• Zozano@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    There are good people who are Christian, sure. But they’re only good people because they are bad Christians. They (their denomination) have cherry picked the least contentious passages and ignored the most hateful.

    A ‘Good Christian’ is a creature of bigotry and contradiction, who spares no bias for which passages are morally good or bad. In some sense, The Westborough Baptist Church embrace many of the worst aspects of Christianity, they are Good Christians (but bad people).

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      This is nonsense. The bad people who call themselves Christians are the ones cherry picking bigotry. The Christian message is, fundamentally, “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12:30-31). There are a lot of hateful bigots who put a cross on the building, and those are the loud minority. A good Christian is one who prays quietly alone at home, not shoving their religion in other people’s faces (Matthew 5:6).

      Westboro Baptists are bad Christians, as are any others who spew hate and intolerance against others.

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        5 months ago

        1 Timothy 2:12: I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.

        • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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          Okay. When I say “Christian” I’m referring to followers of the teachings of Jesus. Lots of people have a lot of commentary about a lot of things. One of those people was Paul, who wasn’t a disciple and never met Jesus. Timothy is, purportedly, Paul’s correspondence with some guy named Timothy. There are many who feel that Paul seriously corrupted the original Christian message.

          Forgive me if I don’t consider the Pauline epistles to be representative of the core Christian message.

          • Zozano@aussie.zone
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            5 months ago

            Lol here we go with the moving of goal posts.

            Pack it up guys, our work here is done.