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    Why Christian nations are not acting Christian

    But Luke 14:33 and Matthew 28 great commission disagrees. Also, God is not a respecter of persons and would not have different rules for different people. Or would he? Well, considering your “interpretation” of Luke 14:33, the condemnation is questionable. How do you know the condemnation...
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    Why Christian nations are not acting Christian

    Where did the Christians in Acts 4 get the idea to sell all possessions? If this isn’t what Jesus taught in Luke 14:33 and Luke 12:33? How is “Everyman for themselves” interpretation even better? Besides, most Christians today are reliant on the Catholic authority structure, and don’t...
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    Why Christian nations are not acting Christian

    so, the communist killers were only evil because they tortured and killed people based on their own agenda. If God was ordering them to do exact same things, they would have been holy people. Do I understand you correctly?
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    Why Christian nations are not acting Christian

    these are good questions, and we have some supposed history of the Christian church, that was in fact selling all possessions and having all things in common (see Acts 4). Now, there’s an issue with Jesus’s teachings, because there is no central authority on how literal one should interpret...
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    Why Christian nations are not acting Christian

    I suggest you find an average African American living in the US, and ask them if they believe they are oppressed or slaughtered or otherwise targeted. You see, there is another element of human psychology. Jordan Peterson, a Canadian Christian, has a video where he tells people that they too...
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    Why Christian nations are not acting Christian

    From your link: “The Black Book of Communism,” a postmortem of communist atrocities compiled by European and American academics in 1997, concluded that the human cost of genocides, extrajudicial executions, deportations, and artificial famines stood at over 94 million." This is fuzzy math, that...
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    Why Christian nations are not acting Christian

    That’s a great point. And nobody really counts lynched African Americans or killed Native American Indians in the US. It’s basically a double standard. Look at how American Gov today blames Putin for crackdowns on protesters in Russia even as the FBI is cracking down Jan 6 protesters. The US...
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    Why Christian nations are not acting Christian

    Im not sure I agree with this, although you do compare “institutionalized” Christianity vs Communists. Interestingly enough, communism came from the democratic Western Europe. Karl Marx was German. And I’m of the opinion that communism was a western project/plan aimed at destroying the Russian...
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    Why Christian nations are not acting Christian

    Thanks for appreciating my story. Yep, things are not easy but I find that I can’t really believe in God anymore. It’s like discovering there’s no Santa Claus over on the North Pole. Can’t really will to believe. I’m married, with a very religious family on my and wife’s side, so our...
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    Why Christian nations are not acting Christian

    I think this has to do with psychology. Christianity is based on fear, and fearful people tend to be aggressive either to self or others (or self AND others). Partially, aggression covers up fears.
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    Why Christian nations are not acting Christian

    I was strangely drawn to the truth. I remember listening to the talk by Jordan Peterson (JP), a Canadian psychologist and a Christian himself (although he may be very liberal with his views, I don't believe he goes to church even). JP said (and I don't recall if it was his own idea or if he...
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    Why Christian nations are not acting Christian

    I speak/write as I'm a kid still, but I'm in my mid 40s (45 exactly this year). My dad is a pastor, now retired. All my siblings are evangelical baptists. (Btw, Russian/Ukrainian Baptists share more in common with American Mennonites in theology as your Ukrainian friend can probably confirm...
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    Why Christian nations are not acting Christian

    I hate to disagree with you, but in USSR was in a very bad shape in the 1980s. Gorby finished off the USSR, but it was already way on the way of collapse. Bad management, angry people. In fact, I remember the people were all looking at the West, and the US as a role model. So, if we could go...
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    Why do you believe?

    Thanks for your compassion. Yep, I was bullied, picked on. I was of a very timid composition. But I don’t know if it’s genetic or a result of my dad’s spankings. The school system was such, that we stayed as a group of people, same classmates, from the beginning of school 1st grade, all the...
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    Why Christian nations are not acting Christian

    Based on my understanding, Soviet communism worked up until the 1950s, which allowed USSR to keep increasing its production output despite a civil war and then the Great Patriotic War (ww2). However, after the death of Stalin, the USSR started its decline. So the system was too dependent on a...
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    Why Christian nations are not acting Christian

    In a sense, the idea of spreading your way of life is very Christian. I was just reading today about Columbus writing about the Native Indians that he met, and how easy they were to convert to Christianity. And also to enslave. Christianity has the idea of exclusion. There’s the right way...
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    Why do you believe?

    I used to believe based on fear. I grew up in the USSR, after being a firstborn (out of four kids) to a very devout Christian coupe. Church situation was different in the Soviet Union, and Christians were more intense about practicing their faith. My parents did not obey the authorities and...
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    Can I Stop Intrusive Thoughts? OCD Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit

    I'm not religious so take what I say with a grain of salt. I recommend www.whywesuffer.com as a resource. Type OCD in the search field.
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    God is love, Love is not Jealous, God is a Jealous god???

    God could exist without the ability to move mountains.
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    God is love, Love is not Jealous, God is a Jealous god???

    ‘well, what would it take for you to believe in my miracle working powers? Would I have to show you what YOU demand? As for eyewitness, we are 2,000+ years after the events. Even the Ap Paul needed a special revelation before he’d believe in Jesus. Even though he liven in the 1st century...