Christianity is something to be used for political purposes.
How so? Do politicians use religion for political purposes any more than they use race, sex, climate, the environment, etc. for political purposes? Evangelicals voted for President Trump because they liked his stance on freedom of religion, and the President has been impartial as to which religion embraces that freedom.
Nope just the GOP and Tramp. Evangelicals are not Christians. Freedom of religion, are you kidding, yes they are for freedom of religion
as long as you believe what they believe.
Again
Penelope
What determines the degree of someone's Christian faith
is their ability and willingness to FORGIVE, and to ask
God's help through Christ to forgive what we cannot do on our own.
Your faith or unwillingness to forgive depends on YOU not on others.
If you cannot forgive Trump, GOP or Evangelicals,
your lack of forgivenessnes and more significantly
your UNWILLINGNESS to ask God's help to forgive
is what makes YOU unchristian.
It has nothing directly to do with the actions of others.
Whether or not THEY FORGIVE is what determines their standing.
What determines YOURS is whether and to what degree YOU
are willing to either forgive or ask God's help to forgive what you can't do on your own.
You take me wrong, I do not want to be associated with the Christian faith anymore. I also do not believe in God and you people making him into whatever you want him to be and using God, just shows how fake God is.
When you can use someone like you are doing to tell me I have to forgive, I'm sorry what am I suppose to forgive, it is what it is, I have nothing to forgive,
Tramp and the GOP are the most ungodly creatures that walk on the earth and I know it.
Fact is fact.
Dear
Penelope
If it isn't me advising you that forgiveness is better for your
mind and clarity of judgment, SCIENCE will show you this.
Forgiveness improves not only your mental agility and judgment
but your PHYSICAL health and the QUALITY of RELATIONSHIPS around you.
And this isn't just "Christians" teaching the benefits of forgiveness.
One of the TOP political advisors and liberal activists/mentors
(who like you gave up being Christian at age 19 and was openly GAY ATHEIST for 70 years of activism till his death this year)
TAUGHT and COUNSELED people AS AN ATHEIST
about free grace and the impact of FORGIVENESS ON MENTAL HEALTH.
He urged people do not waste energy "keeping inventory" on yourself or others
or you'll "make yourself crazy". You can do much more in life with your energy
by focusing on the positive things you can change, not holding on to the negative PAST.
Ray Hill cited this was BETTER FOR YOUR MENTAL HEALTH.
And credited this approach with how he and others were more effective in
political reforms working within the system against all opposition.
He was the most LOYAL consistent LIBERAL I know of.
And was most effective in criminal justice reforms working with
CONSERVATIVES RUNNING TEXAS as what he called the most backwards system.
The reason he got things done was he took the approach of FORGIVENESS
and RESTORATIVE JUSTICE to work with ANYONE from any background to get solutions done
one step at a time. That's what he focused on and urged others to LOVE ONE ANOTHER
and HELP OTHERS. Not stay stuck in any negative mindset that waste our lives, energy
and the limited time we have in this world to make any meaningful contribution.
So
Penelope I pass Ray's words and wisdom on to you.
I wish you could have met him and talked with him. He totally
let go and put aside any of the religious Jesus and God business,
and focused on FREE GRACE, FORGIVENESS and peace and justice
in relations with helping other people. He and another atheist in the
peace and justice community were the most effective people I knew
and they both were as forgiving and INCLUSIVE of others, and never
rejected or refused to work with anyone. They just wanted to correct problems
and anyone willing to work on that, they wanted to include and work together.
The only people they couldn't work with are those who refused to work with them.
They couldn't help that.
But they didn't do the rejection. They never wasted a single brain cell of energy
on negativity, but always focused on what needed to be done in a positive direction.
So this is what it means to be Christian neighbors, is to focus on that
level of conscience and conscientiousness where it's always positive.
Never controlled by fear and unforgiveness, but driven by greater
charity, compassion and understanding of higher truth, justice and peace.
Even nontheists have this, and I hope you will allow that drive to
overcome whatever negative perceptions or energy interferes which
makes it that much harder on yourself to get things done and make changes happen effectively.
Forgiveness works better while unforgiveness "poisons" the mind of the perceiver.
You only hurt and hinder yourself with unforgiveness and rejection.
