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Technically there was mention about abusing children sexually as a sin, but they changed it to being gay is a sin. Saying the quiet part out loud.
Someone has been burned by Christians it seems
I'll confirm that for you, particularly the Pentecostals.
They were neighbors of mine within spitting distance, and yet like 2 years before my father passed away, they were trying to talk with me behind his back to acquire his land.
A part of me wanted to burn their fucking house down over that, but I'm better than that. After daddy passed, they acquired the land that I was supposed to inherit (about 1 acre), and threw out all our stuff.
I only got like less than 5% of the stuff I hoped to retrieve. Fuck, they even sold my registered to me motorhome to local meth heads for scrap when I was out of town.
So yeah, to say I was burned by Christians says the least. But it's water off my back, I seek no revenge, that would just make me worse than them.
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There sounds like there's a lot missing here, and calling your father "Daddy" is weird.
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Just because it's not spelled out, doesn't mean it's not there. Critique made without a genuine effort to understand the cultural and historical context isn't worth much.
Very first commandment (as summarized by Jesus) is "Love the Lord your God." Combine that with the mandate to Adam and Eve to care for God's creation, and the core tenant of Judaism that loving God implies obedience, and the concept of respecting that of his creation which bears his image becomes immediately obvious.
I don't give a shit about cultural and historical significance, when today is what counts, and the leaders and oligarchs in charge that supposedly believe in Christian faith are actively committing genocide, bombing schools of children, and they're entangled in a pedo ring..
If this is what the Bible is all about, 'fOrgIVe mE faThER fOr i haVe sinNeD' is all about, then fuckit, burn the bible and start a new belief system that actually makes sense and respects people in general, rather than abusing and killing them en masse and destroying the 'holy land'.
What's holy about the land anyways, ancient history, or the bomb craters today?
Sorry, Jesus ain't coming back to save anyone, people need to put down their arms and go home to serve and protect their families. Jesus didn't have a gun, and even if he did, he most likely wouldn't have used it.
Fuckall with war in the name of the invisible man in the sky.
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