Theft or civil disobedience? • Kentucky Lantern
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Kentucky church urges members to permanently remove some books from a local public library because they are about LGBTQ+ people.

A local church is urging its members to permanently remove books from the Shelby County Public Library by checking them out and never returning them. The books portray gay characters and historical figures or explore LGBTQ+ themes.

Pamela Wilson Federspiel, who has been director of the library in downtown Shelbyville for 34 years, says the action is tantamount to “stealing.”

But three leaders of the Reformation Church of Shelbyville defend what they call an “act of civil disobedience.”

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 days ago

      They need to change the name of the “no true Scotsman” fallacy to “no true Christian” as it makes a lot more sense these days…

          • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works
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            4 days ago

            Again. I don’t care that you had a wacko creationist church when you were a kid. That’s not what most Christians believe

            Source: Was also raised Christian and so were most people in Western Countries

              • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works
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                3 days ago
                1. I’m not a Christian, but thanks for revealing your bigotry against Christians.
                2. The slavery being condoned was an Old Testament thing, Jesus said those rules didn’t matter anymore
                • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                  2 days ago

                  Lol bigotry. Ok.

                  Jesus DID NOT say that. He said the exact opposite of that.

                  https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+5%3A17-20&version=ESV

                  17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

                  Sounds like that includes slavery (as long as you don’t beat them to death!).

                  And all Jesus had to do was say, “hey guys, maybe don’t do that” once. And yet…

                  • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works
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                    2 days ago

                    Okay Edgelord, look It doesn’t really matter because there’s no denomination of Christianity today that condones slavery.

                    Edit: By Fulfilling the law, Jesus means that his sacrifice of himself has paid the debt mankind owed to the levitical law, so in a sense is was abolished. Basically, you don’t need to pay the price of breaking levitical laws anymore, because Jesus already did that