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[–]JuliusCaesar225Nationalist + Socialist 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Free speech and individual rights are absolutely Christian values.

Historically illiterate statement

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Explain, go ahead.

[–]JuliusCaesar225Nationalist + Socialist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Are all the executions including burning people at the stake for heresy your idea of "free speech and individual rights". Such concepts arise with enlightenment and the loss of church influence.

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Wait, the cardinal rule of Christianity is: "Love your fellow man"... Where does burning people at the stake figure in that?

Maybe... JUST MAYBE the people in the Church and others CALLED themselves Christians without actually being thus? Incredible right? Unimaginable, I'll bet.

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I mean even in the Bible there are lots of counter examples, anything from Baal worshippers being genocided to insidious things like group of kids mocking a prophet for being bald and God sending two bears to maul them to death lol

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You mean the Old Testament. Not the Christian writings.