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14 days agoNorwegian here. I can still hear the gasping from the laughter of the nobel committee in Oslo. And I’m on vacation abroad.
Norwegian here. I can still hear the gasping from the laughter of the nobel committee in Oslo. And I’m on vacation abroad.
Pulling things out of context let’s you think and justify just about anything. The letter to Timothy is in response to particular people in a particular church at a particular time. Go research it.
But the main point of the whole text is: the world is full of suffering, people are good and people are bad, but we should work to be better and lessen suffering. -Forgive those who trespass against you. Love even your enemies. Those who are not against us are with us. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
The Christian right are literally the kind of judgmental people Jesus criticizes. All good forces should work together, rather than creating strawmen that can split progressives.