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>Today's Topic Justice
>Daily Passage When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
Why do you care? If others believe in morality and practice their religion
Dominic Foster
I don't get it
Jonathan King
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David Hall
Sandnigger religion.
Alexander Bennett
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Brayden Myers
>Albania >calling anything else sandnigger
Austin Brooks
Makes me happy
Evan Brooks
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Blake Watson
Makes you happy that you and almost everyone you love will most likely end up in hell?
Henry Parker
If Christianity is "the enemy of Jewry", then Jews don't need any friends. "Based Christian" Charlemagne, the father of Europe according to Christians, for killing pagan saxons, gave Jews their economical power > Charlemagne (800–814) readily made use of the Church for the purpose of infusing coherence into the loosely joined parts of his extensive empire, by any means a blind tool of the canonical law. He employed Jews for diplomatic purposes, sending, for instance, a Jew as interpreter and guide with his embassy to Harun al-Rashid. Yet, even then, a gradual change occurred in the lives of the Jews. The Church forbade Christians to be usurers, so the Jews secured the remunerative monopoly of money-lending. This decree caused a mixed reaction of people in general in the Frankish empire (including Germany) to the Jews: Jewish people were sought everywhere, as well as avoided. This ambivalence about Jews occurred because their capital was indispensable, while their business was viewed as disreputable. This curious combination of circumstances increased Jewish influence and Jews went about the country freely, settling also in the eastern portions. Aside from Cologne, the earliest communities were established in Mainz, Worms, Speyer, and Regensburg.[15] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Germany#From_Rome_to_the_Crusades
Their christian "punishment" against the "evil jews" was to receive a lucrative financial monopoly of "sinful high financing that no christians shall ever benefit from" and to move to the next country to fleece when the peasants got too riled up.
Luis Rivera
> Around 400, St Augustine, one of the most influential and foundational figures of Catholic theology, preached that the Jews must be protected for their ability to explain the Old Testament. > Jews must be protected for their ability
> Pope Gregory the Great (c 540–604) brought Augustine's teachings into Roman Law, by writing a Papal Bull which became the foundation of Catholic doctrine in relation to the Jews and specified that, although the Jews had not accepted salvation through Christ, and were therefore condemned by God until such time as they accept salvation, Christians were nevertheless duty-bound to protect the Jews as an important part of Christian civilization.[6 > While a "persecuting spirit" often existed among the general population through the Middle Ages, Jewish communities often had to turn to the Holy See for protection.[7] Papal Bulls reiterating the duty of protection were issued by various Popes,
Christians protecting Jews is not a "corruption of Christianity", all the way back to St Augustine Jews were seen as part of Christianity. That is why Jews never had to leave Europe even when they were constantly expelled numerous times from every kingdom by angry farmers. Papal edicts helped them move to the next kingdom and eventually get back to the first one.
> but muh synagogue of Satan The only result of Christian "enemty" against Jews was giving them an absolute monopoly over high finances, and protecting them from angry farmers. And how can it be otherwise? If Jews are the enemies of Christianity, the synagogue of Satan, then it is the duty of Christians to love them and protect them, "love your enemies and provide them with help" was clearly said by both Jesus and Paul, and the early christians like Saint Augustine openly agreed
Christopher Garcia
> but... but that is a modern jewish corruption!! Turning the other cheek does not mean pacifism. If you let someone else slap your face with the back of his hand, that means that you have declared yourself in open rebellion!! that is bullshit. that shit was made up by radical black-nationalist liberal theologist Walter Wink to justify social rebellion in South Africa. There are NO sources to it outside his books, nothing of what Josephus wrote about life in the ancient Middle East mentions anything close to offering the cheek or giving to your enemies your coat being an insult to them.
In the Greek-Roman world, love meant "common feeling of mutual interest born out of shared experiences"
Early Christians expanded it to a commandment of loving people that we don't know, that we don't care about, just so that we can fill ourselves with misguided pride about how we are friends of mankind itself Agape never has conveyed any sort of violent or agressive implication, as some Jow Forumslacks imply
Among christian writers it has always meant means "a selfless love that is passionately committed to the well-being of others", no implication of tough love whatsoever see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agape#Christianity
Christian semantics are enough of a mess as they are, and then Jow Forums christians wanna add an extra layer of absurdity and mental masturbation: That is where the schizophrenia of right-wing christians kicks in Only a christian could claim something as absurd as love for his enemies
>Makes you happy that you and almost everyone you love will most likely end up in hell? I dont have sufficient belief that they will go to hell, but if their going to hell is something already slated why would i quit?