Good, that should be the message, now excommunicate anyone off message or tell them they aren't Christians.
If I recall correctly, you are an atheist, not a Christian. Christians don't want or need atheists telling them how to be Christians any more than they want or need Jews telling them how to be Christians.
How is this not just good advice despite who says it?
Because there are no simple solutions to complex problems.
Because even if sometimes, as a weak human, I may sometimes desire my enemies to be destroyed or harmed, that may not be God's will. In fact, it is probably not His will, as I know He desires all of us people to be brought into His light and be saved.
Because the successor to the chair of Saint Peter, who Christ placed in charge of His Church, has not deemed that this is the correct response to those who spread what I consider falsehoods, so out of obedience and respect, I must be willing to accept that he knows better than me.
Because the successor to the chair of Saint Peter ...
So you're completely helpless against a hostile subversive force undermining your church.
And I'm not saying that's necessarily what's happened: I'm just pointing out that if it is, you've lost your church forever ... unless those subversives are kind enough to give it back to you one day.
Good, that should be the message, now excommunicate anyone off message or tell them they aren't Christians.
If I recall correctly, you are an atheist, not a Christian. Christians don't want or need atheists telling them how to be Christians any more than they want or need Jews telling them how to be Christians.
You take an issue with:
because the messenger is atheist. How is this not just good advice despite who says it? This just comes off as childish, petulant foot stomping.
And related: why should anyone take the institutions of Christianity seriously when they clearly don't even take themselves seriously?
Because there are no simple solutions to complex problems.
Because even if sometimes, as a weak human, I may sometimes desire my enemies to be destroyed or harmed, that may not be God's will. In fact, it is probably not His will, as I know He desires all of us people to be brought into His light and be saved.
Because the successor to the chair of Saint Peter, who Christ placed in charge of His Church, has not deemed that this is the correct response to those who spread what I consider falsehoods, so out of obedience and respect, I must be willing to accept that he knows better than me.
So you're completely helpless against a hostile subversive force undermining your church.
And I'm not saying that's necessarily what's happened: I'm just pointing out that if it is, you've lost your church forever ... unless those subversives are kind enough to give it back to you one day.