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I’m sure God and the people in your lifetime you have sinned against likewise have stories to tell. Unless, that is, you are without sin.
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difference being I’m not the leader of a RELIGION ordering the torture and murder of countless victims while pretending to act by the authority of (or replacement of) God! In order to maintain control and power over the peasents!
There is no difference. Sin is sin and you are just as accountable for your sins in the place God has placed you just as others God has placed elsewhere. Perhaps you should concentrate on removing that plank in your own eye.
Lenny Brenner wrote a book, “The Democrat Party, the Lesser Evil” which he summarized as, “Vote for us, we are not as bad as the Republicans.”
The defense of the inquisition is similar. “They accuse us of millions of deaths, men, women, children burned at the stake.” “We aren’t anything like that, something like a hundred thousand, maybe a little more. Why are you bothered?”
Cognitive dissonance to the nth power: Okay, it happened. But, we are the TRUE church.
Love for those who hate us, not wasted!