daveybvck.bsky.social
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Just wanted to help to remove the daggers, but I respect your decision. Have a blessed life brother.
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I'm sorry you have to be tormented by the bad demographic of Christians, like the MAGA Christians led by Trump. If you would like, we could be friends and I'll treat you like how Christians are supposed to, without torment of discrimination. But that's up to you. Either way have a blessed day.
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Jesus warned us of these religious leaders...and yet here we are, we didn't listen and now the true Christians have to fight a "war" against their horrible image to be viewed in a better light.
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It's sucks man... because that's not what Christians are supposed to be. Jesus was an amazing person that even some atheists admire. Christians are supposed to be LIKE HIM. But sadly our image has been tainted my the sins of religious leaders.
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Out of the cycle that is
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Yeah...I'm about a half a decade in the guilt cycles. I'm feeling guilty as we speak because I struggle with my desires. Teenager curiously, hormones, and then the fact I'm getting more serious about God while having to limit those natural occurrences. It's a struggle. Trying to get out.
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I do not condone the actions of those sick people...they claim to know God but they are far from Him. As a Christian, that's honestly sickening to know. I wish more true Christians were in positions of power, actually practicing true Christian morals, unlike these child molesters.
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...a Christian is supposed to be like. They act nothing like Christians! True Christianity teaches us to be respectful to one another, to resist temptations. NOT TO MOLEST CHILDREN AND THINK YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH IT BECAUSE YOU HAVE POWER IN THE CHURCH! It's sickening, not Christian at all truly...
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And the fact that these people choose to molest children when they're supposed to be the examples of what a Christian is supposed to be is horrible. They're not only causing trauma to children for life, they're making Christians look bad because they're supposed to be the examples of what...
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I'm just saying that the "representatives" of Christianity are bad. They think all because they have power in the church, they can continue to be bad people in secret. And it's upsetting as shit to see. Because according to the Bible, we're supposed to be righteous in public and secret.
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The Bible does NOT condone the actions of these child molesters that hold religious power.
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Religious organizations and religious morals are two separate things. If you want to use the Christian Sect Sex Scandal, you have to take into account that what the religious leaders who abuse their power do is NOWHERE near the actual Christian morals taught in the Bible.
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However, who a devil repent and live in Christ? If Peter was the devil, would he have repented after denying Jesus 3 times? No. Judas didn't repent to change his was unlike Peter, and instead chose to hang himself, dying in sin like "a devil."
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...but instead conceived through the Holy Spirit, who is a part of the Holy Trinity, making it God. So Jesus was the end of the first man's bloodline but also born from God. Making him both 100% human and 100% God, as Jesus is human but also God.
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That he's 100% man and God? It's implicitly but very obviously stated through his birth. Jesus was the end of the bloodline of Adam, the first man, making his the Son of Man in which he tended to refer himself to. But Jesus was also not conceived through means of human sex...
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Jesus never joked. His words were always purposeful. He WAS referring to Judas as in the scripture (John 6:71, the very next verse) explicitly said that.
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...which would mean that Jesus who is God would be the King of kings, and inherently be a king himself.
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Well, Jesus denied the worldly kingdoms because his Kingdom in Heaven is greater than that of the world (as kingdoms in the world fall and perish, and the kingdom of God lasts forever). And Jesus accepted worship as he's 100% God as much as he's 100% human. And God is called the "King of Kings"...
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...said "Away from me Satan!" Due to Satan trying to use Peter's worry for Jesus and those two's close bond to divert Jesus from his destiny.
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...Jesus. However, if Jesus were to listen to this and run away from his destiny, he wouldn't has died on the cross. Meaning the Devil would win due to Jesus never dying for our sins and then defeating death with his resurrection. Hence why Jesus...
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Jesus called Peter "Satan" because Peter's actions was trying to tempt Jesus from diverting from his destiny. In context of the scripture, Jesus told his disciples of his upcoming death, and Peter said that "This shall never happen to you!" because he worried for his Lord...
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...on anyone is not true Christian philosophy (I'm horrible at vocabulary, so I don't know if I'm using philosophy right...but you still get it, right?)
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Yes, the "Christian doctrine" that imperial states pushed and MAGA is currently trying to push is not true Christianity. It really makes me wonder if they ever truly read the Bible or not sometimes. Christian philosophy is rooted in love and compassion, and understanding. Forcing anything...
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...and yet those imperial states did it ANYWAY. What they spread wasn't true Christianity, because you're not supposed to convert someone through violence and oppression. But through love. And they forgot that message due to greed and pushing an agenda.
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Yeah, which hindered the messages of TRUE Christianity. They ruined the image of Christianity for their own personal gain. It's explicitly stated all are equal under Christ (meaning no discrimination) and murder is a grave sin (so we're not allowed to murder)...
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...AFTER his 40 days and nights fast and tempting in the desert.
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So it can't really be the Romans tempting Jesus, because what Roman soldier or higher-ups would take the time out of their day to chase Jesus around a desert for 40 days and nights to tempt him? They didn't even really know Jesus until the religious leaders made a big deal about Jesus...
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But then there's a problem with that. It actually took 3 centuries for the Romans to adopt Christianity as an official religion. Julius Caesar himself thought of himself as a God of sorts, so not really divine right, more just claiming divinity and authority.
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..to wash up in the New World's shores. They colonized often killed missionaries in rebellion. Without the weaponry, I doubt Christianity in itself was not that imposing. Christianity in itself is not supposed to be imposing.
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Yes, it was effective, but that's really only because the countries that were trying to impose Christian views were technologically more advanced that the countries they colonize. Without the imperial power and weaponry, it would not have been very intimidating for missionaries...
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It only benefitted themselves and the crown, leading to peasant revolt like the French Revolution. There, they completely dechristianized their society because of the grievances the Church caused by basically doing nothing but dictating.
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I use backfire in terms that people started to catch on to the Empire's "divine right to rule." Empires like the Russian and French empires saw the bogus of the Church being the head of state, because the Churches were inherently selfish. They didn't follow true Christian doctrine to help everyone.
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It's kinda like a gateway drug. If you moderate it, it's not going to ruin your life. But if you lose control, that's when it becomes life threatening.
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Yeah, just sometimes it goes deeper than that. It's fine to be horny, it comes with life. Looking at porn is not necessarily bad, it's just sometimes people watch too much porn and then it starts to mess with their life, like editing priorities to masterbate, and bad time management.
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Yeah, but that's because his kingdom is purely spiritual yk? The true kingdom lives within the hearts of believers. That's why when the Europeans tried to imperialize Christianity, it ultimately backfired because you simply can't imperialize a religion that doesn't condone imperialism.
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Yeah, I admit, my post was a little impulsive. I just have bad experiences with porn, so it's a touchy subject. I responded to your other comment. I hope it's a better, more thought out argument.
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...presents a false image of the porn industry. Making it look so enjoyable that some kids in this generation aspire to become pornstars. That's no bueno. They don't get informed of the exploitation in the porn industry and how negatively being a "slave" in the industry has on a person's conscious.
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...of all of these women willingly participating in the porn industry and becoming rich off of it. Those women making big profit pushes the agenda that "porn is profitable" which is not really a good thing. And the image of these willing women enjoying the scripted sex...
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There's a lot that goes in the background that many people that casually watch porn doesn't realize. Not every woman in the porn industry wants to be in it. It's really injustice to the women that get exploited and get discarded like a piece of trash to look at the statistics...
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Well, I do admit that I didn't go as in depth as I did in other comments initially. I do apologize for that. You bring up a really good point. Women are exploited to continue this industry, a main reason why I say porn is evil.
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But tell me, how does that truly benefit our society? Porn is not the only thing atheists become indifferent about when they give up religious morals. There's many other negative things that they become numb to as well.
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I'm curious, how does that prove Christ is not a king?
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...it still changes one's behaviors in a downward spiral, like drug and alcohol addiction.
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That article however still acknowledges it as "addictive" putting it through the addictive cycle and showing that it fits in it similarly to drug and alcohol addicts. What I got a little from it is that compulsive gambling is an addiction, even though it doesn't necessarily alter brain chemistry...
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You're literally conceding previous points you made already to push an agenda bro, it's not working. And pushing that "MAGA Christian" label on me just proves how ignorant you are. Have a blessed life man.
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It's like, there's sort a dependency on porn to cope with the stresses of life, instead of, yk, addressing the root issue of depression and other mental issues. I guess that's truly the problem, not addressing the real issue and just depending on porn for the endorphin boosts.
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So, you're saying that porn abuse is stemmed from external factors? I mean, that's completely logical. So, it really puts in perspective the scope of the issue. That porn is really a cope mechanism. It's not really a fixer, it only gives sort bursts of pleasure just to get through the day.
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Real, beer sucks.
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...to say it's a gateway to other problems like depression than an outright addiction.
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Yeah, I see your point. I guess the term "porn addiction" may not be totally correct. But like a video game "addiction," the act of indulging in too much porn can have detrimental effects to one's well being. Like, a better description of porn addiction would be...