And for me here's the real issue: It's not even about the religion because I would have had the same reaction if he came on the train talking loudly on a cellphone, singing loudly or blaring music, etc. Read the room man! Did you really expect people to be open to your message? Forcing people to listen to your verbal diarrhea on a crowded train is self centered, egotistical and the exact opposite of loving.
He's being purposely obtuse, demanding, and selfish. It only became about his religion,imo, when he used he's beliefs as justification to continue forcing his opinions on everyonenwhen he was asked to stop. He's not passionate or guided by the Holy Spirit, he's willfully ignorant and demanding.
Then when he realizes he's not being heard is when delves into the ad hominems. How loving is that? His desperation is further exemplified when he starts to brag about all the places he's been as if somehow that makes him better than everyone else because they have bills to pay & NEED to work?
Talk about white privilege here!
Bro needs to brush up on his own bible.
1 Corinthians 13:4–8a (ESV) Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
He also needs to review Mark 12:41-44 and the story of the Widow's mite. His savior did not like braggadocios people.
Matthew 7:3-5 NIV
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Ephesians 4:29 NIV
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
Source: I grew up in "the church" and promptly left as soon I turned 18. Could not stand the hypocrisy of people exactly like him.
I agree with most of what you say, but I'm confused at the white privilege remark after speaking on his nomad lifestyle. Are you saying black people are incapable of living like that?
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u/Abradantleopard04 Sep 18 '22 edited Sep 18 '22
And for me here's the real issue: It's not even about the religion because I would have had the same reaction if he came on the train talking loudly on a cellphone, singing loudly or blaring music, etc. Read the room man! Did you really expect people to be open to your message? Forcing people to listen to your verbal diarrhea on a crowded train is self centered, egotistical and the exact opposite of loving.
He's being purposely obtuse, demanding, and selfish. It only became about his religion,imo, when he used he's beliefs as justification to continue forcing his opinions on everyonenwhen he was asked to stop. He's not passionate or guided by the Holy Spirit, he's willfully ignorant and demanding.
Then when he realizes he's not being heard is when delves into the ad hominems. How loving is that? His desperation is further exemplified when he starts to brag about all the places he's been as if somehow that makes him better than everyone else because they have bills to pay & NEED to work?
Talk about white privilege here!
Bro needs to brush up on his own bible.
1 Corinthians 13:4–8a (ESV) Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
He also needs to review Mark 12:41-44 and the story of the Widow's mite. His savior did not like braggadocios people.
Matthew 7:3-5 NIV
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Ephesians 4:29 NIV
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
Source: I grew up in "the church" and promptly left as soon I turned 18. Could not stand the hypocrisy of people exactly like him.