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Ive spent decades studying the Bible. RW evangelicals are extremely biblically ignorant.

I cannot tolerate their "I am blessed, so I hate you" type of "Christianity" or that the rest of the church tolerates it.

So, I'm out. I will never have a connection to the Church again.
...maybe if they cared more about the slaughter of families, including children, maybe if they cared about children being ripped away from their parents, maybe if they cared about children locked in cages - AND MAYBE if all other Christian churches condemned them - I might not...
...but "fuck humanity, let's hate gays!" is not a religion I want any affiliation with. If the rest of Christianity is not willing to take on these people who contaminate the religion and thus make our world more evil, then there is no place for the church in total, RW or not.
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@shortsigh44 @DeniseBarbarita You are listening to a select group of evangelicals who pick and choose parts of the Bible. Like I said, they deny its explicit words. Others who aren't you - and by the way, I learned this in seminary classes - believe exactly as I am saying based on 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18...
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