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eb4d82 No.580061

Are there any good ways to detect if a “Christian” online is just larping? As opposed to being a genuine believer?

02030a No.580063

Liberalism/communism.


5f181d No.580066

If they're a burger and mention MAGA or some neoliberal idpol then tada.


02030a No.580068

>>580061

Case in point: >>580066


71cd2e No.580071

>>580061

Unitarism, dualism, and only interested to go to church for women for a start.


7456bb No.580073

>>580061

You shall know them by…


6b2b94 No.580074

>>580063

This seems to be most Christians in real life, undifferentiated from the atheist masses. They champion all kinds of blatant sin and degeneracy under the liberalist spell, but then say they are Christians. They are larping if they think abortion, homosex, egoism, etc., is compatible with Christianity.


02030a No.580077

>>580074

The jew weaves a potent spell, but soon they will exhaust the mana that maintains the apparition. Our job is to liberate as many as possible before that happens.


531955 No.580078

>>580061

When Cathodox criticize the Masoretic Text, they often have no knowledge of textual criticism and are just blindly larping. Most of the "problems" they name don't exist, and they are often going against the official positions of their Churches. It's a way of both virtue-signalling how much they hate Jews and trying to one-up protestants, and should never be taken seriously.


71519c No.580083

>>580061

For Catholics & Orthodox you can tell if they only all about the crusades & care more about how great Latin/Greek culture was (not saying it wasn't) rather than doctrine or stuff like that as if the religion isn't independent of culture. Anime doesn't help either but I won't consider a weeb a larper for that alone.


02030a No.580085

>>580083

>Implying the Christian faith, which has asceticism, stoicism, objectivity and individuality as core philosophies, is slave to the whim of heathens, jews and pagans.

You're 0 for 2


4e441e No.580088

most churches are larping. Hey just let the state totally roll them over and destroy the family via the family courts and child protective services. All they do if anything is picket abortion clinics.


908ae6 No.580093

If you get the impression that he is not the real deal that's already a pretty good tell.


02030a No.580103

>>580088

The sad part is that it never occurs to us Christians that killing abortion practitioners prevents abortions and is just.


3e35db No.580104

If they consistently to go mass and are active in a parish is a good sign generally

a bad one would be focusing on meme issues


e4dca1 No.580116

>>580078

yea, jews and protestants should definitely stick together


531955 No.580117

>>580116

t. larper


e4dca1 No.580119

>>580083

Papal infallibility, the sacredness of Life, and no fornication outside of marriage are the three big tests for any real Catholic.

They hate the Pope for what he says, they want black children to be killed, and they want to live and have sex with their GFs, and they do not care that this compromises the sanctity of marriage.


b87eb6 No.580183

Using Christianity as a means to a social or political end, such as traditionalist culture and conservatism or nationalism.


e27906 No.580209

>>580061

If you're in a discord server, people call themselves Catholic and "orthodox" and they just can't stop talking about "gassing the kikes" and "fucking niggers" then you can be sure they're a bunch of homos LARPing.

If you are anywhere and people literally obsess with how much of a "cuck" the Pope is, how /anything/ but Catholicism is the real deal, because "Catholicism sparked in the mid 800s or 1054, depending on who you ask", when basically all they do is obsessing with how pagan Catholicism is, then you can be sure they're bunch of homos LARPing.

Because real Christians don't discredit each other. Interestingly, this seems to be solely a trait of mostly anything but Catholics - though I don't want to act as if we didn't have our fair share of LARPers, which are of course no (real) Christians, too.

Generally, if you see people obsessing with politics and other worldly matters - they're in 99% not genuine, because they literally don't care for the Gospel. It become particularly peculiar when they start to somehow put nazism or communism/socialism on a pedestal and "like the funny memes" and all that. That is one of the biggest signs that you have it only to do with homo LARPers.


6ad787 No.580229

LARPer mean someone with ho faith at all lying when he says he is christian ? Just to be sure there is no confusion between this and a weak faith interested to grow.

Personnaly I strongly believe in the Church and God and I whould like to please him but I keep sining for wordly reason. In this matter we are all Larpers as sinners we don't really live according to our faith and our faith is infinitly weaker than it should.

I would hate this word to be used in order to reject the little faith of some. To show how purer your faith is. Even a little interest in christianity is precious and shouldn't be traited with disdain, I don't think that's how we will convert others, we shoudn't ostracize ourself from others. Cultural christian and such should be known for what they are but should be help instead of name-called since he can be someone seaking faith still struggling with some stranger logic.

>>580209

>Generally, if you see people obsessing with politics and other worldly matters - they're in 99% not genuine

>Everyone that have not my pure monk faith and that have interest in politics is a LARPer

Everyone isn't a women, some are interested in action.

You can also point out a LARPer (pharisian) by how pure he want his faith to appear.

tl;dr : Don't judge, even less the faith of someone, just help.


71519c No.580233

>>580085

I never said that but ok.


fc9ea6 No.580243

For Catholic/Orthodox:

They call the other heretics, and say something along the lines of "Im x because y is corrupted by liberalism/communism and x is really super traditional because muh aesthetics"


e27906 No.580287

>>580229

You're laying words in my mouth. I didn't say anyone "interested" in politics, I said anyone obsessed woth politics.

Obiously you're feeling exposed, might as well stop acting like a protestant and interpret everything the way you want instead of just taking it for what it is.

If you obsess with politics and can't stop talking about "muh Trump", "muh ZOG", "muh niggers", "muh libshits" and the like, you're very likely a LARPer and more interested in carrying the label of being Christian than being a Christian.


02030a No.580289

When all you they do is complain without giving an alternative.


bacac4 No.580343

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It's really a combination of things that people have said on here. There are different flavors to poseurs of course, but the most common around here is probably /pol/ types.

>Deus vult Crusades stuff/arguing for earthly Christian militancy in general

>Arguing that Jesus is white

>Talking about how Christianity made the West great/obsessing over past Christian civilizations

>Hateful, often violent speech about perceived sinners

Any of these things in moderation isn't necessarily a tell. For example you can be a legit Christian and subscribe to some bongo wongo theory that Jesus is white. But it's the extent to which you'll argue for this that makes it a giveaway. If it becomes more or less clear that Jesus' whiteness is a cornerstone of someone's faith, it should raise an eyebrow.

Also, I should mention before I get hate that perceived sinners may indeed be sinners. But if calling for stoning the gays is your idea of "wise as serpents and innocent as doves" then I'm not sure what to say to you.


6ad787 No.580437

>>580287

>Generally, if you see people obsessing with politics and other worldly matters - they're in 99% not genuine

Being "obsessed" by politics doesn't necessarly mean you have no faith, maybe too wordly and wanting polemia but men come on, 99%… Being "obsessed" by the way things have come to christianity is a natural reaction. Being worldy or just being worried doesn't mean you have 0 faith.

>If you obsess with politics and can't stop talking about "muh Trump", "muh ZOG", "muh niggers", "muh libshits" and the like, you're very likely a LARPer

For me it's more "muh feminism in church", "muh majority of the catholics in my country are pro-abortion", "muh catholics in my country are in favor of [insert a progressist, satanic subject]" "muh my community support [insert a satanic organisation/system]". Am I a LARPer too obsessed by the poor LARPing of others ? Of course I'm obsessed by the state of my church/community/family and the state of my faith won't change that.

The problem with what you say is the generalization, of course Jesus himself denounced pharisee, and cultural christians are known for what they are. But you can't judge the faith of someone by "Oh ! He is too obsessed by politics, soo he is just a liar !".

Personnaly I have seen a lot of LARPers online, playing the saint, the "I'm not obsessed by politics and wordly matter", "my faith is so pure, I know scripture and cathechism better than everyone else" who finally have finished sedevacantist or other kind of cancer. Hypocrisy (if it was only that), isn't that simple. You can't judge the faith of someone else that easy.

Also I think we are all hyporites before God since we are all sinners. We abandon the truth easily, we are all LARPers.


6f279b No.580439

>>580061

Anyone who tries to bend scripture to fit their personal narrative is a LARPer.


e27906 No.580440

>>580437

see >>580439 before you start to dwell in infinite butthurt. People obsessed with politics do exactly that. They will be protestants - even if they LARP as orthos or Catholics - and cherry pick and basically make their faith according to their political agenda, not the other way around.

It's these "I'm a practising Catholic but I really am pro abortion, because I don't meddle politics and religion, also my body my rights!" or "muh jewsuits gas all kikes race war now" /pol/ types.

Again, stop feeling "triggered" - I don't know you, maybe we've met before. Who knows. But matter of fact is that when you do what I described, you're just wearing a label. That does not imply that you are not trying to become genuine. This is interpretation from your side. All I'm saying is, if you "venerate" Hitler or want to eradicate an ethnic group, you are LARPing.


a91113 No.580441

Pride is the easiest way to tell, especially among those who most loudly proclaim their faith. You see it all the time with LARPer types. Christianity becomes part of their identity which they use to bash non-Christians over the head with. You see this with almost all the sorts of people mentioned in this thread. No humility to be found. "I'm going to Heaven and you're not lmao" or "you're a heretic and I'm not lmao" are dead giveaways. Trampling people under foot isn't very Christ-like, is it?

Keep in mind not to fall into the same trap that they do. Just as they should be seeking to save and not to shame, so should you.


6f6072 No.580443

>>580441

This is the real kernel of the issue. No true Christian believes he is a good person.


6ad787 No.580444

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>>580440

>if you "venerate" Hitler or want to eradicate an ethnic group, you are LARPing.

lol. How can you be LARPing as a christian if you call for a genocide ?

I think people abuse of this term, not really helpfull to understand the complexity of someone's mind. And it brings nothing.


3ae83c No.580446

>>580061

If someone is constantly trying to find faults in other believers and opportunities to call them larpers then they are ipso facto a larper themselves.


2a6980 No.580447

>>580209

>Because real Christians don't discredit each other.

>>580287

>might as well stop acting like a protestant

>>580440

>They will be protestants

Why drag on fellow Christians like that?


d1c9c6 No.580448

>>580183

It’s clearly the other way around. Libshits who are for replacing Christianity with Islam often cherrypick Biblical versus and misinterpret them for their anti-Christian agenda. A common example is “Love your neighbor as thyself.” While conveniently ignoring that it implies to love yourself.


cf2bf9 No.580450

>thinks fornication can ever be okay or no big deal

>supports the LGBT community ®

>calls humans "subhumans"

>supports genocide

>too prideful


6ad787 No.580451


d1c9c6 No.580452

>>580440

>muh jewsuits

This has always confused me. Does /pol/ hate judaism or Jesuits or both?


e27906 No.580456

>>580444

>lol. How can you be LARPing as a christian if you call for a genocide ?

Yes, that's what I'm saying. You can't. Which won't stop these types from calling themselves "christian" anyway.

>>580445

It's not a secret that protestants cherry pick and bend the Gospels and NT in general t their needs. Luther removed the Deuterocanon, because it BTFO'd his sola fide nonsense.

And that is why I'm saying LARPers are like protestants, shaping their faith according to their agenda and not the other way around.

That doesn't mean that there aren't many good Christians among them. Doesn't change the fact that cherry picking is a thing.


e27906 No.580457

>>580452

Probably both ? I don't know. I've never been there and I really don't care either.


6ad787 No.580462

>>580456

Ok, then stop confusing some shitposteur/troll on internet calling for race war and people really interested in politics, and of course sometimes obsessed by this that won't think that. They are not necessarly LARPers.

As a catholic it's normal to think on a political scheme, for exemple to forbid abortion, defending that and some political action the church have done in the past (like the crusades, inquisition and such) for exemple isn't LARPing. You are abusing of this term. It's normal to make politic as a christian.


e27906 No.580464

>>580462

I'm not abusing anything. Do you even know what the term "LARP" is an abbreviation for ? Live Action Role Playing. And that is what anyone does that calls themselves "christian" while advocating for un-Christian shit.

And it does not matter if it's for the sake of "satire" and "just kidding bois" or for real. Because if you sin, you sin. Whether you did that for the lulz or out of serious conviction does not matter.


6ad787 No.580477

>>580464

>you can't joke

Ok.

A joke isn't advocating.

And I think you need to be pretty retarded to take these jokes seriously, especially if it comes from christians.

> some shitposteur say unchristian shit

> he clearly doesn't obey the Church, the case is simple (if he is serious)

< yet you use it to disqualify every christian with an interest in politics as LARPers

just when you sayGenerally, if you see people obsessing with politics and other worldly matters - they're in 99% not genuine


71519c No.580478

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>>580343

I consider a larper to be the other end of the spectrum.

An obsession with trying to prove Jesus wasn't white or having a any sort of problems with His depictions or the way He or Mary His mother for that matter chooses to present themselves in a lot of visions & apparitions. The Church is what gave people the idea that Jesus looks white & even when Mary appearing to POC like St. Juan Diego (she imprinted her likeness onto his cloths)& Portugal, she still looks white & I do not think the Church, these Saints like St. Faustina. & Jesus Himself, are lying about their appearance.

It comes off as being racist against Jesus & ideological motivated.


c24998 No.580480

They post on imageboards.


6f6072 No.580483

I thought 'LARPing' was a term used by low-church protestants to describe anyone whose denomination has high-church decorations vestments, incense, etc., the implication being that the person cares more about the visuals than the faith.


cfd506 No.580528

>>580061

No one is perfect according to Ecclesiastes 7:20, but what they shouldn't do is bend the rules to pretend that they aren't sinning. Admit your mistakes instead of being blinded by pride.


6ad8ab No.580556

If they like CF that's one easy red flag. At the very least they don't follow Ephesians 4 and 5.

If they use any of a number of falsely-predicated terms you find in the mainstream it's a pretty strong giveaway that if they aren't LARPing as Christian, that at the minimum, they are very badly subverted and in need of seeing the truth in a lot of very fundamental ways, like the fact that later jews are not the chosen people for instance, or that the term racism was invented by communists to hamstring christianity. And that all the related concepts behind class struggle, which took hold in the 1960's, are actually Talmudic in origin and responsible for the breakup of the family. Those kinds of things.


e27906 No.580656

>>580477

You've just proven my point. Thank you. No, a joke is nothing bad. A joke about genocide is. You know why ? Because it fucking ridicules and downplays the fucking genocide ?! Lord Jesus Christ have mercy upon me a sinner. You are dense af, I can't believe it.

And if you don't think it's fun, go to someone that was in Auschwitz during the holocaust and say "haha wanna hear a joke ? Hitler did nothing wrong and there actually was no holocaust teehee :^)". See the reactions. Tell me if you did committ a sin or not.

Matthew 12:36

>>>But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.

Does that sound like "teehee a joke doesn't hurt nobody alrigth ?". No it doesn't. It implies to shut your fucking face, especially when it's inappropriate. Obsessing with politics just plays into this. You set your agenda above Christ.

Read Psalm 16, 1 Peter 2:10-11, Titus 2:11-13 and most importantly but not least 1 John 2:15-16. If you obsess with politics - and worse: With genocidal ideologies - you put worldly matters before Christ.

That is grave sin if I may remind you. Despite from the fact that when you make inappropriate political jokes (no matter if to peers or to get others upset) you are uncharitable to the max. Which is grave sin as well.

I don't know which Bible and Catechism you read, or if you read them at all, but I highly advise to do so. You could learn a lot.


6ad787 No.580663

>>580656

muh someone made a bad taste joke on the internet and some people are bitter and uncharitable, I conclude everyone too much interested by politics have no faith.

Hative judgement are uncharitable too, you know.

Also how have you gone from "people too obsessed by politics" to people praising Hitler in front of an Auschwitz survivor ? looks like your confused.

Every human, including saint are uncharitable in front of God, it doesn't mean they have 0faith.

Don't judge them so quickly.


c289d2 No.580665

I wonder this often. One telltale sign is that they will quote scripture that has almost nothing to do with the discussion. There's that one guy who speaks in bible verses without actually typing them out. That man irritates me extremely.

I'm always appalled at the complete lack of respect I see here. Even if we disagree, we shouldn't be telling each other that we're going to hell. When you do that, you're effectively staying that you understand God's judgement. A true Christian would know we can never fully perceive perfect justice. I'm glad it earns you a ban.


84d868 No.584420

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>>580061

Ask what they would do to a personal enemy of him or someone he just hates very much if he could do anything to that person.

If the answer is in some sense "I would make him see the truth" or "make him be a better person" then you are talking to a christian and not a larper.


f43a99 No.593113

>>580063

not the same thing


ad328c No.593138

>>580665

Why are these threads the only threads all the sensible, perfectly reasonable people choose to comment in? Do you guys just lurk everywhere else? I need you on my side when the race worshippers rear their confused heads.


ca17b2 No.593155

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0.5. DEUS VULT, memes and racism.

1.Do you see them posting during what would be church hours?

2.Do they go out of their way to make sure you know that not only are they are a christian but a specific denomination?

3.Are they quick to shit on other demonimations- so much so that its one of the first things they do when they encounter another christian?

4.Do they think their denomination has no skeletons in the closet or problems?

5.Do they get references/ biblical allusions?

6.Is their religion tied up with their racial/national identity or heritage?

7.Are they overly familiar with certain historical events.

These are general ones, the more specific things tend to be denominational. For instance if someone identifies as a catholic but cant recite the Lords Prayer or a Hail Mary at the drop of a hat 9.5/10 times its a larper. Same with Lutherans who dont know the solae or Baptists who cant tell you what salvation is and how it is obtained.


cd4540 No.593170

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>>580061

>Are there any good ways to detect if a “Christian” online is just larping? As opposed to being a genuine believer?

INFINITE REGRET SAYS "NO"'

It's problem even in the RL world, but it's made much worse by the anonymity of the interwebz. It's what plagues this board and, to a lesser extent, /pol/

How does anyone determine if another is a believer or not? Only the Spirit truly knows. It would be nice to have an automated DNA-like test we could shoot down the wires or inject into people we meet at Church.

All we can say is "you''ll know them by their fruit", which is great if you get to know people, but on the internet, fagget it. So, you either choose to give everyone the benefit of the doubt and get regularly trolled by dickheads, or you choose to treat everyone with the same distance and disdain until you become a shrivelled-up cynical troll yourself like most fedoras.

>>580066

I lol'd

this is just MAGA garbage >>580063


cd4540 No.593172

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>>580478

>… the way He or Mary His mother for that matter chooses to present themselves in a lot of visions & apparitions


b9e84f No.593174

>>593170

Reddit please leave




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