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"A very wise woman once told me 'You will never have to choose between loving God and loving people. But you might have to choose between loving people and loving tidy theological systems.'
"I hate being reminded how many people choose the theology.
"I've been engaging a lot with Catholic twitter, for a number of reasons, a good bit lately; there's been the bitter disappointment of seeing more and more, with outsider eyes, how much the Church, as a movement, has been hijacked by Cruelty Is The Point conservatives.
"(credit for the quote goes to SnapPopCrackle)"
-- Magdalene Visaggio (MagsVisaggs), 2019-07-12 (thread continues)
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I still have a hard time believing that Christianity was hijacked by cruelty, or at least that that hijacking happened recently -- I think as soon as Christianity gained majority power it became susceptible to cruelty, maybe even before. When one thinks God is on one's side that gives one such license to do as one wishes. But I was raised in a different denomination that Catholicism.