Those are churchians, not Christians. They’re the same people who believe that somehow Christianity got it wrong for 1700 years and only their most modern branch of Christianity is relevant.
We used to persecute heretics...maybe that was the right thing to do all along. I'm not sure though, it probably got abused to persecute political opponents but damn if the heretics aren't running rampant now.
love your neighbor has been a disaster for Christianity.
how those pharisees managed to convincingly convolute "neighbor" into "guy from the other side of the globe who shares literally nothing with you", I will never understand...
you can love them and still beleive they need a frank conversation with god, face-to-face, asap.
also. Jesus may love them equally, but you're not Jesus. and there are a couple other harder and more important things to do to get closer to him, before you start to "love" random biotrash.
Many of the Bible’s prescriptions are interdependent. Taken in a vacuum, isolated pieces of “God’s wisdom” can be enormously destructive if applied outside the context of a wholly just and moral society. Sorta like how the US constitution is really only useful in governing a moral people.
I get that but I do think we should be following Christ’s example. I want to help those in need, I really do but it seems that people really have become experts at taking advantage of any whiff of compassion
And it drives me insane how progressive Christians think it’s the Christian thing to do to have zero borders and let people in who hate the culture.
Those are churchians, not Christians. They’re the same people who believe that somehow Christianity got it wrong for 1700 years and only their most modern branch of Christianity is relevant.
True. Or that the Bible conveniently lines up with whatever far left candidate is popular
The worst one I saw was a group of leftist “Catholics” saying Jesus would have prioritized “green energy” over abortion. Yes they made that argument.
We used to persecute heretics...maybe that was the right thing to do all along. I'm not sure though, it probably got abused to persecute political opponents but damn if the heretics aren't running rampant now.
Can’t even say I’m surprised
It's a time of great spiritual confusion.
Judeo-Christians
Greece is still very much Christian. It will be sad to see it go. I hope to go see the monasteries there someday.
Search for meteora Greek monasteries, the effort they had to go thru in order to defend against invading muslims and now to just allow them in.
Orthodox christian?
Greece is the origin of what is now called Orthodox, yes.
Generally, the Orthodox are the most based Christians there are.
love your neighbor has been a disaster for Christianity.
how those pharisees managed to convincingly convolute "neighbor" into "guy from the other side of the globe who shares literally nothing with you", I will never understand...
I believe we should love everyone ideally as Jesus commanded. Also it is illogical to bring people in who hate your society
you can love them and still beleive they need a frank conversation with god, face-to-face, asap.
also. Jesus may love them equally, but you're not Jesus. and there are a couple other harder and more important things to do to get closer to him, before you start to "love" random biotrash.
Love includes keeping them off the path to evil, but that would be mean so we've abandoned that.
Many of the Bible’s prescriptions are interdependent. Taken in a vacuum, isolated pieces of “God’s wisdom” can be enormously destructive if applied outside the context of a wholly just and moral society. Sorta like how the US constitution is really only useful in governing a moral people.
I get that but I do think we should be following Christ’s example. I want to help those in need, I really do but it seems that people really have become experts at taking advantage of any whiff of compassion
They are not Christians. Those are heretics.
Good & valid point.