Never compromise! / Christian persecution!

[Crossless2.0]

Stupid. Vain. Resentful. I'd say that covers most cases.

[Lek]

We don't have to agree on matters of faith to get along. Most of the people I get along with don't agree with me on everything.

[Minimalist]

Not all are as accommodating as you, Lek.

"Cædite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius"
"Kill them all. God will know his own".


Abbot Arnaud-Amaury at the massacre of Beziers

They made him an archbishop for that.

[Ryantology]

We don't have to agree on matters of faith to get along. Most of the people I get along with don't agree with me on everything.

Just because we're not nice to you doesn't mean we're persecuting you.

[Lek]

We don't have to agree on matters of faith to get along. Most of the people I get along with don't agree with me on everything.

Just because we're not nice to you doesn't mean we're persecuting you.

Then why are you not nice to me?

[Rampant.A.I.]

[Ryantology]

Just because we're not nice to you doesn't mean we're persecuting you.

Then why are you not nice to me?

Some of the things you say make my brain ache.

[SteelCurtain]

I had this conversation with my parents. They were surprisingly open to hearing how the idea of "persecuted majority" is utter bullshit. Or at least they shut up after I ranted about it for 5 minutes. The idea that not tolerating bigotry is persecution---not a thing.

[Artur Axmann]

I was on Facebook today. I have a friend who is a Baptist. He made a post that was as simple as "Why can't we all get along?". I then started going through the comments of his wacky Baptist friends. Every single one of them came off like:

• We must never compromise! To do so would be to deny the Lord.
  
• Everyone wants to believe everything is happy and everyone will go to heaven, but down that path lies hell!
  
• The Bible is very clear on this. We need to be biblical Christians.
  

Basically, it all comes down to a refusal to compromise because they believe they're really right and that's all there is to it. I imagine this type of mentality will cause them to continue hemorrhaging followers.

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On a related note, I've noticed all of his Baptist friends really feel that Christians are persecuted. No they aren't. Certainly not in America. Then I thought of something:

Fundamentalists are "persecuted".

Now, I'll use that in quotes, because they're really not being persecuted; it's just their world view is decreasingly popular, and they're getting their feelings hurt. I think this notion of Christian persecution is very comforting to a fundamentalist. Not only was it predicted by Jesus (sort of), it allows them to believe things that are objectively and verifiably wrong and still maintain that they're right! It also lets them beat the war drums to rally the troops, so to speak.

Invoking persecution protects their view points, not only from non-Christians, but even from all the non-fundies (you know: the not-True Christians).



These are just two thoughts I had now that I started talking to my Baptist friend, again. When I'm painting for hours back to back, I have lots of time to think about stuff like this.

what kind of belief would someone have if he felt he was not totally right .?

Would you respect that belief more so?

c'mon , i thought you were smart.

[Rampant.A.I.]

The same sort of shaky, unconfident level of belief that would drive a Christian to troll an atheist forum with unsupported accusations they're too insecure to level at people face to face.