(July 30, 2017 at 5:57 pm)Dropship Wrote:(July 30, 2017 at 3:29 am)Astonished Wrote: ..Controlling people's behavior is the first step in controlling their minds.
Chill mate, Christianity doesn't do 'control'..
"Be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care, watching over them, not because you must, but because you are willing...eager to serve; not lording it over those entrusted to you.." (2 Cor 2:17,1 Peter 5:2-3)
(July 30, 2017 at 5:03 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: ..When you've got nothing to actually sell, you've got to guilt people into giving you their money.
Very few Christians in the public eye have ever let what Jesus did or didn't say stop them from offering their judgement. Jesus never said a word about abortion, did he? Still, his followers insist on trying to control the bodies of others.
1- True Christians give money away, not rake it in..
"..we do not peddle the word of God for profit...(2 Cor 2:17)
2- Christians have no beef with abortions if continuing the pregnancy would carry a serious health risk to the mother, or if scans show the baby would be born severely hadicapped physically or mentally.
By that definition, there are no true Christians. Didn't JC say something about giving it all away?
Regarding abortion, or any other preachment Christians have to offer, I'll tell you what my dad would tell me : "Clean up your own back yard."
Not too different from "Let he who is without sin [...]", come to think of it.
