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GigaChad 49 points ago +50 / -1

I wish I could think of a made up condition that I have to get everyone to respect or else get them fired from their jobs. It's an evil genius move taking the trans move as far as they have, I just wish we could play them at their own game. It's all such obvious bullshit that we're powerless to fight against.

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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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yamsham 7 points ago +13 / -6

“I’m an atheist”

Which explains why you took the above verses out of context. Why didn’t Paul or Peter reign down fire on their enemies? Why does the father say, “Precious are the deaths of the saints in the eyes of the LORD”?

Because, his kingdom is not of this world, or the world would have been taken over. Instead, the saints now suffer, and increase in faith for the kingdom which is to come, and will come as the books of revelation, Isaiah, and Malachi foretell. Christians who suffer patiently for the coming grace show the faith the LORD has given them. And they pray for those who persecute them.

The LORD simply allows those who persecute them to either turn from their sin in repentance to Jesus, or perish. Why should people who were sinners and are now saved wish for the destruction of their former brothers who now suffer in their same evil?

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elodrian 4 points ago +4 / -0

You suffer less than your fellow congregants of the first century did. This is the case because century after century the villains have been beaten back. Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem; this is what a philosophy of waiting for the end times produces. Would the world be better off if Rome had become another Istanbul? Would individual Christians or the Church as a whole? Would there be any Christians at all had the jannisaries breached the gates of Vienna, sacked Rome, and conquered all of Europe? If you lived at all you would be worshipping the moon god five times daily, and all the souls on that timeline are lost. That's where passively waiting for judgement day leads.

We don't take a stand for the benefit of those who continue in their transgressions. We take a stand for future generations who will inherit the world we leave them.