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To: Terabitten
Methinks the Church should spend more time showing God's love to people than fighting social problems. God's love is stronger than any counter-protest.

What part of "tough love" don't you understand? This isn't a counterprotest, it is routine maintenance by the vast majority against a disruptive tiny minority of anarchists.

Your point of view reminds me of the parents in the grocery store or restaurant who watch their children having screaming tantrums and stand by smiling at those whose ears are offended by the piercing noise, as if to say, "Isn't he cute?"

Jesus himself turned over the tables of the moneylenders, and spoke of God's wrath to come for the complacent sinner.

17 posted on 04/13/2006 11:17:51 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Got freedom? Thank a veteran.)
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To: Albion Wilde
Jesus himself turned over the tables of the moneylenders, and spoke of God's wrath to come for the complacent sinner.

You are correct -- however, I submit this for your consideration: Jesus reserved most of his wrath for those who tried to keep others from experiencing God's grace and love -- such as the moneychangers at the temple, and the hypocritical "holier than thou" of the day, the infamous scribes and Pharisees.

Sex outside of marriage, be it homo- or heterosexual, is equal sin in God's eyes. How did Christ treat the woman caught in adultery? He didn't pick up a stone, that's for sure -- even though He, the sinless One, would have been within His rights to do so.

31 posted on 04/14/2006 8:03:59 AM PDT by Terabitten (The only time you can have too much ammunition is when you're swimming.)
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