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The Ugly in Christianity
Huffington Post ^ | Hillary Ferguson

Posted on 06/09/2016 6:06:09 AM PDT by detective

For many, there is a deep-seated political hatred, racism, and bigotry hidden behind the guise of Christianity. And I’m tired of keeping quiet. As a person born into it, baptized into it—I went every Sunday morning and every Sunday night, and if my mother finished worked early enough, I even went on Wednesday evenings—I should know.

I’m not typically one to get into social media arguments or spend hours discussing political and religious discourse on a Facebook strand, but recently, one woman drove me to the point of no return. Of course, it began with: Trump vs No Trump. As per any Trump supporter, her main argument was that she was a hard working American and she shouldn’t have to pay such high taxes for “no-good illegal immigrants and poor people and their lobster-buying-food-stamps” and that was that. Her argument always stopped there. Always: “I’m a hard working American.”

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KEYWORDS: antichristian; attack; christianity; communism; lies
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The latest trend in Democrat and leftist talking points is to equate devout Christians with hate, violence and evil in general. The message is that Christians must be oppressed and that providing Christians with religious freedom is wrong.

One of the first actions of almost every resent totalitarian government has been to arrest, imprison and execute faithful Christians.

They are trying to achieve that goal in the United States.

1 posted on 06/09/2016 6:06:09 AM PDT by detective
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The purge has been underway for a couple of years. Socialism tolerates no God other than government and has no higher being than man. Secularism demands there be no condemnation or moral code.....


2 posted on 06/09/2016 6:09:44 AM PDT by GT Vander (Life's priorities; God, Family, Country. Everything else is just details...)
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Not even worth replying to save for a question: do da name Islam mean anything to ya?


3 posted on 06/09/2016 6:10:58 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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Christianity, like our founders, like America, like Western Culture, like whites have been under attack for decades and individuals like this woman are only too happy to help try and destroy it all.


4 posted on 06/09/2016 6:12:30 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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Pathetic snowflake writes about terrible Christians—if you could call that writing. May she meet a good Muslim man in the Ladies Room.


5 posted on 06/09/2016 6:12:35 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: detective
For many, there is a deep-seated political hatred, racism, and bigotry hidden behind the guise of Christianity.

And these people are hypocrites....

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6 posted on 06/09/2016 6:14:18 AM PDT by dragonblustar
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The ugly she perceives in Christianity, pales in comparison to the ugly in Islam.


7 posted on 06/09/2016 6:16:11 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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They want to eliminate Christians and Christianity. To help that along, they are bringing in millions of mooselimbs who will breed with their 4 wives and rapidly displace all the Christians.


8 posted on 06/09/2016 6:16:22 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Mamzelle

Scandalized by less than perfect Christians? I guess in her Bible study she glossed over 2 Corinthians 4:7.


9 posted on 06/09/2016 6:16:39 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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A reminder to liberals – the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. did not ask people to turn away from Christianity because of racial intolerance and violence – he told them to turn ‘to’ Christianity in order to stop racial intolerance and violence – and it worked.


10 posted on 06/09/2016 6:18:19 AM PDT by Heartlander (Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse O'Leary)
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For many, there is a deep-seated political hatred, racism, and bigotry hidden behind the guise of Christianity Liberalism.
11 posted on 06/09/2016 6:20:15 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: dragonblustar

Shouldn’t there be an “are” after “Agree with me or else you”?

Dave


12 posted on 06/09/2016 6:23:11 AM PDT by No_More_Harkin
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Those Christians sound like real evil ba$tards.. huh?

I mean look at all the people Christians are beheading and setting on fire and raping and stuff...

Oh wait- isn’t that another religion? (of ‘peace’)


13 posted on 06/09/2016 6:25:31 AM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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‘As a person born into it, baptized into it—I went every Sunday morning and every Sunday night, and if my mother finished worked early enough, I even went on Wednesday evenings—I should know.’

Taking up space in a church building isnt what makes you christian....


14 posted on 06/09/2016 6:29:45 AM PDT by 556x45
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Hillary Ferguson has clearly constructed an alternate reality which feeds her lusts and hatred. She first informs everyone of what a good little church-goer she was while young and naive. She then suddenly wakes up and realizes that Christianity is just a cover for all the bigots who disagree with her. She even throws out several leftist stereotypes to validate her sincerity and moral superiority.

It’s the late 1930’s all over again. The night of broken glass can’t be far behind.


15 posted on 06/09/2016 6:29:55 AM PDT by bereanway
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Most of the critics of Christianity really have no measure of the full meaning of religion.

“Christianity has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult and left untried.” - G.K. Chesterton

There are religions founded on the hard-won lessons of what is moral and just, and there have been religions which have discounted these lessons, only to become, at best, a footnote on history, and largely discarded, because of their implicit cruelty and adoption of tyrannical methods.

But because some sort of ideology may declare itself to be a “religion”, does not mean that morality and justice are somehow discarded, simply because despotism is now held to the the guiding virtue. Despotism has a way of finally exasperating those subject to its whims and error to finally rise up and give it a smack.

For a period of a thousand years or more, something that called itself “Christianity” fell into the category of support of despotic ideologies, and while it claimed control of a fairly wide expanse of the planet, it finally came to its confrontation with internal schisms and compounded error, and underwent a vast reformation. The Christianity of the 18th and 19th Centuries was entirely different from the earlier institution that existed during what we know today as the “Middle Ages” or the “Dark Ages”.

What we have today is an existential threat to that enlightenment, and a distinct possibility of sliding back into that “Dark Age”, when despotism in the name of religion would again be imposed upon the world.


16 posted on 06/09/2016 6:34:51 AM PDT by alloysteel (The Triumph of Trump - finally, does the hegemony of the Republican elites get broken?)
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People hate. They always have; always will: Cain and Abel.
Nothing new, not even the Dem strategy of demonizing.

The Dems control a lot of the media. Thank goodness for the media they don't control...FR, for example.

17 posted on 06/09/2016 6:39:24 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: No_More_Harkin

No, there should be a “be”


18 posted on 06/09/2016 6:39:45 AM PDT by PoolQue ("The best government is that which governs least.")
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Russian communists executing Christians


19 posted on 06/09/2016 6:40:13 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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I’m not even going to give HuffPo a click. Just reading the headline and the beginning paragraph was enough for me.


20 posted on 06/09/2016 6:40:17 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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