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patphil

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15. Pornography and same sex marriage are not the major issues facing the US today.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 02:06 PM
Jun 2025

Why aren't they standing up for those people who are being hurt by the callous, willfully cruel policies and actions of the Trump administration?
We are about to lose our Constitutional Democratic Republic. Maybe that's a bit more important than some guy watching porn on the internet, or women pastors, or two people of the same sex who love each other getting married.
Do you actually think God cares about any of that?
We're to learn the lessons of love. Stop thinking in terms of negatives, and think in terms of being kind, loving, generous, forgiving...all the things Jesus taught us to be.
A friend of my daughter is married, and he and his partner have adopted two children. From what she tells me, they're wonderful, loving parents.
That's the key word here, Love.
That's what God cares about. We're here to learn the lessons of love.
Much of what we think of as sin, isn't.
But, the act of engendering fear in other people for living outside the social boundaries set by religion, and then judging, condemning and punishing them for it is truly a sin.
Lovelessness is the sin.

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The manosphere better have a talk with them newdeal2 Jun 2025 #1
Child molestation has always been an issue for this particular sect as well. Simeon Salus Jun 2025 #3
Fucking hypocrites. Ferrets are Cool Jun 2025 #2
Many Southern Baptists have averted their eyes EYESORE 9001 Jun 2025 #4
Willful childlessness. tanyev Jun 2025 #5
Why the fuck DiverDave Jun 2025 #6
This is a group of racist hypocrites who have prooftexted things out of context and ignored the main teachings of Christ JT45242 Jun 2025 #7
Thing is, back in those days, homosexuality was an accepted slightlv Jun 2025 #16
Judge not, SBC. Sound at all familiar? BadgerMom Jun 2025 #8
Emo Philips Be Leave On Jun 2025 #9
And Jesus sayeth unto them, lastlib Jun 2025 #10
Worthless losers Nigrum Cattus Jun 2025 #11
Pro-slavery too. czarjak Jun 2025 #12
yeah, and i want to know how many kids they are abusing and sexually molesting. nt orleans Jun 2025 #13
The last line says it all Picaro Jun 2025 #14
Pornography and same sex marriage are not the major issues facing the US today. patphil Jun 2025 #15
Growing up in Texas I never knew my So. Baptist minister grandfather. My father refused baptism by immersion when he was CTyankee Jun 2025 #17
F**k the SBC SADAR Jun 2025 #18
Mind your own fucking business dalton99a Jun 2025 #19
The denomination that fled their parent church because it opposed slavery GoCubsGo Jun 2025 #20
Mostly wives and daughters of Southern Baptists ... they're horny as Hell for some reason. eppur_se_muova Jun 2025 #21
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