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Post by jimmyboy on Jul 18, 2024 0:27:38 GMT
www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/13-controversial-christian-practices-that-stray-from-jesus-teachings/ss-BB1oOGTI?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=7381baf93c274ef584f05b63aafb24d4&ei=17#image=6- One has to be rich be go to heaven. - It's good to condemn others. - Politics and religion are a good mix. - Hate the homeless and poor. - Hate the gays, hookers, and other downtrodden. - Scare people with brimstone and hellfire to get them to jump for Jesus. - Log it, pave it, burn it when dealing with the environment. After all, it's Earth first - we can strip mine the other planets later. - Be nitpicky about the rules instead of how you deal with others. - Viewing church leaders as divine celebrities. - Being racist, homophobic and fearful of outsiders is tight. - Using religion for personal gain - Using God to get really rich and powerful is also tight. - Fuck forgiveness - be vindictive as all hell. this is really tight as well. - Violence is great. Nothing like a holy war - like the crusades or using guns to get your way - pleases God more.
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Post by amyghost on Jul 18, 2024 11:52:15 GMT
Chalk it up to the beauty part of the Holy Bible's being endlessly open to all manner of 'interpretation'. After all, its teachings are so often vague and self-contradictory that this becomes not at all difficult for the self-serving 'Christian' to turn to his advantage. And that applies just as much to the pronouncements of Jesus as it does to any of the other books, OT and NT. Everything is ultimately couched in language that leaves much of its exposition very open-ended. I doubt that's entirely accidental or due merely to issues regarding translation.
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