I've been trying really hard this past month to not hold resentment in my heart

I reiterate: I've literally seen the Bible change before my own eyes; so I'm eternally separated from the business of referencing scripture to discern what is right or wrong. I am sick of this game where other imperfect people want to dictate to me what is the word of God. What they are doing is wrong and I am having none of it. All things can be justified through deft handling of the Bible except for the sanctity of the truth.

I contend before you that much of what passes for "conservative opinion" isn't mocked because it's part of a set of values not held by the people doing the mocking, they're mocked because they are perspectives that destroy lives. They are mocked because many so-called conservatives in lots of different camps - Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, what-have-you - have absolutely no desire to coexist with their liberal counterparts.

Obviously if one person believes the earth is 6000 years old and another believes that it's billions of years old, if one person believes that homosexuality is none of their business and the other believes that all homosexuals are evil.. and these people don't want to or can't draw a line separating their respective places in the world so that they do not step on each others feet, so to speak, then there will be tension that will inevitably transform into conflict.

How many times have I even seen truly conservative Christian perspectives trampled by people who consider themselves Christians and who very clearly violate the teachings and spirit of Christianity but loathe to be told so because they believe that they are more righteous than all other people because they believe in Jesus? I have a question for conservative Christians: how are you going to love God if your own heart leads you astray from discerning what his righteous path is? How will you love God if you demonize every person who tries to illustrate to you where you stumble?

Truly I ask you, where was Christ when we were burning?

Be at ease: you won't have to suffer our hypocrisy forever; for the righteous you will always have with you, but you won't always have us.

No??

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