You say in your description about Mark Parker: "Christianity’s future depends on asking the hard questions."
I would substitute "Christianity's future" with "The repose of your immortal soul, if you believe in that sort of thing".
If the Trinity is idolatry, and idolatry is a mortal sin, then all Trinitarian Christians die guilty of a mortal sin, even if they are not guilty of any other sin. This is unlikely, because the whole point of obeying the First and Second Commandments is to love and fear a jealous God to make obedience more likely and sin less likely.
If you cannot bring yourself to take any of the above seriously, why pretend to be Christian?
If you are only a cultural Christian, doesn't that mean you are in effect atheist?
If you are already atheist, why take an interest in Christian theology when Christians still cannot get their story straight after nearly 2000 years?
The founding of the American Republic represented the first step away from Christianity. It did not actively harm church institutions or commit regicide, but it did pave the way for the French and Revolutionaries for precisely that.
If any Christian in the world wants to blame any people or any country most for the end of Christendom, they would have to blame the English and American Republics.
The Anglo-American Empire is the most powerful empire in the world, but also the most corrupt. No previous empire actually sought to globalise the policies of Sodom and Gomorrah while its Christian voters looked the other way.
Yet American voters do not think they are capable of doing anything about it in their liberal democracy. After having been tricked by yet another presidential candidate promising peace but starting yet another imperial war, they seem happy to carry on voting and thinking of the next presidential election while sneering at Tucker Carlson, the only high profile independent journalist they are fortunate enough to have, as far as I am aware.
6:00 The difference between religion and politics is a distinction without a difference. Most people still do not understand this and do not care to ask.
8:00 It is entirely understandable that Americans, frightened of the future and not understanding their past, would instinctively cling to denominations significantly older than their republic ie the Catholic and Orthodox Church while completely ignoring the fact that they have also been ideologically defeated. Because Catholicism failed, Anglicanism became the most powerful Protestant Church. Nobody even cared about the Orthodox Church until they saw that the Anglican Church only existed to rubber stamp the values of the liberal establishment. Americans who admire Putin and Dugin feel irresistibly drawn to the Christianity of Putin and Dugin - men they felt were still capable of speaking truth to power who still used facts and logic to solve problems while defying the might of the global hegemon.
9:00 America has no religious structure because it has no established religion. This is unique to America, yet Americans themselves do not understand this, which is exasperating and infuriating.
America has no religious structure because of the First Amendment separating the church from their state. It does however have a political structure which its corrupt and incompetent ruling classes who pretend to be Christian use against the American voter who also pretend to be Christian while still not understanding that America has no such thing called a "religious structure" because there is no Church of America.
If you want to insist that there is a Church of America, then the spiritual leader of America would be Paula White, currently spiritual adviser of the American President.
Paula White-Cain currently serves as a teaching pastor at StoryLife Church in Apopka, Florida, and is the president of Paula White Ministries, which operates out of the same location. The ministry utilizes City of Destiny as its primary outreach center and community impact hub.
Previously, she was the senior pastor of New Destiny Christian Center (now renamed City of Destiny) from 2011 until stepping down in 2019, after which her son and his wife took over leadership. Before that, she co-founded Without Walls International Church in Tampa, Florida, in the 1990s, which later filed for bankruptcy in 2014.
If the Archbishop of Canterbury is the leader of the Church of England whose Supreme Governor is King Charles, then it would appear that the Church of Paula White is the Church of America, for now.
9:30 I am sorry to have to tell you this, Americans, but what you keep calling your "religious structure" is nothing more than social clubs claiming to be Christian of various denominations that you wish to associate yourself with because its geographical proximity to your home offers a community centre with members you don't mind spending time with on Sundays. This is not a "religious structure" but a "social club structure".
If it were a religious structure, there would be some way of taking it to the top, and of finally having your problem dealt with or your question answered. As it is, if it has a structure, it is that of a headless snake moving sometimes in this direction and sometimes in another direction, but in reality just moving around in a circle and not going anywhere.
10:00 It is redundant to talk of a "foundational structure", because the structure you keep referring to does not exist in you rcouontry. You may wonder about the Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox Church whose leaders are not located in America. However, since America is the global hegemon and the rest of the world are but US vassal states, the trail goes cold when you go abroad.
12:00 Those who claim to believe in the Abrahamic God have to love the Abrahamic God. But how can people who disobey his First and Second Commandments be said to love God or even be said to worship the correct deity? If Christians claim to worship the Abrahamic God, why do they not acknowledge that they worship the Abrahamic God who forbade idolatry? Do they not know that Jews and Muslims believe Christianity to be idolatry? If not, why do they not care? Is the reason why they do not care because they think might is right and that America as global hegemon can do anything it likes to people and nations who do not agree with US foreign policy? This appears to be the most accurate assessment of the people in America who call themselves Christian.
14:00 Are churchgoers even Christian? What does it mean to be Christian? Isn't Mormonism a category of Christianity? If they are not at least Christian, do they believe in the Abrahamic God? If they do not believe in the Abrahamic God, why do they go to church? Because they want somewhere to go on Sunday that feels like a gathering of good people? But are they good people if they ignore the First and Second Commandments of God and do not care that Jews and Muslims think it is idolatry to worship a man? If being Christian means being a hypocrite who does not care what rival Abrahamic religions think about your religion because they are fewer and weaker than you because might is right, then clearly you are more concerned with hanging out with hypocrites on Sundays whom God if He exists would consider to be Hell-bound, according to the Koran.
Hypocrites are people who pretend to believe in God but are endlessly creative in finding irrational and irrelevant reasons for not obeying His First and Second Commandments, for example.
19:00 The Koran defines neighbour.
20:00 LGBT including fornication and adultery are considered sexual offences in both the Bible and the Koran. People who call themselves Christian prefer to go by the liberal standard of sexual morality because it is significantly and conveniently lower as well as the political orthodoxy of the West. The ruling classes of the West subscribe to the liberal order and it is they who control the legislature. Things are the way now because of the hypocrisy of US voters and their ruling classes, who are fake Christians unconcerned about what God actually said about anything, only in wearing the brand of Jesus.
20:45 Are we talking about love or sex?
21:00 Make heretic burning great again? It is after all a distinctively Christian and European practice. Forget the Founding Fathers who were proto-Muslim Noahides whose proposition was that humanity should enjoy "certain unalienable rights" contained in the Koran the most important of which was the First Amendment supported by quran.com/2/256
22:00 Liberalism and love are two different ideas. If liberalism means anything, it means liberation from the oppressive totalitarianism of living under an absolute monarchy whose church defended the divine right of such a tyrant. Liberty is a liberal value because liberals would see liberty as desirable in itself, conveniently ignoring the fact that too much liberty would mean liberals returning to the law of the jungle where the strong get to do what they like to the weak.
44:00 "Becoming Orthodox" - becoming White Nationalist like Joseph?
1:29:00 What is God, asks the Christian.
1:37:00 We can do better with Islam.
1:41:00 We never asked to be born and we never asked for eternal life, but we have them nevertheless, if you believe in the narrative of the Abrahamic God. What remains for us is to choose between going to the better or the worse place.
1:43:00 What exactly are you accusing me of? Please specify the charges so that I can defend myself.
1:49:00 Is God meek and mild? Is the Catholic Church being meek and mild because it must be meek and mild or because it chooses to be so? Is law enforcement meek and mild?
1:51:00 Surely religion is not so much about religious institutions but whether it tends to do good in your society? If it is so good for your society, why did the Founding Fathers separate the church from their state? What would happen if the Founding Fathers had not separated the church and state? You would be back to a monarchy again, but it doesn't seem Americans even appreciate their republic enough to want to understand why the Founding Fathers separated the church from their state. A church of 100 is not going to build a global empire.
1:54:00 Bodhisattva
2:11:00 It is OK to be a heretic to your religion if your religion is not what God would approve of.
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