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  • Just fyi Jesus never said anything about gay people. He said a lot about hateful people though. The definition of a sin is defined as a failure. Nowhere in the Bible is being gay defined as a sin. There are stories readers of lower processing power may interpret that way though. But that’s like saying Romeo and Juliet was a story about the dangers of recreational drug use because they both ODed. Moving on everyone sins daily. It does not mean your damned to hell and anyone preaching that hasn’t read the Bible. The entire point of Jesus dying on the cross is that if you accept and believe (you don’t have to be a good person and follow his hippie teachings of love and kindness and compassion but hed love it if you did) that your sins are absolved in full. The entire purpose of the story of the two thieves (read bandits/murders being crucified with Jesus https://www.bibleodyssey.org/articles/crucifixion-in-the-roman-world/ ) is that one repents and is saved the other mocks being saved and isn’t. Sincerely a guy who studied a lot of Christianity and was raised a Christian.















  • Not astounded at all that you completely missed the point.

    Maybe I can spell it out a little bit clearer. I’m saying that Christianity and Islam have been in a power struggle for over 1400 years. It is ridiculous to say that Western Civilization was forged in these events and to not also realize that Middle Eastern civilization was forged by the same events that impacted both civilizations.

    I’m excusing neither I’m holding both accountable. Both committed atrocities upon the other in the name of their flavor of God.


  • Be careful with statements like that because one could just as easily reverse them. Especially when Islam is six centuries younger than Christianity. I would like you to consider for a fact that The holy Land has been conquered many times by many different people because it is important to Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

    al-Futūḥāt al-ʾIslāmiyya (the Islamic conquests). Is what kicked off that whole back and forth power struggle.

    Islamic Conquests (approx. 622-900 CE) 610 CE: Muhammad begins receiving his first revelations on Mount Hira. 622 CE: Muhammad’s arrival in Medina marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar and the first Muslim city-state. 629/630 CE: Mecca is conquered by the burgeoning Muslim forces. 632-661 CE (Rashidun Caliphate): The early successors of Muhammad lead rapid expansion into Byzantine and Sasanian territories. 711 CE: Muslim forces begin their conquest of the Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal). By 900 CE: Muslim armies had conquered vast territories in North Africa, the Middle East, parts of Europe, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. The Crusades (approx. 1095-1303 CE) 1095-1099: The First Crusade is called by Pope Urban II and results in the capture of Jerusalem. 1099: The Kingdom of Jerusalem is established by the Crusaders. 1144: The Crusader state of Edessa is captured by the Muslim leader Imad ad-Din Zangi, prompting the Second Crusade. 1187: Saladin, the Muslim leader, recaptures Jerusalem. 1189-1192: The Third Crusade, led by Richard the Lionheart and others, fails to retake Jerusalem but secures pilgrimage access. 1202-1204: The Fourth Crusade diverts to sack the Christian city of Constantinople. 1291 CE: The Fall of Acre to the Mamluks marks the final expulsion of the Crusaders from the Holy Land, though the last major Crusades continued into the late 13th century.