How is an elf like a scorpion?

Absolutely. Eggs are the perfect food. As Beyonce said “If you liked it you should have put an egg on it.”

I think this is pretty right in spirit. I think he did have love for the institutions of his time but did disagree with them and with the religious leaders of the time. If they could have comes to their senses he would welcome them too.

I’m very sorry about what happened to your parents and in turn the effects these schools had on you and your family. From everything I’ve heard the Canadian government has treated the indigenous people terribly.

Nothing in Jesus’s teachings or the New Testament says “Running torture centers is what you should do”.

There are a lot of bad people who want to claim what they’re doing is what God told them to do because it makes it easier to get away with or easier for them to stomach themselves.

Yeah, I suppose I should have clarified the Christian collection plate, but I didn’t think that was necessary because OP asked what we think Jesus would think about tithing.

Yeah, there are definitely bad people out there trying to take advantage of Christians and make money off them. I think that’s exactly what Jesus was mad about. If Jesus was born today he would probably be chasing televangelist’s phone operators away from their desks with a whip and flipping computer desks of the people trying to scam Christian grandmas.

Like any other organization if you look hard enough and if it’s what you’re looking for then you can see people doing bad things but I do not think organized Christian religion is bad as a whole.

No he did not invent tithing. Sorry if it seems that’s what I suggested. There are a few things the church does in the Old Testament that Christians specifically do NOT do so imo it’s important to point out where in Jesus’s teachings these practices are reaffirmed.

Christian religions follow the teachings of Jesus so if Jesus had said something contrary to the idea of tithing it is worth noting. Likewise if he had done something to reaffirm it then that is worth noting.

They had turned the church into a marketplace. So if you’re in it just for the money then yeah you’re a problem.

Jesus actually sent out the disciples to teach without any money and expected them to live on the generosity of the people they taught so that’s where the collection plate likely originates from.

“I used to fly into burning buildings all the time. Back then things burned hotter too. I get it. If you keep at it I’ll absolutely put in a good word for you when I’m done with this position. Until then just keep knocking it out of the park, ok?”

Likely because they were once upbeat and positive people too and it didn’t get them what they want so they have changed their ways to be less positive.

So anybody who is still positive, in their experience, hasn’t learned yet that that isn’t going to get them what they want.

It might be a defense mechanism. They were taken advantage of when they were more open and positive.

It might just be bad learned behavior. The people who have what they want aren’t very positive to them.

It is also not easy to stay positive so a lot of people choose not to. Sometimes we like to make excuses for why people are able to do the harder things that we’re not doing. “Oh I would volunteer too if I had as much time as them.”. “Oh I am just not naive enough to be that positive”

Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water. Nobody has ever liked everything about the US. Not even George Washington. If you can’t appreciate the good about the country just because you’re paying attention to the bad currently then you should have never celebrated it in the first place because the bad was always there.

The things you dont like about America don’t have to be your complete view of the country or its history. If there is even a small thing you have ever liked about the country then the 4th is for celebrating that.

Celebrate our victories. Celebrate our culture and our successes. Celebrate how mad people are going to be at you for celebrating. Celebrate that there are like-minded people elsewhere in the country. Real Americans in hard times and with doubts. Celebrate our history and our positive contributions to the rest of the world.

Celebrate a possible and hopeful future of what comes after.

Isn’t this what HP Lovecraft wrote about?