Yeah, I can tell you don’t wield your beliefs as a weapon like a lot of conservatives do, you genuinely seem to find solace in them and are simply preaching the good word because it brings you peace of mind, I respect that kind of behavior even if I don’t emulate it. Just pisses me off to see other Christians not following Jesus’s teachings and distorting His reputation; as far as I understand, His whole shtick is about loving and accepting people who don’t necessarily follow His lessons…so when Nameless or any other chud quotes Bible verses while defending racists and perverts or attacking marginalized communities, it’s just a disgusting bastardization of His message. I’m obviously not the most pious guy on this forum, but even I can tell the difference between behaving like a “good” Christian or ignoring the spirit of the words and oppressing others with them
These are some quotes from a christian abolitionist, John Brown, who was sentenced to death for fighting against slavery, and unless I am mistaken, his death was one of the things that lead to the start of the civil war:
"I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day. "
"No man, with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. - Happy he who is brave enough to push on another stage of the journey, and rest where there are "living springs of water, and three-score and ten palms." "
"Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills. "
"I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that disaster; by only hanging a few moments by the neck; and I feel quite determined to make the utmost possible out of a defeat. "
He said this in court:
"I have another objection; and that is, it is unjust that I should suffer such a penalty. Had I interfered in the manner which I admit, and which I admit has been fairly proved (for I admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case)--had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends--either father, mother, brother, sister, wife, or children, or any of that class--and suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference, it would have been all right; and every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment.
This court acknowledges, as I suppose, the validity of the law of God. I see a book kissed here which I suppose to be the Bible, or at least the New Testament. That teaches me that all things whatsoever I would that men should do to me, I should do even so to them. It teaches me, further, to "remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them." I endeavored to act up to that instruction. I say I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done--as I have always freely admitted I have done--in behalf of His despised poor was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments--I submit; so let it be done!
Let me say one word further."
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