I can respect that more universalist view.

I do not share it, as I believe that belief in Christ is required for salvation (as do most Christians, including all Nicene denominations).

However, I pray you are right and I am wrong.

Well, I am a Christian who believes that all that accept Christ into their heart are saved.

Despite being an atheist, he clearly has accepted Christ into his heart based on his actions.

I suppose I can understand that. Although I feel I would, in your position, find difficulty seeing my spouse without mourning them.

It is less an issue of boundaries or culture for me, and more an issue of knowing my spouse would be hellbound (which is unmaking, in my view). That would tear me apart.

My husband is a very open atheist but he still takes me and my son to church.

Interfaith marriages are fine if people have grown up conversations beforehand and boundaries are established and enforced.

Regular attendance? Around six, I think, but I'm fairly young.

I left one church because the leadership went full tilt into overt racism and conservatism. I left another because ot started leaning toward a 'prosperity gospel'.

Amos is a cool one. Also many of the people mentioned in the Epistles.

Get well, Leo. That orange idiot whom you faced down can't outlive you.

Sorry you didn’t get many answers. This could have been an interesting thread.

All of the people besides Adam and Eve's progeny who seem to exist prior to the deluge.

I am not catholic anymore....but if you don't listen to dah pope you ain't catholic. I didn't make the rules but the rules are the rules.

This headline pisses me off because the Vatican has actually declared war on other religions before, and I did not need that on a Sunday morning.

Not to be that person, but it's actually "Thou shalt not Murder"

Murder and Killing are different

https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/the-difference-between-killing-and-murdering/

https://bibleask.org/what-is-the-difference-between-killing-and-murder/

https://thisvsthat.io/killing-vs-murder

https://schwartzcohenlaw.com/what-is-the-difference-between-kill-and-murder/

Almost as if the Bible is fake news conservative media.

I really respect that this is honest criticism, posted on c/OpenChristian, and it's not taken down by a mod who deems it "disparaging" or something. Pretty cool if you ask me, to be able to have honest discussion outside of religiosity

There are several of these IIRC

Well sure god may be a monster,

It's also in Mark and Luke.

Christianity and the vast majority of Judaism are both are Grecoroman fanfiction.

Writings from the Library of Alexandria were plagiarized and twisted to provide the vast majority of "history" the Talmud-writers used to pad out the few scraps of Judean myths that had survived several hundred years of neglect as Greece and Rome gradually conquered and embraced Judea. Hebrew was basically extinct by then (100-250BC), with about 8000 words remaining in what was a second or third language to most if not all Judeans at that point Hebrew was basically a dead language.

The Talmud-writers, a small radical sect of Judaism gained full control of the Judean people's worldview by forging this national mythos encompassing language, historical and strict rules to control its adherents lives. Generally I consider what happened in the 2 centuries BC to be a repeat of the Babylonian Captivity, where Jews that had taken to Babylon culturally were exterminated and replaced by their own zealously xenophobic relatives.

Christianity came along shortly thereafter, basically a sibling religion more than descending from Judaism and it similarly draws deeply on Grecoroman myths. With the two cults working in concert they were able to conquer Rome within a few generations and Europe not long after, they continue this project of eradicating existing cultures to replace them with their own to this day.

It also says it is okay to split up the donkeys and virgins tho

More like, if you do don’t leave any survivors.

Bible: thou shalt not kill

also Bible: ...except kill anyone you disagree with

People who claim it is for or against helping immigrants and the poor like this meme for one.

That line is found in the book of Matthew, the fucking tax collector nobody liked. Very sus.

I don't know, "Render unto Caeser" and all says that living under a government is part of the religion.

Never forget that Jesus commanded his followers to pay their fucking taxes.