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Do you think a community like r/TrueChristian or r/AskAChristian would be welcome on lemmy.world?

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  • I was saying the hypothetical quote would be fine. I wasn't applying that to myself.

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  • By "I'm a scholar," I mean I have an MA and 12 years of experience studying the historical contexts and literary history of the textual witnesses, and the history of conversation on cosmology and it's influence on the history of interpretation. I know just enough to know I know very little, which is why you'll never, ever hear me say something as ridiculous as "The Bible Teaches

    <insert dogmatic statement>

    ." Overconfidence in one's own interpretation without all context (which none of us have) is a red flag in ANY field, let alone one so close to our limbic needs.

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  • I'm a Bible scholar. "What the Bible teaches" eludes most Christians. "What I think the Bible teaches based on my own historical-traditional interpretation" is fine. "How I approach the Bible, taking all known context into consideration" is even better. Whenever someone says, "the Bible teaches," it's a major red flag to me.

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  • Great answer!

    hateful = considered hateful by the immediate society. The speaker doesn't have to agree that it's hateful.

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  • Society.

    Age, race, national identity, sexual orientation, gender identity, religious identity, etc.

    These are all equally protected classes on the society of this instance, and tolerance is a social contract that says "I agree to tolerate your class." If one can't tolerate the fact someone is a christian, or gay, or first nations, they break the tolerance contract and will not likely be tolerated in turn.

    Tolerance doesn't mean agreement. It means leaving it alone.

    If you can't leave it alone, please feel welcome to migrate to a social instance that doesn't protect it.

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  • It's not that complicated. If someone is in a protected class based on something you disagree with, keep it to yourself. If you're compelled by religious conscience to pull someone out of a protected class, this isn't the place for you.

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  • Religion is as much a protected class as sexual orientation. So long as they abide by the community rules, which includes the social contract of tolerance, then they'll be just as tolerated.

    • Are there any Reddit refugees spending more time on Lemmy than Reddit?

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  • I'm currently enjoying Lemmy through Jerboa on Android!

    EDIT: I'm now also using WefWef, which is virtually indistinguishable from Apollo. I've never used Apollo though so I'm getting still getting used to it, but I like it!

    I can't seem to find a way to edit comments on it, though... So I here am back on Jerboa 😅