I don’t think I’m in the minority at all. There are many Christians all over the world who try to live by the words of Jesus, by love and charity. It’s just that US politics and media gets dominated by people weaponizing it to justify their hate, and that has lead a lot of people astray. It’s not something that only happens in the US, but it’s also something that always receives pushback when it happens. Sometimes slower than at other times. Dutch churches seem to be a lot more vigilant about this sort of thing than American churches, but again, consider that people like Martin Luther King, Jimmy Carter and many people like then are also Christian.
You truly believe that someone, no matter how bad, deserves eternal torment.
You’re trying to put me in God’s place here. What I believe God expects of me, is to love my neighbour l, which means everybody I get into any kind of contact with, and to love them, help them when they’re in need, even when they are my enemy.
This punishment you obsess about is not ours to execute. It is not ours to judge. It’s ours to love. But sadly there’s no shortage of people who want to claim God’s authority for themselves and deal out punishment to the people they feel deserve it.
I don’t think I’m in the minority at all. There are many Christians all over the world who try to live by the words of Jesus, by love and charity. It’s just that US politics and media gets dominated by people weaponizing it to justify their hate, and that has lead a lot of people astray. It’s not something that only happens in the US, but it’s also something that always receives pushback when it happens. Sometimes slower than at other times. Dutch churches seem to be a lot more vigilant about this sort of thing than American churches, but again, consider that people like Martin Luther King, Jimmy Carter and many people like then are also Christian.
You’re trying to put me in God’s place here. What I believe God expects of me, is to love my neighbour l, which means everybody I get into any kind of contact with, and to love them, help them when they’re in need, even when they are my enemy.
This punishment you obsess about is not ours to execute. It is not ours to judge. It’s ours to love. But sadly there’s no shortage of people who want to claim God’s authority for themselves and deal out punishment to the people they feel deserve it.