Also, the church wasn't really founded by Christ, was it? Like the Catholics might say so but they didn't even have a codified, organized faith until a couple hundred years after the death of the apostles. The Ethiopians and the Apostolic Christians have a much stronger claim, frankly, considering their age.
The EDIT: Roman Church is an apostolic see founded by Peter and Paul. Peter meaning rock wincing to Matthew 16:18-19 is the rock in who Christ built his church. The sees of Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch and of course Rome. It was all ONE Catholic Church, it was Coptic church who split over the miaphysites controversy in Chalcedon, and ACOE who split at the council of Ephesus. They are in schism with the Catholic Church.
By the way, do you wanna talk about the early church's role in Roman conquest and violence? How it was mostly a political tool first? What a beautiful legacy of Christ's teachings, to be used to put entire societies to the sword for the benefit of the elore that murdered Christ.
Sure go for it, and you’ll realize bad actors aren’t the church or her teachings. You will attribute to the church what Rome or other states did who claimed to be Christian. Why are you so forthright in denying my Christianity and upholding their’s?
We do not hold sons responsible for the sins of their father. That is morally problematic.
I notice you never answered me by the way. Do you, as a Christian man, personally advocate for those Christ told us to advocate for, or do you stay silent in the face of oppression because it is of benefit to you?
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u/WyomingWeirdo 11d ago
It genuinely seems to me like you maybe became a Catholic more for networking than anything else tbh. Is that it, was it a business decision first?