Years ago I had a Christian acquaintance argue with a straight face that the part of the Bible that says all of humanity is God’s children and deserve his love, actually only means straight white American Christian protestants. Mind you, this is someone who has gone on foreign missions for her church.
When I calmly retorted that Jesus himself said all of humanity deserves love and protection, citing the passages in OP’s post, she accused me of “twisting the word of God to include heathens and foreigners”. I mentioned the Good Samaritan parable, in which the titular character is neither Jewish nor local to the area, yet was the hero of Jesus’ story, she got even angrier. I had to walk away at that point, there is no sense in arguing with a fence post.
She accused me of misinterpreting the word of her God by literally quoting it word for word, all while she was the one wildly twisting it to suit her racist and evil views. It truly boggles the mind.
That’s a classic example of evil seeking an excuse. The religion telling her to be different is offensive because what it actually says is of no importance. Her specifically chosen reading of it is all she cares about.
Years ago I had a Christian acquaintance argue with a straight face that the part of the Bible that says all of humanity is God’s children and deserve his love, actually only means straight white American Christian protestants. Mind you, this is someone who has gone on foreign missions for her church.
When I calmly retorted that Jesus himself said all of humanity deserves love and protection, citing the passages in OP’s post, she accused me of “twisting the word of God to include heathens and foreigners”. I mentioned the Good Samaritan parable, in which the titular character is neither Jewish nor local to the area, yet was the hero of Jesus’ story, she got even angrier. I had to walk away at that point, there is no sense in arguing with a fence post.
She accused me of misinterpreting the word of her God by literally quoting it word for word, all while she was the one wildly twisting it to suit her racist and evil views. It truly boggles the mind.
They don’t reason. They feel, and look for justifications. We’re all susceptible to that, but some people have that problem really bad.
That’s a classic example of evil seeking an excuse. The religion telling her to be different is offensive because what it actually says is of no importance. Her specifically chosen reading of it is all she cares about.
Does she knows that the characters in the book are Hebrews? Apart from the parts in Greece.