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I... didn't?

• throwanem 9y ago
  You...kind of did? I mean, I get that the people you're talking about call themselves Christian, but they no more merit taking at their word on the matter than if I say I'm vegan while halfway through a porterhouse. You know Mark and Deuteronomy. Do you know Matthew? "You shall know them by their fruits." And: "[T]hen will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." Christ himself would not call these men Christian. Why should you or I take them at their word when they call themselves so?
  • Avshalom 9y ago
    I never called them christians did I? I said fucked up theology (among other possibilities) is a reason people would intentionally prevent poor people from helping themselves
    • throwanem 9y ago
      You didn't use the word, but I think it's a real stretch to argue that that wasn't your meaning. Can we compromise on "heretical corruption of Christianity"? I should think that'd be imprecatory enough for just about anyone - it certainly has more and sharper teeth than inaccurate and mere milquetoast 'theology'! - and it has the added virtue of not perpetuating a condition in which one such as myself finds it every bit as difficult and trepidatory to come out as Christian as, in an earlier time, he did to come out as gay. Perhaps that's not something with which you feel any need to concern yourself, even to this quite literally nominal degree; I can't say that isn't fair enough, but I would esteem it a kindness if you did.