Proverbs 24:17-18, Romans 12:14, 1st Peter 3:9, Luke 6:37, Galatians 5:14…
1st John 4:20 is pretty clear here.
These people are false speakers and represent the worst of religion.
Also, the audacity for this guy to say “you don’t pray for the orc.” If you follow Christ, YES, you do! That’s maybe Christ’s most central teaching: to love & forgive YOUR ENEMIES as God loved & forgave you.
I share Bible verses because these people are coming. They need to be shamed by their own prophets. Utterly disgusting behavior from this “pastor.”
Edit: He quotes Pslams 83, which points back to proto-religious notions, before Judaism, regarding Yahweh & Baal. One was a desert god; the other the sea god. The stories are Jewish folklore, given the references to rivals, and the highlighting in this passage of storms & winds makes me chuckle.
The problem with bible quotes as points is that it’s a large corpus of text “edited” and “translated” over thousands of years by the powers of the time to suit their needs.
Even if you assume it’s the original singular text, with no changes, written by one person, it’s all open to context and subjectivity.
If a particular passage, section, or idea is helpful to you, thats great, but trying to point at isolated quotes as objective truth immediately falls down when someone cherry picks a different quote that (from their perspective) is counter to yours and for some reason , more true.
Thats not even touching on cultural drift or linguistic interpretation.
To be clear this applies to any text of the same nature, not just the bible.
I completely agree. My personal faith is Unitarian Universalism, so I like being informed by the Bible. At the same time, I’m aware of the historic context it lives in, how it’s been translated, etc. I’m not reading Aramaic or Greek, and neither are they. This guy seems to have focused on the Old Testament. I don’t get that either (if he’s Christian), except in the case of preaching this hateful rhetoric. Jesus would be disappointed in him.
Dan McClellan has addressed white christian nationalist abuse of biblical literature to marionette the cadavers they parade as ideology before. I’m hoping he’ll provide a similar professional public eviscerstion for this as well.
Proverbs 24:17-18, Romans 12:14, 1st Peter 3:9, Luke 6:37, Galatians 5:14…
1st John 4:20 is pretty clear here.
These people are false speakers and represent the worst of religion.
Also, the audacity for this guy to say “you don’t pray for the orc.” If you follow Christ, YES, you do! That’s maybe Christ’s most central teaching: to love & forgive YOUR ENEMIES as God loved & forgave you.
I share Bible verses because these people are coming. They need to be shamed by their own prophets. Utterly disgusting behavior from this “pastor.”
Edit: He quotes Pslams 83, which points back to proto-religious notions, before Judaism, regarding Yahweh & Baal. One was a desert god; the other the sea god. The stories are Jewish folklore, given the references to rivals, and the highlighting in this passage of storms & winds makes me chuckle.
The problem with bible quotes as points is that it’s a large corpus of text “edited” and “translated” over thousands of years by the powers of the time to suit their needs.
Even if you assume it’s the original singular text, with no changes, written by one person, it’s all open to context and subjectivity.
If a particular passage, section, or idea is helpful to you, thats great, but trying to point at isolated quotes as objective truth immediately falls down when someone cherry picks a different quote that (from their perspective) is counter to yours and for some reason , more true.
Thats not even touching on cultural drift or linguistic interpretation.
To be clear this applies to any text of the same nature, not just the bible.
All of this is my subjective opinion.
I completely agree. My personal faith is Unitarian Universalism, so I like being informed by the Bible. At the same time, I’m aware of the historic context it lives in, how it’s been translated, etc. I’m not reading Aramaic or Greek, and neither are they. This guy seems to have focused on the Old Testament. I don’t get that either (if he’s Christian), except in the case of preaching this hateful rhetoric. Jesus would be disappointed in him.
Dan McClellan has addressed white christian nationalist abuse of biblical literature to marionette the cadavers they parade as ideology before. I’m hoping he’ll provide a similar professional public eviscerstion for this as well.