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I simply can't wrap my head around the idea that this pastor is helping ICE. That must not be a Jesus church because if there's any one thing i can rest assured of: Jesus would smite that asshole for what he's doing. That is not a real Christian.
The entire reason they were at that church protesting is because the pastor, David Easterwood, served as the local field office director for ICE. It wasn't just a random protest at a random church. They were calling for the resignation of a pastor who is violating Christian values by assisting in the ethnic cleansing that ICE is perpetrating. The organizer of the protest is a reverend herself. She agrees with you about him not being a real Christian, and that's why she decided to do this in the first place. The fact that they're trying to turn this into an anti-Christian thing when she's a Christian reverend and she was criticizing him for violating Christian principals... it's a huge fucking joke. This government loves to operate on obvious lies though.
Having grown up in the Southern Baptist Church, this is par for the course for your typical ~~hypocrite~~ Christian.
Most Christians here in the United States don't have the first clue what Jesus actually said.
I know a few personally, and even when I quote Bible verses at them, they ignore them and end conversations with shit about how they will pray for me.
Like... To who, bitch? You prayin' to Satan or something? Who is going to punish me for caring about other people?
Most Christians are proof that their God does not exist.
Like the part of the bible where it says “don’t oppress the foreigner, as you were once foreigners in Egypt?”
More specifically, it says to welcome them into your home. Meaning, offer them guest rights.
But it also says not to oppress or mistreat.
Multiple times for each. If people get pissy about quoting the old testament, there are half a dozen examples from the new testament as well.
In fact, one of the only mentions of an eternal punishment in the Bible, if for people who reject the poor, immigrants, and prisoners.
American Christians know they aren’t Jewish. Like it’s seriously a whole thing for them where Israel needs to be restored to some biblical state in order for the end times to come, but Jews aren’t going to heaven because they will be consumed in the war of the rapture or some bullshit. American Christians are literally a death cult.
When has Jesus ever had anything to do with Christianity? Christianity is the religion of Paul, not Jesus. That pastor is the historical epitome of a Christian.
‘Where did you get those liberal talking points?’
Christianity is what Christians do and what Christian voters actually support. We're seeing who they really are. They've accepted Christ as their personal savior, just like the crusaders did. This is what happens when people promote believing in things without evidence.
Rather than try to not count the Christians doing terrible things, the "good" Christians ought to look within, and ask why so many Americans have practice at believing something with no basis in fact. We refuse to treat the disease until it becomes deadly.
This is a Christian nation.