Christianity; the World's Most Violently Persecuted Religion

[Thumpalumpacus]

I cant say it's surprising that when you hear of an all-powerful God the only thing you can think is, "How can he benefit me though?"

I'm wondering why an all-powerful and loving "Father" cannot protect his "children" from dangers he himself created. That's a different kettle of fish.

That's also a question you clearly have no answer for.

It's a nice post; Christians have been dealing with the concept of "in-group/out-group" since the writing of the Book of Acts and one that we thankfully got sorted out pretty quickly; rejecting the insular and ethno-centric legal beliefs of Rabbinic/Pharisaic Judaism and instead embracing an ideology that allowed all ethnicities and women to be both welcomed into the fold and gave them a prominent role in the faith.

The Catholic Church is doing everything it can to provide support to those at the border; unfortunately most border Catholic communities are significantly economically struggling themselves and the broader Church has been barely keeping itself afloat.

... and yet you support and voted for a man who aims to drastically increase the cruelty with which these immigrants are treated. I wonder what your Jesus would think of you, if he actually existed. You should be happy he doesn't, because he would not be applauding you, I suspect.

[brewer]

^^^Intentionally feigned ignorance or yet another example of poor trolling?

Neither; would you people truly enjoy it if I just ignored everything you say and then just state, "Intentionally feigned ignorance or yet another example of atheist closed-mindedness?" It's stupid and it's obvious neither of us can assume and predict what the other actually believes, so let's try to do better.

I've only progressively begun to engage in insulting ideas as it became more and more clear that no one here held rational beliefs, or even beliefs worthy of respect - racism, sexism, murder? - if you want to have a serious conversation, I'm more than interested, but otherwise I will continue to make sure irrational remarks are pointed out as such - and honestly, yeah I'll try to have less fun in doing it because I don't want to stoop to their level and I don't want it to come across as petty to any strangers who might swing by and potentially buy into that nonsense.

As the purple swirl icon said in... somewhat similar words... "See racism, call out racism - see irrational, call out irrational - see evil, call out evil - even if the boss supports it."

My point is that christens don't get to kill in gods name in one era and then claim persecution in another. Well............ they actually can but it then demonstrates faults in their belief system and their sense of (false) entitlement.

And if you sincerely need to ask for examples of christian killings across the centuries then it appears to me that you're either not as intelligent as you claim, that you're blinded by your religious fervor, or that (for troll reasons) you're intentionally feigning ignorance.

[Paleophyte]

[The Architect Of Fate]

[Thumpalumpacus]

[Thumpalumpacus]

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[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^Gotta wonder why Pope Francis would apologize for graves full of stones and not bodies.

Boru

[Sheldon]

[TheWhiteMarten]

"Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake. For theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

Amen.

[TheWhiteMarten]

^Gotta wonder why Pope Francis would apologize for graves full of stones and not bodies.

Boru

Wow - it's almost like the global media pushed a narrative and caused massive public outcry then just kinda disspeared when it turned out the "mass graves" were the walls of a previous church. 

I have to respect the consistency - "Stir shit up, cause social issues, then dip until it tears itself apart and pretend you didn't instigate it" has been one hell of a strategy for the last 200-so years.