A local church is urging its members to permanently remove books from the Shelby County Public Library by checking them out and never returning them. The books portray gay characters and historical figures or explore LGBTQ+ themes.

Pamela Wilson Federspiel, who has been director of the library in downtown Shelbyville for 34 years, says the action is tantamount to “stealing.”

But three leaders of the Reformation Church of Shelbyville defend what they call an “act of civil disobedience.”

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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Even if they followed JESUS himself, they'd love God and then treat everyone else the way they would want to be treated.

Fake Christians, imho

(I'm an atheist)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    As an imperfect, trying-my-best Christian, thank you for sticking up for us, outnumbered and doing our best in this dark world whilst getting false-flagged by hate-cults since the beginning.

    It's safe to say we genuinely love you for it. <3

    Take good care. :)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    Fake Christians, imho

    Nah, these are real Christians. Don't make their fallacious arguments for them.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I know a (very) few who walk the walk.

    This are the only ones I would give the benefit of the doubt to

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I know a (very) few who walk the walk.

    Right. Exactly. When the majority of the people of a religion behave a certain way, that's common trait of the religion. "Not walking the walk" is about as Christian as it gets.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (10 children)

    Nope definitely fake. Take your anti-theisitic edgelord nonsense back to r/atheism if you wanna paint people with a broad brush

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    They need to change the name of the "no true Scotsman" fallacy to "no true Christian" as it makes a lot more sense these days...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (8 children)

    You do realize that extremists are louder than the majority of the group right?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I was raised in the group, I am intimately aware of what they believe.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    Again. I don't care that you had a wacko creationist church when you were a kid. That's not what most Christians believe

    Source: Was also raised Christian and so were most people in Western Countries

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Your religion condones slavery.

    Jesus condoned slavery.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)
    1. I'm not a Christian, but thanks for revealing your bigotry against Christians.
    2. The slavery being condoned was an Old Testament thing, Jesus said those rules didn't matter anymore
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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Lol bigotry. Ok.

    Jesus DID NOT say that. He said the exact opposite of that.

    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+5%3A17-20&version=ESV

    17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

    Sounds like that includes slavery (as long as you don't beat them to death!).

    And all Jesus had to do was say, "hey guys, maybe don't do that" once. And yet...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Okay Edgelord, look It doesn't really matter because there's no denomination of Christianity today that condones slavery.

    Edit: By Fulfilling the law, Jesus means that his sacrifice of himself has paid the debt mankind owed to the levitical law, so in a sense is was abolished. Basically, you don't need to pay the price of breaking levitical laws anymore, because Jesus already did that

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