No, I'm NOT Protestant

Ruslan Thought He Dunked on Catholics
Sips with Serra | 5 Febr. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqWOZtnmRD8

2:36 Maybe this will be upcoming, but historically up to a certain date or person ... could be Billy Graham, not sure ... Evangelicals have been pro-choice and pro-contraceptives.

Some have clearly shared more mainline Protestant denominations' stand on being back then pro-sterilisation.

In Canada, a certain time, Amerindians were sterilised, and the hospitals that did that were owned by Calvinists or Methodists, but not the ones owned by Catholics.

And Billy Graham was friends with Fulton Sheen.

10:55 Evangelicals are a late-comer to Protestantism, and excessively Puritan and (to my taste back then, at least) emortional. You know, Dostoyevski vibes.

Back in 1983, I therefore went from non-practising Evangelical to Lutheran, my baptism was in 1984.

But I retained pro-life and creationist views that clearly weren't welcome among those Lutherans.

I converted to Catholicism and could have both. Historical and non-Puritan faith, sobriety about the need to conversion, not hysteria. AND. Pro-life and YEC. Plus, which I hadn't been aware of originally, this was the safest place to believe the Real Presence and the possibility of Absolution, and I converted to believing the Sacrifice of the Mass.

My conversion was to what I would now call the Vatican II sect, but the priest I converted before was a true priest, ordained 1958, well before the new Pontificale.

Among Catholics opposed to Vatican II, of which I'm one, or especially to some post-Vatican II "popes", it is also still perfectly OK (or even required) to be YEC.

JJ1789

@JJ-ki6sv

It is not okay for you to deny the legitimacy and authority of the Pope though. That is not Catholic. Vatican 2 is not a sect it is an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church.

To deny the Pope is Protestant, please don't do that

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@hglundahl

@JJ-ki6sv Protestantism is not a synonym for "heresy" or "schism", however so much you may find my position either heretical or schismatic.

Protestantism is a specific schism, other than that of Nestorians or that of Caerularius, it is a specific set of errors often combined with those of the Jansenists, but unlike Jansenism also redefining sacraments.

You are either ill-informed (other than about Trads' sensibilities) or ill-willed if you mischaracterise any part of the Trad movement as "Protestantism".

10:55 bis While he hasn't debunked Catholicism, he has however shown Evangelicals are on some key issues more Catholic than classic Protestant denominations.

I'd count YEC as one of these issues, Pope Michael II would probably agree, Pope Michael I did.

Larry Taunton and Whataboutism

A Response to Tucker Carlson on Israel, Gaza, and Christian persecution.
Larry Alex Taunton | 5 Febr. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmpdRSHJyc4

I would certainly have linked to Allie Beth Stuckey's episode on Nigeria, if either the Nigerian Christian hadn't stated such an atrocious thing as saying "Muslims use women as baby machines", meaning, not only are Nigerian Christians endorsing contraception, but they are even demonising Muslims (and by implication Catholics too) for not doing so. Meaning they aren't really Christians. OR, if I had had the time as in internet access to make a full length comment on her episide, stopping it every two minutes or so to make a comment, collecting them on a post, and posting this with a link.

The people persecuted in a sense "for the name of Christ" would deserve it, even if they are heterodox, the issue of Muslim genocidal guilt in Nigeria isn't doubtful by the statistics he gave.

However, I would also not give them a blanket endorsement, since their doctrine has issues. Just as if a Mormon population in Nigeria were being persecuted, I would not endorse Mormonism while calling this out.

However, the fact that Nigeria has a genocide against Christians doesn't mean Israel doesn't have tendencies like that.

And Christian Palestinians are the fulfilment of Isaias 11, a population that's been in place, of mixed Judaean and Samarian origin, since Acts 2 and Acts 8.

I don't need Tucker Carlson to testify to that, there are Catholic priests in place, and also the Lutheran quasi-priest, Munther Isaac.

Settlers, Jews for Judaism, anti-proselytising laws and so on are doing a miniature of Acts 8:1. Against Hebrews, like back then.

Most of them are also Catholic or Orthodox, and so, despite the schism of 1054 or Vatican II related errors have far less doctrinal issues than the Protestant community in Nigeria.

Parallax and Tycho

HGL's F.B. writings: Geocentric Assault on Atheism · Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere: Refutation of Le Maître's main point · Parallax and Tycho

@RSungenis
Heliocentrism vs. Geocentrism: The Parallax
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nYqgDLwQrKE

In both of the scenarios you envisage, we would "know" (inside the theory) that the star does not move (in relation to the starfield).

That's the proton pseudos, it implies the phenomenon of 1838 (if I recall correctly) is indeed, in correct theorising, an actual parallax.

I do not deny the phenomenon, but good luck proving it's a parallax.

If angels move celestial objects, then parallax / annual aberration / possibly even wobbles would be explicable as partial analyses of the angel doing a liturgic dance, while carrying the star under God's throne.

Unlike the two scenarios you envisage, where we have a side of 2 astronomic units between late December and late June, this an angel moving the star in moral solidarity but physical independence of the Sun would not give a side opposite the narrow angle, therefore not give a triangulation for the distance.

We know the starfield is further away than this little less than one light day, since the two way speed of light between Earth and Voyager, divided by two, is still less than one light day, for both probes.

Other than that, we cannot know the distance to stars; nor their size.

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In the original Tychonian system, up to and including Riccioli, the stars are each day (or c. 5 min less than 24 h) doing an orbit around earth.

St. Thomas would have attributed it to God moving the whole primum mobile, Riccioli who knew we hadn't a sequence of solid crystalline spheres down to Earth atmosphere (Tycho had disproved it) attributed it to each angel moving in solidarity.

I think to a Geocentric, the Coriolis effect and Eötvös effect and one more I forget would tend to prove St. Thomas rather than Riccioli, and the answer to absence of solid spheres would be the aether, same as in which light is a wave movement and in which gravitation is a bend.

Refutation of Le Maître's main point

HGL's F.B. writings: Geocentric Assault on Atheism · Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere: Refutation of Le Maître's main point · Parallax and Tycho

5 "Priest Scientists" Who Changed the World
The Counsel of Trent | 4 Febr. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dsW-Hdy5_4

Thanks for Frs Zeglen and de Gusmao, hadn't heard of them!

I find Mendel and Steno totally legit.

Steno had by the way quit his scientific career when he became a priest and he was a Flood geologist, so, Young Earth Creationist.

Mendel is giving anti-Evolutionists lots of arguments.

However, Le Maître ? Come on, if his masses were valid, the only way his faith was it too is if his general attention was vapid.

"In the 9:18 early 20th century, the Belgian priest 9:19 and physicist George Le Maître said that 9:22 Einstein's new theory of gravity, 9:24 general relativity, would cause a static 9:26 eternal universe to collapse into 9:28 nothingness."

Excellent point. But wouldn't this have been already true of Newton's gravity, unless (and this is arguably disproven) the universe were also infinite in extension?

I worked out, somewhat laboriously, since I'm no physicist and don't do integral calculus, what would happen to a stationary earth if the Sun circles it each day, just based off gravity.

As long as things were regular (but mathematic regular models don't always mirror reality), Earth would be in a kind of daily orbit around a void the size of Earth.

I don't believe this is the case. I noted also, the initial velocity of Earth in any direction would be ...*

The second after the Sun was created, Earth could have been pulled 5.9 cm towards the Sun. Easy enough for God to stop—and continue stopping up to the present day.

The same is true for the extension of the stars, unless simply the daily rotation is sufficient to keep them off centre (perhaps actually isn't, since centrifugal forces are counted in relation to the aether, but stars every day move with the aether, so stand still in relation to it). And probably God gave each angel of each star the power to keep it up under His throne room.

To a Geocentric, counting on God as mover of the Universe (arguably one possible meaning of "polique rector" in an Ambrosian hymn of evening prayer type) and angels as movers of single heavenly bodies, the theory of a constant expansion is (whichever theory on why be held) superfluous to explain why the universe doesn't collapse.

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* I cited my own essay from 2023:

New blog on the kid: Second Approximation
Monday, 20 November 2023 | Posted by Hans Georg Lundahl at 05:01
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2023/11/second-approximation.html

Thanks to Yacouba Sawadogo, Amelia Might be Right About Some from Africa

How One Man Reversed Desertification While Governments Failed — Now His Forest Shocks the World
Make Tech Future | 11 Jan. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JpkauMvxDQ

You recall the line "you'll be happy there"?

Some men came to a land with rainy weather and exotic habits like keeping dogs and drinking beer in pubs, because they thought Sahel was doomed, deserts would grow and grow and grow.

Yacouba Sawadogo might prove them wrong./HGL

Crux Sacra Sit Mihi Lux — Non Draco Sit Mihi Dux

They Saw It: Ancient Records from Egypt, Greece, and Rome Prove the Crucifixion Darkness
Christian Way | 2 Febr. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtIoUF6Y_MY

[Instead of praying with a presumable non-Catholic in his words, I prayed with the Catholic Church. See title.]

Katie Shaw Has a Take

Catholic Woman With Down Syndrome is a Powerful Pro-Life Advocate
EWTN | 1 May 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y12U-lNsgOg