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About missionaries in Japan, the most well known Christian missionary from my country that came to Japan was saint Maximilian Kolbe. He came to Japan, to Nagasaki in 1930 and spent there six years. He learned Japanese. He founded in Nagasaki a Fransiscian monastery (called Mugenzai no Sono), that's still existing. To build the monastery he chose a place on the outskirts of Nagasaki, on the slopes of a mountain Hikosan (although it was said then not to be the best place for that). But thanks to this the monastery survived the atom bomb attack. And the Franciscians, after the atom bomb attack, were helping the victims. Maximilian Kolbe is known worldwide (among Catholics, but not only) also because of his heroic death in 1941 in the German death camp of Auschwitz when he volunteered to die in place of another prisoner (who had wife and children). And another Polish missionary known in Japan was friar Zeno Żebrowski, who also came to Japan in 1930 and when the war ended he was organizing orphanages and housing for homeless people in Japan, the victims of the war. He died in Tokyo in 1982. In his work he cooperated for instance with Satiko Kitahara, a Japanese woman, whose beatification process has been opened by the Pope and is still ongoing.
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It seems that for interviewed Japanese people relationships or marriage is not about being really close to each other and to really care about your partner. Such relationships or marriages seem to be rather for reasons of social status or some economic interests, or at most only to have and raise children and to share a household - but not to be real life partners to each other. And if people spent most of their lives in their work and then after work they go to prostitutes or cheat on their partners, they in fact do not have much in common and are indifferent to each other, like strangers. They live not with each other, but only next to each other. That is no real partnership, relationship or family. In real, serious, adult relationship you cannot just separate such aspects as feelings, emotions, love, mutual trust, intimacy and sex as well, these all should just naturally go together between people who really want to be with each other and really care. And in this interview, it was so terrible when one of the girls was saying that she has a boyfriend, but she cheats on him, because she doesn't like him at all. It is so superficial and terrible to this person. Why she just doesn't not have enough respect to him as a person to break up with him. It is so fake and doesn't make sense at all to call something like that a real relationship and to stay in it. And also it is so cringe when one of the girls said that an important reason to go to a prostitute may be when men go there with their boss. In Europe, it would be considered completely unacceptable and just sick - having such experiences with your boss, having your professional and private, intimate life so mixed up.
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It's interesting to read about Japanese saints and beatified - like Satoko Kitahara (her beatification peocess is ongoing) or Ukon Takayama (beatified by Pope Francis in 2017). Or about another Japanese Catholic, Takashi Nagai. Also about Polish saint (known by many Catholics, in many countries) Maksymilian Kolbe - who came to Japan in 1930 and spent six years there. He established in Nagasaki a Fransiscian monastery (called Mugenzai no Sono - The Garden of the Immaculata), still existing. To build a monastery he chose a place on slopes of a nearby mountain Hikosan (although it was said then them it's not a good place for that). But thanks to such decision the monastery survived, not destroyed, the atom bomb attack. After the attack and after the war also the Franciscians were helping the victims of the war, orphans, homeless, sick etc. Saint Maksymilian Kolbe himself came back in 1936 to Poland - he is worlwide known for giving his life voluntarily for another prisoner in Auschwitz German Nazi concentration camp, where he was murdered (in a hunger bunker) on 14th August 1941 (the prisoner he sacrificed his life for, thanks to him, survived whole war). And another Fransiscian friar who worked for his whole life in Japan, was friar Zeno Żebrowski - he came to Japan in 1930 together with saint Maksymilian Kolbe, but he stayed, and when the war ended he was organizing orphanages and housing for homeless people in Japan, the victims of the war, he was also cooperating with above mentioned Satoko Kitahara (who is going to be beatified by Pope). He died in Tokyo in 1982.
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@casper-z9rkls6gl I don't know the names You wrote, only Mother Teresa - which for me is obviously, without any doubt, a saint in Heaven. I've read a book, with her writings, titled "Come Be My Light. The private writings of the saint of Calcutta". I am Catholic, and as I've mentioned above, for me the true Christian Church, established by Christ, is the Roman Catholic Church (by the way, most of people in my country are Catholics, since centuries). But I also believe that even a murdered can sometimes be saved, because of great God's Mercy - although it's not easy, such things to happen, because such person must truly regret, be able to regret because of the harm done (not just because of fear of punishment), for what such person did. Which not often is possible, just pretended. But we cannot say it for sure, only God knows. It's doesn't mean that such person, if truly regretting and asking God for forgiveness, will be in Heaven, just after his death. Because everyone can face God only if his soul is pure - that's why there's also the Purgatory, where God's Mercy and Justice can be fulfilled both, and the soul can be cleansed. But it's doesn't mean that a sinner cannot be saved, so not condemned for eternal hell, if he asks truly for God's forgiveness, regrets for all the sins, and asks for God's Mercy.
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It was really interesting interview, with some interesting opinions. For instance, about perspectives of Japan in future. Probably, it's impossible, even if people wish so, to leave everything completely unchanged. However, I agree with the comments saying that a wise, reasonable immigration policy is indeed required, not such as in some European countries, where uncontrolled immigration and no real assimilation of immigrants with the country's culture have been causing a lot of serious problems. And I also didn't know about these drinking habits in Japan. In consequence, is there in Japan a bigger social and health problem with alcoholism, if people tend to drink almost everyday? In my country people of course drink alcohol, but I think that few people drink so often, like six days a week (it's easy to get addicted soon in this way). And you usually don't go to drink with your boss, unless there is some special occasion, for instance some integration trip once a year or sth like that. I like also what he says about visiting some places other than only those most known tourist attractions and big cities. I'd like to go to such places one day where you can see also the beauty of Japan's nature.
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@Darur1308 OK, I understand what You mean. But the video is not at all about this really, but only about some people saying just that they converted, mostly because of marriage reasons, that's all. So it's not really about difficulties in practicing any religion in Japan. And I think it would be more interesting about different religions, also about Christianity of course, because it may be interesting if people are able to practice their religion if they go for a longer time to Japan. So it's not only about Muslims. For instance, in case of Christianity there are different churches, like Catholic, various Evangelical ones that differ a lot, Orthodox etc., and probably it's not so easy for everyone to find a church they belong to and that's not far, especially outside the biggest cities.
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I speak Polish, English and German. I also know a bit of French, as I had it in my primary school, and in my secondary school I had some Latin. It also depends much at what level someone really knows a language. Because it's not so very hard to learn more languages, when it's only about some basic phrases, in basic everyday life situations. Much harder is to master a language to be able to use it in advanced, proffessional situations, with proffessional vocabulary in various fields, like for instance law, medicine, accounting and financial reporting etc.
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I personally cannot understand why some people, especially younger generations nowadays, are not more interested in learning foreign languages. It's a real pleasure to know other languages. I know two foreign languages, namely English and German (German more passively, as I don't use it in my professional life, mostly I like to read books in German, just for fun). At school, I had also some French and later also some Latin. But if I find more time, I'd like to learn some more foreign languages. So in this video, there should be also another question - if they can speak any other foreign language. But if they are in fact taught English for many years at schools, they should know it at a communicative level.
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Yes, Akita is well known. And I can add for instance a name of Satoko Kitahara, whose beatification process is ongoing (there's an article about her in Wikipedia, also in English). She cooperated for instance with Franciscans from Nagasaki, especially with Friar Zeno Żebrowski - who came to Japan, to Nagasaki, in 1930 together with St Maksymilian Kolbe (Father Kolbe came later, after established a monastery in Nagasaki, to Poland, and was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp by Germans, giving his life voluntarily in exchange for another prisoner there). The monastery survived the atom bomb attack on Nagasaki, and I think it still exists.
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@IzzyKawaiichi It's Your opinion. Catholics believe there's purgatory. Of course, I'm not any theologian, but in the Bible there are more places, where there's mentioned the need of praying for the souls of those that are already dead. And it's obvious it's not about those who are already pure in Heaven, because they don't need this. And not for those that are in hell, condemned, apart from God forever. So although there's no such word used "purgatory", but there's a notion of purification after death before one is ready to enter Heaven, to stand before God. And the prayers and sacrifices of those still living can aid in that cleansing, of those souls that need it. Without that notion it would be hard to talk about justice as well as about mercy of God, it would be definitely unjust or merciless. So we just know it's in the Bible, and believe in that since thousands of years already, and will believe. But of course, no one forces You also to believe in that, after all everyone has his own free will. And everyone of us will know themselves, sooner or later, if we want or not, we will see ourselves.
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@IzzyKawaiichi As I've read about it (but of course, as I've mentioned already above, I'm not any theologian, just an ordinary person), it's for instance already even in the Old Testament, in the Second Book of Maccabees, some other also. But of course, I know that Protestant Christians don't believe in it. We do. And also not being a Catholic, You don't believe in any apparitions of Jesus or Mother of God, srill happening - but we do, it's enough just to mention Fatima or St Faustina Kowalska, or Father Pio of Petrelcina, and other. You don't have to believe in it, but we do. But I don't believe in it of course only because of these apparitions. For me it's just totally logical, that's why I agree with the Catholic Church views on that matter. Because most of us (only some living a saint live already on this world), when we die, we won't be so pure to be ready to stand before God. That's why souls, those not deserving to be condemned, not chosing to reject God and going to hell, need to be purified in order to be able to stand before God, to stay with Him. That's why we pray for our relations and other people that passed away, but are still in purgatory, need our prayers, we are the one Church with them. Of course, You don't have to believe in it, but we do. And as I've already said above, it's not even worth any quarrels, because afterall we will find out all ourselves, in not such a long time, how it really is. For us, purgatory shows both, God's Mercy and His Justice as well.
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It's so sad. It seems that many of these children and teenagers experienced much violence and mistreatment, and often probably also earlier at their home or school environments. And everyone does nothing, no one cares, but they just pretend not see or even further abuse them. These youngsters suffer, have severe psychological problems, resulting in hurting themselves, commiting suicides, ruining their young lives with drugs and prostitution. It shouldn't be like this. The state and the society should do much more to develop and implement a healthy system to prevent such problems and solve them, starting from early stages, when violence, mistreatment, psychological or mental problems begin, not leaving them alone. And it's very often not easy to help such teenagers, who already experienced so many bad things in their lives. So there should be people who are taught and prepared how to be able to help such teenagers, how to get to them and who would care. The state and society should really care about such young lives. Also taking into account that they do need young people, because of demography showing that their society is getting old and there's much too little young people who will work in future for the retired. So it does matter that lives of such teenagers are not ruined.
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@TedEhioghae Of course, there are differences, because of various schisms that occured thoughout ages, because of various reasons. But the most important is that all these Christian Churches believe in Christ as God and Savior, so we try to look for what we have all in common, in ecumenical cooperation, rather than concentrating only on the differences. Of course, for me as a Catholic, the only true Church, established by Christ Himself, is the Catholic Church. But it doesn't mean I cannot respect other Christians, although we do differ, in various dogmatic issues.
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SabinaS.N.O.W. I'm also a viewer, subscribed already since some longer time, and as such that's obvious I can express my opinion, like everyone else. After all, that's the point of such public, international channels. And as I've already stated above, I think that generally religion is a very sensitive topic. So taking into account that subcribers are also different, from many different countries, of many religions, it should be about more of the religions, in a fair proportion (at least about all those biggest ones), or about none of them. That's my opinion to which, like everyone else, I'm entitled, and which I can express freely. After all, this is why there are the comment sections on YouTube channels, for everyone.
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@leelee12123 I visited Madeira few years ago (before Covid), and I really loved it. There's indeed much to do there, the island is diverse - it's for those who like ocean, as well as for those who like trekking and walking. The whole atmosphere was great there - although I think it's not for those that like some noisy, big parties in big resorts, it's more peaceful, which for me was an advantage. The views were great, people really nice, food tasty, especially fruits - I loved passion fruits, there's plenty of them there. I definitely would like to go there one more time - and maybe I will in future, because it's still much to see (for instance, I didn't manage to go to Porto Santo, or Ponta de São Lorenço, and some other places worth seeing also). By the way, I've recently heard in the news about problems with fires of forests there this year, I'm really sorry for the local people.
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@homie3461 Generally, around the world there are two approaches to citizenship - one is so-called "ius sanguinis" (in Latin), meaning the citizenship by bloodline and the other is so-called "ius soli", meaning the citizenship by place of birth. So in the USA is "ius soli" system, and also in Canada and some countries in South America, like Brasil or Argentina. In European countries the main approach is "ius sanguinis" (with some rare exceptions, for instance when the parents of a child are not known or have no citizenship, and the child is born or found in a country). And allowing the double nationality is another thing. Actually, nowadays most of the countries, with some exceptions like Japan and few othe countries, allow having double citizenship.
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@small_fries7573 What You write just doesn't make sense and I must say I don't agree with it. Such thinking that because Jesus Christ died on the Holy Cross to redeem us, took our sins on Himself, doesn't mean that we will all go to Heaven no matter how we live our earthly life and what we do. How can You write that it doesn't matter if we keep the Commandments or not? In the Commandments all is about destroying by human acts the relationship with God and with the others, about doing harm, like killing, stealing, betraying, not respecting God and worshipping other, often evil, things more etc. So it's definitely, completely, obviously wrong, such way of thinking. That one can be a bad, horrible person, doing for his whole life only harm and evil, even killing, one can be an egoist not caring about anyone at all - and he don't even have to repent, ask for forgiveness and try to repair the harm done, and it all doesn't matter at all, because no matter what you do and how you live, you have quaranteed in advance a place in Heaven. So what kind of morality, not even religion, is it, such way of thinking? Of course, it matters much how we live, what we do, if we harm the others, what are our true intentions, how we act, if we help the others around us etc. And I am a Catholic and I love the Holy Catholic Church, established by Christ (although it doesn't of course mean that Catholics, being people, like all the other humans, are not sinners, because we all are). I really hope I will stay in the Catholic faith till my rest breath at this world. I love also the Mother of God, the saints to which we pray, the sacraments, the rosary. I believe that the Divine Mercy is the greatest feature of God, so everyone, even the biggest sinners, can be saved. But it most be also their will to be saved by God and His Mercy. God doesn't force us to be with Him, for eternity, against our own choice and free will. If we reject Him, live our lives bad and die not regretting for all the harm with done, don't ask God, with our free will, to forgive us, don't ask for His help and Mercy, don't care about it, it will be our choice, according to our free will given by God Himself to every human, to be condemned, by rejecting all the good, evil and love that God is. So it's not enough to just believe in God's existence, because even Satan knows that God exists, but he rejected God. And I also think that even those who were born in different cultures and in consequence don't know God, if they live a good life, allow the God's light and love in that way to their souls, will be saved, not condemned, because of God's Mercy. But it does matter how we live, what we do in our lifetime, what our heart, soul and intentions truly are. And also, because of God's Justice as well as God's Mercy, all those who die with their souls not being pure enough to stand before God, to be in Heaven right away, but who didn't reject God completely, their souls will have to be cleansed first in the purgatory, and it's fair and just. Because our earthly lives and intentions do affect the purity of our souls, it does matter how someone lived at this Earth, how he made use of the time given Him by God here, in his earthly life.
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@anewmindsetforeveryone The words are not really so similar. I know, because I've learned both of the languages, English and German, and I like both. By games You can learn for sure some vocabulary, and so on. Agree that games may be sth good to start with. I started to learn English when I was 8 years old, and it was indeed much easier as a child. I see the difference in the way of learning - because learning German I started later, when I was not a kid anymore. But if someone wants to learn at the higher level, for proffesional purposes, You have to also learn all the grammar. And for sure, German grammar is more complicated than English. That's why I believe it's easier to start with English. But of course, if someone has time, it's best to learn more languages at the same time, and the best in the childhood.
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@russellward4624 Really, it's so easy to defame the others nowadays, and especially those who cannot defend their good name anymore. What is hard it's to go and sacrifice so much, in such extreme conditions, like Mother Teresa and other sisters did, in the poorest slums, among lepers, rejected by everyone. There would always be such attacks and attempts to destroy and hate towards those that do such God's work like her. So of course, You can believe in everything You want, it's Your free will and Your opinion. I myself read even one or twice such "revelations" and Internet sensations about her, but I'm totally convinced - among others after reading her writings, and also taking into account that during the beatification and canonization processes, that are formalized and are conducted under detailed rules, after thorough investigations concerning the life of each beatified or canonized person - that's it's obviously not true. And if there are really proven any defraudations of money caused by her, the congregation would have to pay it back, even after her death, which just didn't happen. So that's my opinion. Afterall, we all know that she was so extremely rich, she lived in luxury and she was spending so much money on her pleasures, sure (it's of course irony). And we all know she received the Nobel Prize for nothing, was canonization for nothing, is revered much by so many people just for nothing, sure. But I don't say that You cannot believe in such defamations, it's a free world.
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@chillout914 Well, unfortunately it's not so easy. Because in some Western or Scandinavian European countries immigrants, despite of living for more decades or even generations there, do not want to assimilate at all, don't even respect legal order and values of these countries - which we can see in TV news, like riots on the streets, burning of cars, violence, security threats and so on. And also many do not really contribute to a state's economy, but just live of social benefits, not working. So this is indeed a complex, difficult and sensitive topic.
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@TedEhioghae Of course, I know. For my whole life I attend Church, and my family also. But no one in my country (where 90% of people are Christians) thinks like this, that such things as makeup or hairstyle or clothes (unless someone would come half naked to a church, which of course would be inappropriate and disrispectful) has anything to do with faith. And what right someone has to judge the others, according to their appearance - it has nothing to do with Christianity. What really matters is what someone has in his heart, not how he looks like. It's not Christianity, to judge the others in such a way. Even Christ Himself was criticizing such attitude, calling Pharisees the whitened tombs, pretending with their empty gestures and clothes to be close to God, when in fact there was no love to God and people in their hearts. So it's definitely not the right attitude.
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@JJ-hb9in Well, my country is mostly Catholic, and many people still go to church (although of course it also changes a bit, especially among the youngest generations). And also our national identity is for us much important. And we have generally such attitude that of course, we should help people from other countries in crisis, but helping doesn't mean allowing, in a totally uncontrolled way, half of the world to the EU area. Help should be provided in those countries or at least regions from where they come from, so that they could live within their own nations and cultures, built their lives there, not just leave their countries deserted. And of course, "migrant" is a very broad, undefined term - because it contains not only real refugees, but also all the others, also those that come with hostile intentions and pose serious risks. So that's obvious that really wise, sound immigration policy, not posing threats to state security and public order, is essential, and not all this insane policy, like forced by some EU countries, called policy of "Herzlich willkommen" to all the migrants, no matter from where, no matter with what intentions and no matter how many of them, allowed with completely no control. It's indeed sad to see what's happening in some of the European countries, struggling with huge problems mostly with muslim migrants. And about migrants from Syria, only part of them may be Christians, because a lot of muslims also live there (I've read that there was only about 5% of Christians in Syria, now it's of course less). So it's (and used to be) only a minority religion there, most were muslims. And what You write about Christians not caring about anything, thinking that there will be end of the world, with the second coming of Christ, soon - it's probably about some crazy sects thinking like that. I don't know anyone like that. We just live our lives, as good as we can, that's all. And also it doesn't make sense to make any such apocalyptic assumptions. Definitely the Church, at least Catholic one, doesn't teach such attitude, to think that the world will end soon and to concentrate with fear on such predictions. Afterall, in the past, in history there were also so many horrible periods, like during the WW II, that people could think that's the end of the times, end of humanity. So there were more times, periods with wars, bloodshed, genocide etc., that seemed to be the end and Apocalypse coming soon. But it's not what we should concentrate on, not on some apocalyptic fears, but how to live our everyday lives well. So I think that You have a bit strange vision of Christianity, not like it really is, at least not as I know it from my Church and country.
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Crime rate has nothing to do with Christianity, for sure. And many Christian countries, also those being much Christian, have also low crime rate. And if the crime rate goes up, it's often connected with many other factors - for instance, as we can see now, with accepting huge waves of immigrants from completely different, often hostile, cultures, or some crises, poverty etc. So it's not like this.
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Also the most widely acknowledged language of the academic community, at all of the global and most of the regional important conferences, of international scientific journals, of publications, of international scientific committees and organizations and so on - is English. So if someone wants to have current knowledge about word's development in many fields, like for instance medicine and many, many others, or to do anything relating to academic career, he should know English. And it's not new at all that people want to be able to communicate (not only while meeting face to face, but also by reading for instance scientific or other works, diplomatic correspondence etc.) across boundaries in one language - now it's English. In the past it was for instance Latin. Later, in Europe it was French, as most of the elites, like in XVII or XVIIIth century, were learning this. And before English became so widely spoken across the world, there was even a special, artificially created in the second half of the XIXth century, language - with a purpose to enable people from different nations to be able to communicate in just one language, instead of having to learn many of them - this artificially created auxiliary language was called Esperanto (You can read about it in English in Internet, also in Wikipedia). The creator of Esperanto was Ludwik Zamenhof. And I just cannot imagine that nowadays someone doesn't want to learn any foreign languages at all - it also broadens one's horizons. For me for instance it's a pleasure to able to read books in foreign languages. And I would feel myself disabled not being able to talk to people from other countries at all. It's also important when someone wants to see something outside just their own country (which great majority of people do).
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@johnyoo3300 What are You even talking about? Mixing Christianity with horrible, totalitarian regimes and ideologies, like communism based on marxist notions, responsible for death of millions, mass genocide and so many inhuman atrocities, bestial tortures, system of gulags and other concentration camps. Of course, Christians oppose to such horrible regimes and ideologies, resulting in genocide, enslavement, torture of millions. By the way, my country is in majority Catholic, since ages, but we were fighting with bolsheviks since the very beggining, since 1919. So we know very well the reality, better than anyone, and what such totalitarian regimes and ideologies bring with themselves.
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SabinaS.N.O.W. I do watch this channel since much longer time. And if I would like to watch videos about islam, I would choose different channels. It's not the first one, but another, again, about similar topic. I want to watch this channel like I used to, but not videos about islam. And as stated above, religion is a sensitive topic. If it's only about one religion again, it shows that the channel is different that it used to be. If it would turn into a channel for muslims, for sure I won't watch. And it's also discriminatory - there are many more religions, so there should be videos equally about them also, or no videos about any religions.
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@dank2476 Of course, there is no one living who is without a sin, we are all sinners, no one is perfect. That's obvious. But still, the main feature of God is mercy. The Divine Mercy is greater than anything, and He is not some horrible judge who intends to condemn the sinners. He wants to save them, because every soul lost is also a hurtful wound to His Sacred Heart. And it's easy to say if someone was born in a Christian culture, family etc. For someone born outside Christian culture, it's not always so easy to convert. But still, all people are the children of God (He didn't die on cross only for Christians, but for all), and all have His voice in their hearts and souls, as His children - it depends on them if they want to hear it and go along the right path in their lives or not. For not Christians it's just harder. But it doesn't mean that they cannot be good people, living according to God's will, even if they are not Christians. It doesn't mean that they must be condemned by God, just for not converting to Christianity, apart completely from the way they lived, it's not like that. In my country many people pray at 3 p.m. (the Divine Mercy Hour when Jesus died on the Cross) everyday with the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, with the words: "Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and the Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your Dearly Beloved Son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and the whole world.". So we pray for all people, not only Christians.
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@dank2476 Well, as Catholics, we don't believe in such determinism. Of course, we cannot redeem ourselves without God and His grace. And He is willing to give all the graces to us, because He loves us and wants to save us. But He gave also every human a free will. So every human may choose, in his heart and soul, to reject God, to reject all the love, good and light He is the source of, it's each one's own free will. And God gives us graces, to save us from bad, sinful live, but we must accept it - He doesn't force it on us, because it would be against our free will, given by Him. We must ask, in our hearts, for His forgiveness, for his help, for ability to accept his grace, for a change of heart. God doesn't force anything on us, we are not His slaves, but children, who have free will. And like the prodigal son (in the Gospel parable), we can choose to leave and go our own, wrong path - but if we are willing to come back, even after long time (sometimes even with our last breath on this world, if we truly want this, and not always it's possible to be in the church, because situations in human lives on this world are different), He will always accept us, as the loving and forgiving Father, full of mercy, not just reject and condemn.
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@dank2476 For me, with such way of thinking it would mean that God loves only some of the people, and He doesn't care about others, and they are born already condemned. It's horrible to think like that. And it is not true, because all are His children, He died on cross for everyone, not only for some chosen ones, He wants to save everyone, He loves all His children (but some, with their free and aware will, choose to reject Him, so they reject all good, love and light He is the source of, till the end - and only this can make them be condemned). We believe that every sinner (and we all are sinners, some are more, some less) has a chance till the end. But sometimes, if someone did horrible things all his life, he just can't change his heart anymore, he is not able to regret and to ask God for forgiveness, and he rejects God, after having nothing but bad heart for his whole life. So in fact, it's not God who condemns him, but a human chooses himself, with his free will, to totally reject God and His Mercy.
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@dank2476 No, it's not like that. It would make God some unjust, horrible creature, choosing some of the people discretionarily, for salvation and all the others for eternal suffering, no matter what they do. And it's definitely not like that. We don't believe in such horrible God, but loving one. Such vision is horrible. In fact, the God's Mercy and His Redemption must meet with a person's free will. And we also pray for the others, so that are able to let God to their hearts, so that are able to understand that they need Him and ask Him for help, that's all, it can be often enough to save them.
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@dank2476 We don't believe that anyone is condemned already when he is born, just the opposite. And God doesn't choose anyone to be condemned, just the opposite. We believe in God, who is loving and merciful, for everyone. Who come to save the world, not to condemn it. In such faith, saying that anyone, when born as an infant is already condemned to hell, based on such horribke determinism, it would mean that no matter how a person lives, no matter if a person believes or not, it means nothing, as being already condemned. We don't have such vision of God, for sure. It's terrifying, not giving hope and strenght to live well, despite our weaknesses as humans. We believe that there's always hope, for everyone, and God will help everyone, if only such person truly wants this and asks about it. He doesn't want any soul to be lost, He suffered so much for us, for everyone, to save us, not to condemn. But unlike Evangelical Churches, Protestants, we as Catholics believe also in purgatory (which is a balance between God's Mercy and His Justice, so two features of God, however His main feature is Mercy itself).
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@dank2476 Original sin means that our nature is not perfect, but prone to sin. But it doesn't definitely mean that it's enough for a human to be condemned by God for eternal hell, for instance innocent infant that dies. That's definitely not like that. Original sin means that we are not able not to have any sins in our lives, that's why we must ask God for help, regret and ask for forgiveness for our sins - no one can say that he is without a sin. But just being born with the original sin, meaning being prone to committing sins, doesn't mean at all that anyone is condemned, for sure. God is not a monster who would condemn infants and children and good people with pure hearts and souls to hell. And unlike other Churches, we also believe in Holy Sacraments, like confession and Eucharist (the Holy Communion), so being able to unite with forgiving God, even on this Earth, during our lives.
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@mvl6827 One should understand and give the source of the citation - and whole this saying that "religion is opium for the people" is Karl Marx. His ideology, and communism based on it, led to horrible things, deaths and suffering of millions. So one should give the real source of this citation and the context. And I come from the country that was fighting with the Bolsheviks and Red Army almost since the beginning, we know better that the others what such ideologies bring with themselves (many people in the Western European or even American countries just don't understand this, not going through such historical experiences themselves). We were at the communist side of the Iron Curtain for 50 years, so we know how it really was - what such ideologies bring. Many totally innocent people, men, women, even teenagers, were brutally tortured, murdered, especially during the Stalinist times, but later also. And the Church was much persecuted, the priests, giving hope to people, were also often brutally tortured, kidnapped, murdered by the communists, even till the end of communism, till 1989. So I just think that one should give full context of the above mentioned citation.
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@mvl6827 No, it's not the same. Because this is not just about a piece of music, but about very specific phrases, used in a very specific context - even by You, to oppose to every religion, not taking into account anything. And I just don't agree with these specific phrases. For my nation religion (we're mostly Catholics, since centuries) always was a source of hope, that hepled us to survive, to go through the most horrible moments in history. And such ideologies, saying like above that "religion is opium for masses", were in fact really this "opium", bringing real hell to this world - and it's both, about nazism and communism, because both of these horrible ideologies were trying to destroy the Church and religion, bringing only unimaginable horrors. So we just have different perspective. And I don't say that You don't have the right to Your own opinion (by the way, like most of people I of course also like all these old songs, of the Beatles and Lennon). But I just don't agree. We in my country experienced very well how the world without God looks like.
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@homie3461 About "borrowing" something from Prussia, this was probably true in certain aspects, especially military, but regarding the second half of the XIXth century and the first half of the XXth century (so in the times of Prussia, and later Nazi Germany). And we know how it all ended. So being influenced by Prussia (in terms of militarization of the country, expansion of the army, authoritarianism and strong nationalism, that were so characteristic for Prussia, and later Nazi Germany) was not a good idea - especially in the aspect of humanity - as history has shown and led to tragic times for millions of people. So choosing this path, it was probably one of the reasons they did during the II World War the same things to people as Germans did in that time. But after the II WW, so in the modern times, their "structure" was influenced by other countries, not by Germany that fortunately lost the war. So it doesn't seem really true to say that "modern structure" of Japan, in modern times, was borrowed from Prussia (as said above, only some aspects of "structure", before and during the II WW). And after all, Japan is an old, unique civilisation, with its own unique traditions and culture, so saying that their "modern structure" was based on Prussia example doesn't seem really right, or at least a big simplification out of context.
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@homie3461 I do not speculate and I know history quite well. And of course Prussian state is not the same as Hitler and Nazis, which was much later (and, as all know, was completely sick, insane ideology). But when You write about Prussia and modernization in the past taking into account this state as an example, You shouldn't mix various periods in history. An authoritarian, old state cannot be called an example for modern, nowadays states and their structure. And of course in Japan there were, during the II WW, no Nazi party (such as in Germany), and this is not what I meant. But when mentioning such states as Prussia, it is about militarization, authoritarianism, nationalism and so on. But this was before the II WW. Not after. And the real modern times were after the war. And for sure, I do not say that for instance colonialism of some states (Poland didn't have any colonies) and colonial leadership was anything good. But also definitely no one can say that there was anything good in the II WW - taking into account terrible genocide acts committed in that times, and death and tragedy of so many people.
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@homie3461 I do not think that such matters as constitution of a state or education are mundane. In fact, there are very important. And I've read about development of constitutionalism in the history, also about first Japanese written constitution, which was considered probably one of the first in Asia. By the way, Polish first written constitution (of 3 May 1791) was first in Europe and second in the world. But I think that what was considered modern in some time in the past and along with that time authoritarian, absolutist systems and different values, in different era (like in the times of first transition from feudal systems in XIXth century), cannot really be considered modern later, especially after the II WW. And as I said, I do not think of course that colonialism was good and justified at all. But also I definitely cannot agree that it was anything good in the starting of II WW. And I can only be sorry if someone has such opinions. Such person should visit at least once so many German Nazi death camps, like Auschwitz-Birkenau (or many other similar places, like Stutthof, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Gross-Rosen, Ravensbrueck, Sachsenhausen and so on, where hundreds of thousands of people, of different nationalities, were killed in the most inhumane ways). And also, regarding Japan, the atomic bombs this was also terrible death of many people, because of war. And there were also some terrible experiments on people. So I just cannot agree that anything can be called worth of such sufferings and such hell on earth. But I should add that I do not have anything against Germans nowadays, I can speak German and I like reading books in German. But I just believe that it is important to remember what really happened in the past, and what led to this, so it will not come back, at least on such terrible scale in the future, when another wars can happen. Because it can be back.
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