Feel free to skip over this post if rationalist, humanist, godless or otherwise uncomfortable. It’s intended specifically for those who’ve already got past the Christology obstacle (John 3:16) and that leads all denominations to the questions of the Crusades, the Schism, the Inquisitions, the play The Crucible, Bosch fanaticism and all the foibles of each denomination. Also to paedo priests, nuns, cults, non-biblical teachings or those cherry-picked, plus that meme yesterday when Mormon meets Jehovah’s Witnesses (yes, I do run for the backroom and stay very quiet).

“Ecumenical” refers to:

The odds of the Christian readers at this site being of different denominations, some main tenets quite disputed … the odds are high, let alone sniping by the godless themselves. It’s difficult for me as admin to steer some sort of ecumenical course, also in the light of these:

Gibson is Roman, Kassandra eastern Orthodox. In other words … Frankish crusaders v Byzantine. Let alone the Filioque clause. Then we get to protestant churches and/or cults, e.g. the Woke service DJT was forced to attend with that nutter female priest.

Looking at the Filioque clause itself, I start with there being a Father, which brings in the OT, there’s obviously a risen Son in this Christology … the Holy Spirit is the issue. To me, what’s it matter, in fine, disputed detail, if sent by the Father, the Father through the Son or the Son sent the HS … and to whom.

To laymen, one way to explain it is as our conscience. Another way, once we agree there’s a thing called possession, e.g. by the demonic … then why not, in the same way, for the HS also entering the human soul through opened portal? Causing an obvious clash.

My concern as one of the billions who accept the core beliefs, pretty much as laid out in the Apostles’ or Nicene creed … is how to get along without acrimony … agreeing to disagree on aspects like saints, mother Mary, rosaries, mass hysteria. To me, the priestly caste are not the church … it is the laity. In politics, the laity are also my chief concern, in each western nation.

And the reason I say we need to take immediate stock is that the faith is close to going back to the early Christian era … hiding in rooms, raided, murdered … all churches burned down or turned into m*squ*s … with us westerners all facing communism, masli, satanism bigtime.

As long as we’re divided by non-core doctrine, we have no hope but prayer … but what sort? Oh Lord, make these heathen protestants conform to Roman sun worship … the one true church? Excommunicate, burn the heretic? Or the Bishop of Rome is one of many patriarchs, say the Orthodox, a history of Borgias and Bergoglios. As for the protestants … the new Woke churches of “modern” twisted theology?

An example. The irreligious, yet educated, might note in the hymn below just how pure, torchsonglike, husky, plaintiff the girl’s voice is. The Catholic might say all fine. The Protestant might see it as quite Roman, ignoring the redemptive power of Jesus.

And while we’re on the topic of who misses out on a dedicated hymn … how about the Father? Does any Christian sing hymns about the Father Himself? Which is not diminishing the phenomenon of Jesus, otherwise, it ain’t Christian … but it’s saying there are THREE supposedly co-existing, co-eternal persons in this.

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And getting back to this political blog in general … I’m not going to badmouth the Brits, French, Americans, antipodaens, just because they have idiosyncratic ways … I’m not going to badmouth Germans or Scots … so what if we have different ways? We are allies up against a coming existential snuffing out.

Therefore I’m for any of these who share our core beliefs underpinning us as the west.