I should point out that I never intended to dance on her grave or anything nor did I here, though I'll also say that a 92-year old dying of natural causes is not a tragedy and not something that demands immediate mourning from everyone. I mean go get a newspaper and look in the obituaries section, and you'll find multiple recently deceased people far more worthy of mourning and less destructive than she was.
I know you're branch of Christianity isn't exactly mainstream BRTD, but you do know that's the expected response for most Christians right?
Well how many did so? I mean all the stories we heard of crowds cheering and all that when the news of his death was broken shows that. Not that that's an excuse or anything, though I think the evidence is pretty clear bin Laden didn't engage in any regret or repentance, (remaining in hiding in the compound instead of turning himself in is the proof of this.) Not my place to judge of course, but I don't see a reason to not use common sense here. Anyway I'll note that I wasn't much of a Christian then anyway, that happened a couple months later. And I always thought
this song sums me up pretty well. (lyrics in the description) I don't think I've ever exactly hid my anger or lack of empathy for those who are so wrong, see any recent posts I've made about supporters of communist parties and movements.
BRTD's version of "Christianity" is essentially mainstream liberal consumerism with pictures of Jesus added to your Instagram, so it's not really surprising that he wouldn't take Christian doctrine about forgiveness and human dignity (among other things) especially seriously when those come into conflict with signaling that he's a member of the "all liberal, all the time" crowd.
OK first I find it pretty hilarious that this accusation comes after some people (not you admittedly) have been saying for years that I'm actually in a stealth fundamentalist cult and am so close to becoming a hardline socon.
Second, the "mainstream" part alone is quite amusing since that's a dirty word to most such people, as well as "consumerism" since I've actually heard several sermons about the perils of that.
Thirdly, I think you should keep in mind there's more than whatever aspects I talk about. I have reposted what some other people have said on Facebook and AAD and I know a lot of it just boils down to *liberal talking point liberal talking point liberal talking point plus "I love Jesus!"* (I think Alcon once described it as "Praise Jesus and oh by the way I am liberal") but even then I'm only highlighting part of it. As a general rule, nothing posted in "BRTD Issues" (and I'm willing to say that applies to what other people say too such as tweed and Snowstalker) is entirely serious. I know a lot of people didn't like it (understandably) when I referred to one of the pastors as "hot pastor" but she's CLEARLY someone who's very Christ-filled and that isn't diminished by her listening to NPR while picking up her indie coffee shop drinks while commuting to her day job. Meeting stereotypical liberal parameters like that does not diminish how her heart reflects the love of Christ.
And finally, I've admitted the "all liberal all the time" talk is hyperbolic before (if it wasn't I also wouldn't be mocking how downright stupid so many liberal arts college students are today with their pronoun specifying and ranting about the horrors of white people having dreadlocks or doing yoga like I've vocally done) and obviously wouldn't be true about my brand of Christianity where most people are clearly not fond of abortion, though usually taking the same position as
Rachel Held Evans here.
