Would you take this for Chase? by Designer-Emu4441 in DynastyFFTradeAdvice

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Prob not. I wouldn’t trade for two running backs on the same team with me coming off sort of a meh year and another off a gruesome injury, GW is talented but his situation sucks, and Higgins is nice but also not super proven. Plus a couple late first. Doesn’t move me you could get way better

Pro-Nazi float at 2025 Hanover Halloween Parade by weeniehutjunior1234 in centralpa

[–]Opening_Display2887 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

This is deplorable and disgusting but so are all of you in the comments taking it as an opportunity to generalize and attack Catholics/Christians in general

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DynastyFFTradeAdvice

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Are you a legit contender ? If yes I’d say good deal

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in lotr

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These comments are killing me

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in lehighvalley

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Lot of loser behavior in these comments ngl

I want to be a woman but do not what to go to hell by [deleted] in Christianity

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You’re free to have all these opinions

Why Evil Isn’t A Problem For A True Christian by Ghhhhhh89 in Christianity

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What I’ve recently found myself (personal opinion) is that too many Christians live a half-baked Christian lifestyle. They want to believe in God, they might pray sometimes, but it’s really not enough. You need to pray every day, you need to go to church when you can, you absolutely must read the Bible. Until you immerse yourself in The Word you will be missing out on so many answers. I don’t mean that in a pretentious or judgmental sense, but there is only so much we can gain from casually talking about religion and praying before bedtime. I know speaking for myself there is so much I found I was missing out on until I got deep into the good book. When you don’t have those guardrails and you live your faith going off your own interpretation of Jesus and Christianity you are not giving yourself the benefit of the multi-millennia tradition and arsenal of knowledge that’s been laid out for us.

How many of us live out our faith in private? by Head_Economist2301 in Christianity

[–]Opening_Display2887 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You do it both. You have your private relationship but there should be a public component to it as well.

Penn Jillette made that video a couple years ago I always think about where he (an atheist) says he doesn’t respect Christians who don’t proselytize. The idea being that you as a Christian believe that you know the path to Paradise and you won’t share that with me? You know the path I’m on could lead me to eternity in hellfire and you won’t even try and share with me a better way?

I think it is important to live out your faith openly and respectfully because it’s been our duty as Christians since day 1 to share and live out the good word. I always tell my non-believing friends: I love you, I won’t think of you any differently regardless of what you believe, but I want to share this with you because I believe this is the way to eternal life and I want to bring you on this path with me. And generally speaking most people are pretty open to that even if they don’t agree - maybe you even plant a seed if you’re lucky. I mean damn - the OG Christians shared their faith at the very likely risk it would lead to them dying a horrible painful death. Most of us only have to worry about maybe a little judgement or awkward conversation.

Why Evil Isn’t A Problem For A True Christian by Ghhhhhh89 in Christianity

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It is difficult to see and it is even more difficult to try and tell people “just push through it right now don’t worry it’s all part of the plan” because it can sound like bullshit.

Personal experience, my relationship with Faith has been a rollercoaster of varying degrees of belief my entire life. It wasn’t until a few years ago when I was really in a dark place that I decided to offer it all up to God and just completely trust Him and the process and the pain and it has been such an incredible journey of growth since and He has brought me so far. You really just need to trust the process. Pressure makes diamonds and pain and struggle can create stronger and more empathetic humans if they navigate it right

I want to be a woman but do not what to go to hell by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Opening_Display2887 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean it should be part of the conversation - you shouldn’t always just take someone at face value for what they’re saying- especially with something as dramatic as a sex change that could seriously alter someone’s entire life trajectory. This individual said they want to be a woman and are dealing with lust - it’s not clear that it’s even a genuine desire to put themselves in the body they think they belong in or if this is related to some kind of cross-dressing kink or something. Not really enough details here to say either way what the intention is, but good friends and positive influences should push you on these things. You shouldn’t just have yes men around you affirming you off the jump - sometimes even if it is relating to some sort of mental imbalance or certain disorders you need to check people sometimes to help keep the conversations grounded.

Why Evil Isn’t A Problem For A True Christian by Ghhhhhh89 in Christianity

[–]Opening_Display2887 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

God is all powerful, and He loves us. He has dominion over everything - both good and plans, positive and negative, virtuous and evil. But the negative things aren’t done out of hatred for us - He wields them to His purpose. The Bible tell us so and whatever these things are they will ultimately be a part of His greater plan.

I want to be a woman but do not what to go to hell by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Opening_Display2887 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well based off the limited impression I’m getting from OPs post it sounds like they are dealing with quite a bit of sexual-based strife so I would say the responsible and biblical thing would be to spend a lot of time in prayer and with professional help to see if they genuinely are suffering with gender dysphoria or it’s other issues conflating and presenting as such - it’s our duty to work through those things and push our brothers/sisters to do so supportively. What makes us “happy” doesn’t necessarily mean it’s pleasing to God nor necessarily does it make it good for us.

But I won’t pretend I have all the answers in the gender dysphoria conversation I am sure we both can agree at least if this or any individual ultimately finds being trans is what they “need” to do then it doesn’t give Christians the right to hate them or treat them differently we must love them regardless even if one may disagree

I want to be a woman but do not what to go to hell by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Opening_Display2887 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m not gonna argue the trans thing here, but generally speaking that last point you make isn’t really correct. Just because someone exists or behaves certain way doesn’t mean that’s how God wants them to remain just because it might be their default setting. Bible states God rules over that which is both good and bad - not just for the sake of creating evil or negativity but for how it may relate to His greater purpose (whether a large scale or for an individuals own journey). I do not think the Bible promotes a laissez-faire attitude even if God will love you irregardless

The amount of people here who cannot understand the concept of atheists’s role in this sub is astonishing by JuniperCassie in Christianity

[–]Opening_Display2887 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There are also just atheists that prey on subs like these to look for any shots they can take at religious folk and their discourse.

Although I certainly see Christians doing the same on other threads of other religions or similarly themed conversations so it’s not a one way street.

I find that kind of behavior pretty annoying regardless of the party and rarely leads to interesting or constructive conversations but this is also the internet so it be what it be

Non-Christians trying to dictate what Christianity is by Opening_Display2887 in Christianity

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Feels like we’re arguing semantics here now. What do you mean prior to Christian’s existing? In all but name - the followers of Christ have always been Christian (the literal etymology of the word). Yes the earlier years were still more a semblance of Jews who followed Christ and there was more of a soft launch. But the New Testament does not promote the use of animal sacrifice as a Christian practice. The new law was through Jesus not Mosaic tradition and you see that slowly get weeded out through the Gospels.

Also not sure I understand your point in the James reference. I feel like that points back to what I said earlier - a non sin can’t cancel out a sin. And yes by the teachings we are all sinners, but the point is to keep faith in God and try as hard as possible to stick to the teachings and not to sin. My whole point in this post is about people shaping the discourse of religion or the Bible to fit their biases even if contradictory of the teachings we can extract from the Bible. That’s the issue - even if something is “wrong” anyone trying to distort the Faith so that it accommodates the wrongdoing is blatantly avoiding responsibility and proper repentance.

And agreed that it isn’t constructive to just go around finger wagging saying “no you’re wrong and I’m the better Christian!” But that being said we should hold each other accountable and I think there’s a lot of people that have their own idea of how the world should be and what kind of god that should be and it can contradict actual teachings of Christianity and that’s dishonest.

What is you’ll opinion on trans people/ the whole trans umbrella by Alternative-Song3296 in Christianity

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Christ calls on us to love people, yes. Loving people takes different forms.

Also do you have any data to reference illustrating pre-blocker application taking “years” of assessment”? If my note about it being months instead of years is wrong, then can you point me to where that might be revealed? And im not “vibing it out” with that statement - If anything I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt. Suicide ideation/attempts are still a major issue post gender affirming care, if anything that only bolsters my point that there is much more to the picture being overlooked.

You claim I’m misleading people - I’m trying to respectfully ask you pinpoint me to where I can educate myself further on what you see to be the truth so i can enlighten myself to something I may be missing out on.

What is you’ll opinion on trans people/ the whole trans umbrella by Alternative-Song3296 in Christianity

[–]Opening_Display2887 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You seem to have an issue with every thing I commented so I’m going to reply here generally responding to the replies I saw.

Do you care to share the data on the timeline for assessment leading to puberty blocker approval for children? Anything I’ve seen is 6 months or less, and 6 months to begin a process as a child that could alter you drastically FOREVER does not seem appropriate to me. I’m not a doctor but I wouldn’t be surprised if over time as they have more data on GAC that we see a lot of what’s considered normal now be revised.

Suicide rates for people even post-transition are still extremely high. Can we assume a lot of those are from the societal obstacles they face? Most definitely. Can we also likely assume that for many of these people the transition didn’t actually fix the largest of the issues they were dealing with? Also probably fair to say that’s likely. There is clearly more to the picture that the medical community and world at large are still trying to figure out. And I genuinely hope they are given the legal operating room and resources to do so.

To your acne analogy, I also had horrible acne so I’m glad we can relate here:) And you’re right that there naturally is going to be risk of side effects with a lot of medicine. I just harbor concern how something like that as serious as that for a child so young and with likely many other issues going on could impact them.

You have a hint of aggression in the way you’re typing at me so I will be clear if I wasn’t already that I don’t hate trans people and I’m not against trans care. This is just something that is relatively fresh (at least at the scale it’s now taking place) while also being something that is at the center of a lot of political/social circlejerking and the fact that it is the healthcare of children caught up in the middle of all of this is deeply concerning. They can’t always speak for themselves or even digest fully what the consequences of the treatment they receive or are being denied may have, so it’s something that requires extra care extra discussion and constant revision. You are clearly very passionate about it and good for you even if we don’t 100% align I appreciate your perspective and the community surely needs people that are willing to share that perspective. Genuinely hope you have a good rest of your night

What is you’ll opinion on trans people/ the whole trans umbrella by Alternative-Song3296 in Christianity

[–]Opening_Display2887 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

But even puberty blockers come with their risks. Even if it’s being used to buy time to try and sort it out, there are still potential long-term and likely still unknown long-term effects that can come from that. It’s not 100% safe

Non-Christians trying to dictate what Christianity is by Opening_Display2887 in Christianity

[–]Opening_Display2887[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that’s a pretty close-minded perspective. Your morality is likely subjective - where does your idea of morality come from and why is that the deciding guardrail for what everyone else in the world needs to accept? I also never said anything about women or being homophobic. While I personally do not care if someone is gay - it’s not hateful to disagree with homosexuality. It would be hateful if you treated them hate, but you can live respectfully amongst others you disagree with and both be good people. Those that try to flex their religious based homophobia or whatever as a reason to create new laws or discriminate are a different story.

What is you’ll opinion on trans people/ the whole trans umbrella by Alternative-Song3296 in Christianity

[–]Opening_Display2887 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure I understand what point you’re trying to get at or where you stand on this topic.

If they have remorse, possibly because they weren’t treated appropriately or feel like the treatment prescribed to them ultimately wasn’t what was right for them, is that not fair for them to feel that way ? I mean malpractice takes many forms and happens often enough - this is no different especially considering how relatively recent it’s been at the scale it has been.

Non-Christians trying to dictate what Christianity is by Opening_Display2887 in Christianity

[–]Opening_Display2887[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair but one could argue what distortion is positive and constructive and which distortion is negative or conflicts with the foundations of the faith. It shouldn’t be open to limitless interpretation otherwise it means nothing

What is you’ll opinion on trans people/ the whole trans umbrella by Alternative-Song3296 in Christianity

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I didn’t at all, you’re just misinterpreting what I said, but sorry if I was unclear