My parents are protestant and have a heavy British heritage that's all I've known but I want to know if I should think about becoming a catholic.
Which is the more red-pilled religion for a straight white male living in NC?
Give it to me straight guys. Give me things to read too... PLEASE.
Pretty much no difference, just different ceremony and a couple traditions.
PS: I'm not very religious right now but think I want to eventually get back to church. Either religion would be a fresh start for me.
As a Catholic, you're pretty much required to have a divorce or two under your belt and be an alcoholic.
Eastern Orthodox. Same traditions as being a Catholic but you don't have to answer to a Pope. You won't feel burnt out or thrown under the bus.
People here will say orthodox is the way.
Myself, I've been raised Catholic so I stick with that. Protestants allow women pastors or to marry and that takes away from the role of the priest as embodiment of Christ and servant of his flock. Protestants also lack the role of Mary and the Saints and it feels like "religion lite".
As for reading things, I'm not well versed, sorry.
Nah, you can never divorce in catholic religion, except if she's not fertile or if you didn't consume the marriage.
Catholicism is overall better, but the current Pope is King Cuck.
that's certainly not the case for Catholics in America
>Eastern Orthodox
What's this? How does it compare to the other two? How do you get started?
Catholicism -> You convert.
Orthodox -> ___________
Protestant -> You go to church and get baptized (it seems)
Catholics believe that their ideology goes back to the apostles because of tradition, hence the title "true apostolic church". However, the earliest 'tradition' that was said it came decent from the apostles was St.irenaeus proposal that Jesus was fifty years old ccel.org
and the second earliest being St.Basil 'traditions' ccel.org
Which no papist believes that these are trustworthy, yet its the youngest tradition printed.
Now, of course, they will also claim that St.Peter(and the popes after him) was always perceive was the authority of the 'church', but we have fraudulent documents, like the donation of Constantine or the pseudo-isidorian decretals, and top of that; Pope Vigilius/pope Boniface iii utilized a document called The Justin decree to establish power, which indicates they won't to begin with.
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What the fuck are you saying fucking nigger?
what part of NC?
I'm from wilmington and am a catholic
You should follow your own tradition and worship God in the way of your ancestors. But when in doubt, ask yourself what Hitler would do. He stayed in the Church, because it was his tradition, but at heart he was a Protestant.
>Around 1937, when Hitler heard that at the instigation of the party and the SS vast numbers of his followers had left the church because it was obstinately opposing his plans, he nevertheless ordered his chief associates, above all Goering and Goebbels, to remain members of the church. He too would remain a member of the Catholic Church, he said. And in fact he remained in the church until his suicide. "The church is certainly necessary for the people. It is a strong conservative element," he might say at one time or another in this private circle... "Through me the Evangelical [Protestant] Church could become the established church, as in England." Even after 1942 Hitler went on maintaining that he regarded the church as indispensable in political life. But he sharply condemned the campaign against the church, calling it a crime against the future of the nation. For it was impossible, he said, to replace the church by any "party ideology." ”Undoubtedly,” he continued, “the church would learn to adapt the political goals of National Socialism in the long run, as it had always adapted in the course of history.” A new party religion would only bring about a relapse into the mysticism of the Middle Ages. The growing SS myth showed that clearly enough, as did Rosenberg's unreadable Myth of the Twentieth Century.
Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich, p. 95
That's a damn good book, btw. Almost done with it right now.
I haven't converted yet, I'm still a Catholic but it's my plan. It's been calling my name for years.
Protestants are shit tier in practice, luther himself never intended for it to develop.
Catholicism and Orthodoxy are the only good ones.
Any arguments to back that up?
Can any catholic or orthodox actually explain to me why you guys worship saints? You worship drawings of saints, or mother mary, turning away from God.
I live among orthodox and it's stomach turning the shit these people do.
They kiss the coffins with remains of saints and pray to them. How is this not idolatry and blasphemy? Who has the authority to declare a man a saint other than God? The pope or a priest through their own criteria?
And if confronted, they have no arguments to back that shit up, they just go OOGA BOOGA THE PRIEST SAID SO.
Why aren't you praying to God directly? Or to Jesus, didn't he say that only through him will you get to the father?
As a Catholic who went to Catholic elementary and high school, I'll tell you the more redpilled religion is probably whatever you currently are. Our Pope is cucked, plus as a southerner, protestantism is part of your heritage. Don't throw it away.
Um atheism is the redpill man
agnostic is probably the best redpill state a man can achieve.
Catholicism is better than the nightclub like churches because of the praying structure and practices. It was the first church and its structure seems true to me. Praying the rosary is literal meditation on christ, the mass is structured well and doesn't have the loose forms of prayer that many churches have which in my opinion weakens your faith.
>red-pilled
>religion
We are praying to god directly, have you ever even witnessed a catholic or orthodox service? I can tell you our prayers are deep and meaningful unlike many forms of Protestantism. Praying to saints is not idolatry because we do not pray to them like we would a god, we still pray to god when asking for the saint's help. Do you every talk to a pastor/priest for spiritual guidance? Have you ever talked to the grave of a family member? Praying to a saint is the same, you know they were close to god and followed christ's teachings closely so you ask for their guidance in a prayer to god.
Reminder that if you are not of the High Church branches, you are heretical.
Catholics, not so fast you low church bastards.
>Calling the first church heretical
your vanity is palpable