@omega2xx
Your post #852 was malformed. All of your words appeared in the quote section, and there was nothing else. When I hit reply, nothing at all appeared. Since I don't feel like reproducing all of your words, I won't be addressing most of that.
Don't you look at what appears on your computer screen after you hit "Post Reply"? It appears automatically. All you have to do is look at it. When you see something like that with no apparent response until you look in the quote section, it means you've got a formatting error that you need to edit. It's probably not too late for you to go back in and fix your post.
But I did look at your words.
I do not defer to your definition of Christianity any more than you defer to mine. You have no authority to disqualify other conceptions of Christianity. You're just another voice.
I noticed, however, that it's become political for you, and that you are now attacking the character of those with whom you disagree. You cannot defend your accusation that my remarks were bigoted, and I don't expect you to try. If you care to, define bigotry and identify the comment(s) from me that qualifies.
Bias is not a bad thing, just irrational bias. Justified bias is what learning is. If I learn from experience that such and such is a good thing to do, and this other person or activity should be avoided, I have developed two more rational biases that are likely to serve me well if my judgments are correct. If subsequent experience suggest that I should revise those judgments, they're still rational biases.
Your opinions are also biased, but in the other direction.
And now, they've become emotional and angry. When you get angry at another person's dispassionate ideas about ideas, you are pretty much throwing in the towel.
Here's the basic problem here: You want to see Christianity in a positive light, so you do. For you, it's "Love one another" and Sunday mornings full of "Great to see you again, brother. God bless you," pretty hymns, and an inspiring sermon. It's all rainbows and butterflies for you.
That's looking through a faith based confirmation bias that scrubs all of the unpleasant parts away for you. It tells you that the bad parts aren't really Christianity. Here you are trying to bat them away as they come by.
I describe a failed conspiracy to catch Planned Parenthood in a "gotcha" moment using hidden cameras, followed by a months long defamatory campaign depicting it as a baby murdering factory in the business of selling fetal parts for profit - all a gross misrepresentation and slander - culminating in a the predictable shooting one of their clinics, and you dismiss it all with, "Right forget about the illegal and horrible actions of planned parenthood, focus on the ONE ILLEGAL action of ONE person who was not following the teachings of Christianity."
I think he was following the teachings of Christianity as Christians presented them and he understood them. The instigators weren't just one or two rogue people, but members of an institute called the
The Center for Medical Progress - Wikipedia set up to fight abortion according to the present Christian position that the Christian god does not approve of abortion.
Sorry, but that's the face of Christianity the rest not burdened by a faith based confirmation bias of us see. I have no reason to try to sweep all of that under the rug to sanitize Christianity. I am free to call a spade a spade.
And that is what you are calling bigotry.
