I've been meaning to make this post for months now but could never get around to it as its hard to put into words. Seeing as how I'm currently dealing with what is likely food poisoning, I might as well do it now.
The first thread I made on the forums on my return was titled Dealing with Anger; which involved me discussing my issues with anger in response to other people's often disrespectful opinions.
http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/sh...ing-with-Anger
Since I've made that thread, this country has certainly gone for the worse. The SC ruling, churches being vandalized, death threats, lives ruined, job terminations, arrests, and a government that has gone further and further in its persecution of those who don't embrace sin. If Christianity was united in opposition to this it wouldn't make me too upset, but even some groups of Christians are giving in to a mindset hostile to the Gospel, and are devolving into wishy-washy vapid welfare orgs with no spiritual maturity. The PCUSA, the Episcopal church, even the church of my childhood, ELCA, has caved on issues such as SSM and sexual immorality, abortion, euthanasia, universalism, subjectivism and other issues.
Not only this, but you can't throw a rock without hitting a major corporation that has it out for orthodox Christianity. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Target, Walmart, Honey Maid, Blizzard Entertainment, Riot Games and what seems like a thousand others. Doritos has fully embraced the anti-Christian Dan Savage, of which quotations of his hatred is endless. Aren't businesses supposed to avoid open commentary on contentious issues!?
After the SC ruling, my Facebook page(another one of those companies) was covered with rainbow pictures, gloating and nastiness. Two of which are my own sister and niece! They say words like "love wins" and "equality for all" but all I read is "I hate you, Christian. Why don't you go crawl in a ditch and die?"
The whole situation has made me quite cynical in the matters of men, patriotism is effectively gone entirely. My own Irish heritage feels like it was ripped from me after the overwhelming vote for SSM in Ireland a few months ago. Same with German....
So what should I do? What should we ALL do? Should I stop using my gmail account? Refrain from eating Burger King? Take money out of these banks? What should we do when it seems like we are forced to do business with people who hate us and everything we believe?
The first thread I made on the forums on my return was titled Dealing with Anger; which involved me discussing my issues with anger in response to other people's often disrespectful opinions.
http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/sh...ing-with-Anger
Since I've made that thread, this country has certainly gone for the worse. The SC ruling, churches being vandalized, death threats, lives ruined, job terminations, arrests, and a government that has gone further and further in its persecution of those who don't embrace sin. If Christianity was united in opposition to this it wouldn't make me too upset, but even some groups of Christians are giving in to a mindset hostile to the Gospel, and are devolving into wishy-washy vapid welfare orgs with no spiritual maturity. The PCUSA, the Episcopal church, even the church of my childhood, ELCA, has caved on issues such as SSM and sexual immorality, abortion, euthanasia, universalism, subjectivism and other issues.
Not only this, but you can't throw a rock without hitting a major corporation that has it out for orthodox Christianity. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Target, Walmart, Honey Maid, Blizzard Entertainment, Riot Games and what seems like a thousand others. Doritos has fully embraced the anti-Christian Dan Savage, of which quotations of his hatred is endless. Aren't businesses supposed to avoid open commentary on contentious issues!?
After the SC ruling, my Facebook page(another one of those companies) was covered with rainbow pictures, gloating and nastiness. Two of which are my own sister and niece! They say words like "love wins" and "equality for all" but all I read is "I hate you, Christian. Why don't you go crawl in a ditch and die?"
The whole situation has made me quite cynical in the matters of men, patriotism is effectively gone entirely. My own Irish heritage feels like it was ripped from me after the overwhelming vote for SSM in Ireland a few months ago. Same with German....
So what should I do? What should we ALL do? Should I stop using my gmail account? Refrain from eating Burger King? Take money out of these banks? What should we do when it seems like we are forced to do business with people who hate us and everything we believe?
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