Religion. Being unaccepting of difference. Confidence and surety in your moral superiority. Fear of "the other". Perhaps "Your being married gay happy reflects badly on me being single and not happy"? Or some people are just basically screwed up? I've seen pretty much all of this, frequently several of them in the same person, which is covered in the 'basically screwed up people'.
The simplest definition of Christian is one who follows the teachings of Christ. You don't have to go lock-step with mainstream "Christian" faith to keep your own beliefs. Far too many people who claim to be Christian fall far short of what is claimed that Christ taught, but that's something that you and I have oft talked about.
IMHO, there is very little, if anything, Christian about all these Bible Thumpers. There is a house down the street that has a sign in his front yard that says, Jesus is my Savior and Trump is my President. I just want to pound on his door and ask him to name literally one teaching of Christ that The Felon follows. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think I've related this to you before. My mom wouldn't vote for Hillary because "She should have kicked Bill out of the house because of all of his affairs." I never asked her how she squared that with all of the philandering that President TACO did. No idea if she voted for him in '20, and she was gone before '24.
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Religion. Being unaccepting of difference. Confidence and surety in your moral superiority. Fear of "the other". Perhaps "Your being married gay happy reflects badly on me being single and not happy"? Or some people are just basically screwed up? I've seen pretty much all of this, frequently several of them in the same person, which is covered in the 'basically screwed up people'.
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The simplest definition of Christian is one who follows the teachings of Christ. You don't have to go lock-step with mainstream "Christian" faith to keep your own beliefs. Far too many people who claim to be Christian fall far short of what is claimed that Christ taught, but that's something that you and I have oft talked about.
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There is a house down the street that has a sign in his front yard that says, Jesus is my Savior and Trump is my President. I just want to pound on his door and ask him to name literally one teaching of Christ that The Felon follows. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I think I've related this to you before. My mom wouldn't vote for Hillary because "She should have kicked Bill out of the house because of all of his affairs." I never asked her how she squared that with all of the philandering that President TACO did. No idea if she voted for him in '20, and she was gone before '24.
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