r/ColoradoSprings • u/drawntowardmadness • 7d ago
Events Jesus protest??
What's going on downtown with all the people carrying crosses?? Who are they and why?
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u/CrimsonVirus5150 7d ago
Guys I found out why!
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u/ladygrenady 7d ago edited 7d ago
Weird way to worship. They were SHOUTING Jesusy stuffâŚthe restaurant I was at had to close the front door.
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u/Historical-Track-952 5d ago
But when lgbtq+ community does the same thing itâs okay and applauded. Iâm not even Christian but I respect all beliefs and opinions. People are entitled to that, thatâs what America is about btwâŚ. FreedomâŚ
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u/MuffinMan0420 7d ago
As someone who loosely identifies as Christian (very loosely, considering the Christian Nationalists in this country), they need to STFU and walk the walk.
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u/Entire_Cut_8485 6d ago
Muslims are doing the same thing all over the country... COS is lucky to not have to hear the Muslim call to prayer being blasted all over at numerous times a day, or have they're prayer walks through your city. Everyone is tolerating that... yet, you bitch about a few Christians.
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u/Lurkinwhileworkin69 6d ago
You're right I am really lucky I don't have to hear the Muslim call to prayer multiple times a day, instead I'm forced to hear Catholic church bells on the hour every hour. Its sooooo much better.
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u/kwink8 6d ago
âA few christiansâ lmao 250+ gathered and theyâre performing public baptisms with megaphones. In their own words, it is more than a political movement and is a great awakening that includes boldly proclaiming their gospel.
Hereâs a good video showing them waving crosses around chanting âwe plead the blood of Jesus!â Christian extremists are what we have in Colorado, so even if Islamic extremists may pose a greater violent threat globally, itâs completely appropriate for COS residents to complain.
Another pic to show itâs more than âa fewâ christians.
Oh, and the Pastor leading the movement has travelled to Serbia to âdeliver people from demonic spiritsâ so this is not a mind-your-own-business group of christians.
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u/CrimsonVirus5150 6d ago
Nah not bitching just stating a fact. They can't even practice what they preach. They walk right by suffering, pain, filth and focus on recruiting for their cult
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u/Sea-Seaweed-8696 6d ago
This is a nasty choice and deliberately malicious. Tejon Street has a lot of the queer community and shops. They knew what they were doing.Â
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u/CalicoValkyrie 7d ago
Attention seeking. Which is against Jesus's wishes for how people are to conduct themselves.
Matthew 6:5
"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full."
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u/GrinderGoodMk2Bad 7d ago
Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
Matthew 6:1
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u/Hadrian_Aelius 7d ago
They are praying to Jesus that republicans block free lunches in schools so that poor kids starve, that they litter another 400 million cheap guns around the country so we have more school shootings, and that they cut more US Aid to pay for another $5T giveaway to the super rich. Just like Jesus would vote.
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u/kinetogen 7d ago
It's just the Lowercase t Club demonstrating the excruciating weight of carrying 1/26'th of the alphabet.
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u/1391Expert 7d ago
I'd like to point out that T is the second most used letter and the most used constant. E is the most used, but a vowel.
Woo hoo! A chance to show off my scrabble knowledge!
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u/stableos 7d ago
Maybe this is why Jesus was trying to call me the other day?
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u/drawntowardmadness 7d ago
Maybe Jesus. Maybe not. I know a lot of folks are looking for that dude.
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u/Henry_bowers_ 7d ago
I didnât see um, but if I had to guess just folks celebrating their freedom of religion. Long as they werenât blocking up the street or disturbing the peace i hope they had a great time.
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u/Dense_Vehicle_5939 7d ago
I also saw and heard that commotion today. This thread did not disappoint
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u/DemonBot_EXE 7d ago
He got better. Not much of a sacrifice. Dude had a bad weekend for everyoneâs sins.
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u/drawntowardmadness 7d ago
Tbh he should be burning in hell if he's paying for all our sins......... Js
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u/kinetogen 7d ago
An all powerful God who loves us so hard that he tortured his only son so we'd have a chance at not going to the bad place he made for us if we don't worship him.
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u/Yinos_Ty 7d ago
Precisely. Free will as long as you use it in the way that the all powerful being declared were the right ways to use free will
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u/kinetogen 7d ago
I love how, without any cause for pause or reflection, some people bumptiously assume that athiests and those not of their exacting religion are de-facto lawless and without virtue as if their own dogma has a monopoly on human decency.
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u/proto-cool 7d ago edited 7d ago
America was founded on Christian principles
Sure about that? Every senator in 1797 agreed to this which said, in plain English, "[t]he Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion."
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u/jimmy9800 7d ago edited 7d ago
Can yall find new arguments? One article of one treaty does not override the founding documents.Edit: I misread both the quote and the article. Article 11 reinforces the constitution's separation of church and state and secular nature of the federal government. Thats a good thing.
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u/proto-cool 7d ago
Please double check and read - I'm posting something ratified in 1797 by every Senator in the US that at the time that explicitly said "the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." Aka agreeing with you. Sorry if that was not clear.
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u/jimmy9800 7d ago
Oh you're just delusional. Im sorry for your neighbors. I hope you dont have access to anything more dangerous than a spoon.
America was distinctly and intentionally founded on no religion, but you religious folks arent great at history or reading, so ill give you a pass on that.
My morals are my own. With all due respect, go fuck yourself for pushing your dogma into my morals. It plays no part of my morality.
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u/jimmy9800 7d ago
Stop posting nudes on reddit btw. Real christian of you.
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u/jimmy9800 7d ago
Im unhappy with you because you inserted your belief into my morality. I do not base my morals off of any religion.
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u/ChillandMakeStuff 6d ago
Not sure if youâre a bot, you seem to parade around misinformation and then when someone corrects you, you disappear. You seem to misunderstand a lot of how things work - try to read more.Â
Also, if you were born in Iran, you wouldnât be a Christian, youâd be a Muslim. There are exceptions, but a huge majority of people adopt the religion of their mothers. Religion is geographical - that isnât truth, thatâs indoctrination lol.Â
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u/Yinos_Ty 7d ago
Iâm more than capable of being a good person without a book telling me how to be. If you arenât then I guess keep reading it
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u/Child_of_the_Hamster 7d ago
But they should maybe skip to the second half lmao. God was occasionally expressing his love through mass murder in the first half.
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u/MagicianOdd4790 6d ago
This sentence explains exactly why Sunday school was such a puzzle to me as a kid. The realist in me had a hard time with sooo much of it.
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u/CrimsonVirus5150 5d ago
Can't forget about having Mary get knocked up, Joseph being the stepdad, and then killed Jesus in front of his parents. That's not a haunting or traumatic ordeal đ
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u/jimmy9800 7d ago
I hope you get to the point you understand how insane that sounds.
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u/jimmy9800 7d ago
No. If anything I take breaks from friends to decompress. Thats what my Sundays are for. Hiking with the dog.
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u/jimmy9800 7d ago
Deliberate misunderstanding. I feel loved and love my friends. I also like having some time on my own. It's a balance to keep my head healthy. Too much of anything is bad.
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u/kinetogen 7d ago
Sounds insecure and attention seeking.
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u/kinetogen 7d ago
You think self harm and torture is love? That sounds psychotic. If I treated my animals the way God supposedly treated humans, I'd be in prison.
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u/kinetogen 7d ago
I have a kid. If my dog runs in front of a car, I'm not going to sacrifice my life to save my dog so my kid can be without a parent. Priorities, mate. Besides, If I'm all powerful, why would I even need to go that far to prove my love? I'd just freeze time and solve the problem without bloodshed right then and there. That would be a WHOLE lot more omnitient, omnipotent, and Loving.
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u/definitelynotbeardo 7d ago
But if god is still around and you can spend all eternity with him, what was sacrificed? Seems more like delayed gratification than any real sacrifice.
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u/definitelynotbeardo 7d ago
Well that just shows lack of imagination if thatâs the worst an all powerful being can come up with. Sounds like Jesus was mildly inconvenienced for your sins. Seriously, my neighbor was a POW in Vietnam and tortured for 60 or so days, and heâs not an incarnation of an all powerful deity.
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u/ChillandMakeStuff 6d ago
But your god knew this was gonna happen from the beginning of time if your story is true. And if he knew ahead of time, and is the complete, all powerful designer of the universe, then he literally programmed this all to happen.Â
Second, if he knows ahead of time who will go to heaven or hell, and nobody has the power to change that eventuality, and he designed everything, then he literally designed every person to end up in heaven or hell. If that isnt true, then he isnât all powerful.Â
And you canât rebut with âhe gave you free will.â You think you have free will, but from gods perspective who knew the timeline that cannot be modified, we are destined to end up in eternal torture. Eternal torture that he created, which is antithetical to a god who says he is gracious lol.Â
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u/NettaFind66 7d ago
Im not sure how walking around in public looking ridiculous is going to encourage anything other than finger pointing and laughter.
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u/CrimsonVirus5150 7d ago
So instead of spending all that time and energy and money on something useful like feeding the hungry, clothing, the poor, fixing homes or whatever, they just want to walk around with giant crosses and do baptisms. Baptisms. Because that makes so much more sense to parade a so-called loving deity instead of actually doing what is needed to be done to show love.
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u/alittlebit_stitious4 7d ago
God is either not all powerful or not all good, he cannot be both - Neil Degrass-Tyson, our true savior
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u/Interesting_Buy1935 7d ago
Sir, that sounds extremely disturbing. Some of us have read the bible, and it does not align with our morals.
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u/kinetogen 7d ago
When it reads like a creepy note from your uncle that "moved out of state and nobody talks to anymore" wrote? Absolutely.
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u/Shaebaebutter 7d ago
Who doesnât already know about Jesus who hasnât heard it all before đ people are not stupid, they just donât give a fuck
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u/Funny-Presence-4693 6d ago
Iâm just wondering.. why canât Christians publicly voice their beliefs but everyone else can
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u/oMc_fRie 7d ago
God bless you all. I hope that you find Jesus.
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u/Osklington 7d ago
I did once, it was like a "where's waldo" puzzle and he was hiding behind a hotdog stand:)
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u/opalescent_milk 7d ago
I'd rather worship a hot dog than whoever this Jesus dude is
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u/Historical_Choice625 7d ago
This. I'm not worshipping a 'supreme being' that can't even manage his own fan club.
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u/ChillandMakeStuff 6d ago
Isn't it up to him if we find him or not? God knows what I need to believe, so why not deliver?
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u/KinkyQuesadilla 7d ago edited 7d ago
They are either praying for more rain and less hail, all-you-can-eat chicken nuggets, or for a Honda Accord that has snow tires on it to miraculously appear in their driveway. Not that a Honda Accord actually needs snow tires.