@sickburnbro Diogenes presented the homeless man a bucket of water. Ayn Rand looked on in horror as the drunkard began to drink it. Diogenes, full of his typical spite, turned to the ancap jewess with a wry smile. "Behold," he said, "a private firefighter."
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SuperLutheran (kicky half)It was both, actually. Second Temple literature denotes that most people in Judea were caught up in politics that weren't too different from the dissident right today; dealing with a thieving hostile foreign power, having no self determination as a people, and arguing over what to do about it. Texts like the war scroll were their turner diaries. Texts like the calendrical treatises were their version of arguing over seed oils. There were also, of course, denominational arguments ad nauseam regarding which type of jew was the right type of jew to be.
To tell these people that their fundamental principle should be love for God, love for neighbor, and love for enemy would enrage them. System collaborators at the time tried to have Christ killed by angry populists with questions over taxation, for crying out loud. But that He justified His positions with the bold truth that He is Divine, that made the situation far more urgent to address and enraged these people all the more.
Christ is obviously quite vindicated. The same people who had Him crucified were left up to their own devices, and their conclusion was to declare war on Rome and end up slaughtered - multiple times, mind you. Meanwhile Christ's followers patiently spread the Gospel and endured persecution until God gave them the entirety of Rome without them having to unsheath a single blade.
Admittedly that great victory led to some growing pains - the Church never expected God to hand the sword of civic power to Christians, and yet He did. The longstanding trauma of persecution eventually transmuted into all sorts of mutations that don't belong in the faith, from Donatist insistence on martyrdom to the "living martyrdom" of celibate monks starving themselves, to works righteousness being passed onto the laity. Christ who gave them an empire was almost forgotten in much of the infant Christendom. We should have simply rejoiced and ruled fairly.
In the 21st century there are vast populations of Christians who act like first century jews. On the one hand you have piles of people who hate Christ's message of compassion and goodwill for others; they ceaselessly try to rewrite or reinterpret His plain words to justify their bloodthirst. On the other you have the left leaners who hate Christ's claim to Divinity - especially with the absolute authority which inherently belongs to Him on account of it; they want fornication and homosex and all other manner of sin, with no threat of hell for nonbelief. Christ being God gets in the way of that. If Christ returned for a second earthly ministry, instead of Judgment Day, both of these groups would have Him crucified again within the first week. All because following Him and worshiping Him are abhorrent to their conception of how things should be.
As for me and my household, we will follow the Lord.
Men are simply hardwired to overlook flaws in women. If she isn't fat and hasn't had her face blown off by explosives or melted with acid, there is a man who will not only accept her - there's a man who will love everything about her.
No one on fedi is surprised by this, but there's a guy out there who would scream "uoh" at a woman who never bathes, guys who would wife up a felon, *everything* goes. It is a reflection of the way God relates to us - in similar fashion to the way mothers treat their children. Man is hardwired to forgive woman for her flaws the same way a mother is hardwired to forgive her children for their flaws. It is what it is.
Sedevacantism is fun to watch, because they have an image in their minds of what the Roman Church should be that the Roman Church used to agree with. We live in an era of the kinder, gentler papism than what existed before Vatican II. Even if the doctrines aren't different (they are) the presentation is so different that on vibes alone the sedevacantist movement would be inevitable.
@King_Noticer@SmidgePierce@kf01 The jezebel of thyatira slinking around, telling the members of the church "hey anon, wanna eat some shit i found in a pagan temple and bang all night? I heard it's floozy hour over at the shrine of apollo."
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SuperLutheran (kicky half)You do not need a theological justification for advocating for your own race. There are no theological arguments *against* it that don't rely on bizarre hermeneutic twists and errors, and you have Christian freedom to take the positions they rage against no matter how loud they are about it. But even knowing this, you do not have to counter their arguments with theological mandates or arguments of your own. All that does is trap you deep in the weeds of interpretations, debates about words, and other useless things. Entering the debate tells them that that if they can somehow out-debate you then you have to give up being pro-White or pro-black or whatever you happen to be.
Don't cede your freedom to the self proclaimed smart set, make your own decision here.
Something that *isn't* getting attention during this whole dustup is how Christians are treated there. This is video that anti-Christian persecutors took, where they tied up and humiliated a Christian woman solely because she loves Jesus.
Please pray for believers there. The reason India is such a dark place is that the light of Christ shines only dimly there. If that entire nation converts - and we should absolutely be praying for that - then we will not see nearly the same level of dysfunction coming from there.
Please pray for this poor woman and her congregation. Thankfully, as a pastor in Odisha has related to me, she's safe now, but her witness comes at a cost of patient healing after the whole ordeal.
India should be a place where Indians want to live, where the Gospel shines brightly and reforms the entire subcontinent. I pray that the whole country is brought to our Lord, that the persecution ends, and that the Lord calls all of the Indian diaspora back home to see the wonders He has done for it.