(April 7, 2017 at 1:30 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(April 7, 2017 at 1:05 pm)Jesster Wrote: To be fair with the Westboro Baptists, they are following scripture very clearly. They might be cherry picking a few parts of scripture that they like more, but they aren't doing that any more than the more friendly Christians. Even though I know which Christians I prefer to deal with, I'd still consider members of each group to be Christians. This goes back to my first post in this thread.
I believe I have already addressed this. When you ignore the fundamental teachings of Christ Himself, particularly the one teaching He said was most important, you have crossed the line. There is a massive difference between having different interpretations about some Old Testament stuff and how it was written, and going completely against Jesus' fundamental commandment to love.
This still seems a bit too much like a "no true Scotsman" stance to me. You may not see them as Christians, but they sure do. They back up their stance as much as you do as well. Just claiming that they aren't really Christians doesn't make much of a difference to the rest of the world.
I'm not trying to paint all, or even most, Christians with that brush. I'm just saying that there are full ranges of people in every group. Thankfully this is a minority portion. I know too many good Christians to use this minority as default example.
I don't believe you. Get over it.
