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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

People have given up church to dedicate their life to a politician whose beliefs are flexible. Despite you being agnostic, you're still influenced by religion. That said, I would be concerned about our future if the overwhelming majority of people were atheists. You may think it's worthless, but I strongly believe faith moderates the behavior of MANY. It's one of the primary reasons why the rich aren't being eaten worldwide.

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Nas: Blago, who has single handedly destroyed CFMB?

Blago: https://youtube.com/shorts/Lftdxd-YXt8?feature=share


“We cannot turn away from this truth in this election, putting patriotism ahead of partisanship is not an aspiration —it is our duty.” -Liz Cheney

JORR is correct. The survival of Scientology is proof that there will always be demand for Religion of some kind.

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Yeah and we all know that Scientology is "wrong".

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Correct. MANY actually wore t-shirts and/or put stickers on their cars that said, "I'M WITH HER." If that isn't a religion I don't know what is.

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Correct. MANY actually wore t-shirts and/or hats that said, "MAGA." If that isn't a religion I don't know what is.

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One day Tom Cruise’s dream of not having a single SP in the world will come true.

:::Tom Cruise Laugh:::

in the top 10 all time gifs for sure

WOKE:
A president telling young black people that they have no chance because America is against them.

BROKE:
A placekicker telling young Catholic women that having children is more important than working in a cube farm.

BESPOKE:
A comedian explaining to wannabe Ivy Leaguers that jokes are funny.

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Homosexuals should have the much bigger beef with the speech, but, nope, its biological women with the loudest voices

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

A kicker told you how to be a man. Let that sink in.

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Nas: Blago, who has single handedly destroyed CFMB?

Blago: https://youtube.com/shorts/Lftdxd-YXt8?feature=share


“We cannot turn away from this truth in this election, putting patriotism ahead of partisanship is not an aspiration —it is our duty.” -Liz Cheney

Jesus gave my speech. Told me what its like to be Jesus. I was all like, yeah, I hated the Iron Sheik back in grade school when he would say "Iran #1. Russia #1. America, hock-ptui"

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Your POTUS can't even define what a man is. Let that sink in.

What percentage of Catholics can understand a Latin mass? Fewer than 1%?

It seems strange--to say the least--that some Catholics would want to make their religion even less comprehensible and accessible than it already is.

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It's not difficult to understand.

Why does everyone like McDonald's? Because you can be in Yakutsk or Irkutsk and when you see the golden arches you know the Big Mac is going to be the same thing you had in your hometown.

The elimination of the Latin mass allowed the franchisees, i.e. parishes, to get sloppy.

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Breaking News: Biden Supporters align themselves with the values of Big Banks to ridicule critics.

Next up: The Sun rose in the East today.

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The elimination of the Latin mass decentralized power.

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Nobody has to be a Catholic. The Church only has the power its members grant it. The Vatican doesn't have an army or the power of taxation enforced by guns. If you don't want to be a Catholic, you don't have to be one. Many have made that choice.

So I'm not sure how decentralizing power, if indeed such has occurred, has helped the Church.

A religion is just a set of beliefs. You don't have to hold those beliefs, but if you don't I can't see how you're a member of that religion. You're just creating a new religion to satisfy yourself.

Cafeteria Catholicism is bullshit. As crazy and destructive as Islam is, at least Muslims have principles.

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Agreed. Those championing Latin mass, which is not a core tenet of the Catholic Church, should get out.

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It isn't really any different than the people now try to rid the church mass of acoustic guitar sing a longs and tossing communion about like dog treats.

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If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

It's tradition- or was tradition. And what is a religion if not a collection of rules and traditions?

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You voted for Joe Biden, or at least said you did. Let that sink in.

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You've got who knows who offering the Body of Christ. I get that they're short priests, but I was taught that only the priest handles the host.

And therein lies the problem. You have all these rules and customs that form the basis of a religion and slowly, whether out of convenience or pandering to popular whim, you eliminate them and tell people they were never that important to begin with, well, how long does it take before people just dismiss the entire thing?

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The kid diddling and coverup has done more to hurt the Catholic church than the loss of Latin mass.

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Probably true.

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Last day of finals and someone is already celebrating

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Right. And the rules are not on the side of those demanding a return to Latin mass.

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And at the uber-conservative church I attend in Central WI, it is still that way. Their Deacon does not even participate in the distribution.

While I am a Eucharistic Minister at my parish here, there are still MANY who will only receive from the priest.

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

Found him.

It's funny you mention that, because the McDonaldsization of the Mormon Church, which they refer to as "correlation," has been a major contributor to the church's loss of membership and decrease in morale. Local communities used to raise funds to build their meetinghouses (the normal buildings, not the temples). Now they get the blueprints and building kits from the head office in Salt Lake City and every meetinghouse from here on out basically has to look like this:



That looks like a branch bank in Mundelein.

And with that, they've cut everything else that could be handled at the ward/parish level, like youth activities and bake sales and community outreach and all the things we're used to local churches doing, because the head office wants everyone to do the same thing everywhere and provide a consistent product. That's what happens when the church is run by businessmen (they don't have a clergy that went through divinity school; you literally just get promoted to running the church when you're good at business).

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We're talking about the ritual that is central to the religion, not micromanaging bake sales from Rome.

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