22 days ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
Because this rhetorical point by Christians is a blatant falsehood.
The famous millstone verse isn't prescriptive. He doesn't say "go drown pedophiles." He says "it would be better for a pedophile if he'd been drowned than allowed to carry out his evil deeds in the first place."
He's talking about eternal punishment, not earthly exhortation, as is the case in many instances. It's similar to when he says it would be better if Judas had never been born. Retroactive and reflective. If you applied the same logic here that OP tries to use on the millstone verse, then Jesus should have killed Judas personally and justified it after the fact.
This is true of every vintage conception of "Christian violence." It's all future-facing, hypothetical, and meted out by God himself as a matter of divine judgement after death. You're spit on, humiliated, and utterly bested in this life, but God rewards you with heaven for enduring and burns your enemies forever. The original Two More Weeks.
This didn't change at all until Just War theory in the 4th century. And even then, violence only became permitted within a very narrow set of parameters (particularly that only the state could authorize it.) The reason being that they were trying very hard to not look like they were completely undermining the entire pacifism-inclined history and theology of the church up to that point.
There are two types of Christians in the modern era:
1. Worships kikes and niggers. You know habitat for humanity? They are part of the problem, giving gibs, land, and houses to niggers.
2. Does not worship kikes and niggers, but are very gloomy and bitter individuals due to the degeneracy of the world weighing down on them, so they will lash out at anything fun for being "Muh degeneracy".
Neither type of Christian is very fun to be around.
THAT BEING SAID: Christianity is the least bad religion on this earth.
Islam is a religion of conquest.
judiasm views outsiders as slaves.
Paganism is no longer a religion due to being too small.
Asian religions are incoherent.
All other religions are just shitskin nonsense.
Plus, Christians DID invent everything, so, you know.
Even pedo shitskin MAPhommed was able to raise a fanatical army against his foes, so it cannot be that hard.
The famous millstone verse isn't prescriptive. He doesn't say "go drown pedophiles." He says "it would be better for a pedophile if he'd been drowned than allowed to carry out his evil deeds in the first place."
He's talking about eternal punishment, not earthly exhortation, as is the case in many instances. It's similar to when he says it would be better if Judas had never been born. Retroactive and reflective. If you applied the same logic here that OP tries to use on the millstone verse, then Jesus should have killed Judas personally and justified it after the fact.
This is true of every vintage conception of "Christian violence." It's all future-facing, hypothetical, and meted out by God himself as a matter of divine judgement after death. You're spit on, humiliated, and utterly bested in this life, but God rewards you with heaven for enduring and burns your enemies forever. The original Two More Weeks.
This didn't change at all until Just War theory in the 4th century. And even then, violence only became permitted within a very narrow set of parameters (particularly that only the state could authorize it.) The reason being that they were trying very hard to not look like they were completely undermining the entire pacifism-inclined history and theology of the church up to that point.
There are two types of Christians in the modern era:
1. Worships kikes and niggers. You know habitat for humanity? They are part of the problem, giving gibs, land, and houses to niggers.
2. Does not worship kikes and niggers, but are very gloomy and bitter individuals due to the degeneracy of the world weighing down on them, so they will lash out at anything fun for being "Muh degeneracy".
Neither type of Christian is very fun to be around.
THAT BEING SAID: Christianity is the least bad religion on this earth.
Islam is a religion of conquest.
judiasm views outsiders as slaves.
Paganism is no longer a religion due to being too small.
Asian religions are incoherent.
All other religions are just shitskin nonsense.
Plus, Christians DID invent everything, so, you know.