RE: Damned Christians
January 11, 2019 at 1:41 am
(This post was last modified: January 11, 2019 at 1:41 am by Fake Messiah.)
(January 10, 2019 at 11:32 am)tackattack Wrote: Ephesians 2:14 "For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility," If you can't debate peacefully or motivate people peacefully within a theological sect, you're going against Jesus' teaching, IMO.
Jesus teachings are are obviously murky and you can flip them as you like it. Guy who talked about wall being in line with Jesus is a prominent pastor with many Christians that agree on what he says.
Plan B: A Revised Strategy to Battle Idaho's Faith-Healing Exemptions
On February 21, 2018, Wingate and nearly 100 others carried 183 tiny, empty coffins up Capitol Boulevard and stacked them on the steps of the Idaho Statehouse—one coffin for each Idaho infant, child or teen that, according to PIK, had died since the exemptions were put into place in the 1970s. The February demonstration was sobering, and the words shared there were as bone-chilling as the single-digit temperature.
"My brother Steven was born with spina bifida. Our parents never took Steven to a doctor," said Willie Hughes, looking down at an empty coffin with his brother's name printed on the side. Hughes' family were members of Followers of Christ, a church that practices faith healing and believes death and illness are the will of God. "The elders prayed and rubbed olive oil on him. He died of bronchial pneumonia. He was only 3."
The summer of 2018 saw Idaho's latest incident of faith healing harming children. Lester Kester Jr. of Caldwell admitted to the 11-year molestation of his five children, while his wife, Sarah, told investigators that she had "prayed for the demon" to leave her husband instead of contacting authorities.
https://m.boiseweekly.com/boise/plan-b-a...d=16667481
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"