IAmYouAreWeAre, preaching will usually get your posts removed; abide by the forum guidelines if you want your posts to remain! I'm very tempted to do it with this post, but will leave it for now to be an example of the limits that are appropriate - this is at (or over) the line as far as I'm concerned.
Good exercise of the freedom of speech. I don't like it much, either, when Christian Holier-Than-Thou types turn up. The particular type irks me. Mostly because they tend to be weak of body and spirit and not very right-minded when it comes to taking moral action. When it matters. Like going to actual war against an equal or more powerful foe or in intervening against an evil taking place. All they do is squabble and pucker up. Just like modern people trying to score social credit by virtue signaling. It is always more about fussing and seeking out the 'heretics' who believe differently. I don't get that, either. I would never join a communist forum or organization and preach to them. I often talk out in the gray zone, sometimes out of turn, admittedly. I know I have a streak of something similar. However, I don't seek out people. It is more of a reaction and trouble holding it in. But seeking them out to rant at them seems ridiculous.
I do not miss that particular part of the past, when religious sectarian types held sway over life and death. The inquisition, for example. But I do acknowledge that a lot of good and many beautiful and eternal works were produced by them. Us, I guess. Or the times when it was a unifying factor against outside enemies instead of a force used to destructive ends internally within 'Christendom'. Like the Hunnic and Mongol invasions and the (very necessary if one really knows history) crusades. If it had not been for those times, we would not exist today and, I believe, neither would any higher civilization. For good and ill, admittedly.
Anybody who has done a regression or five knows it is real. As a former Catholic, reincarnation has explained far more to me than anything the Church ever taught me. In my opinion it gives a whole new sense to everything. I have been a Christian for many lives and I do like much of the culture around it. I like how it creates healthy and strong families, for one. "You shall know a tree by its fruit", and all that. I guess that in many ways, it is a good tree. When it comes down to it. And I still go to Church occasionally. It is a good experience and there are as many good people as annoying virtue-signaling types. Despite the pet peeves and the Church being bullheadedly wrong when it comes to reincarnation. Heaven is no less real even if the good old pagans were right about how things relating to death and rebirth really work.
I mean... In my opinion and all that happy crap. Humbly, respectfully and so on. Typically, I guess I can't help preaching, either. -_- Bottom line, though, I like that he gets to speak. I hate the whole thing where people are 'denied a platform'.
Vehemence leads us in error.
