• hopesdead@startrek.website
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    15 hours ago

    This makes so much sense now. If it was some other religious entity, they probably wouldn’t have done this.

    EDIT: It is shocking that any such organization can claim to preach acceptance for all people when they put on their website they hate non-heterosexual people. The mega church where I live has the same thing posted too.

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      13 hours ago

      Those kinds of churches very much do not preach acceptance for all people. They’re more into the philosophy “if you’re not with us you’re against us.”

      Here’s a 19th century song that was popular in a very conservative church of Christ where I attended as a teenager:

      Onward Christian soldiers!
      Marching as to war,
      With the cross of Jesus
      Going on before.
      Christ, the royal Master,
      Leads against the foe;
      Forward into battle,
      See, His banners go!

      At the name of Jesus
      Satan’s host doth flee;
      On then, Christian soldiers,
      On to victory!
      Hell’s foundations quiver
      At the shout of praise:
      Brothers, lift your voices,
      Loud your anthems raise!

      Onward, Christian soldiers!
      Marching as to war,
      With the cross of Jesus,
      Going on before.

      There is a long list of people who are unacceptable in the eyes of conservative evangelicals; they label anything they hate or don’t understand as “satanic” and make convenient excuses as to why the Bible agrees with them.