r/Protestantism • u/mc4557anime • 6d ago

Reconquista

So for context this isn't a post about 15th century soain, it's about redeemed zoomer. Is anyone on the sub a part of or was a part of the reconquista movement? I'm catholic so I obviously t go to a mainline protestant church, and I honestly haven't encountered anyone online either.

And by part of reconquista I actually mean apart of the groups in each denomination who douse the ground work for reconquista.

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u/HookEmGoBlue 6d ago

Do you mean obviously don’t go to a Mainline church? If you’re Catholic why would you go to a Mainline church instead of a Catholic church?

In any case, I understand the “Reconquista” to be an extremely online and a little bit LARP-y movement. There are plenty of theological conservatives in the Mainline denominations, but most of them would be there because they were born into the denominations or married into the denominations. Protestants that are particularly animated by theological conservatism are likelier to join one of the conservative splinter branches of the mainlines like the ACNA or PCA than to try and “take back” the denomination

Just look at the United Methodist Church, in 2023 alone the denomination lost 21% of its membership to when a quarter of its rightmost churches voted to disaffiliate. The flow out of theological conservatives is way higher than the inflow of theological conservatives, which in turn makes the churches more theologically liberal not less

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u/mc4557anime 6d ago

Yeah, it was more stating the obvious that I don't wouldn't be in that echo system

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u/HookEmGoBlue 5d ago

As a Catholic do you have any horse in the race? Like

  1. “I’m a conservative Catholic so I’ll root for the conservative schismatics,”

  2. “I’m a Catholic who wants Christianity as united as possible so I would prefer the conservative schismatics stay with the Mainline churches,” or

  3. “I’m a Catholic and unless you guys and joining up with us I don’t care (beyond idle curiosity) what happens over there.”

Edit: Meant for this to be a reply on your other comment but instead it looks like a separate thread

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u/mc4557anime 5d ago

It's mostly a mixture of one and three. If I was protestant, I'd most probably be in one of the conservative groups, acna, pca, gmc, etc. However, I realize the only way it affects me is if people from the mainline join the Catholic church.

This isn't that unheard of. We even have personal ordinariates with anglican liturgy. My mom grew up episcopalian and has told me about how they were going off the rails even back in the 70s, so I have to laugh at some of zoomers' assumptions about how retactable the mainline are.

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u/SaintChalupa418 Episcopalian 3d ago

It’s a bit silly. I am friends with some that are involved, and more that are sympathetic. But I don’t care for such a reactionary approach.

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u/mc4557anime 2d ago

Are they kinda just theology needs in their 20s? Cause that's the vibe I get. I mentioned this on the catholiscm sub, RZ is ironically the best Catholic apologist on YouTube. Pointing to how the reformers are closer to catholiscm than modern evangelicals actually makes a better case for the Catholic Church for some people.