Ruslan Tried To Trap Michael Knowles On 2,000 Years Of Catholic Teaching. It Did Not Go Well.

Ruslan KD came prepared. The question seemed airtight. The Catholic Church changed its position on the death penalty after two thousand years of teaching and practice. Blessed Pius the Ninth personally oversaw five hundred executions in the papal states. And now the Church calls it morally inadmissible. So what exactly is stopping the same thing from happening with gay marriage? What is the actual structural difference?

Michael Knowles answered that question with the energy of a man who has been waiting for it. The difference between a dogmatic teaching and a credential political judgment. Two thousand years of magisterial authority. And then, because a theological argument was apparently not enough, he pointed at every Protestant denomination that already faced the same pressure and caved. The Lutherans. The Anglicans. The Methodists who just split in half over it. The Episcopalians with better liturgy than anyone and emptier pews than everyone.

Not as an insult. As a scoreboard.

Then he bet every dollar he owns that the Catholic Church will never redefine marriage. No hesitation. No qualifier. Every dollar.

This is what happens when someone has actually done the reading.

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