This is devastating. It's scary to think how this all happened.
Rest peacefully x
This is devastating. It's scary to think how this all happened.
Rest peacefully x
It disgusts me that there are people that can do this to someone and go about their lives normally afterward
Man, you really don't wanna know the statistics on how many murders actually get solved...
They walk among us.
It's the banality of evil.
Never forget what they are inside
Never forget they often claim to be Christian.
They ARE Christian. The peace love joy shit was always a lie.
Mark 12:30 And you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart, and from your whole soul, and from your whole mind, and from your whole strength. This is the first commandment.’
Mark 12:31 But the second is similar to it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Two Corinthians: that's a nice plot of land you have there, too bad you're bloody HEATHENS!
‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Jesus lied to everyone. Is that what I should do?
Jesus did not invent the golden rule, dumb fuck. Nor did he live by it.
He lived by it.
Matthew 5:44 But I say to you: Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. And pray for those who persecute and slander you.
Matthew 5:45 In this way, you shall be sons of your Father, who is in heaven. He causes his sun to rise upon the good and the bad, and he causes it to rain upon the just and the unjust.
Matthew 5:46 For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Do not even tax collectors behave this way?
He lived by it.
Wrong.
Matthew 5:44 But I say to you: Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. And pray for those who persecute and slander you.
And he didn't do that. Death threats in Luke 13:
"I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish."
And in Mark:
"Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned."
And in John:
"Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."
And in Matthew:
"But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire."
He explicitly denied forgiveness in Matthew:
"And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven."
Telling people to fear him in Matthew 10:
"And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell."
Condoning slavery and beating slaves in Luke:
"And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating. But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating."
Matthew 5:45 In this way, you shall be sons of your Father, who is in heaven. He causes his sun to rise upon the good and the bad, and he causes it to rain upon the just and the unjust.
How does one live by this bullshit? "The sun comes up. Good and bad people get rained on." So?
Matthew 5:46 For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Do not even tax collectors behave this way?
Matthew 10:
"“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household."
And you're conveniently ignoring that all of Jesus's "love" was founded on "OBEY ME OR SUFFER".
how is speaking the truth hate?
The luke verse is a parable, not actually permitting slavery
Wrong, he's explicitly condoning slave-owning and slave-beating. The bible does this multiple times.
Jesus could have used any other example. He chose slave-beating because it was the norm at the time (because he himself chose for that to be the case, if you believe he is god and god is all-powerful) and because it's a direct comparison for the complete submission he demands under threat of violence.
He did not deny forgiveness, just the sin of the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. The blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is basically ignoring the Holy Spirit your entire life and not repenting for the whole duration of your life
All those flock cameras and ALPRs weren't about protecting the children if you can't find cars dragging a child out on the streets then right
All of these religious people who say horrible shit about trans people and make their lives hell embolden and enable this sort of violence, then try to wash their hands of it: "Oh, well, we just didn't want them to use certain bathrooms or read stories, we love Jesus and didn't want this." Fucking hypocritical assholes. All of Christianity is a cesspool of uncompassionate illogical dross.
This was an atrocity. The US needs to change.
You're the problem, shit bag.
Your transphobic god does not exist.
Allies don't come dressed in black or white. Your life will be more complete if you accept help.
People who pretend god is real are not allies.
My life was utterly ruined for your cowardice.
You don't get to decide how allies present themselves, my friend.
Jesus fucking Christ
Seriously. The world really could use some hippie love right about now. Live and let live.
Know what, fuck that. The people who do this don't have an ounce of love for their fellow man. They deserve what they dish out.
I think you misunderstood me. I'm not saying the perps need sympathy, I'm saying that all these people who think they can dictate how other people should live their lives need to chill the fuck out, get high, relax, and just let people be people.
Anti-queer Christians go to Hell. Simple as that.
Christ isn't real, hell isn't real, god isn't real.
Everyone should grow the fuck up or we all die.
Simple as that.
You must be fun at parties.
You must be suicidally stupid.
Stop taking us down with you.
Are allies gonna start speaking up for trans masculine people and trans men because if not then I don't care anymore. People forget that trans masculine people and men grow up dealing with misogyny and violence too and it never goes away for most but you only ever hear about trans women needing protection and I'm sick of it.
Every trans person needs protection from these psychopaths
No shit. Some trans people don't even get counted in the statistics because they get labeled as a femicide when it's a trans masculine person. We never hear as much support for trans masculine people as we do for trans women. Way to water down what I just said.
Come on. I'm a trans woman. But this reply is just "all lives matter."
Because most people think hate crimes are overblown and that lynchings are some obscure relic of the past and not something that still occurs regularly.
I'd prefer that the world's campaign against trans people was documented and widely known - but I fully understand where you're coming from
This is why I don’t post this news in trans communities. It’s in news comms where we hear of countless horrible things everyday.
Cis people need to hear this and understand that we are an extremely marginalised group suffering hate. We are such a small minority that we can never improve this on our own without them.
Imagine if people went silent on Gaza and stopped posting about all the deaths there. Would that be a good outcome?
Victims of hate crimes deserve their stories being told. If it makes you uncomfortable good, hate crimes should do that.
You do not have the right to remain comfortable. Your comfort should never take priority over the real world, and if it does then your comfort is at the expense of real people's lives. That is literally the main problem with the society of the imperial core, we care about our comfort so much that it keeps us complacent even during times of genocide.
EDIT: Rephrased for comprehension
For context since we're playing that card I'm also trans.
If you had to hear about every bad thing happening 24/7 that would be a constant stream high pitched noise running many times faster than you could even comprehend the words. We compartmentalize because there's only so much information (of any kind) our brains can reasonably process,
The world is quantum. We need to pay attention to these atrocities for change to happen. See below for references
No, every single one of these souls deserves to be remembered and avenged
Nobody's making you engage with the world but it isn't going to stop turning on your behalf. If you feel more comfortable in ignorance then by all means live in it but it's absurd to suggest that public discourse should cater to your sensibilities.
The source is a trans-focused site, so yes it's relevant to the readers.
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