🧵 The reason for this is not only that it defends the soundness of doctrine, but also the Catholic Church would abuse the notion of a divine mystery to inject heretical doctrine. Such as indulgences granting release for souls in purgatory.

🧵 The issue you are running into here, is in Lutheranism sola scriptura is used to dismiss heretical traditions. This occurs as well with Sacrimental Union (the Lords Supper) as well as the Trinity. Lutherans reject attempts to decipher divine mysteries without support from scripture.

It’s not democrats fault — but also, they ran on the premise of preventing democratic backsliding, even though they lost the national election; elected dems still have an ethical obligation to deliver on their promises made to the electorate.

What does this mean? Throwing minorities under the bus? Why vote Democrat at all? I will boycott all elections if Dems follow that route.

The unicode encoding is completely different on the characters, lol.

Was the page fully loaded when the first command was run?

I agree with this — though, I think because of barriers to undocumented immigrants receiving the legal minimum wage standards; there is an economic trade off to some extent.

I tend to think of slavery as an example where racism was used to justify an economic system first and foremost, whereas anti-Latino racism in America tends to not serve a direct economic benefit itself, but serves as a distraction.

Do you have thoughts on materialist interpretations focused on redirection by the majority of anger at material circumstances vs direct material exploitation as prominent causes?

What is even the current composition of the opposition to Assad? Is it mostly Turkish backed rebels at this point, and if so — will they eventually turn towards the Kurds?

😭😂 Don’t fall for the bots!!

Here’s an interesting proposition:
Yes we accept faith alone as justification for why we believe in divinely inspired truth.
Yet; if you believe in empirical perception alone — how do you know perception = reality without faith? Empiricists also rely on faith to justify their beliefs as true.

🪡Citations: bookofconcord.org/large-catech... - book of concord
www.projectwittenberg.org/pub/resource... - 95 theses

🪡 I would like to conclude by wrapping the two segments of my thread together: Luthers opposition in the 95 theses to indulgences is related to a wider opposition to theft, and he had perceived indulgences as violating the 7th commandment in addition to the many other issues with indulgences.

🪡 He goes as far as to say - what is far worse than lowly thieves is the arch thieves, whom had kept company with lords and princes and plundered the wealth of cities under the protection of and coordinated by the papacy.

🪡Luther places great emphasis in general within this section, exclaiming the importance of fair market activity. Going as far as to call those [workmen, mechanics, and day-laborers] who cheat in the market buy over charging "far worse than sneak-thieves."

🪡In the section of the Large Catechism "Thou shalt not steal." Luther goes as far to say of God: "Him who takes care of the poor sorrowful hearts, and will not allow them to go unavenged" in regards to the overcharging of the poor, when we ought to "give [to] for nothing".

🪡The preference of helping the poor over the papacy is a consistent theme not just because of the great wealth, and unnecessary nature of indulgences practiced by the papacy - but because Luther doctrinally places great emphasis on charity and sees the exploitation of the poor as a form of theft.

🪡The other time this is mentioned in the 95 theses is regarding the pope - "Why does not the pope, whose wealth is to-day greater than the riches of the richest, build just this one church of St. Peter with his own money, rather than with the money of poor believers?" (86th thesis)