Should it be considered a hate crime to belong to a Christian Church in the United States punishable under the
law with prison sentences etc?
Now consider this. What is hate?1. to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
2. to be unwilling; dislike: I hate to do it.
–verb (used without object) 3. to feel intense dislike, or extreme aversion or hostility.
–noun 4. intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility.
5. the object of extreme aversion or hostility.
Christian churches tell their parishoners about themselves and others, that if you don't swear and know that Jesus is the Only Begotten Son of God, then you go to some eternal damnation whether you were a nice and good person or not!
Folks, we are talking infinite torture here by their definition. They claim that if you don't do what they tell you to, you will be separated from God forever! What more hate could there be? Who could be taught to wish you more abandonment/hate than that?
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Under the left's PC-thought control, just speaking ones mind will become a hate crime if more Democrats are elected...the 1st Amendment be damned. This is a fact to be concerned about. Not the silliness posed by your question.
You misunderstand the concept of hate crimes (which are badly named, leading to this confusion).
Hate crimes are a sentence enhancement on some OTHER crime because the other crimes was committed with a particular mental state.
The reason hate crimes are considered worse is a function of the mental state involved. Just like intentional murder can be treated as more severe than reckless homicide (manslaughter) or negligent homicide. The more culpable mental state allows for a greater punishment, even though the physical act and result (death of a person) is the same.
Similarly, where a crime is committed based on racial or gender or religious or other prejudice (thus being a hate-motivated crime), the mental state is not merely a desire to harm one person. It's a desire to harm or destroy everyone who exhibits a certain trait. The victim at the time just happens to be one of many who exhibit that trait. Thus, the the victim was attacked not for anything unique to that individual (as in most other crimes) but because the victim was a representative of some larger group.
very pathetic stretch.
even if you were to convince people that the basis of Christian belief is hate, you still haven't explained the crime part of "hate crime".
You can be the nicest person in the world, but you are still a sinner, and G-D did not send his son for you to ignore, his son died for your sins, he took your place on the cross so you would not have to pay the price, he was the perfect sacrifice a sinless lamb to the slaughter. If you do not want to accept him as your savior that is up to you. Then you will stand before G-D on judgment day and pay for your own sins. Your analogy is ridiculous, G-D's redemption is free and he wants everyone to be saved.
Hate crimes are stupid. That's like punishing someone for not liking you.
But anyway, while, we're at it, why not do the same thing to the Muslims? They claim that all non-Muslims will suffer eternal damnation as well. In fact, they even encourage killing the "infidel."
And what about the atheists? They claim that humans are worthless occurrences of chance that have no purpose, no meaning, no soul. To them, we're all just a bunch of animals. Wouldn't you call that a hate crime?
People need to stop picking on Christianity and look at themselves.
WOW! You are confused. I don't even know where to begin. First of all, a hate crime would be, for instance, a violent crime taken against someone because of their race, belief, sex, etc. If you murdered a Christian because they were a Christian, it would be a hate crime.
Christians do not hate others. Correction, TRUE Christians do not hate others. True Christians know they are not the one to judge others for their beliefs. As a Christian, I do have a hard time with the realization that good people may go to hell, and someone like Jeffrey Dahmer, who found Christ in prison, will go to Heaven. But I am not the judge. When the price of admission to Heaven has already been paid, all you have to do is take the ticket.
TRUE Christians do not pray for the lost to be tortured in Hell. We pray for the lost to find the truth. God is the one who warned us that if we refuse him, we will be refused in Heaven.
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