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[VonBonfire]

Let me ask a couple questions to help me get a clear picture of your position - if I may, of course. I'm going to color code your reply above to make it obvious which parts of your post I am asking about

Are you against homosexuality and/or transgenderism? If so, do you think it is a crime deserving death?

You seem to be saying that being different is bad and by being different you are asking for any punishment the majority deems fit. Is that your belief?

If 6 million seems overly large to you, what number do you think it was? Would 5 million change the horror of it? 4 million? 100,000? What number do you think it was?

Some other general questions not directly related to your post. What's your church's position on the Shoah/holocaust? What's your church's position on flat earth?

All great questions, thanks for taking the time.

Purple: "Against" is probably the wrong word. I do not believe it's beneficial or good. I consider it a passion the sufferer must war with much the same way I must war with my passion of acquisitiveness and thirst for worldly successes. Do I think it's a crime deserving death? Not in this world but the bible is clear that people who continue to practice it will not be welcomed in the kingdom of heaven. To practice it (or transgenderism) isn't the narrow pathway. To (positively) affirm, or encourage others to practice it also makes one party to it and is also not the narrow pathway.

Red: I'm not saying that. I'm saying if I go to a muslim country where open preaching of Christ is not allowed I should do so with the understanding that some of the locals will take great offense to me doing that and I shouldn't be surprised if I suffer serious repercussions. Similarly, if you go to a nation that is mostly Christian (or islamic for that matter) and start openly promoting homosexuality and transgenderism you shouldn't be surprised with repercussions. They are high risk actions. Different isn't inherently bad, but promoting something deeply divisive and expecting to be embraced by mainstream culture is distinctly lacking in wisdom.

Green: You're asking me to speculate and I'm not going to do that. 6 million is already a speculation. It doesn't matter the number, it wasn't a good thing. I have already stated that I believe rank and file jews, and other marginal groups, suffered under nazi germany. I have doubts about the official story we are told, but as I said, my default position is to reject official storylines on pretty much every and any issue you want to discuss i.e I do not believe stuff the government says.

Blue: The church doesn't have official dogma on the shoah or on earth's shape. Members are welcome to their own thoughts on those things since they do not really have anything to do with orthodoxy. Some saints/monks/etc are very much in the heliocentric ball earth line of thought since Greece is one of the big centers of it, but several Syrian saints are known for their ridicule of such ideas.

 

[JamesTiberiusKirk]

I appreciate that post. Thanks.