God: ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.’
Modern ‘Christians’: ‘So, what you’re saying is I should ignore my neighbors and kidnap a child from a foreign country and then virtue signal about how good I am?’
God: ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.’
Modern ‘Christians’: ‘So, what you’re saying is I should ignore my neighbors and kidnap a child from a foreign country and then virtue signal about how good I am?’
‘We adopted him from [alien country].’
Oh, you want me to praise you for engaging in international child trafficking and high-handed, impenitent violation of the 4th Commandment?
People who ‘adopt’ foreign children are as insufferable as those who ‘rescue’ dogs, but worse, because those who rescue dogs at least aren’t bragging about engaging in human trafficking.
Beauty is a European value.
The subjunctive really is a hard dividing line between man and animal.
If your tradition cannot affirm all of the following, then your tradition is anti-scriptural and doomed:
cf. https://coreyjmahler.com/test-of-pastoral-orthodoxy/
There is an abiding irony in the fact that blacks who hate Whites are slaves to the most oppressor master ever to exist.
The reason a Christian cannot argue with Luther and win is not that Luther is infallible, but that Luther is simply going to bury you with Scripture.
Our current enemies are Marxists.
One Christian tradition has a long history of fighting Marxists.
I really shouldn’t have to spell out the conclusion.
Roman ‘Catholics’: Collaborate with Communists (e.g., China).
Eastern ‘Orthodox’: Collaborate with Communists (e.g., USSR).
Lutherans: Fight to the death with Communists [we both know you don’t need an example, here].