If you are going to vote, vote for Kamala Harris.

If you don't want to vote for Kamala Harris because the genocide by the theocracy of Israel is being supported by our administration, then I would put it to you that your problem isn't with Kamala Harris or with Joe Biden.

Your problem is with the American people.

The American people by and large have supported Israel. This is starting to change.

Withholding your vote from Kamala Harris will not do anything to help the Palestinians. Convincing other people that what's happening in Israel is ethnic cleansing by a theocracy operated by ethnic supremacists will do more to help Palestinians than withholding a vote.

Because if Trump wins, Trump represents the Zionist sympathy of the boomer population.

Democrats can only represent the will of the American people and actuate the foreign policy of the American people as expressed in our international agreements over the last 20 years.

But people's minds can be changed on that and if we elect a Democrat we can reasonably believe that when they are changed, our foreign policy will change, too.

Trumpism is white supremacy, and allowing it back into power will only empower the authoritarian cultures of the world including and especially Zionist Israel, which has regressed to a pagan monstrosity.

If you're not going to vote at all as a principled stand to avoid granting legitimacy to a broken system, I respect that, though I will cut you a little in this specific way: will your moral purity help the people who would suffer under a fundamentalist evangelical white supremacist regime? Will it help Palestine?

Or will it make you feel better?

I pray for peace in our time, or at least, peace in some still distant future.

If there is anything you need praying for please write it in a comment on this post. There are no situations "too trivial" for G-d to help out with. Please refrain from commenting any information which could allow bad actors to resolve your real life identity.

As always we pray, with openness to all which G-d offers us, for the wellbeing of our online community here and all who are associated with it in one form or another. Praying also for all who sufferer oppression/violence, for all suffering from climate-related disasters, and for those who endure dredge work, that they may see justice and peace in their time and not give in to despair or confusion in the fight to restore justice to a world captured by greed and vainglory. In The LORD's name we pray, Amen.

What do you say of a book on Jesus? Jesus has been haunting my heart and my imagination for some time past. I am sick and tired, Mischa, of people who profess to believe in him, yet always speak of him and paint him as if he were but a sweet lady with a beard. To them he is beautiful, but lowly, humble, weak and poor. I’m also weary of those that deny him, yet present him as a sorcerer or an imposter. Still more weary am I of ‘the scholars’ who are ever digging into antiquity to produce lengthy and stupid arguments either for or against the historicity of his personality which is the greatest and most real personality in human history. What shall I say of the senile juggleries of theologians which make of Jesus a sort of a hybrid, half-God and half-man? My Jesus is human like you and me. A certain American writer was even so brazen as to portray him as a clever business man whose deeds and teachings had nothing else in view but cold material profits. Just think! To me he was a man of might and will as he was a man of charity and pity. He was far from being lowly and meek. Lowliness is something I detest; while meekness to me is but a phase of weakness. [...] I propose to have a number of Jesus’ contemporaries speak of him, each from his own point of view. Their views combined will bring out the portrait of Jesus as I see him. The scheme will be in perfect harmony with my style.

Why I Wrote ‘Jesus the Son of Man’: A Little-Known Interview with Gibran by Francesco Medici (Nov. 13, 2022)

Hi! Since it’s Halloween, I wanted to get your opinion on this video I just watched. Do you agree or not?

https://youtu.be/emYzcMeeais

I think it can be a tricky question when it comes to this issue…

I’m gonna post this on other Christian subs, too.

I personally am a child of a father who not only has tried to forced religion on me, but also used religious extremism to try to say things like, "god will curse your future" "you don't love me, anyone and not even yourself" "you will end up dying in a mental hospital with no one by yourside and burning in hell forever after" and I could go on and on.

Ive created this community for kids like me that have dealt or are currenenlty dealing with this. If you or if you know someone who has also dealt this or some similar, https://www.reddit.com/r/childrenofchristians/ is a place you will not be judged and will be accepted and get advice and love.

I understand if this kind of doesn't fit the sub but I need some help and thought this community would be the best first stop.

At the college I attend there's a man who stands outside the library and preaches about how God hates homosexual people, jewish people, transgender people, and just about every minority you can think of. He's saying really cruel things and it's making a lot of students uncomfortable, but it's a public university so the school can't do anything. I'm planning on organizing a counter-protest and would like to have a list of bible verses to use to point out his hypocrisy, and to emphasize the kinder, loving teachings of the Bible, but I'm not very well read and was hoping I could get some help sourcing passages.

Again, I understand if this doesn't fit the topic of the sub and would be more than willing to take it down.

As a Christian sometimes I wonder if divorce can help one remove marriage partner stress. Yet the Bible does not encourage divorce. So what does one do ? And if one ends up divorced? Do you miss your partner? Would you want them back ?

Excerpt from 'The power of the poor in history':

"‘What is the good of changing the structures without a change in the human heart?’ This is only a half-truth, for changing social and cultural structures is a way of changing the human heart. There is a mutual dependency, and reciprocal demands, between the human heart and its social milieu, based on a radical unity. It is no more 'mechanistic’ to think that a structural change automatically makes for a new humanity, than to think that a 'personal’ change guarantees social transformations. Both assumptions are unreal and naive.

But perhaps what most shocks the Christian seeking to take sides frankly and decisively with the poor and exploited, and to enter into involvement with the struggles of the proletariat, is the conflictual nature of praxis in this context. Politics today involves confrontation - and varying degrees of violence - among human groups, among social classes with opposing interests. Being an 'artisan of peace’ not only does not dispense from presence in these conflicts, it demands that one take part in them, in order to pull them up by the roots.

There is no peace without justice. This is a hard, uncomfortable truth for those who prefer not to see these conflictual situations, or who, if they see them prefer palliatives to remedies. It is equally hard for those who, with all the good will in the world, confuse universal love with a fictitious harmony. But the gospel enjoins us to love our enemies…There is no way not to have enemies. What is important is not to exclude them from our love.

In Christian circles, of course, we are not very much accustomed to thinking in conflictual, concrete terms. Instead of antagonism we prefer…a spirit of conciliation. Instead of the provisional, we prefer our evasive 'eternity.’ We have to learn to live peace, and think peace, in the midst of conflict."

The Bible is pretty clear that belief in Jesus is the path to eternal life (whatever that means), but is it clear anywhere that said belief must occur before death?

For those who don't know him Fr Gutierrez was the founder of Latin American Liberation theology in the 1970s. He was an indigenous priest from Peru who's writings helped shift Latin American Catholicism and Christianity into being a major force fighting for social justice in the context of right wing repressive regimes of that era. Things ranging from grassroots base communities that centered Bible studies on social action and solidarity, to the activities of Oscar Romero in El Salvador, to the clerics standing against the repression in Brazil in the 70s and 80s all had a major theologian influence from him. RIP to a major giant.

DEAR GOD we am not asking for an easier life, but please give me the strength and courage to face all our struggles. We need You. Every day, every moment, every second-as long as I breathe, we need You. We can't face this world alone. You are the only reason we have come this far! Without You, we are nothing. We pray that You will never let go of my hand 🙏

If there is anything you need praying for please write it in a comment on this post. There are no situations "too trivial" for G-d to help out with. Please refrain from commenting any information which could allow bad actors to resolve your real life identity.

As always we pray, with openness to all which G-d offers us, for the wellbeing of our online community here and all who are associated with it in one form or another. Praying also for all who sufferer oppression/violence, for all suffering from climate-related disasters, and for those who endure dredge work, that they may see justice and peace in their time and not give in to despair or confusion in the fight to restore justice to a world captured by greed and vainglory. In The LORD's name we pray, Amen.

Finished work seems to have a potential to make us undisciplined, careless and chaotic. This is the reason many religious people consider it risky to believe completely in it. I don't know whether 'Chaoticity' is even a word in English language, yet I chose to use it. First, let us introduce this important and unique New Testament principle. https://decodelifewithdev.com/chaoticity-of-finished-work/ For our YouTube chanel packed with spiritual thoughts and Bible classes https://youtube.com/@decodelifewithdev?si=84lcomKkEF9eHIGu

Hilarion Capucci was a Melkite Catholic Archbishop from Syria. He spent his career as an advocate for Palestinian rights, one time even smuggling weapons to resistance fighters on the West Bank. The Israeli military court sentenced him to 12 years in prison.

He was defended by Maximos V, the Patriarch of the Melkite Catholic Church who said; “Is this Bishop reprehensible if he thought it was his duty to bear arms? If we go back in history we find other bishops who smuggled weapons, gave their lives and committed other illegal actions to save Jews from Nazi occupation. I do not see why a man who is ready to save Arabs should be condemned.”

During the Kfar Yuval hostage crisis in 1975, hijackers demanded his release. However, he wasn’t released until the Vatican intervened on his behalf in 1978.

Later in his career he played an important role in negotiations during the Iran hostage crisis. He made several visits to hostages and obtained the bodies of American soldiers who died in a refueling accident in Iran.

In 2010, he was arrested by Israeli forces once more on a ship carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.

He died in 2017 at the age of 94.

I'm bothered that I keep desiring to buy clothes/books/music/nice things when there is a genocide in Gaza, South Lebanon is being flattened, millions of people are dying in the Congo, Somalia is in the midst of a politically motivated humanitarian crisis. My money could be put to better use.

I'm a young professional. I don't know how much money I ought to put away for my future. And I feel jealous when I see other young women walking around with gorgeous haircuts and beauty treatments. I feel ugly.

At the same time, my money needs to go where it needs to go, which is to people who really need it. I think I'm right about this, although I'm not sure what percentage of my income would be considered "excess" income.

Does anyone have a rule of thumb for this kind of dilemma?

If there is anything you need praying for please write it in a comment on this post. There are no situations "too trivial" for G-d to help out with. Please refrain from commenting any information which could allow bad actors to resolve your real life identity.

As always we pray, with openness to all which G-d offers us, for the wellbeing of our online community here and all who are associated with it in one form or another. Praying also for all who sufferer oppression/violence, for all suffering from climate-related disasters, and for those who endure dredge work, that they may see justice and peace in their time and not give in to despair or confusion in the fight to restore justice to a world captured by greed and vainglory. In The LORD's name we pray, Amen.

I'm at a stage in life where I'm looking at what happens next, and so I've been contemplating my calling and what I mean when I'm thinking about what I'm called to.

I'm sure I'm not the first to think about this so I was wondering what you thought about it all?

Looking back at my life there was a clear call to where I am now, but in thinking about it again perhaps that was so that I found my niche - where how I live out my faith matches the gifts I've been given. So then my calling is about me living life to the full, and not about God needing me in any particular place at any particular time.

If a calling is about God growing his children like a father (and not positioning his troops like a general) then it's not about a specific location, it's about a type of mission/ministry. Which doesn't really help on the "what do I do next?".

My wife and I planted a church, we're thinking about whether we're staying forever or whether we should move on because we're pioneers.

He was wiping my feet from the holy water and then the hindu dragon burst through the scene, interrupting us and startling me. what dose this mean? a religous conflict? my friends have told me that there is somthing in the bible about jesus doing some feet whiping. what do you think?

PS. I am not a christian but i belive in jesus and god- but my friends are.

I have a deep-seated hatred for my family. They have abused me, manipulated me, neglected me ever since I was born. From beating me to verbally berating me to threatening me with violence or intimidation whenever things didn't go their way. They never took me seriously when I told them how much I was bullied and sexually assaulted in school. Jesus tells us to love our enemies and forgive them [Matthew 5:43-44, Matthew 6:14-15]

But I cannot bring myself to love the people who nevered showed me genuine love. I can't even bring myself to forgive them. For the longest time, I have been brought up around these people who are supposed to make me feel safe, supported, trusted, and loved. But I barely recieved any of that. I am not exaggerating when I say I hate them, I do to the point where if they all died, it would be the most greatest thing to have ever happened to me. I want to honour and bring glory to God by following His teachings and commandments but I feel as though it's impossible. I can say "I forgive my family for all the harm they've caused me" but deep down I know I don't genuinely mean it. I don't want to decieve God with performative prayers about mercy when I don't feel merciful to those who harmed me for decades. What do I do?

"I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" - John 14:6