Well, if I were to meet someone who thought God was telling them to torture, rape, enslave and murder their way into a heavenly reward of infinite sex and booze, the only thing between me and telling them their god is nothing but a devil dragging them into damnation is my own cowardice (and possibly by that point his knife between my neck vertebrae while they're filming the whole thing for Daesh's next funniest home video).
Somewhat less extremely, someone who would bully and shame someone for not "being a Christian" is clearly not speaking truth in love, and by alienating people from the faith in a petty, hate-inspiring and not-martyr-creating way may be even more effective in serving their true master than the daeshole terrorist.
Besides, I think she's got a real good point - especially if the starting assumption is that "Jesus" is the Jesus of the sort of Christianity in which Santa Claus is the main symbol around the time of the north-winter solstice.
(sorry if I seem to be stalking you - I'm just going down all these many comments and replying as I see things worth replying to.)
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Date: 2015-06-27 07:59 am (UTC)Somewhat less extremely, someone who would bully and shame someone for not "being a Christian" is clearly not speaking truth in love, and by alienating people from the faith in a petty, hate-inspiring and not-martyr-creating way may be even more effective in serving their true master than the daeshole terrorist.
Besides, I think she's got a real good point - especially if the starting assumption is that "Jesus" is the Jesus of the sort of Christianity in which Santa Claus is the main symbol around the time of the north-winter solstice.
(sorry if I seem to be stalking you - I'm just going down all these many comments and replying as I see things worth replying to.)