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  1. Aelred of Rievaulx

    Revelation

    This is true for Catholics as well however we still consider every Eucharist to be the Parousia.
  2. Aelred of Rievaulx

    Emory University president says are scared and 'in pain' after some wrote "Trump 2016" on campus.

    People should be able to say whatever they like including "Trump 2016" and "that scares my to my bones" and "you're a pansy for it" I personally would go for "If the USA is a place where a person like Donald Trump can make it to president then the country is a joke."
  3. Aelred of Rievaulx

    The C# Church is definitely not the AntiChrist

    Actually that's not the difference. You see the bible through the lens of a couple of centuries worth of Adventism, I don't. I see it through the lens of scholarship and academia.
  4. Aelred of Rievaulx

    The C# Church is definitely not the AntiChrist

    The book of Revelation has been studied quite extensively by academics as well. Certainly, academics aren't a denomination and don't input academia into their approach to the text yet they do study the text in order to attempt to understand it. You're correct in that the book of Revelation can...
  5. Aelred of Rievaulx

    The C# Church is definitely not the AntiChrist

    Biblical scholars understand the book of Revelation quite well enough. It's a commentary on the Jewish-Roman war written in apocalyptic discourse. It says nothing of the papacy. That's hilarious and wrong. Why do you believe strange things which don't have a semblance of logic or rationality...
  6. Aelred of Rievaulx

    The C# Church is definitely not the AntiChrist

    Well, that's not what they worried about. Over the next 2000 years most Christians didn't even bother very much with the book of Revelation. They kept it as something of an appendix in their canons, if at all and they didn't even include any readings from it in their liturgies for the most part...
  7. Aelred of Rievaulx

    The C# Church is definitely not the AntiChrist

    I think it was written around 70 CE, I don't buy the notion that it was written in the 90s. "Apocalypsos" means to unveil; this sort of literature was quite common and was understood by everyone between 200 BCE and 200 CE as political and religious commentary.
  8. Aelred of Rievaulx

    Your stand on homosexuality?

    For starters, it wouldn't make sense at all for "sodomite" to be the correct translation of "arsenokoitai" purely because a "Sodomite" in the first century would simply have meant a "resident of Sodom". However, you do see that malakoi translates, according to the New Jerusalem version as...
  9. Aelred of Rievaulx

    Your stand on homosexuality?

    It's because it's a stretch to translate malakoi as "homosexual" or arsenokoitai as "homosexual". According to most interpreters of St Paul in the early Church one could perform arsenokoitai on a woman and one could be malakoi by over-indulging in heterosexual sex. Contemporary...
  10. Aelred of Rievaulx

    "Someone in a garage" will fix climate change...

    I agree, and it's all our greed. We want society, we want capitalism, we want convenience and the result is climate change. We're not going to stop and they're not going to stop, so we deserve the results, we reap what we've sown.
  11. Aelred of Rievaulx

    "Someone in a garage" will fix climate change...

    The economic reality at the moment is that the only companies capable of mitigating climate change are energy producers. If anyone is going to have a go at it it'll be them. I don't think they can fix the problem and I don't think governments will, I've entirely given up on the issue; humans are...
  12. Aelred of Rievaulx

    The new testament corrupted?

    If your Baptist tradition in any way resembled the religious traditions between 393 and 1075 then your point would be quite a bit stronger. As it stands Baptists are rather a johnnie come lately species of Christianity.
  13. Aelred of Rievaulx

    Theisitic Evolution

    This is more of a philosophical problem and it has been highlighted by such thinkers as Thomas Nagel in Mind and Cosmos and in Alvin Plantinga's EAAN. We don't need a historical Adam for Plantinga's EAAN, one doesn't need to believe that there was a literal Adam in order to believe that...
  14. Aelred of Rievaulx

    Theisitic Evolution

    This sort of question represents ignorance. Ignorance in that you don't understand what the Bible is, you don't understand what science is and you don't understand what knowledge is. If a story is in the Bible does that automatically make it historically true? Is that the only guideline? It...
  15. Aelred of Rievaulx

    American Pastor Who Helped Uganda Create ‘Kill The Gays’ Law Will Be Tried For Crimes Against Humani

    A world in which people can write legislation which ensures that gay people can be murdered is not the sort of world I want to live in. But I don't live in the world I want to live in, I live in a cruel, heartless, disgusting consumerist world in which everything in on the market, the rich get...
  16. Aelred of Rievaulx

    (moved) Can the Philosophical Approach of "Reformed" Protestantism lead out of Christianity?

    I voted other because I consider the Catholic approach to be the rationalist approach. Calvinism comes out of a particular intellectual trend which developed during the 12th century, namely Voluntarism, an over-emphasis on the Will of God as absolute. This intellectual trajectory carried quite a...
  17. Aelred of Rievaulx

    Theisitic Evolution

    I believe in evidence based history and science. If you asked the majority of educated Catholics, especially the clergy, if they believed the story of Genesis was mythical they would more than probably say yes. Everyone from Francis and Benedict XVI down.
  18. Aelred of Rievaulx

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    Yeah, I find it really very interesting that while he was writing his Ethics in which he describes the State and Religion as separate entities he was also actively and specifically involved in an assassination attempt against Hitler. Although, if assassination against anyone could be forgiven it...
  19. Aelred of Rievaulx

    Your stand on homosexuality?

    Well, there's no doubt that most translators of the bible seem to think it condemns homosexuality but, as an example, if one really interrogates the meaning of "arsenokoitai" and "malakoi" one finds very little of it directly means "homosexuality" in any meaningful sense. There really actually...
  20. Aelred of Rievaulx

    Your stand on homosexuality?

    I don't think the bible addresses LGBT things. I think it's very much a stretch to read "homosexuality" into the bible and I don't think it's altogether important to do so.