Wishing Others Ill


Comment: It is very difficult to respect the feelings of people who want to either kill you or watch you take your own life. If religious people insist on putting it about globally that all gay people are rampantly promiscuous disease carrying child rapists who they want god to kill, as far as I am concerned it has to be "war to the knife" until such things are no longer preached.

Response: I have been a Christian for nearly 30 years and have never heard (publicly or privately) my Christian friends (or even Facebook friends) even during a heated argument say they would like to see their atheist or gay friends killed ...no doubt the media can always look through the haystack to find the Westboro (needle) with their 40 members .. but to wish such a curse upon someone because they are a sinner like me would not merely be disrespectful but would deny the core doctrine of Christianity itself.. that Jesus came to redeem us because we are all in need of redeeming... all of us are desperately cracked about the head and in need of mending.. and that it is the grace and mercy of God alone that ANY OF US, especially me, need if there is any hope to be reconciled with God .. that I am not saved because I am wiser or more moral than you but because of God's mercy alone to an ill-deserving sinner like me .. if someone claiming to be a Christian does not believe that basic truth then they are not a Christian to begin with. You may disagree with Christianity and you have freedom of conscience to do so... but no true Christian hates or thinks himself more deserving than atheists or gay people.. .and if you ever hear one say it is their "hope" that you end up in hell you would do well to challenge their understanding of their own faith.

Mon, 03/16/2015 - 14:02 -- john_hendryx

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