But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
if nothing else, keeps drifting souls off the streets.
“But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.”
But then, Jefferson was not a Christian, but a deist.
For a neighbor to practice their worship of whichever
deities they wish, no harm is done - and they may be
great neighbors.
For that neighbor to deceive others by pretending to be
a Christian religion when they are not, harm is done.
Christians have a legitimate reason to expose the evil.
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But if you believe different than your neighbor who does believe in millions of gods, it will do injury to him, and you’ll have let it happen. And for a Christian, part of the blame will be on your head, because you didn’t say anything but could have. If you say something and they reject it, the blame is all theirs.