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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2007-04-08 under , ,

Χριστος Ανεστη! (Christ is risen!) Happy Easter!

"Christianity is not like an ice cream sundae that you can choose to eat with or without fudge topping, depending on your taste! You have to eat it the same way every time. The only acceptable topping is love. Top the Christian message with hatred, and it is no longer Christian. It isn't fit to eat anymore. Its validity, its usefulness, its whole raison d'etre is nullified, and instead of leading people to Heaven, it diverts them to Hell." -- commentor 'adonis1960' at The Huffington Post, 2006-07-17

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posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 04:09pm on 2007-04-08
Yeah, and all true Scotsmen wear kilts.

You really ought to check out the "Blog Against Theocracy" series that the blog Hullaballoo is running. The writers are running annotated quotations from books by Rushdoony and some of the other hard-core American Christian Taliban. It's really amazing a) that anyone reads the stuff and believes it, and b) what some people are pushing in the name of Christianity. (Did you know, that according to Rushdoony, capital punishment is not only a good idea, but is mandatory because of "the holiness of God"? And that even in 1995, God had a political position on Communism? Wow.)
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posted by [identity profile] stori-lundi.livejournal.com at 04:40pm on 2007-04-08
Completely random but I didn't know you bought your house from my friend Julie. Small world eh? :)
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posted by [identity profile] selki.livejournal.com at 07:16pm on 2007-04-08
Happy Easter to you!

The only acceptable topping is love. Top the Christian message with hatred, and it is no longer Christian. It isn't fit to eat anymore. Its validity, its usefulness, its whole raison d'etre is nullified, and instead of leading people to Heaven, it diverts them to Hell.

I think the metaphor is a little confusing -- anything that foundational is not just a topping, surely? But I agree that hatred is against what Jesus taught.
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posted by [identity profile] writerjanice.livejournal.com at 03:58pm on 2007-04-09
Partial agreement. It was recorded that he did despise the behavior of the Sadducees (the religious establishment) and the pharisees (the religious legalists). Note, he didn't write off the people themselves, but what they had become and offered them the same opportunity to be saved as everyone else.

Janice

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posted by [identity profile] selki.livejournal.com at 02:16pm on 2007-04-10
Jesus wasn't all fluffybunnies and can't-we-all-just-get-along, no. He threw the moneylenders etc. out of the temple. But he didn't teach hate.
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