This is a threat. Look at what they called it in the article, a loving warning to change your ways … just as burning a cross was a threat, not simply a loving request you leave town. The thing that gets me is no one cares if these people want to have their belief and their opinion, no one cares that they refuse to admit modern science says people are born LGBTQIA as long as they don’t act on it. They have a right to their beliefs, they do not have a right to force others to believe what they do. Yet this is what they constantly do, and are doing here. They have their churches, put these at their churches and pray over them. But that is not threatening enough, not enough to force others to live by their church doctrines and beliefs. I am tired of these people and sick of their faith, and beginning to despise their god. Their god is a hateful vengeful mean bully. He is tRump. Love me or else I hurt you. Hugs. Scottie
The Christian Post reports:
Last year, on February 28, 2023, a concrete replica of a millstone was left in front of the CRU Wine Bar and Coffee Shop on Turner Street in Beaufort, NC. Not just any millstone, but cast into its face was the Scripture reference Luke 17:2 and it’s inner and outer rims were painted in rainbow colors.
CRU Wine Bar and Coffee Shop had been sponsoring a “Youth Queer Night,” and openly admitted as such in the midst of the incident. But right out of the leftist playbook, they immediately shifted over to victim status, pleading the millstone was a threat to them and the LGBTQ community.
Far from being a threat to the LGBTQ community, the Rainbow Stone is actually a loving warning that, like everyone else, they need to repent of sin, receive the work of Jesus on the Cross, and be saved from a certain fiery judgment.
Read the full article. Luke 17:2 calls for drowning people who endanger children by tying a millstone around their neck. The owners of the bar say they considered the millstone to be a death threat.
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It is a threat.
It’s like burning a cross on someone’s lawn.
Correction…a loving warming
Yep. Absolutely no different then this and not that long ago they were doing the same to the black community.
But it’s a loving threat, you see.
If that’s “love”, I can’t imagine what hate would be like.
And if you don’t love him back his dad will torture you for eternity
Westbrook Baptist Church to protest school that Nex Benedict attended.
I’m going to go to the counter protest. Will document their Christian “love”.
Just don’t engage them. The family is full of lawyers whose sole purpose seems to be to find ways to sue people who react to them.
Take heed that you may be tempted to embrace the errors of this age that could be fatal to your faith!
Sounds cheery. Sign me up.
Gideon’s Goat Herder’s Guide.. the GGG.. I like the alliteration
Their first mistake is assuming that those people who go there are Christian. Can you imagine the outcry if a different religious group did something similar to a church?
This is a death threat and a federal hate crime.
Death threats are still illegal even when wrapped up in your favorite Bible verse.
I have to wonder, though, if they’ll let them off because “religious freedom” and “good book.”
“You’re oppressing my religious freedom, because you won’t let me control other people’s lives!”
Well it’s only threatening the queers and that’s all cool, right ?
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of course it is a threat. all of these Bible thumpers seriously need to actually practice what Jesus said or truthfully admit they are cultists who use hatred and fear as weapons in the name of god. They are the reason I am NOT Christian.
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Hello Suze. Thank you very much for giving me time to respond. Friday hurt me / took more out of me than I expressed and I have not been able to function well since. While not able to sleep due to pain yet being too tired to do anything or think clearly. Ron has been very careful to make sure I eat some and rest as much as possible.
Yes it is a threat and you are correct. But if you call them out on it they claim you are denying them their religious freedom, that by denying them the right to persecute those they hate you are oppressing them.
Suze I know this was not something you wished me to answer, but your last line bothered me in that not all people who use the label Christian act like the fundamentalist haters. My life was saved at 17 yrs old due to a very religious SDA man who took me from my very abuse home and sent me to a church boarding school. He paid the entire costs and I never repaid him. He did want to pay for me to go on to be a Pastor in his faith and was willing to pay the costs, but I knew being gay was a deal killer and so turned down the offer. He still never asked for repayment of the entire summer and year of schooling. I have a feeling that it was very costly, it was a private boarding school, everything was charged including food, room … everything. But I think it saved my life. I had suffered a very bad beating when he did this.
In our community are many very accepting and progressive Christians. Ali is one and so is Roger. I often post Rev Ed Trevors who is wonderfully progressive and accepting. I know I often attack Fundamentalist Christians for their bigotry and hatred. They cause fear and terror, and yes what they do hurts me and those like me. Yet I have to remember not all people who claim to be or wear the label Christian are the same.
Sorry for adding so much to a reply but I just felt I needed to say this. Maybe not for you, but for others reading along who wonder why an atheist openly gay man in a 34 year same sex relationship / marriage would post positively about some Christians and so very negatively about others. Thank you. Hugs. Scottie
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honey, I get it..I have a Degree in Christian education and went through seminary. I lost my “faith” there. I am affiliated with Bahai’i now.
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Hello Suze. Sorry your reply got lost in an old folder. I just want to say I am sorry if I came off as a know it all, I really am not. Your education on religion is far greater than mine. I just feel such gratitude to the man / his family that paid for me to get out of a horrible situation that I often feel the need to defend “good Christians” Hugs. Scottie
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gotcha. no worrying EVER about how you answer me. I adore you, respect the absolute HELL out of you and am always glad to read any response from you.
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