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viking65 67 points ago +72 / -5

Love your neighbour or else.

Jesus didn't tell you to tolerate the evil people. Quite the contrary: "Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you."

Believe in Jesus, or else.

You think Jesus came to bring peace or to bring a sword? "Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword." "Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.…"

Jesus did not tell you to love degeneracy. We are told to hate wickedness. "To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech."

Christianity is all about love and tolerance? Yay hippie nonsense.

Christians love their neighbours, fellow Christians, but we do not tolerate the infidels and faithless commies.

So yes, if you want to play them at their own game, then Christianity has a 2000 years old track record of beating everyone else. And I'm a wicked atheist -- but I think it's mostly because the word that I was taught did not resonate with me. Reading the bible myself is restoring my faith, 1 verse at a time.

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snowypepe 25 points ago +26 / -1

Thanks for this viking65, you probably know more scripture than a lot of people raised Christian. I pray you continue to find faith though His words.

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elodrian 8 points ago +8 / -0

I question whether whatever word was used in the original Greek text is correctly translated to "neighbour" as we use the word today. I have five neighbours on the floor of my condo and in two years I've had one conversation with one of them regarding how to book a flight online, picked up one car that got out of another's unit, and asked a third to stop his dog from barking. That's it in two years. I assume they have names, but damned if I know what they are. "Neighbour" is a misnomer for people living in a city.