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Do you think a community like r/TrueChristian or r/AskAChristian would be welcome on lemmy.world? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by vaseltarp to c/asklemmy

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I don't know any true Christians who are MAGA or racists or even bigots. But with the commonly used definition that if someone says something is bad they automatically are seen as hating the people doing it many people arguing in communities like that would be called haters or bigots and possibly be banned here on lemmy.world. Even though most true Christians don't like MAGA and hardline rights they might feel the need to create communities like r/TrueChristian oad r/AskAChristian on exploding-heads.com or similar servers because they might think that their opinions are tolerated there. What do you think?

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[–] razorwiregoatlick 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I don’t think that is fair. Some religions are notoriously un-accepting of certain groups and spread hatred towards them. I don’t think they deserve to be treated with the same respect when they have been incapable of doing it themselves.

Also, “everything that is legal should be possible?” Are you serious? Being legal does not always mean right or just. Slavery is a classic example of why that statement is wrong.

[–] berkeleyblue 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You might wann read again what the Bible has tk say about slavery, before using that as an argument.

All religions are formed on some form of ingroup outgroup thinking and bigotry. Most holy texts are full of vile crap that no one should ever live by. The main difference these days is, how exactly most believers follow their texts. Most pick and choose and either ignore or try to somehow explain why the parts they don’t like are to be discarded (Usually comes down to some „You have to consider the context“ bs…)

[–] razorwiregoatlick 1 points 2 years ago

My argument about slavery was in response to the comment that all things legal should be accepted. I disagree with that and slavery is a perfect example of why. It had nothing to do with the Bible or religion.

As for the Bible I have read it, three times front to back in my life. That is probably 3 times more than the majority of Christians. My statement was not specifically aimed at Christians but I believe it is telling that you jumped to that conclusion. Any religion, that holds views of hatred towards others, should not expect to be accepted by everyone else when they can’t do the same.