Something that's floating around Reddit right now and certainly doesn't paint the Christians among us in best light This is going to be long simply because the quotes themselves are long and then my opinion is a couple of paragraphs, but please read all the way to the bottom. I know all of you pretty well and I know that these Bible quotes are going to start setting people off almost instantly, but please just bear with it and make it to the bottom.. I do have an overall point and a personal point of this whole thing and if we don't address shit like this we will continue to look like idiots to people on the fence that could very easily be swayed to our side as opposed to the other side but something just like this can stop that in its tracks. Which is exactly what Q has instructed us to do time and time again. as a direct message from Q we are not supposed to be pushing people away, especially not potential members. Without further ado prepare to feel pretty fucked up if you actually consider yourself a Christian who follows the word of God and the Bible the best you can, foreal. Floating around the front page of Reddit this morning --- ""Exodus 22:21 “You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien; for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.” Deuteronomy 24:14-15 You shall not oppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or a foreigner residing in your cities. You will pay his wages on that day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and needs the money), lest he cry out against you to the Lord, and you are guilty of sin. Deuteronomy 1:16 Give the members of your community a fair hearing, and judge rightly between one person and another, whether citizen or resident alien. Leviticus 19:34 The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the foreigner as yourself, for you were foreign in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. Leviticus 25:35 If any of your people become poor and unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner or stranger, so they may continue to live among you. Leviticus 27:19 Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Zechariah 7:9-11 This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’ Jeremiah 22:3 Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place. Malachi 3:5-6 "I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers, and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty. Ezekiel 47:22 You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners who reside among you and have begotten children among you. They shall be to you as citizens of Israel; with you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel. Job 29:15-17 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger. I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made them drop their prey from their teeth. Matthew 25:35 I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me."" So this guy actually took the time to find every single time the bible mentions the treatment of foreign citizens or aliens.... Annndd needless to say it does make people who consider themselves staunch Christians look a little bit like hypocrites when they seemingly cherry pick verses just like that to fit their own agendas when it's convenient...  and that is exactly why I have to keep myself completely separate from religion, unfortunately.... There is not a single excuse any one of you could give to justify what's posted above versus the current opinions on the subject.... it is simply impossible to actually live like a Christian the way the Bible tells you to and not be a complete hypocrite every time you turn around..  So once again that is exactly why I have to keep a great distance from it myself because I'll be damned if I'm going to have to abide by 2000 year old mostly bullshit rules that have absolutely dick all to do what our current situation is today, but is pretty much written in stone as far as what Christians are supposed to be doing and not supposed to be doing.  It kind of sucks, but it is what it is. I'm certainly not going to blatantly make myself out to be a hypocrite when I can carry whatever opinions I want to and not be a complete hypocrite by simply not following a 2000 year old book and a religion that actually refuses to grow and to update itself to anything even moderately close to modern times...  At the same time I am still intrinsically tied to everyone of you, so I'm pretty much a hypocrite by association, but that's okay because I sure as fuck won't be caught dead on the side of liberals or Democrats. So if I have to be a hypocrite by association then I'll wear that badge with pride.