• Zoolander@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    …failed to demonstrate that

    I have not failed to demonstrate that. You’re just ignoring the responses. By your definition, Satan is a Christian because he believes in Jesus. He’s met him, after all.

    And that’s actually…

    False. You’re injecting politics into the question. Based on Catholic doctrine and Papal Infallability, both of which I’ve already agreed are pointless and circular, Urban VI is the “real” Pope since he was the one that was chosen by God. The French Cardinals would have been the blasphemers in this case for arguing that God was wrong in choosing Urban. You can extrapolate the rest from that.

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      9 months ago

      Now we’re getting somewhere.

      Since Urban VI was the rightful Pope, it follows that the other claimaints were not, and that the successors of Urban VI (Boniface IX, Innocent VII, and finally Gregory XII) were also rightful Popes.

      But Gregory XII papacy was renunciated. Even though he was the rightful Pope, chosen by God through election. Doesn’t this mean (by your own “rules”) that the entire Catholiuc Church as it stands today is not Catholic, because they’ve all been revering and listening to false Popes since ~1418?

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        9 months ago

        They’re not my “rules” but, yes… By the Catholic’s own dogma, the entire Catholic Church would not be Catholic since the people went against the wishes of God. That being said, since none of it makes sense and the points don’t matter, the Catholics can also hand-wave the whole contest away by saying that God guided it to happen through “mysterious ways” that we don’t understand. Again, I’m not arguing that any of it makes sense. I’m just arguing that, by their own rules, there’s no such thing as a “false Pope”.

        Also, the word you’re looking for is renounced. The transitive form of renunciation is “renounced”.

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          9 months ago

          You’re arguing pretty hard for something that even you claim doesn’t make sense. Now that we both agree that what you’ve been saying doesn’t make sense - which is kind of what I’ve been driving at - I have to get back to work.

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            9 months ago

            I’m arguing against what you said. Period. What you said was wrong, plain and simple. I don’t have to agree that any of it makes sense to know that what you said wasn’t accurate. And I’m not agreeing that what I said doesn’t make sense. I’m agreeing that Christianity and the rules of Catholic dogma don’t make sense. I don’t have to agree that the Pope is infallible and that people drink the actual transubstantiated blood of their figurehead to call out someone saying that “they don’t think he’s actually infallible” or “they don’t think it’s actually his blood” is not true. Catholic belief dictates a bunch of things that I think are nonsense. That doesn’t mean they don’t believe it.