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Originally Posted by ben voyonsdonc
You can be ideologically opposed to war but still wear jerseys to support the veterans who went through and may continue to go through hell or lost their lives. You don’t have to embrace war to care about the people involved.
Conservative Christians claim to “love the sinner but hate the sin” but every time that they have chance to show that love, they turn away. Why? Because they really don’t love the person. It’s the only possible explanation.
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It's conditional. By "love" it really means tolerance until the conditions are fulfilled. There's no love. And (not all but many) don't have a grasp of what love really means. They're just scared and repulsed and using whatever line to essentially emplore the person to stop being who they are.
And by that meaning behave heterosexually, which they are not and is not in their nature, of no fault of their own.
Life's too short for us to actually put energy into giving a #### about who someone else loves and what they happen to prefer. It's the most wasteful use of thought and energy that does nothing to better the planet and move us forward together.
If something makes you uncomfortable that's a sign to explore that, ask why that is, and work on resolving that trigger so you can live more harmoniously with people of different backgrounds in this diverse country/world. That's the loving thing to do. It's also what people who actually want to be better people would do.
Don't hide behind Jesus to avoid taking accountability for your internal conflicts around others that draw fear and hatred out of you. And don't use him as an excuse not to change. Cause every time you do and take the cowardly way back to fear and hatred disguised as love, you do the opposite of what Christianity allegedly preaches.
This coming from a Christian of many years.