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posted ago by buttfuckmebigfoot ago by buttfuckmebigfoot +1482 / -0

I, unfortunately, have decided that I’m going to have to leave my church due to their unrelenting BLM support and (of course) racism towards anyone who isn’t openly supporting it. When I joined this church in 2012 it was great, it was extremely spiritual and wasn’t extremist in any sort of way. They were very open and accepting of all beliefs, and I never felt ashamed to be there.

Now the entire church is only discussing how white people need to pray on our inherent evil towards minorities. One of our ministers is a black woman who was very accepting until BLM first came into existence. After that she set up a church protest to go protest the execution of a black man who had raped and murdered a woman and her child. I was NOT down with participating with that, and really considered leaving after that incident but ultimately decided to stay. From there she and another minister made it known she was not a Trump fan and now all of the leaders there are calling all white people racist. They also just recently said even other races were racist if they didn’t support BLM.

It wasnt super obvious until these past few months, but from then on things kept becoming more extremist and unaccepting. This is not a place where people can celebrate differences in thought or beliefs.

Have any of you guys had to leave a church or a community due to the rising racism of BLM / all the other shit going on? I honestly never thought I’d be hard pressed into leaving, but I don’t feel peace or love there anymore. I don’t even know how to go about finding another place to worship because I’m sure my church isn’t the only place where this is happening.

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splink 5 points ago +5 / -0

That's not Apocrypha - it's literally in Paul's epistles in the New Testament. Yo.

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Libertas_Vel_Mors 1 point ago +1 / -0

And yet you couldn't refer to them by chapter and verse?

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splink 1 point ago +1 / -0

You have access to concordances and Biblegateway, etc same as anyone else, why do you require me to do your homework? Here's a starter for you, "Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was." - Romans 16:7.

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Libertas_Vel_Mors 1 point ago +1 / -0

"The translation of the verse presents two problems:

If the name was accented on the last syllable, then it would be a man. Early New Testament manuscripts do not use accent marks.[3] Sources differ on where the accent appears in accented manuscripts,[1][4] but in the 20th century it was common to put the accent on the last syllable.[1]
The phrase translated "of note among the apostles" (KJV) can be read two ways, as illustrated by the two readings in the NIV; "outstanding among" (NIV main text) or "esteemed by" (NIV footnote).[5]

These two questions are still under scholarly debate. "

...and that's just "Junias".