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Waving a Blood-Soaked Rainbow Flag to Scapegoat Christians
New York Times ^ | June 16, 2016 | Rod Dreher

Posted on 06/16/2016 8:58:16 AM PDT by reaganaut1

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To: reaganaut1
A lot of Christians here parrot the "hate the sin, love the sinner" line. They need to accept the fact that gays are enemies of Christianity. They represent the biggest threat to Christianity since the first century.
21 posted on 06/16/2016 9:31:55 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ('''Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small''~ Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: circlecity

I suspect the individuals victimized will appreciate reaching out by anyone. But the puppeteers in the LGBTaliban can kiss my ass. I suspect they are secretly celebrating Orlando because they can use yet another tragedy to advance their agenda. To them the 49 dead are useful only as vehicles, and aren’t seen as a loss; hell, they can recruit many times that number through their various GLSEN-sponsored cells.


22 posted on 06/16/2016 10:05:50 AM PDT by DPMD (o)
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To: reaganaut1

The NYT making another desperate attempt to reclaim the narrative. Unsuccessfully. When the first public concern on the left was whether Muslims would be held to account for the victims, and not for the victims themselves, that’s a bell that can’t be un-rung. Blaming Christians for a Muslim mass murder is not only disingenuous, it’s blatantly false on the face of it and nobody’s buying.


23 posted on 06/16/2016 10:10:58 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: DPMD
"I suspect they are secretly celebrating Orlando because they can use yet another tragedy to advance their agenda."

In fact, I think Obama intentionally set this tragedy in motion all in order to get his gun control. Now that the dust has settled it's become obvious the DHS and FBI did everything to enable this guy but buy the gun and put it in his hands.

24 posted on 06/16/2016 10:13:40 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: reaganaut1

+1


25 posted on 06/16/2016 10:20:43 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Gay isn't.)
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To: Fido969
Liberal will blame anyone but who actually caused the murder.

As someone on the radio pointed out the other day. It must really suck to be a jihadi in America these days. No matter what you do, or how hard to try, no matter what happens, you never get the credit. It's always a gun, a TEA Party member, or Christian who gets the credit.

26 posted on 06/16/2016 12:54:20 PM PDT by Turbo Pig (To close with and destroy....)
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To: reaganaut1
Our views are irreconcilable, but that doesn’t mean either side is motivated by irrational animus.

I disagree. Nothing they do violates my own religious observance. They fail to return the courtesy.

27 posted on 06/16/2016 1:10:49 PM PDT by chesley (The right to protest is not the right to disrupt.)
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Re: 15
But unrepentant sinners have no place in the Kingdom.
- [soycd]: Not one person on this Earth can make that proclamation for anyone other than themselves.

The Bible (God's Word) makes that proclamation:

I Corinthians 6:9-10
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

It behooves all Christians to sound that warning loud and clear
- [soycd]: No, it just gets more rats elected.

If directing lost souls to the Saviour, and getting them saved, results in more rats being elected - it is a win.
Our job is to serve the Lord and to point lost sinners (as we all were at one time) to Him. This is the prize - not the crumbs that the world has to offer.

28 posted on 06/16/2016 5:10:12 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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Re: 17
I'm sorry, I did not understand your comment.
29 posted on 06/16/2016 5:13:59 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: El Cid

Read and parse slowly.


30 posted on 06/16/2016 5:14:32 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: El Cid

And consider that many people have considered America contiguous with some kind of declared holy land.


31 posted on 06/16/2016 5:16:07 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: El Cid

Or try synonymous if you don’t like contiguous.


32 posted on 06/16/2016 5:17:02 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Read and parse slowly.

It is your choice to be obtuse. I choose not to spend time to decipher cryptic notes.

33 posted on 06/16/2016 5:18:17 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: El Cid

>- [soycd]: Not one person on this Earth can make that proclamation for anyone other than themselves.

>The Bible (God’s Word) makes that proclamation:

That’s between God and the Sinner. None of us mere humans have any say in the matter.


34 posted on 06/16/2016 5:19:47 PM PDT by soycd
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The homos will still ALWAYS blame conservatives and Christians.

Sure, if you keep calling them "homos"?

That reminds them too much of high school bullying.

This notion that homos will suddenly wake up and allign themselves with conservatism is fanciful.

Of course, it's fanciful, but nobody ever said gays would vote conservative as a bloc. What they were saying is that eventually homosexuals wouldn't vote as a bloc anymore. That may not be true, but it's certainly different from what you said. There wasn't always a homosexual bloc vote so it's not written in stone that there always will be.

35 posted on 06/16/2016 5:23:28 PM PDT by x
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To: reaganaut1

I dunno, instead of all the ‘love the sinner hate the sin’ talk, what I’m thinking is Jesus’ words: “Love your enemies. Do good to those who persecute you, for by doing so you will heap burning coals on his head.”

So we’ll see what happens; looks like it’s being played out here.


36 posted on 06/16/2016 5:33:29 PM PDT by Luircin (Stomp Hillary, build wall, stop Islam. Any of the above are good reasons to vote. Trump 2016)
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To: soycd
That’s between God and the Sinner. None of us mere humans have any say in the matter.

I am not clear where you take issue.
It almost sounds like you are conflating Judgment with Warning - but perhaps I am misinterpreting your statement.
Of course God is the Judge - not man.
Does that mean man does not have a responsibility to warn his brother if he is marching off into the fire?
Of course not.
God's Word in Ezekiel tells us that we should sound the warning of the 'Watchman'.
We are all one family, and only the repentant sinner washed in the blood of Christ, and clothed in His merits, will enter into the Kingdom.
Are we to be silent and stand by when we see people hell bent for destruction? That is almost a Hyper-Calvinist position of saying God will save who God will save, and we might as well keep our mouths shut. God IS sovereign, and He will save whom He will save -- but He has also given the Believers the edict to spread the Gospel (the Good News) - and that includes the message of repentance and coming to Christ.

37 posted on 06/16/2016 6:13:39 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: circlecity

Can’t say I disagree.


38 posted on 06/17/2016 9:55:05 AM PDT by DPMD (o)
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