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 No.15338

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Any of you have any religious backgrounds? Because I’m getting baptized as a Presbyterian today.

 No.15340

I dont, but I am glad you have found your faith!

 No.15395

>>15338
Being a regular Christian in America today is like being a regular Muslim in a Middle Eastern country after the 9/11.

Like I know that Muhammed and Jesus would oppose all of these things being done in their names with absolute certainty, and their words are easy to look up to confirm that fact, but it's still horrifying to be subject to such association with those doing the worst evils imaginable.

I hope and pray for change.

In the long-run, grace and peace is stronger than lies meant to support violent destruction and hatred. God doesn't lie, cheat, steal, rape, murder, and the like. People do, even if they falsely blame things on God. And those people will lose in the end. As God wins. I think. I hope so. The messages of Jesus and Muhammed are what they are, and they've gained praise for centuries for good reason.

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>>15395
>Being a regular Christian in America today is like being a regular Muslim in a Middle Eastern country after the 9/11.

what the FUCK are you TALKING ABOUT

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 No.15412

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>>15404
I believe they are talking about Christians who are not fundamentalists nor biblical literalists, a theology that developed in the early 1900s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fundamentals) as a reaction to scientific discoveries which contradicted a literal interpretation of the bible who feared that Christianity and the country would soon disappear without such a declaration.

Presbyterians, typically one of the "regular Christian" denominations, adapt their beliefs to the truths of science, seeing science itself as a creation of God and therefore accurate.

With the recent fusion of modern right-wing politics with the mass media as well as with Christian fundamentalists and biblical literalists, some non-Christians view any denomination of Christian as little different from such a person.

Generally-speaking, it is a polarization of how Christians are being increasingly generally viewed; such thought is not without merit -- it is backed up in (one of) Richard Dawkins' books (he mostly writes about biology), "The God Delusion," in which he argues that liberal Christians inadvertently provide cover for fundamentalist, biblical literalist Christians to better perform their misdeeds with impunity, as they use the same language when talking about Jesus and God, yet can mean very different things, and that they are not doing enough to differentiate themselves.

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>>15412
how is that anything like being a muslim post 9/11


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