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    I'm very scared, very lonely, please help.

    You're not alone. I'm praying for you. So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." ~ Isaiah 41:10
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    Parallels with the Nazi-era Christian church

    Upvoted. You misread me. I wholeheartedly agree with you.
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    Parallels with the Nazi-era Christian church

    The west is redeemed by freedoms which allow people of conscience to speak against its crimes.The Christian church is meant to be a light to the nations. We are wedded to power however. It feels like the minority have any concern for oppression and tyranny. The Christian church has the power to...
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    Parallels with the Nazi-era Christian church

    Wow. The Barmen Declaration needs to be revived. The genocide of the Native Americans Slavery and Jim Crow The Iraq War The Vietnam War The Korean War The Yemen War Latin American regime change African regime change The major difference is intent. The Nazis expressed their intentions far more...
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    Parallels with the Nazi-era Christian church

    Thank you, yes they need to be celebrated. Sadly most of Germany was Christian, and most welcomed the antisemitic rhetoric because it was placed in an apparently Christian-affirming context. Bonhoeffer Niemoller, and the Confessing church were instrumental in the domestic fight against...
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    Parallels with the Nazi-era Christian church

    Consider that the Christian church in the Nazi era did and said nothing when confronted with the horrors of the holocaust and the eugenics movement. The Swastika was displayed side by side with the cross. Today's church displays the emblems of Western government side by side with the cross...
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    What Christian Music do you Listen to?

    Page CXVI have some remarkable reinventions of older hymns. Exquisite surprises at every turn. Rock of Ages All Things New
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    Biblical and other support for those Hurting badly!

    Maybe this ventures too much, but I think that God wants to make our lives here, now a sort of heaven. I don't mean that we won't suffer. Christ doesn't promise a rose garden, what we are enduring now is perhaps something like the interval between engagement and the wedding ceremony. There is...
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    Biblical and other support for those Hurting badly!

    1 Peter 1:8 "Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls".
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    How's your 30 something going?

    I'm 30 too, and I'm also still learning and discovering so much. I've learned more in the last year than I did throughout my 20s. The lockdown is partly responsible. It has removed a great deal of distraction. I also moved out of the city so I feel really unfettered. I feel God calling me toward...