/rel/ - Religion

I like the setup of this new board, and its rules, look promising (if they'll get enforced regularly)

Limitately within endchan this board may not manage to get enough active posters to self-sustain.
There needs to be more notices about this board from other sites, to give it more visibility.

Coming from 4chan, that place is the opposite of endchan in terms of activity.

4chan has a lot of activity, but also an huge amount of spam, and also malicious diversions from hidden groups. 
Where many decent threads are buries within minutes, without getting a chance to develop. For the same reason, the replies themselves are most of the times only oneliners, basically twitter level shallow drivel, aiming for an emotional grab out of extreme outrages, because without outrage, nothing really manages to survive on that board.
It's a setup which doesn't lead to good debates, nor good discussion and insight. Lots of activity, but 99% of it is worthless.

endchan seems to be the extreme opposite, too little activity, almost abandoned.
There being very few people, it's normal for only few boards to manage to build up a decent number of active posters to keep things rolling. Every person has only a limited amount of time to spend online, one person can't follow too many interests, that's just a limitation of time which can't be changed.

Thanks for the heads-up, the thread has been pinned. So far, the only effective way to gather anons for this board is shilling the link on halfchan, sadly all the other altchans are pretty much dead like endchan.

For references to less known chans: 
https://allchans.org/

The other chans are sure one of the possibilities as to where to find people interested in this board, but other chans are not the best places among all existing options, I think.
The best places where to find potential new people interested in this board, are the bigger social medias, where there is censorship, ostracism, misdirection, bullying, or general hostility anytime one talks freely about their faith.
Since here on endchan they can find the freedom of expression they are denied elsewhere.
Endchan boards are harder to censor (but really all chan boards are less censorship prone), and so long the rules of the board are upheld, all the hostility and usual attacks, can be contained. (differently to how in most social medias, the hostility and attacks not only are not penalized or reprimanded, but they are almost encouraged)

Though, trying to give visibility to a chan board on mainstream social medias, will almost surely lead to bans, and quick censorship. 
So one should be prepared beforehand with trashable accounts, and just rely on that short timeframe of visibility, before the notice is removed or hidden. Even in high traffic pages, it still takes some minutes for moderation to move in to remove submissions.
Obviously public pages are better than private ones, that excludes places like discord or similar closed community sites.

Giving visibility on mainstream sites is sure more high effort, as those systems are designed to don't allow much visibility to normal users, but it may also make a bigger difference.

Just dropping ideas for anyone interested or willing.

An other thing to consider, is the persistence of links, or lifetime of links.

Links (in posts) on most social medias are very shortlived, because they get buried fast, and even more shortlived if the post is on the border or outside the rules since it gets removed. 
So the people seeing, and maybe going through the link, are limited to the ones who see the post shotly after it is created, since little after, that post is nowhere to be seen.

While any link which remains always visible (most of the times not inside a post, but in the headers or menus of sites, in the places which can't be buried), may get less people through it at the same time, but it stays effective for much longer, and on the long run it may bring in more people than a short wave from a shortlived post on a popular place.
Though, slow flows of newcomers from stable links are usually not enough to build activity, so it's better to don't rely on a single stable and visible link, but more of them together, even if from different places.


An other obvious thing, is that visibility is important to get new people to visit and have a look in, but visibility is only half of what brings new actives.
The other half is content, what the visitors see, and what interests them enough to remain and add something.

About content, in my experience, it brings more discussion to state something rather than asking something.
It doesn't matter if the statement is perfectly correct in everything and flawless, any mistake or overlook is a chance for a correction, which the correction itself is also part of discussion, though not all of it, it becomes just aimless to only have corrections, but eventually the discussion can also develop past the mistakes.

Glória in excélsis Deo 
(Glória = glory, in excélsis = in the most high, Deo = God )
https://youtube.com/watch?v=strUQQGtbhc

This version is mixed with parts in latin and italian.

---Latin

Glória in excélsis Deo
et in terra pax homínibus bonae voluntátis.
Laudámus te,
benedícimus te,
adorámus te,
glorificámus te,
grátias ágimus tibi propter magnam glóriam tuam,
Dómine Deus, Rex caeléstis,
Deus Pater omnípotens.

Dómine Fili unigénite, Jesu Christe,
Dómine Deus, Agnus Dei, Fílius Patris,
qui tollis peccáta mundi, miserére nobis;
qui tollis peccáta mundi, súscipe deprecatiónem nostram.
Qui sedes ad déxteram Patris, miserére nobis.

Quóniam tu solus Sanctus, tu solus Dóminus, tu solus Altíssimus,
Jesu Christe, cum Sancto Spíritu: in glória Dei Patris. 
Amen.

---Italian

Gloria a Dio nell'alto dei cieli
    e pace in terra agli uomini di buona volontà.
    Noi ti lodiamo,
    ti benediciamo,
    ti adoriamo,
    ti glorifichiamo,
    ti rendiamo grazie per la tua gloria immensa,
    Signore Dio, Re del cielo,
    Dio Padre onnipotente.
    Signore, Figlio unigenito, Gesù Cristo,
    Signore Dio, Agnello di Dio, Figlio del Padre;
    tu che togli i peccati del mondo, abbi pietà di noi;
    tu che togli i peccati del mondo, accogli la nostra supplica;
    tu che siedi alla destra del Padre, abbi pietà di noi.
    Perché tu solo il Santo, tu solo il Signore,
    tu solo l'Altissimo:
    Gesù Cristo, con lo Spirito Santo: nella gloria di Dio Padre.
    Amen.

---English:

Glory to God in the highest heavens
    And peace on earth to men of good will.
    We praise you,
    we bless you,
    we adore thee,
    we glorify thee,
    we give thee thanks for thy exceeding glory,
    Lord God, King of heaven,
    God the Father Almighty.
    Lord, only begotten Son, Jesus Christ,
    Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father;
    you who take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us;
    thou who takest away the sins of the world, accept our supplication;
    thou who sittest at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us.
    For you alone the Holy One, you alone the Lord,
    you alone the Most High:
    Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit: in the glory of God the Father.
    Amen.

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Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle (You Descend from the Stars)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fd2SKxUs2gM

You Descend from the Stars, O King of Heaven,
And come to a cave, in the cold and frost,
And come to a cave, in the cold and frost.
O my divine Child,
I see thee here trembling;
O blessed God!
O how much did it cost thee, to have loved me!
O how much did it cost thee, to have loved me!

To thee, who art of the world, the Creator,
lack cloths and fire, O my Lord,
lack cloths and fire, O my Lord.
Dear chosen, little child,
How much this poverty
The more it enamors me,
Since love made thee, poor still,
Since love made thee, poor still. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_scendi_dalle_stelle
The chant was composed by a bishop of the area of Naples, in December 1754.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonsus_Liguori
I've retranslated it to follow more closely the original text.

В темную нічку (Спи, Ісусе) (EN: In the Dark Night)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2h5YBrcbEHY

Translated text of the chant:

In the dark night, above Bethlehem,
a bright star shined out, covering the Holy Land.
The Most Pure Virgin, the Holy Bride,
in a poor cave gave birth to a Son.
[Chorus] Sleep Jesus, sleep my little baby,
Sleep my little star,
About your fate, my little sweet,
To you I will sing.
She gently kissed and swaddled him,
She put him to bed, and quietly started to sing,
You will grow up, my Son, you’ll become a grown-up,
And you will go out into the world, my baby.
Sleep Jesus, sleep my sweet little baby,
Sleep my little star,
About your fate, my little sweet,
To you I will sing.
The Love of the Lord and God’s truth,
You will bring faith to the world, to your people,
The truth will live on, the shackles of sin will be shattered,
[But my child], on Golgotha, my child will die.
Sleep Jesus, sleep my sweet little baby,
Sleep my little star,
About your fate, my little sweet,
To you I will sing.
Sleep, Jesus, sleep my sweet little baby,
Sleep my rose blossom,
With hope on You
The entire world is watching!

 >>/37/
Passa questo mondo (EN: This world passes away )
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rg6U7jMTkg0

We proclaim the eternal word:
God is love.
This is the voice that has crossed the ages:
God is charity.

    This world passes away, 
    the ages pass away,
    only those who love 
    will never pass away.

God is light and in him there is no night:
God is love.
We walk along his path:
God is charity.

We love each other because he loves us:
God is love.
He first gave us life:
God is charity.

Strong young people, you have overcome evil:
God is love.
In you dwells the eternal word:
God is charity.

Where are the Judaism and Islam boards?

Look for them, and you'll find them.

From other sites
https://8chan.moe/christian/catalog.html
https://8chan.moe/islam/catalog.html

Found more:
Christian board
https://frenschan.org/c/catalog.html
Religion board (similar to this board here, no specific religion focus)
https://frenschan.org/r/catalog.html

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 >>/35/
Frenschan is bad, it glows very hard, and it's controlled, normal and mentally sane people get banned for no reason there, but obvious glownigger tactics are not removed.
Scrap that from the recommended boards.

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c.1118 AD. Jean II Comnene, Mary and Jesus, Piroska of Hungary. Hagia Sophia, Istanbul.

1509-1510 AD. Disputation of the Holy Sacrament. by Raffaello Sanzio de Urbino, Rome.

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Some images of Saint Columba of Iona, in gaelic: Colum Cille ("Dove of the church"), lived in 521-597 between Ireland and Scotland

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 >>/40/
More from Indonesia

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church + reliquary of sainte foy. she was martyred when she was 12. look how pretty it is. they have a procession i think every year where they give her flowers and other offerings. her skull is housed in the golden statue. sometimes she cures the blind. this is in france btw.

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 >>/44/
That's one old church. It shold be about 1000 years old now, since it was built in the 11th century.
> The Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques, France, was a popular stop for pilgrims traveling the Way of St. James to Santiago de Compostela, in what is now Spain. The main draw for medieval pilgrims at Conques were the remains of Sainte-Foy, a young woman martyred during the fourth century.
The carvings above the church doors are also interesting.

About Sainte-Foy:
> Saint Faith or Saint Faith of Conques (Latin: Sancta Fides; French: Sainte-Foy; Spanish: Santa Fe) is a saint who is said to have been a girl or young woman of Agen in Aquitaine. Her legend recounts how she was arrested during persecution of Christians by the Roman Empire and refused to make pagan sacrifices even under torture. Saint Faith was tortured to death with a red-hot brazier. Her death is sometimes said to have occurred in the year 287 or 290, sometimes in the large-scale persecution under Diocletian beginning in 303. She is listed as Sainte Foy, "Virgin and Martyr", in the martyrologies.

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This one is in Norway.
Built in 1898. Style: Gothic revival. 
Used by: Church of Norway
Protestant denomination: Evangelical Lutheran

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From Brazil