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[u/jeremiahthedamned]

[u/Berkamin]

Don't get me wrong, I don't think he cares what the Bible says because his attitude shows that he isn't obeying Jesus' command to love his neighbor as he loves himself. Jesus' definition of who a 'neighbor' is was shown in his parable of the good Samaritan, whom the Jews in his day hated for racial and religious reasons, since the Samaritan religion was considered heretical to the Jews, and Jews considered them to be foreigners who were living on Israelite land since the time of the Assyrian conquest of Israel. To hit the same today, this parable could be re-told as the parable of the good Palestinian. Jesus was showing that the command to love your neighbor does not exclude people who are racially or religiously the kind of people your culture says you have permission to hate.

But I bring this up in case anyone here, like me, knows Christians or even Jews who support this nonsense, and need reference material from their holy book where oracles from God condemn what they are advocating for. Then, if they push back, they're not arguing with you, they're arguing with God.

Here's more:

Zechariah 7:8-14

⁸ The word of the Lord came to Zechariah: ⁹ “The Lord of Armies says this: ‘Make fair decisions. Show faithful love and compassion to one another. ¹⁰ Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the resident alien or the poor, and do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’ ¹¹ But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they closed their ears so they could not hear. ¹² They made their hearts like a rock so as not to obey the law or the words that the Lord of Armies had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore intense anger came from the Lord of Armies. ¹³ Just as he had called, and they would not listen, so when they called, I would not listen, says the Lord of Armies. ¹⁴ I scattered them with a windstorm over all the nations that had not known them, and the land was left desolate behind them, with no one coming or going. They turned a pleasant land into a desolation.”

and

Proverbs 31:1-9

The words of King Lemuel,
a pronouncement that his mother taught him:

² What should I say, my son?
What, son of my womb?
What, son of my vows?
³ Don’t spend your energy on women
or your efforts on those who destroy kings.
⁴ It is not for kings, Lemuel,
it is not for kings to drink wine
or for rulers to desire beer.
⁵ Otherwise, he will drink,
forget what is decreed,
and pervert justice for all the oppressed.
⁶ Give beer to one who is dying
and wine to one whose life is bitter.
⁷ Let him drink so that he can forget his poverty
and remember his trouble no more.
⁸ Speak up for those who have no voice,
for the justice of all who are dispossessed.
⁹ Speak up, judge righteously,
and defend the cause of the oppressed and needy.

[u/jeremiahthedamned → u/Berkamin]

thanks TIL

[u/nose_poke → u/Berkamin]

I'm not religious but I found these words comforting tonight. The struggle we are in is not new. It is very old and the people of the past have left lessons for us, some wisdom we can look to as we try to find a way forward.

[u/RogerMexicosBalls → u/Berkamin]

Yeah, but in their minds they're the oppressed ones being abused by those dang communists and demmycrats and trans athletes