monday.
> Wilson, 30, was associate pastor at Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, under Pastor Greg Laurie. He co-founded Anthem of Hope, a mental health nonprofit helping people dealing with depression and suicidal thoughts. 
https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2019/september/pastor-mental-health-advocate-jarrid-wilson-dies-suicide.html

Suicide is terrible and we are not able to know all the contributing factors to his tragic and selfish decision.

That being said, we can point a finger squarely at the seeker sensitive, charismatic, megachurch movement of evangelical Christianity. It is entirely emotion based and manipulative with no sense of tradition, rather than based on a careful systematic theology directly exposited from the text

Harvest church is founded by Greg Laurie, a (literal) boomer "Jesus movement" hippie. He's essentially a motivational speaker who placed himself as the successor to Billy Graham, except he walks around stage in blue jeans at NFL stadiums and gives a pep talk after rap and whiny rock worship music.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OhgGMkRMxZo

This kind of megachurch is found in every metro area in the US and Canada.
-Weak on theology
-Weak on church history
-Weak on tradition
-No liturgy
-Charismatic (theologically, and in preaching style)
-Youth oriented
-Rock style worship
Jarrid Wilson was a pastor at one such church of 15,000 people and multiple "campuses".

Now I ask this: how can anyone look at this movement and find a lasting sense of meaning or belonging? How is the American consumerist version of Christianity supposed to help and not hinder depression?
This is lowest common denominator Christianity. It's "cool wine aunt" philosophy.
Related examples of postmodern megachurches

> Founder Of Harvest Bible Chapel (Chicago) Fired For Misconduct And ‘Highly Inappropriate Comments’.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/02/13/harvest-bible-chapel-pastor-founder-fired-james-macdonald/
Founding pastor, 13000 members, 9 campuses.
Caught on tape talking about planting CP on an opponent's computer. Other sexual misconduct allegations.


> Founder Of Willow Creek Megachurch Steps Down Amid Misconduct Allegations
Also Chicago
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/04/11/willow-creek-megachurch-pastor-resigns-misconduct/
Bill Hybels, big name author. Founding pastor of Willow Creek, 25000 attendees of 7 campuses.
Resigned due to sexual misconduct, investigation found allegations credible.



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tl;dr of the last few months:

> Mass shooters tied to 8chan (esp. Christchurch)
> Public pressure mounts against 8chan
> several companies on the technical end drop support for 8chan as a customer
> US Congress schedules a hearing for Jim, the owner
> Site is announced to go down until at least Sept 5 (yesterday)
> Posters (esp /pol/) scatter to all over the web, especially endchan, 4chan, 08chan
> Jim provides a statement that if 8chan comes back up, it will have new safety measures

Now is the time for us to reevaluate our situation. If there is credible reason to think that 8chan will be compromised when it comes back online, we should not return.
If not, is this our new permanent residence?
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I doubt that the admin of nanochan would allow a Christian board unless we had a sizable population move over, and even then the posters there would demand that it be excluded from the overboard, or deleted entirely.




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I have the Bible, numerous non Christian NT era historians, and an overwhelming absence of contrary evidence that would be expected if the accounts were fabricated by ancient Hebrews. The naturalist usually says "there is an absence of evidence for x (an Egyptian captivity)" or "given this, it seems unlikely that x (a global flood) happened".
There is no cogent proof against an event of Biblical history.
Biblical archaeology is a great apologetic.

Given all this though, I don't personally inspect all ancient artifacts and spend a lifetime debating the historicity of biblical events. I know the Bible is true because I have been saved and indwelt with the holy spirit, like the Bible said I would be at the point of salvation.



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> The poor judgment of those people is not an inherent flaw in the imageboard, because imageboard use does not per se entail escapism.

Whether it be online LARPing, conspiracy theories, delusions of grandeur, or isolating oneself in the blanket of anonymity, anonymous image boards are breeding pits of escapism; with the exception proving the rule in classic fashion.

> Yes, there are imageboards...

No.  I mean imageboard websites as a whole.  Yes, I'm aware of some not quite as bad singular boards like /ck/ as you pointed out, but even on those boards, behavior endemic to image board culture as a whole rears it's ugly head.  Look at the top major boards on this site: The number one board consists of NEETS in Australia licking each others wounds; Qanon and several different flavors of /pol/; /b/ - the official board of people metaphorically flinging feces at each other like monkeys; grown men masturbating to anime lesbians and monstergirls and talking about My Little Pony; /rapport/ - which claims to be about conversation and women, but is just softporn....

>  Those are all good questions and exactly what I'm talking about. You would be ostracized in most churches for even asking the question of the morality of racemixing.

Those are all examples of repetitive bait and twisting of scripture like I said.  Every single racemixing thread consists of far righters, fascists, nazis, etc. taking verses in the OT and Apocrypha about Jews separating on a religious basis out of context to prop up their distorted views.  Just as far leftists, commies, pinkos, etc. take portions of Acts and the words of Jesus out of context to prop up their "Muh Jesus was a socialist who would never vote conservative" meme.  I've seen this exact same flotsam and jetsam play out time and time again.  It's not deep or thought provoking or civil.  It's the same feces throwing ad infinitim.

> The interdenominational debate is also productive, it's only the responsibility of the reader to know what constitutes a cogent argument and what's fallacious.

Same thing for this.  I've yet to see an interdenominational thread that didn't devolve into rancorous "debate" or just plain ad hominem spewing.

>  Facebook is the enemy, and you're naive. 

Missing the point.  If I can complain about LGBTBBQ on a site as blatantly pozzed as Facebook, why should I bother doing it on an imageboard/imageboard site with all of the noxious baggage that comes with it?  There are other legitimate Christian discussion forums that are not Facebook.

And yes, I'm aware of those signs of dystopia you listed.  I still see no real reason to view imageboard culture as some sort of "last bastion of hope" against such things.  If anything, imageboard culture is a symptom of our growing dystopia - people going onto online anonymous image boards to, in contrast to what you keep claiming, escape said dystopia, through online LARPing and the illusion of power and importance through conspiracy theories and grandiose fantasies of being part of the underground rebellion via kooky politics.   

> free speech is bad

Free speech itself isn't bad.  It's the noxious radical variety that is endemic to the anonymity of board sites like this, that isn't worth a hill o' beans.

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> that anonymous imageboards are necessarily profane and escapist.

They are.  Besides the top boards that I listed (not to mention just take a look at the top boards of any image board site, as well as behavior on even the so-called SFW ones), let's take a look at this very board right now:

-No posts in the prayer thread
-Nofap/Purity thread is basically dead
-Potentially interesting discussion and thought provoking heresy thread is basically dead
-QTDDTOT thread is basically dead
-One of the more active threads recently has been a literal Judaiser going over the same exact mental gymnastics that all Judaisers of Christianity engage in.
-The most active thread other than this one, the "Racemixing and Zionist" thread, is the same OT verses out of context argument that's been done a gazillion times ad nauseam that I mentioned earlier.

Probably the only good active thread is the meme and bread pills thread.

Honestly, I'm sorry if I'm being a Debbie Downer.  I started out on 4chan around the later middle 2000's (sometime before Project Chanology); migrated over to 8chan in the aftermath of the Gamergate fiasco; started hanging out on pre-Catholic Mafia /christian/ once I came back to Christianity; migrated to /christianity/ once the Catholic Mafia started bearing down; and while hanging out on Endchan following the 8chan crackdown, and while Endchan had it's upgrade downtime, I wandered and explored other imageboard sites.  Hanging out on /christian/ and /christianity/ for so long, I had forgotten just how degenerate imageboard culture can be outside of a Christian board, not to mention I had already started having nagging doubts even during my time on 8chan /christian/ and /christianity/.  So yes, I am quite cynical and weary of imageboard culture at this point.

There is a part of me that still wants to stay and fight the good fight, since there are so many people on image boards that desperately need Christ.  At the same time, I can't help but wonder if I need to wake up to the fact that imageboard culture is a hopeless Sodom and Gomorrah that I need to flee and not look back, lest I turn into a bitter pillar of saltiness, as seems to be happening now.


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> After exploring various other image boards, I've found that outside of a Christian board, anonymous image board culture as a whole is a cesspool of porn, fringe politics, edge-lords, trolls, petty slap fights, cynics and sadists and the proudly maladjusted. 

Yes and it's hilarious.
And it's not only that and it all depends on the place and your definitions of said labels.
Still if it perturbs you, you really shouldn't be around. This is the closet that great many shunned things have been shoved into.
Keep in mind however that Christianity started in a closet and soon enough will be pushed there again.




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Curses! Robbed of chances to be denied posting here because of your greed!  Don't you know that sharing is caring good sir?!?

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Not sure.  I've seen banners on the other boards on this site at dimensions much much larger than what I've seen on 8chan though.  Only the BO would know about precise dimensions for sure, so I can ask, but I imagine 8chan sized ones would be fine for now.



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