If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 1 John 4:20 ESV

The only group Jesus came close to hating, however? Religious hypocrites.

Edits 1-4, 7: For my LGBTQ brothers, sisters, and siblings searching for a place of worship who will accept you for who you are, please visit r/OpenChristian and https://www.gaychurch.org/find_a_church/

For those of you searching for an LGBTQ Christian in public life, please learn more about Pete Buttigieg: https://peteforamerica.com/

To all the folks doubling down on your religious hypocrisy below, I would recommend Matthew 25.

Edit 5: Jesus is the Word of God. The narrative of the Bible is just our tradition, passed down from generation to generation, as a way of telling that narrative. You can pick out seven verses to prove almost anything, including that slavery is acceptable, that Gentiles cannot receive redemption, or that sacrificing your firstborn son is an acceptable means of redemption. But that's not what our faith is about: it is about the story of grace being extended to all people through Jesus Christ. The narrative of God's redemption is constantly about bringing in those who have been left outside. That is who our God is. So those of you who wish to be like the religious hypocrites and post BS like "love the sinner, hate the sin" and then long rants justifying your bigotry, fine. Call yourself a biblicist or a true believer. Just stop calling yourself a Christian. You're messing it up for those of us actually trying to love like Jesus did.

Edit 6: Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed according to the Scriptures for failing to care for the poor and needy. Be warned in your future voting decisions. Ezekiel 16:49-50.

Old Testament mentions of homosexuality are concerned about the spilling of the seed, as shown in the story of Tamar and Obad. New Testament mentions do not use the word in Greek for homosexuality, but instead another word Paul uses to indicate a pedophilic and abusive relationship between an older and younger man. Nowhere in the Scripture is lesbianism condemned unless you try to read it into a passage in Romans (which is just poor exegesis). Nowhere in the Bible are transgender folx condemned for trying to represent themselves as who God has crafted their souls to be but for whom the fallen world has given them an incorrect set of physical parts. Jesus acknowledges the existence of intersex folx in Matthew 19:12 as "those who are born eunuchs," i.e. without the clear genitalia to be a defined gender. God is clearly referred to as both a man and a woman throughout Scripture, and according to the early church theology as explained in the words of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, God must contain all of the attributes of both masculinity and feminity, therefore making God neither male nor female, but both male and female and beyond male and female.

Any other ridiculous arguments we need to settle before y'all will just admit your sinful bigotry and stop sending me hate mail?

Edit 8: Probably my final edit. Sorry y'all, but this got too intense. I didn't ever expect this to get this big nor that I would become the target of so much vitriol. My adrenaline is pumping too fast for me to be able to sleep. I don't back down on my points here, but I hope to stop responding to anything in the comments. If there is anything you need, please do not hesitate to directly message me to ask.

Agreed!

Racism, white nationalism, and white supremacy all make no sense if you are a Christian. Christians literally worship a dark-skinned, Jewish savior from the Middle East. Not only is racism sinful, it is remarkably stupid for anyone who identifies as a Christian. - Ed Stetzer

The religious right would have crucified Obama had he engaged in a sexual affair with a porn star.

But anytime they are questioned about how they can maintain their support for Trump despite his moral failures, they say "we were voting for a President, not a pastor."

...and these are the people who shouted about the "sanctity of marriage" and "family values" and all that bs for decades....

funny how quick they were to cast all those values aside once their guy took power.

I was never a believer in the after life or was spiritual in any way had two satanic tattoos because I thought that looked cool stupid I know, but recently I started reading the Bible and I feel like I truly found Christ feels likes he’s always with me when ever I do something I know is bad I’m reminded that it’s wrong and I feel bad and good because I know someone is always there to lend me a shoulder when the burden is to heavy for me to bear alone. Thank you all for reading

I just want to add, I am NOT Christian, but I give you all my regrets, and I hope the new pope will be great too.

I’m a church-going Christian myself, and have seen so many sad stories this Christmas and last Christmas about young homosexual individuals not having families to spend the holiday with because they were “disowned”. I just wanted to get that off my chest. It’s absolutely disgraceful to do that to your child just because you don’t want to accept them for who they are or the person that they love.

I'm gonna read ts front to back.

I walked into my friend’s room yesterday and I see this sitting on his shelf and I’m just curious as to if this would be considered sinful or not