cushd13 t1_j1i111l wrote
"Ordained." Come back to Holy Mother Church and repent your heresy. Please?
revanon OP t1_j1i6ze5 wrote
I kinda almost love how politely you asked me to repent...like, that's definitely not how demands of repentance usually work on the internet.
My Protestantism is actually deeply intertwined with my ethnic identity--I'm a fourth-generation Armenian Congregationalist, and that faith identity was integral to my family's flight to the United States during the genocide during World War One. I have relatives who have chosen Catholicism, and in fact received much of my theological education from the Dominicans and Jesuits and have a deep love of Catholicism. But I was raised in a faith tradition that has given my family strength for generations and could no sooner separate that from myself than I could my ethnic identity.
insaneintheblain t1_j1j932i wrote
Jesus was able to separate himself from his ethnic identity
cushd13 t1_j1i7b31 wrote
While I appreciate your cultural roots and your loyalty to your family, extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
insaneintheblain t1_j1jar79 wrote
Maybe you've never looked outside the church to know...
insaneintheblain t1_j1j8ytz wrote
"The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy"
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
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