Forwarded from European Reformation Heritage (Maxime PLF)
"The practice always observed by the early Church, when about to celebrate the Supper, was solemnly to exhort the people to raise their hearts on high, to intimate, that if we would adore Christ aright, we must not stop at the visible sign."
—John Calvin, Short Treatise on the Lord's Supper
"What are you doing, O man? When the priest says: “Let us lift up our mind and our hearts,” why do you not affirm and say: “We lift them up to the Lord”?...The Mystical Table is prepared, the Lamb of God is sacrificing Himself for you, the priest is struggling on your behalf, spiritual fire is gushing forth from the undefiled Table, the Cherubim are standing by and the Seraphim are flying, the six-winged creatures are covering their faces, all the bodiless powers together with the priest are interceding on your behalf, the spiritual fire is descending, the blood from the Immaculate Side is emptying into the vessel for your purification...Believe that you partake of the Divine Body from the very Seraphim with the fiery spoon that Isaiah saw; and when we partake of the Saving Blood, let us believe that our lips touch the very Divine and Immaculate Side."
—John Chrysostom, Homily 9 On Repentance
—John Calvin, Short Treatise on the Lord's Supper
"What are you doing, O man? When the priest says: “Let us lift up our mind and our hearts,” why do you not affirm and say: “We lift them up to the Lord”?...The Mystical Table is prepared, the Lamb of God is sacrificing Himself for you, the priest is struggling on your behalf, spiritual fire is gushing forth from the undefiled Table, the Cherubim are standing by and the Seraphim are flying, the six-winged creatures are covering their faces, all the bodiless powers together with the priest are interceding on your behalf, the spiritual fire is descending, the blood from the Immaculate Side is emptying into the vessel for your purification...Believe that you partake of the Divine Body from the very Seraphim with the fiery spoon that Isaiah saw; and when we partake of the Saving Blood, let us believe that our lips touch the very Divine and Immaculate Side."
—John Chrysostom, Homily 9 On Repentance
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I would submit one simple litmus test for assessing whether the conversions of high profile prostitutes are legitimate.
Do they contribute all their ill-gotten gain to the poor? Only a small holdback to provide for basic living expenses would be at all reasonable if genuinely repenting from such acts.
Do they contribute all their ill-gotten gain to the poor? Only a small holdback to provide for basic living expenses would be at all reasonable if genuinely repenting from such acts.
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The "bleeding heart" liberal case for migration was always a Trojan Horse, just like the left's advocacy of free speech in the 60s. It was designed to appeal to our morality so we would roll over and let them win.
In the past decade, we've seen them go mask off on free speech and push for censorship. Now they are beginning to pull the mask of migration to reveal what it truly is:
Importing a bioweapon and creating as much resentment and ennoscriptment in the invaders as possible in order to prompt them to harm Whites. Expect something similar in the US if Dems return to power.
In the past decade, we've seen them go mask off on free speech and push for censorship. Now they are beginning to pull the mask of migration to reveal what it truly is:
Importing a bioweapon and creating as much resentment and ennoscriptment in the invaders as possible in order to prompt them to harm Whites. Expect something similar in the US if Dems return to power.
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Serfdom and slavery are not bad things for those too irresponsible or lazy to care for themselves, which is more people than I'd care to admit.
However, the Puritan ideal of the yeoman (every man a king) is also the Biblical ideal of Deuteronomy. To support such a system, Deuteronomy also imposed strict limits on usury, loan length (no more than 7 years), and rights of land owners.
15 and 30 year mortgages are already slavish and usurious devices, and only a marginal improvement above serfdom.
However, the Puritan ideal of the yeoman (every man a king) is also the Biblical ideal of Deuteronomy. To support such a system, Deuteronomy also imposed strict limits on usury, loan length (no more than 7 years), and rights of land owners.
15 and 30 year mortgages are already slavish and usurious devices, and only a marginal improvement above serfdom.
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Even more so than debt or wrecked institutions, the Boomers’ ultimate legacy will be mass immigration. The original Boomer generation was overwhelmingly white, probably around 85%. When the Boomers entered their 20s around 1970, America was at its lowest foreign-born population share ever. Yet they created a world in which their own children will be turned into racial minorities.
-- Aaron Renn
-- Aaron Renn
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I have seen numerous stats floating around to the effect of women being less interested in dating, marriage, and children than men. And this appears to not be just a stated preference but also a revealed preference; rates of singleness and childlessness have consistently increased.
However, as usual with women, this is by and large a giant sh*t test. They really aren't interested in the bottom 80-90% of men, so it's not entirely untrue, but most women will happily modify their preferences for a man in the top 10-20%.
So don't blackpill, and don't write off women, not even the women who say these things. Rather, elevate yourself into the top 10-20% (which is easier than ever now).
However, as usual with women, this is by and large a giant sh*t test. They really aren't interested in the bottom 80-90% of men, so it's not entirely untrue, but most women will happily modify their preferences for a man in the top 10-20%.
So don't blackpill, and don't write off women, not even the women who say these things. Rather, elevate yourself into the top 10-20% (which is easier than ever now).
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Pharaoh in Egypt was the last person to ever want Jews in his country. Telling, being that's the first foreign nation they ever occupied.
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It is imperative to raise our children with the stories of Beowulf, Homer, Virgil, Chaucer, and the Edda. They must know the art of Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and Giotto. They must see at least images of buildings like the Colonge Cathedral. They must know the music of Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, and Mozart.
They must never believe the lie that "Whites have no culture."
They must never believe the lie that "Whites have no culture."
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When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field,
Thy youth’s proud livery, so gazed on now,
Will be a tattered weed, of small worth held.
Then being asked where all thy beauty lies—
Where all the treasure of thy lusty days—
To say within thine own deep-sunken eyes
Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise.
How much more praise deserved thy beauty’s use,
If thou couldst answer "This fair child of mine,
Shall sum my count and make my old excuse",
Proving his beauty by succession thine.
This were to be new made when thou art old,
And see thy blood warm when thou feel’st it cold.
-- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field,
Thy youth’s proud livery, so gazed on now,
Will be a tattered weed, of small worth held.
Then being asked where all thy beauty lies—
Where all the treasure of thy lusty days—
To say within thine own deep-sunken eyes
Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise.
How much more praise deserved thy beauty’s use,
If thou couldst answer "This fair child of mine,
Shall sum my count and make my old excuse",
Proving his beauty by succession thine.
This were to be new made when thou art old,
And see thy blood warm when thou feel’st it cold.
-- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2
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A belated happy Thanksgiving to everyone, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destory everything America stands for.
Thankful that Trump is honing in on the big issue....
Thankful that Trump is honing in on the big issue....
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Forwarded from Protestant Post (Dr. Basedologist)
Hyperborean St. Nicholas slapping the African heretic Arius c. 325 A.D.
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Forwarded from European Reformation Heritage (Maxime PLF)
Luther Praised Calvin's Writings & Sent Him His Regards Despite Their Differences over the Lord's Supper
"In his reply to Sadolet...Calvin in 1539 wrote: “Christ’s presence, whereby we are ingrafted into him, we by no means exclude from the Supper. Neither do we, indeed, obscure it, guarding only against the assumption of local confinement, against the glorious body of Christ being dragged down into earthly elements, against the fiction of transubstantiation of the bread into Christ to be thereupon adored in lieu of Christ.”
It was to this tract that Luther referred in his letter of Oct. 14, 1539, to Bucer, saying: “Give my respectful greetings to John Sturm and John Calvin, whose tracts I have read with singular pleasure.” Calvin highly appreciated this recognition, and in a letter to Farel of Nov. 20, 1539, remarked: “Crato, one of our printers, lately returned from Wittenberg, bringing a letter from Luther to Bucer in which the following was written: ‘Give my respectful greetings to Sturm and Calvin, whose tracts I have read with singular pleasure.’”
The following words are in the autograph manunoscript, but canceled: “And now consider what I there say on the eucharist. Think of Luther’s magnanimity. One may without difficulty understand what cause those may have who so persistently refuse to unite with him.”
—Dr. Augustus Lawrence Graebner, Calvin and the Augsburg Confession
"Luther never said one unkind word of Calvin...He never saw him, but read some of his books, and heard of him through Melanchthon...Melanchthon sent salutations from Luther and Bugenhagen to Calvin, and informed him that he was in high favor with Luther, notwithstanding the difference of views on the real presence, and that Luther hoped for better opinions, but was willing to bear something from such a good man.
Calvin had expressed his views on the Lord’s Supper...in his answer to Sadolet, which Luther read "with delight,"...Luther must have known these views. He is reported to have seen a copy of Calvin’s tract on the eucharist in a bookstore at Wittenberg, and, after reading it, made the remark: "The author is certainly a learned and pious man: if Zwingli and Oecolampadius had from the start declared themselves in this way, there would probably not have arisen such a controversy."
—Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Vol. 7
"In his reply to Sadolet...Calvin in 1539 wrote: “Christ’s presence, whereby we are ingrafted into him, we by no means exclude from the Supper. Neither do we, indeed, obscure it, guarding only against the assumption of local confinement, against the glorious body of Christ being dragged down into earthly elements, against the fiction of transubstantiation of the bread into Christ to be thereupon adored in lieu of Christ.”
It was to this tract that Luther referred in his letter of Oct. 14, 1539, to Bucer, saying: “Give my respectful greetings to John Sturm and John Calvin, whose tracts I have read with singular pleasure.” Calvin highly appreciated this recognition, and in a letter to Farel of Nov. 20, 1539, remarked: “Crato, one of our printers, lately returned from Wittenberg, bringing a letter from Luther to Bucer in which the following was written: ‘Give my respectful greetings to Sturm and Calvin, whose tracts I have read with singular pleasure.’”
The following words are in the autograph manunoscript, but canceled: “And now consider what I there say on the eucharist. Think of Luther’s magnanimity. One may without difficulty understand what cause those may have who so persistently refuse to unite with him.”
—Dr. Augustus Lawrence Graebner, Calvin and the Augsburg Confession
"Luther never said one unkind word of Calvin...He never saw him, but read some of his books, and heard of him through Melanchthon...Melanchthon sent salutations from Luther and Bugenhagen to Calvin, and informed him that he was in high favor with Luther, notwithstanding the difference of views on the real presence, and that Luther hoped for better opinions, but was willing to bear something from such a good man.
Calvin had expressed his views on the Lord’s Supper...in his answer to Sadolet, which Luther read "with delight,"...Luther must have known these views. He is reported to have seen a copy of Calvin’s tract on the eucharist in a bookstore at Wittenberg, and, after reading it, made the remark: "The author is certainly a learned and pious man: if Zwingli and Oecolampadius had from the start declared themselves in this way, there would probably not have arisen such a controversy."
—Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Vol. 7
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> But immigrants bring tasty diverse food!!!
There is literally an entire story in the Bible written about a man who sells his birthright for a bowl of soup.
God hated him for it.
And he found no chance for repentance though he sought it with tears.
There is literally an entire story in the Bible written about a man who sells his birthright for a bowl of soup.
God hated him for it.
And he found no chance for repentance though he sought it with tears.
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Answering Kevin DeYoung's "Six Questions for Christian Nationalists"
1. Do you unequivocally renounce antisemitism, racism, and Nazism?
> No. Not at all. I would not be wiser than God and condemn as sin that which He is either silent on or calls Good (cf. Isaiah 5).
2. When and how does the nation act as a corporate moral person?
> The entirety of the OT is filled with innumerable examples of God blessing and cursing nations as nations when they collectively, whether de jure or de facto, obey or rebel. Consider Deuteronomy 28, and read it in the KJV or GNV. Notice how God addresses Israel as "thee" and "thou" (i.e., the singular second person). He is not speaking to a plural group of individuals but rather a singular nation, and judges them accordingly.
3. What is the purpose of civil government?
> St. Paul saith in Romans 13 that the magistrate is to be "a terror to bad conduct" and that bears the sword not in vain but to "execute God's wrath on the wrongdoer." Fundamentally, to enforce God's law.
4. What does it mean for the civil magistrate to promote true religion?
> To enforce the basics of God's law, the Decalogue at minimum. To call synods when needed and days of feasting and fasting. To show systematic favoritism to biblical forms of Christianity if not banning false ones. In short what basically every Christian country did till 1800, and many till 1950.
5. Was the First Amendment a mistake?
> Yes. Or to add nuance, no. You see, I have no objection to the 1A as written; however, nearly every judicial interpretation of it has been to the detriment of Christ's Church.
6. What is the historical example of the political order you would like to see in America?
Any Christian nation from the conversion of Constantine until 1945. The models which seem to work best are Medieval England and Germany with their system of monarchy restrained by local nobles, similar to the Roman emperor balanced by the Senate. More dictatorial monarchies can work (Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Spain, and France). And local and democratic systems can also work (America, Switzerland, and Holland), and while I believe there are deficiencies in this model, they are worlds better than our status quo. In fact, I would accept the pagan Norse, Greek, or Roman systems as better than our own.
1. Do you unequivocally renounce antisemitism, racism, and Nazism?
> No. Not at all. I would not be wiser than God and condemn as sin that which He is either silent on or calls Good (cf. Isaiah 5).
2. When and how does the nation act as a corporate moral person?
> The entirety of the OT is filled with innumerable examples of God blessing and cursing nations as nations when they collectively, whether de jure or de facto, obey or rebel. Consider Deuteronomy 28, and read it in the KJV or GNV. Notice how God addresses Israel as "thee" and "thou" (i.e., the singular second person). He is not speaking to a plural group of individuals but rather a singular nation, and judges them accordingly.
3. What is the purpose of civil government?
> St. Paul saith in Romans 13 that the magistrate is to be "a terror to bad conduct" and that bears the sword not in vain but to "execute God's wrath on the wrongdoer." Fundamentally, to enforce God's law.
4. What does it mean for the civil magistrate to promote true religion?
> To enforce the basics of God's law, the Decalogue at minimum. To call synods when needed and days of feasting and fasting. To show systematic favoritism to biblical forms of Christianity if not banning false ones. In short what basically every Christian country did till 1800, and many till 1950.
5. Was the First Amendment a mistake?
> Yes. Or to add nuance, no. You see, I have no objection to the 1A as written; however, nearly every judicial interpretation of it has been to the detriment of Christ's Church.
6. What is the historical example of the political order you would like to see in America?
Any Christian nation from the conversion of Constantine until 1945. The models which seem to work best are Medieval England and Germany with their system of monarchy restrained by local nobles, similar to the Roman emperor balanced by the Senate. More dictatorial monarchies can work (Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Spain, and France). And local and democratic systems can also work (America, Switzerland, and Holland), and while I believe there are deficiencies in this model, they are worlds better than our status quo. In fact, I would accept the pagan Norse, Greek, or Roman systems as better than our own.
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North Sea Legacy
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He was a brave Anglo explorer. And in this house, Cecil Rhodes is a hero. End of story.
Spengler's Faustian Man personified.
Spengler's Faustian Man personified.
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Forwarded from Aesthetics and shitposts (FloridaManDixie_83)
Total Christmas Spirit. Give gifts. Spread cheer. Roundhouse kick a gift into your neighbor's chimney. Slam dunk a toy into your kid's stocking. Celebrate Christ. Prepare a Christmas dinner with your family. Launch Santa's sleigh through the night sky. Bake a Christmas ham in the oven. Toss celebratory messages into your friends' inboxes. Set up a Christmas tree. Judo throw gift cards into your coworker's hands. Drink some eggnog. Receive your Christmas bonus. Chop firewood in half. Wrap colorful presents for your loved ones. Play Christmas carols on your commute. Put a Christmas hat on. Enjoy a steamy cup of hot cocoa. Eat candy canes. Watch a holiday movie. Be holly and jolly wherever you go. Make sure you dress warm. Sit by the fireplace. Think about the people who make you happy. Mandatory wishes of happy holidays. Grind cinnamon to add to your drinks. Play in the snow. Help your neighbor shovel their driveway. Run down the stairs when you hear Santa coming down the chimney. Feed cookies to Santa. Merry Christmas.
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