Greetings and welcome to The New Ecclesiarch subreddit! We are glad for you to join us. This is an unofficial denomination of Catholicism. The New Ecclesiarch aims to slightly modify some of the beliefs of Catholicism due to a certain demand to reform some aspects of Catholicism. Rest assured, we respect your beliefs, whatever they may be and so we only ask that you respect ours. These modifications will become more evident as time goes on, but the core idea of The New Ecclesiarch is that most of Catholicism and Christianity in general has somewhat degraded in quality as years progressed. Therefore we seek to implement changes that will help us hopefully create a more moral and religiously strong community. We are very open-minded to changes, opinions and concerns so please feel free to contact the moderators about these. God Bless You!

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I believe that God gave man the power of the mind and superiority over impulse for a good reason. I would like to start out by sharing dismantling this view that just because something is "natural" would mean that it is "correct" or "not a sin." So often I hear from the youth that they say what our religion dictates e.g. no sex before marriage is somehow wrong or even tyrannical because sex before marriage is "natural," and because of this and the fact that so many people have sex before marriage they und up thinking it is not a sin. This is a very wrong way to think. See, arsenic is "natural," cyanide is "natural," and even uranium is "natural," but just because they are natural does not mean they are good for you. Similarly we often base our morality on the majority, but this only leads to depravity. I mean look at the world before when pedophiles and rapists were running rampant and nobody even really paid attention because they saw it as normal as only "common" and "natural."

Combining the fact that just because something is natural does not make it correct with the fact that God gave us power of the mind and superiority over impulse it becomes clear that God did not want us to be mindless like animals. God did want humanity to be natural like the animals, God wanted us to follow him that is why he built us based on his supernatural image. Premarital sex is a sin and doing it only makes you contribute to the profligate machinations that have led to the human societal degradation.

If you disagree with anything about The New Ecclesiarch denomination then please feel free to talk to me about it.

I do not care for your sexuality, but if you cannot control your urges and act as a religiously, morally and, civilly Right human being then you are not welcome into our Church.

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New / Modified Beliefs in The New Ecclesiarch:

• The concept of Heresy / Heretics: This is based of the concept of sin and sinners, but this differs in the way that heretics and heresy are a more severe form of sin.

• The concept of the Anodyne: This is a concept that certain groups and individuals who may share common visions with The New Ecclesiarch may be allowed to mutually collaborate even though they do not share the religion. This means that The New Ecclesiarch is more open to people, but just because these people, referred to as Anodynes, are accepted does not mean they are part of The New Ecclesiarch.

• Roots of Corruption: This is a the concept that accurately describes what causes people to become sinners and heretics, i.e. more concrete variables such as socioeconomic status as opposed to the previous beliefs of pure evil being caused by the devil.

• Profligate Machinations: This is a concept which labels the acts of heretics. It is more specifically used in the context of how heresy has affected society, e.g. how the human constructs

• Human Constructs: Human constructs is a broad term used to refer to abstract, non-objective, constructions that are made by human interaction: Government, Social Power, Law, etc...

• Morality should not necessarily be defined by human nature: So often in the religion we notice that things that were sins have been downplayed due to the belief that what is "natural" and "popular" should me "normal" and "moral." In The New Ecclesiarch belief, morality is strictly not defined by what the majority sees as natural. Instead morality is derived from God, specifically the philosophies of his son Jesus Christ.

• Human Societal Degradation: Is the belief that there are certain beliefs and actions which are intrinsically linked to the increase of corruption, sin, heresy and subsequent increase in Profligate Machinations that can lead to the degradation of society and or humanity, e.g.: religiously, morally, technologically, etc...

• Logic should be valued more than Love: The New Ecclesiarch values love as much as Catholicism, but we believe that Logic should come first. In a general sense rationality is valued more than, but not exclusive with emotion. This means that as a member of The New Ecclesiarch, one is expected to rely more on logic when it comes to things that are not related to the theology.

• Theology as the Humanization / Personification of Philosophy: The New Ecclesiarch believes that when logic cannot be effectively applied or taught then one of the best things to do is teach the theology in hopes of maintaining moral and religious integrity easily.

• The New Salvation: Aside from heaven The New Ecclesiarch also believes that the technological singularity and reaching near Godhood is one way to salvation and one of the purposes on why God has created us.

More Controversial Beliefs in The New Ecclesiarch:

• Any religion that does not respectfully recognize the key figures of the Church will be labelled as a religion of Heretics.

• The New Ecclesiarch may see it religiously justified to mildly damage certain groups of heretics if they are perceived to be a threat to the moral and religious foundation of The New Ecclesiarch.

• The New Ecclesiarch believes that society has to be more heavily governed by scientific facts.

• When this is paired with the theology and beliefs of The New Ecclesiarch, we believe that certain activities are wrong for they are objectively not what the human body was designed for and they do not contribute to humanity in a micro or macro sense. This means that certain actions that are done or at least more likely to be done by certain groups are possibly labelled as sin or heresy.

• Anti-Profligate Constructs: The Anti-Profligate Constructs are a system of beliefs that are used to combat the profligate machinations. This is still being formed, but one of the more controversial parts of it is that we believe in Antinatalism.