This is just a LARP. Catholic romanticists like Chesterton or Tolkien will claim that Catholicism preserved the best aspects of Rome and paganism but then when you push them, Catholic apologists will claim that Catholicism is entirely based on the Bible and Old Testament Hebrewism, and wasn't influenced by Hellenism or Rome at all.
>when you don't have the frontiers of the Roman Empire during Trajan's reign >nor the Gods that were worshipped since Romulus Quirinus, the First King, to Augustus, the First Emperor, to Julian II, the last true Roman Emperor >neither the values and morals that made the Roman Republic, first, and later Empire great in the first place >but somehow you still the Roman Empire
I swear, "Third-Romanists" are one of the most moronic people I ever meet, they're even more cringe that Mormons proclaiming Jesus was from Missouri or Anglo-Israelites proclaim England is the lost 13 tribe.
This is just a LARP. Catholic romanticists like Chesterton or Tolkien will claim that Catholicism preserved the best aspects of Rome and paganism but then when you push them, Catholic apologists will claim that Catholicism is entirely based on the Bible and Old Testament Hebrewism, and wasn't influenced by Hellenism or Rome at all.
That's the entire point of Catholic apologists like Inspiring Philosophy or historians like Tom Holland. It's purely reactionary to the Victorian ideas that Christianity preserved pagan and pre-Christian European culture.
I was baptized and confirmed Saturday night, and it feels so good to be home. However, I am married to a woman who has made it clear that she has no desire to convert, is on birth control, and wants to strictly limit the number of children we have to 1. I sometimes worry due to comments she makes that she is even sincere about having children at all, which is a change from our pre-marriage discussions. I am in love with her, and we have been together since we were young. However, the past week I have been wracked with thoughts of whether or not our marriage is even valid, and frankly I have been fantasizing about what my life would be like if I had come home to the church before marriage, and married a Catholic instead. Full honesty, spending time with my baptismal sponsor, who is a woman that I am attracted to has also played a role here. I can't divide what thoughts are of pure heart, and best for my spiritual development, and to what extent I just have a crush that should be ignored. I've spoken to a few priests about it, and their advice has been helpful spiritually, but they've been more hesitant to make any practical recommendations. I am praying the rosary and starting a Novena to St. Monica, but I guess I'm looking for advice, prayers and words from people who have been in a similar situation. Answers from Catholics only please. Thanks.
Rome died with its religion.
Rome had no state religion prior to Christianity
>Rome had no state religion prior to Christianity
Idiota
Thanks for proving my point, sweetheart 😉
Christcucks doing what they do best: lying about history.
Sure. If an anonymous loser says so...
Have fun seething about Christianity for another year
Cope.
have fun with the lake of fire
kiss ma feet romanboy
>when you don't have the frontiers of the Roman Empire during Trajan's reign
>nor the Gods that were worshipped since Romulus Quirinus, the First King, to Augustus, the First Emperor, to Julian II, the last true Roman Emperor
>neither the values and morals that made the Roman Republic, first, and later Empire great in the first place
>but somehow you still the Roman Empire
I swear, "Third-Romanists" are one of the most moronic people I ever meet, they're even more cringe that Mormons proclaiming Jesus was from Missouri or Anglo-Israelites proclaim England is the lost 13 tribe.
(and that's a good thing)
This is just a LARP. Catholic romanticists like Chesterton or Tolkien will claim that Catholicism preserved the best aspects of Rome and paganism but then when you push them, Catholic apologists will claim that Catholicism is entirely based on the Bible and Old Testament Hebrewism, and wasn't influenced by Hellenism or Rome at all.
Nobody's saying that
That's the entire point of Catholic apologists like Inspiring Philosophy or historians like Tom Holland. It's purely reactionary to the Victorian ideas that Christianity preserved pagan and pre-Christian European culture.
Roman Catholicism isn't christianity though. And everyone in Europe already knew this since the middle ages.
Everyone says that
Catholic church is literally the last continuously existing Roman institution
The Roman Empire died in 1806.
>1922
FTFY
What the frick happened in 1922?
Greeks outta turkey
Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire
So this is the power of le based tradcath romarinos...
Never heard of Elagabalus?
Must have missed that one
>lives on
The Roman Empire is mummified in the form of the Catholic Church but it's spirit lives in the US, Russia, and China.
I was baptized and confirmed Saturday night, and it feels so good to be home. However, I am married to a woman who has made it clear that she has no desire to convert, is on birth control, and wants to strictly limit the number of children we have to 1. I sometimes worry due to comments she makes that she is even sincere about having children at all, which is a change from our pre-marriage discussions. I am in love with her, and we have been together since we were young. However, the past week I have been wracked with thoughts of whether or not our marriage is even valid, and frankly I have been fantasizing about what my life would be like if I had come home to the church before marriage, and married a Catholic instead. Full honesty, spending time with my baptismal sponsor, who is a woman that I am attracted to has also played a role here. I can't divide what thoughts are of pure heart, and best for my spiritual development, and to what extent I just have a crush that should be ignored. I've spoken to a few priests about it, and their advice has been helpful spiritually, but they've been more hesitant to make any practical recommendations. I am praying the rosary and starting a Novena to St. Monica, but I guess I'm looking for advice, prayers and words from people who have been in a similar situation. Answers from Catholics only please. Thanks.