A memo to the department’s Office for Civil Rights reveals that the agency will allow “only disability-based discrimination” cases to proceed. Thousands of outstanding complaints will continue to sit idle.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    22 hours ago

    They most certainly are Christians. Who are you to question their faith?

    I’ve said it before, they should make it “no true Christian” rather than “no true Scotsman,” as I’ve seen it used for that far more often.

    • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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      13 hours ago

      There are actual expectations of what you should believe as dictated by the texts some of which are very clear. If you are against clothing the naked, feeding the hungry, or tending to the sick you are overtly working against the path Jesus sets in the NT.

      Perhaps it is more accurate to say these people are falsely claiming their faith as the motivation for their bigotry.

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        10 hours ago

        Have you read the Old Testament? Because god’s behavior in the OT directly contradicts those messages of love you’re referring to.

        And let’s remember that Jesus said that he did not come to abolish the law, and that not a single word of it will be changed (or something like that), so none of that “hurr durr its the new covenant” bullshit.

        Not only that, but the NT also contradicts itself as it explicitly advocates for slavery. Which is wholly incompatible with “love thy neighbor”. So which do you listen to? Can’t be both… What reason do you have to ignore the one thing and fixate on the other? How difficult would it have been for Jesus to have, just once, explicitly condemn slavery? One of the most abhorrent things a person could do to another person, and it was happening all around him, and yet he couldn’t just say it was bad?

        This is why slavers in the US were able to use the Bible to justify the practice.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_slavery#New_Testament

        This is despicable shit, and nothing you say or do could ever convince me otherwise.

        • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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          7 hours ago

          Do you not get that what Jesus said in regards to naked, hungry, and sick people is in no way undone by what you claim (regardless of the degree of accuracy or lack thereof)?