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📜✨ NEW SONG: “PUBLIC, ANCIENT, APOSTOLIC (Heresy Roll Call)”

— Why Christianity survived a thousand confident mistakes

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Everyone thinks their interpretation is the obvious one.
The early Church heard all of them.

From the first centuries onward, Christians faced a constant parade of alternative gospels — some denying Christ’s humanity, others His divinity, others grace, others the Church herself. These weren’t fringe whispers. They were public, persuasive, and often very confident.

So how did the Church answer them?

Not with secret knowledge.
Not with private interpretation.
Not even with a completed New Testament.

She answered with public teaching, apostolic succession, and a faith that could be traced.

As St. Irenaeus argued in the 2nd century:
If someone claims to teach what the Apostles taught, let them show their bishops. Name the men. Trace the hands. Follow the line.

Heresies hid in secrecy and novelty.
The Church stood in the open — ancient, visible, and continuous.

🎶 “Public, Ancient, Apostolic (Heresy Roll Call)” is a fast-paced, deadpan, slightly sarcastic song that names the errors, explains why they failed, and shows why the Catholic Church kept standing — guarding what was once delivered, and handing it on exactly as Scripture describes (cf. 2 Timothy 2:2).

This one’s for converts, cradle Catholics, theology nerds, Church history lovers, and anyone who’s ever been told, “They just figured all that out later.”

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POISON THAT WEAKENS / POISON THAT KILLS ☠️🧪
(on venial sin vs mortal sin)

Ever hear: “Sin is sin”?
Sure… in the same way that “injury is injury.”

Scripture is blunt: “There is sin that leads to death… and there is sin that does not.” (1 John 5:16–17)
So no—not all sin is the same.

Venial sin is real. It wounds love. It fogs the conscience. It’s the slow leak.
Mortal sin is real. It breaks communion with God. It’s the engine fire.
One is poison that weakens… the other is poison that kills.

And the Bible doesn’t just hint at this:

Paul warns that certain patterns of grave sin exclude us from inheriting the Kingdom (1 Cor 6:9–10; Gal 5:19–21)

Jesus warns about being cut off like a dead branch (John 15:6)

Paul warns against receiving the Eucharist unworthily (1 Cor 11:27–29)

And yes—Christ forgives and cleanses when we confess and repent (1 John 1:8–9)

If you’ve ever been told “venial sin means it doesn’t matter,” or “mortal sin is a medieval invention”… this one’s for you.

Question: What’s the most common misunderstanding you’ve heard about mortal/venial sin?

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Just a reminder: I’m not a musician—I’m a catechist trying my best to teach the faith with the tools at my disposal. I’ve been teaching the faith and apologetics for 20+ years, so the words and heart/soul are mine, but I do create the music digitally, and the art is AI-generated.
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I would SERIOUSLY consider making an Anti-Catholic Bingo set...

You get your bingo...then you have to claim the bingo by answering the 5 objections...
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📜✨ NEW SONG: HONOR IS NOT WORSHIP, KAREN” — Honor isn’t a PIE… it’s a FLAME.

Some folks treat honor like a zero-sum pie:
If you give *any* honor to Mary or the saints, you must be taking a slice away from Jesus.

But Catholics don’t think of glory like pie.
We think of it more like a flame.

Lighting another candle doesn’t “steal” fire from the first—it fills the room with more light.
And that’s the point: when a saint shines, it’s not competition with Christ…
it’s evidence that Christ is real, powerful, and still sanctifying people.

That’s why the Church uses three different words:

• **Latria** = adoration / worship — **God alone** (Father, Son, Holy Spirit)
• **Dulia** = honor / veneration — the honor given to God’s friends, His saints
• **Hyperdulia** = the *highest* honor beneath worship — given to Mary because she is the Mother of the Son

And here’s the easiest analogy:
You can honor **Michelangelo** by praising *Michelangelo*…
and you can honor him by standing in awe before the **David** or the **Pietà**.

Admiring the artwork doesn’t detract from the artist.
It magnifies him.

Same thing with Mary and the saints:
honor given to the “work of grace” magnifies the “Artist.”

🎶 **“Not a Goddess, Karen”** — a catechetical snark-track for converts, cradle Catholics, Scripture nerds, and anyone still stuck on “Catholics worship Mary.”

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**PIE** 🍰 or **FLAME** 🔥
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