If your religion makes you hate someone, you need a new religion.

[kpete]

[keithbvadu2]

1. You know you believe in the one, true God when he hates the same people you do.

You know you believe in the one, true God when he hates the same people you do.

Does anyone need the ???

[Biophilic]

2. This! So simple, so true.

[LiberalLovinLug]

3. Problem is they don't see it as hate.

I have brothers and sisters who are in the Evangelical Christian Cult. I grew up with it.

In fact, they twist it into an explanation that its actually LOVE. And in fact, they love gay people probably more than you or I do, because they care for not only their life here, but for their survival after life. Because as we all know....God only accepts hetros into heaven.

They will always answer with "We don't hate them, we hate the sin". So I try and tell them that to say to someone that you hate their life, their partnerships, their friends, who they decide they love, etc.. then its pretty much telling them you hate them. But its WOOOOOOOOOSH right over their heads.

They are not the haters, they can never be that because God, and their pastor, tell them they are the ones who love. Its everyone else that is a hater.

[erronis]

7. Been in a similar relationship. They just parrot the lines without trying to understand

the cognitive dissonance.

Sit in a pew a few times in one of their "crutches" and you'll be able to spout the playbook automatically.

[patphil]

10. God only accepts hetros into heaven?

Angels don't reproduce; they are essentially sexless!
It's only in the 3D world that humans, and most other animals, need 2 sexes to reproduce.
So, from God's point of view, the whole concern we have for human sexuality to be heterosexual as opposed to homosexual, or bisexual is essentially pointless.
God deals in love, not body functions.
And God isn't fooled by people who say things like hate the sin, not the sinner, or that they don't hate, everyone else does. Those statements are done to fool people, including the ones who say them.
Effectively, we have a whole class of christians who stand opposed to the things Jesus taught, while deluding themselves into believing they are "oh so holy".
It would be nice if they were full of love, but they're only full of shit.

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. This is so true

There is no arguing with intentional ignorance.

[calimary]

14. No. There isn't.

Some people are just unreachable.

[spooky3]

4. Or you need to give it up completely. Nt

[BlueJac]

5. Absolutely!

[lindysalsagal]

6. In my experience, there's never been another kind.

[Skittles]

21. yup

they certainly all have a superiority complex

[yellowdogintexas]

8. LGBTQ bashing faction of the United Methodist Church secedes

officially, starting May 1

Our senior minister announced this in worship today.

https://news.yahoo.com/united-methodist-bishops-acknowledge-breakup-205841360.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

The new Global Methodist denomination will essentially take with it the congregations and conferences which continually defeated any progressive agenda, particularly involving LGBTQ issues. This means a lot of the haters will be going away

[cayugafalls]

9. There is no Hate like Christian Love.

It is a well known fact.

[paleotn]

11. The best religion or all....

or personal philosophy for that matter....just leave people the hell alone. They're happy. They're not hurting anyone. Just leave them alone. As long as my neighbor isn't building an ICBM in their garage, threatening to launch on Morocco, I don't give two shits what they do. It would be a much more peaceful world if others did the same.

My favorite comeback is...Isn't your omnipotent, omnipresent, all powerful God able to deal with "teh gays" on his own? Pretty weak ass god if he needs YOUR help.

[vlyons]

13. hate and ostracism is a large part of the hishory of Christianity

Thousands and thousands of years of wars against non-believers, wars against different denominations of believers, imposition of slavery, land grabs, murder, torture.

But they don't want to talk about that

[Wounded Bear]

15. People who advocate for "tough love" tend to emphasize the "tough" part...

and not so much the "love" part.

At least that has been my experience.

[IronLionZion]

16. There is no hate like religious love

American Taliban uses Bibles instead of Koran.

[kacekwl]

17. Or

No religion.

[PJMcK]

18. Don't all religions hate some other people?

It sure seems like it.

Anyway, it's all bunk without a shred of evidence. Why people believe these stories is beyond my understanding.

Or caring.

[marie999]

19. Some churches do good work for their community even for people that are not members.

[Skittles]

22. you can do great work for your community without religion

yes indeed

[marie999]

24. It is the churches in my area that bring the people together.

[Skittles]

26. again, people can get together without religion

they do it all the time

very often I have noticed that when churches "bring people together" it's people who all think the same

over and OUT

[Act_of_Reparation]

27. The functional equivalent of bringing "not all men" to a discussion on misogyny.

Yeah, we get it. Not every religious person hates LGBTQ+ individuals, but the overwhelming majority of the opposition to their being treated as full and equal members of our society comes from religious people and their respective organizations.

[mcar]

20. Amen

[uponit7771]

23. +1, they use the words and the deeds of those who hate them when they should be far removed ...

... from those who do evil.

[Raine]

25. I don't know of a religion that doesn't have people who hate

others in it. 🤔