How about we learn to be better neighbors instead?
What did Jesus say again? Love your who? Did Jesus deport anyone? No actually. He basically said if you follow Him and do right by your fellow man, you're in. It's not as hard as other, controlling insecure types need it to be.
EDIT: Thank you all for confirming that leaving the Christian Thought Plantation, a place of which most of you are still on, was the right decision. Your faceless downvotes say all we need to about your blind devotion to the corporate religion known as Christianity.
But I digress. Better to be surrounded by types who keep their opinions in their homes and by their ACTIONS prove they understand Jesus's love. The dialogues and discussions will still continue even after the much needed corporate collapse of status quo tax evading business known as "Christianity". I've seen the good things the religion can be when it focuses on only Christ as per Matt 23:8. All the religions are great when they aren't trying to control anyone. Let's get back to that America.
Haha, nice try. Jesus was talking on the level of individual people. He never addressed government policies.
There is nothing unbiblical about sending back (and stopping more from coming in) illegal invaders. Just like there is nothing unbiblical about self defense.
Learning to be better neighbors is a fine idea. However when we are dealing with a religion that brainwashes its subjects from birth to hate anyone outside of that religion (ie CULT), then it takes some common sense to want to separate such people from your community. Just a day or so ago I saw some Muslim on video saying, "I hate you for the sake of Allah." You were downvoted (and I downvoted you too) because you are a non-Christian pretending to dictate how Christianity should be. Godless shitlibs do that all the time and you are no different. If you want to complain about religions controlling people, Islamic scripture says that you go to hell for peeing while standing. It even dictates the number of times to wipe your ass after you take a crap. You never hear of Amish suicide bombers or Presbyterian rape gangs or Pentecostal honor killings. All that is Islam, which is an insult to humanity. I do not live in a Christian country and the predominant religions here are not a problem. Islam is the problem. I would very much like to accept them as neighbors, but they belong to a death cult. Jesus says that God loves the world. Mohammad says that Allah only loves Muslims and hates non-Muslims. It's why they are commanded to wage murder on infidels until the end of time in chapter 9 of the Koran. What Jesus said was to love one's enemies. I can love them, fine. It doesn't mean society should roll over and allow a death cult to wage war on them. Offer me a bowl full of jelly beans and one or two contain a lethal dose of cyanide, and you accuse me of not being "Christian" for refusing to accept it? That's not how it works. The "Christian Thought Plantation" as you derisively call it is based on scripture more than your fantasy idea of Jesus.
"Did Jesus deport anyone?" Mr. Camaro asks, talking about the God that created Hell.
You can follow him all you want.
Be nice to the neighbors, even, and Jesus might still tell you, um, like basically, um, you know..."Depart from ye workers of iniquity, I never knew you".
You'd be "in" alright, but maybe not where you expected.
Man created hell. If someone threatened to kill you, you would press charges and have them thrown in jail. Yet you worship a "benevolent" entity that promises to do exactly that to you. Why?
I can tell you have no understanding of the Bible. You said above: "It's in the Bible. He said it. You can choose not to follow it. It's not my problem if you don't." and then you base your premise on something completely the opposite of what the Bible says.
I can see this is going nowhere productive, so I'm out.
How about we learn to be better neighbors instead?
What did Jesus say again? Love your who?
Here is what Jesus said, in Matthew 5:43 --
"Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy."
It is perfectly normal to hate those who would destroy what you love. You would have to be weak and impotent not to.
Now, ask yourself this: What if your enemy lived next door?
You would be loving and hating the same person -- IF the standard understanding of "neighbor" is used.
Problem is, the Bible has been mistranslated so many times, that many original verses have been turned backwards and upside down.
"Neighbor" -- using the original Greek text -- never did mean "the random person who happens to live next door." It meant (and still means today, even though mistranslated in English), "the person of your own tribe -- your brother, your kindred."
Islam and Christianity are not compatiable. These people are a destruction of American society, which was built on Christian principles.
How about we learn to be better neighbors instead?
What did Jesus say again? Love your who? Did Jesus deport anyone? No actually. He basically said if you follow Him and do right by your fellow man, you're in. It's not as hard as other, controlling insecure types need it to be.
EDIT: Thank you all for confirming that leaving the Christian Thought Plantation, a place of which most of you are still on, was the right decision. Your faceless downvotes say all we need to about your blind devotion to the corporate religion known as Christianity.
But I digress. Better to be surrounded by types who keep their opinions in their homes and by their ACTIONS prove they understand Jesus's love. The dialogues and discussions will still continue even after the much needed corporate collapse of status quo tax evading business known as "Christianity". I've seen the good things the religion can be when it focuses on only Christ as per Matt 23:8. All the religions are great when they aren't trying to control anyone. Let's get back to that America.
Haha, nice try. Jesus was talking on the level of individual people. He never addressed government policies.
There is nothing unbiblical about sending back (and stopping more from coming in) illegal invaders. Just like there is nothing unbiblical about self defense.
Didn't imply there wasn't simply pointed out fact. Lots were triggered by this.
It's in the Bible. He said it. You can choose not to follow it. It's not my problem if you don't.
Learning to be better neighbors is a fine idea. However when we are dealing with a religion that brainwashes its subjects from birth to hate anyone outside of that religion (ie CULT), then it takes some common sense to want to separate such people from your community. Just a day or so ago I saw some Muslim on video saying, "I hate you for the sake of Allah." You were downvoted (and I downvoted you too) because you are a non-Christian pretending to dictate how Christianity should be. Godless shitlibs do that all the time and you are no different. If you want to complain about religions controlling people, Islamic scripture says that you go to hell for peeing while standing. It even dictates the number of times to wipe your ass after you take a crap. You never hear of Amish suicide bombers or Presbyterian rape gangs or Pentecostal honor killings. All that is Islam, which is an insult to humanity. I do not live in a Christian country and the predominant religions here are not a problem. Islam is the problem. I would very much like to accept them as neighbors, but they belong to a death cult. Jesus says that God loves the world. Mohammad says that Allah only loves Muslims and hates non-Muslims. It's why they are commanded to wage murder on infidels until the end of time in chapter 9 of the Koran. What Jesus said was to love one's enemies. I can love them, fine. It doesn't mean society should roll over and allow a death cult to wage war on them. Offer me a bowl full of jelly beans and one or two contain a lethal dose of cyanide, and you accuse me of not being "Christian" for refusing to accept it? That's not how it works. The "Christian Thought Plantation" as you derisively call it is based on scripture more than your fantasy idea of Jesus.
"Did Jesus deport anyone?" Mr. Camaro asks, talking about the God that created Hell.
You can follow him all you want. Be nice to the neighbors, even, and Jesus might still tell you, um, like basically, um, you know..."Depart from ye workers of iniquity, I never knew you".
You'd be "in" alright, but maybe not where you expected.
Man created hell. If someone threatened to kill you, you would press charges and have them thrown in jail. Yet you worship a "benevolent" entity that promises to do exactly that to you. Why?
I can tell you have no understanding of the Bible. You said above: "It's in the Bible. He said it. You can choose not to follow it. It's not my problem if you don't." and then you base your premise on something completely the opposite of what the Bible says.
I can see this is going nowhere productive, so I'm out.
Here is what Jesus said, in Matthew 5:43 --
"Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy."
It is perfectly normal to hate those who would destroy what you love. You would have to be weak and impotent not to.
Now, ask yourself this: What if your enemy lived next door?
You would be loving and hating the same person -- IF the standard understanding of "neighbor" is used.
Problem is, the Bible has been mistranslated so many times, that many original verses have been turned backwards and upside down.
"Neighbor" -- using the original Greek text -- never did mean "the random person who happens to live next door." It meant (and still means today, even though mistranslated in English), "the person of your own tribe -- your brother, your kindred."
Islam and Christianity are not compatiable. These people are a destruction of American society, which was built on Christian principles.
SEND. THEM. BACK.
"But I tell you, LOVE your enemies."
Nice try. Not really. It was as sad and pathetic as all the excuses you give yourself to be an asshole.