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All right. I really like religious studies, I'm a Christian, although it goes much, much deeper than that. I'm gonna need a reason from Christ himself justifying your beliefs.
Now, regardless of nothing of the sort being mentioned by the Christ, why would you, a self-proclaimed proponent of loving everyone (Christian), insist on using rhetoric that you surely know is insulting and degrading to a group of people? Was it not Christ that said, if you see your brother stumble, first go to him? Then his family? It seems, in your haste judgments you've skipped some steps.
Lastly, this is why the western church is dying. Apostle Paul warned of things not in the Gospel dividing the Church. As such, you have not heeded his words. Christians casting harsh judgments, with condescension and arrogance is precisely why people hate us. And they are right to. You would be well to learn, and praise in it. You are a Christian, start acting like it.
Please see the Christian Existentialist philosophy I write and preach in Austin (link in profile). In the true Kierkegaardian sense, we must find God's reflection in outer reality, meditate on it within our Will (or Dasein if you prefer Heidegger), and then reflect it out back into the world as decisive action. That is how we give up the original sin of free will and perform God's Will. Also God's direct commands let us suspend the ethical, even his commandments, to perform what must be done. This is shown in the story of Abraham and Isaac, and proved out to be true by Kierkegaard in his masterwork Fear and Trembling. Most Christian Existentialists agree that there is direct evidence that God intended for homosexuality to be fine, but not transgenderism as it is not reflected by science in any human genetics.
No wonder the US is such a shitstain if you are a moderate, democratic voter. All this religious bullshit is what is the undoing of what Americans perceive as freedom and democracy. There is no god, there is no Jesus. Christianity is the root of all evil, greed, jealousy, gluteny, war, millions and millions of deaths. It was an concept taken up by Constantine and later Charlemagne to control the peasant population and enforce as law by force and violence. Just like the current US regime is trying to do with fucking prayer at the Pentagon and claiming death to Islam. People like you are delusional.
That is another thing that Christians are good at: empathy, caring and understanding. Oh and buying into all the propanda that is being spoon fed to you by the selected sources in your bubble. Just like religion: never let a bad story get in the way of the truth.
BTW ask any average European about nietzsche or sartre and you'll get a blank stare. At least we are taught about this in school, unlike the US where anything that might challenge the status quo is being banned (books) and bibles and commandments are taken precedent. At least we were never taught any religious beliefs because Europe takes separation between church and state seriously.