#tbf the eastern orthodox have this one correct. they really got it.

[soldier-poet-king]

I very much try to live by a 'most generous interpretation' ethos and just try desperately to believe everyone is trying their best to seek and do Good, even though our understanding of it is always necessarily incomplete and limited, I truly do believe most people are fundamentally searching for that, but oh man sometimes y'all make me read theological opinions on this site that's not just 'i severely disagree but see how one could get to that opinion even if I think it an awful conclusion' but more like 'this is the worst thing I've ever seen and I wish I didn't have eyes'

#rare W for catholics bc we be arguing about everything but at least theres SOME common grounding #arguments about quote unquite being saved. and who's really saved. and all that. im #imma be real with you chief. peace and love to all but calvinism is a crime #this also includes not strict calvinism but all the debates abt predestination and the elect or even just #*fully accepting christ and being saved* #like nulla salva discourse amongst catholics is bad dont get me started #but at least there is SOME basis for universalist and anonymous christian arguments #i mean. like. yeah im way way lefter than most orthodox theologians. obvs #but yall really out here still arguing about who's saved?? FOR REALSIES??? #have you considered. its far more complex and the soul and the divine cant be fully contained in human terms #and its so much broader and more terrorible and more wonderful than we can ever comprehend #now in a mirror dimly. etc etc etc. #anyway the transcendence of it all. the beauty and terror of the holy. #tbf the eastern orthodox have this one correct. they really got it. #faith tag #like peace and love and all due respect but also. this is why religious trauma and scruples is so widespread in western christianity. like.