Some friends I just can’t shake

hard enough

around the neck

with a firm grip

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    10 months ago

    Wouldn’t a Muslim friend be conservative?

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      From persnoal experience, not really. Only some are, just like how some Christians are too and not all of them. Humans will always human, no matter the label.

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        Honestly when I lived in the US, the Conservative xtian thing really surprised me.

        Here in the UK xtians tend to be left of center. And the center is historica,ly way more left then the US left.

        US Conservative ideals really do not seem even close to the xtian teaching I grew up around.

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          In the US, evangelical xtians focus a lot more on the old testament. That yields a lot more fire and brimstone with a particular focus on punishment. This is where you find all the stories about god turning people into pillars of salt and committing genocide because he was grumpy. The new testament, i.e. the teachings of Jesus, focuses on kindness and compassion. Focusing on new or old testaments will yield wildly different moral structures.

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            Isn’t the old testament a retelling of Torah? So maybe they should consider Judaism then 🤔

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          That’s because all the conservative Christians either got kicked out, fled, or otherwise ended up in the New World a few centuries ago. They really lean into the prosperity gospel nowadays as well, which is all kinds of problematic.

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            10 months ago

            Seriously flawed view of europeen religiose history. Most of the last 200 years has been way more Conservative then current us.

            Even mild progerivism only started to take hold in Europe ixtians n the 1900s.

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          Maybe I’m right, I am very against forcing morality on non-Christians due to what St Paul said in 1 Corinthians 5:12. Although some people get upset at me because they ask me my opinion on what I think is right and wrong and I give them an answer they didn’t want 😂

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            Fellow Christian here: thanks for this verse. It’ll be helpful with dealing with the conservatives around me.