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What I hate about people reducing Jesus’s message to “be kind to each other,” besides the obvious, is that it’s a serious downgrade from Jesus telling us to love each other radically. Your neighbor is the person on the street in front of you. Your brother has to be forgiven more times than you can count. Wash each other’s feet, if they steal your coat give them your robes, die for each other. Jesus didn’t call us to be ‘nice,’ because nice just doesn’t cut it. He calls us to be lovers, not of some amorphous humanity, but of every single person we encounter.

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y’all know I always try to give people room to shit on Christianity, but I swear, this website really doesn’t know that Christians are not always inherently the oppressor and communities of them exist in actual daily danger. Like y’all realize this ain’t all Catholic imperialism and American christo-nationalism , right?

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i love illegal immigration like yes bitch get in here

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Frequently the anarchists say "There is no one coming to save us, it is upon us to save each other."

The Christians say "Christ has saved us, is continuing to save us."

These are in fact the selfsame thing.

It is those who act in compassion and mercy, whether in the name of God or simply Good, who embody the Savior above on this earth below.

Whether by Bookchin or Saint Basil, we find ourselves obeying the will of God, to feed the hungry and free the oppressed, for this is the work of the Lord.

Blessed be to those who toil not for their own gain, but the benefit of the most vulnerable. Truly it is right and just, and it is needed.

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Saint Mary Magdalene, pray for the women that are downplayed by society for their gender and presentation

Pray that they get the respect that they deserve for their actions, and that others see them as the equals they are

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Learn to articulate how you're feeling without accusing anyone of having bad intentions. You can say "I'm afraid of being alone" without saying "you're just going to leave me like everyone else." You can say "I need some reassurance" without saying "you probably don't love me anymore." You can say "I'm afraid I've hurt your feelings and I'd like to talk it through" without saying "you don't even like me anymore." You can say "I want to spend more time with you" without saying "you've gotten tired of me." You can say "I feel misunderstood" without saying "you always judge me." Try not to let your emotions get the best of you. Have a conversation focused on finding solutions instead of escalating the conflict.

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preach!

some things that so many people get wrong about Christianity (even practicing Christians)

- EVERYONE sins. it does not make you a bad or evil person. shame makes sin worse. the idea that you are "too far gone" for Jesus to ever love you IS the devil talking. any Christian that tells you God doesn't love you is NOT following the word of God. they are actively working against Him, and this is deeply blasphemous. my fellow Christians, please take this into account if you have not already. who are you to deny your neighbor God's love?

- (about Catholics and i think Orthodoxy denominations? idk all the denominations that honor the saints tbh, i mainly know abt Catholicism) praying to the saints, and especially to Mary, is not worshipping false idols. it's the same as asking a friend to pray for you. you pray for Jesus to accept their intercession on your behalf. it is believed that God has worked through the saints to perform miracles before.

- we must TRY to forgive others as Jesus forgives all. forgiveness is not reconciling or bringing others back into your life. sometimes the best way to "love our enemies" is to firmly tell them you believe they're wrong for what they've done. to accept a person is not to accept their hurtful actions or to let them into your life.

- the people you look up to in the church will make mistakes, as too will we. we cannot put anyone on a pedestal or covet their virtue, because it will always lead us to sin. your priests and nuns are people just like you, they have faults just like yours.

- Christian denominations will have WILDLY different beliefs and ways of interpreting the Bible. one size does not fit all. a lot of people think Christians = Catholics and that the vatican speaks for all Christians. this is NOT true. the vatican only applies to the Roman Catholic Church. a lot of Catholics don't even fully believe everything the vatican says. i can't speak for all denominations but Catholics vary wildly depending on where they're from tbh. US east coast Catholics are a lot more progressive than you'd believe. "Bible belt" Catholics are practically Evangelical. usually when people talk about the kinds of Christians that fear monger, they mean Evangelicals, Baptists, or Mormons. but this is an oversimplification for non-Christians because this stuff can be very confusing from the outside. there's 45,000 different denominations apparently??? (but there's like 30? big ones, i think lol) we even disagree on some HUGE/foundational things.

- some Christians are Bible heavy, and others don't care much for it. some believe in the Bible's "infallibility/inerrancy," meaning that it is the literal word of God and is without flaw; but polls show that a lot of us don't. i want to say now that even if the Bible were once inerrant, it has been translated, edited, and taken very much out of context. to use a singular line—often one that contains gray areas—to say hateful things to someone, goes against the biggest message Jesus consistently tried to give us: love. thy. neighbor.

- there are a lot more Christians in the world that are progressive than there are that act like #That—but you don't know much about them, because it's understood by MOST of us that God wanted us to love and accept each other above all. and to judge others harshly is possibly one of the greatest sins. we tend to not push our religions in people's faces because we're not trying to be assholes who attack everyone, but also because we're sorry that a decent amount of us act like #That.

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*gestures to my religious beliefs*

Welcome to whatever the fuck this is

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Marlboros = cowboy/cowgirl.

American Spirits = hipster mystic.

Newports = “I found God in a 7-Eleven parking lot after a 3 a.m. breakdown.”

I didn’t clean up for Christ—I showed up reeking of doubt and menthol, and He let me sit down anyway.

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I'm too exhausted to explain my soul to someone again.

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My final act of love is staying away from you for the rest of my life.

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