“They’re our brothers and sisters. When we stop seeing people that way it’s so easy to start making laws or enacting policies that harm them.”

      • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        John 14:6

        Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

        Matthew 15:18-19

        But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

        Matthew 5:32

        But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

        Matthew 18:21-22

        Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.

        It’s absolute folly to claim that Jesus would be totally cool with either side of the American political debate - democrat or republican. Both these sides want to follow themselves and their heart, and not what’s right.

        Matthew 16:24-25

        Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

        Even though I am a Christian and would like to emulate Jesus, I wouldn’t even dare claim Jesus would be on my side in terms of opinions. We should strive to be on Jesus’ side.