My dear friends, my own experience has been harsh in dealing with my brother that came out of the closet a couple years ago. He has threatened to remove himself from the family if I send him any information that might convict him of his sin. My own parents that claim to be against the lifestyle do not want me to do or say anything that might rock the boat where my brother is concerned. So in essence I am being silenced by my own family. So I am not surprised with what is going on around the country, if it can happen in a family I am believing more and more that it can happen in this country. As Christians we should prepare ourselves to be persecuted in this area....
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"Not letting me persecute someone is persecution against me!"
Ah, Christians. The number one reason to lose faith in humanity.
Nice to see the parents don't reject him, even if they aren't happy about him being gay.
From a theological standpoint, it isn't up to IlovemyJesus to "convict him of his sin" (Matthew 7:1-5)
BTW - IlovemyJesus is a very gay name...
He loves his Jesus, just hates his brother.
"And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death."
So really, he has his religion just about right. He has to kill his brother and his father - just like Jesus said in Matthew 10:21. Have I mentioned recently that that religion is creepy ?
Good, maybe you should follow your family's advise and shut the fuck up. Your brother's love life has nothing to do with you, so butt out. No one is persecuting you. You are trying to persecute your brother and get your family to do so too.
Hypocrite much?
If you weren't such a sanctimonious prick, your family wouldn;t need to silence you. If you can't handle your family accepting and loving your brother, then leave. Don't blame it on anyone but yourself though.
Because I am not allowed to persecute another, I am being persecuted. Because my family, who doesn't share my self-righteous bigotry and is sick of me badgering my brother every time I see him and disrupting family get togethers, even though they may not approve of his lifestyle, I am being abused by being told to leave it alone for family peace. This is the perfect smug, self-centered, arrogant, faux-persecuted rapture ready prig.
And your parents wanting you to not be a judgmental cunt to your own brother is persecution how? Please, enlighten me. I'm dying to know, now.
If you were any worthy kind of sibling at all, you'd love him and wouldn't care about his sexual preference which is not any of your business in the first place.
The guy seems less annoyed about his brother being gay than that he's come out. So Christians want homosexuals to be furtive and dishonest? Sounds like hypocrisy to me, against which the LORD had far more to say than he did about gay sex. Make that "infinitely more" since he said nothing about gay sex at all.
Why don't some of these Christians try following Christ for a change?
"As Christians we should prepare ourselves to be persecuted in this area.... "
I'm so fucking sick of the christian persecution complex. Its been about 1600 years since their has been ANY official persecution in the western world and they still bitch about us 'persecuting' them by not getting down on both knees and kissing their ass.
persecuted....you keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Also, people like you make me glad to be an only child!
"My parents are forcing me against my will to treat my own brother like a human being! WAAAAAAAH PERSECUTION!!!"
Cry me a fucking river. Your ancestors were beaten and thrown to the lions, and didn't develop a martyr complex from it.
Actually, he has a choice. He could leave. What he means is, they arn't agreeing with him. That's not the same as "silencing". "Silencing" is when you are punished for speaking, and there's no evidence he is. He's having a mardy strop, basically.
He has threatened to remove himself from the family if I send him any information that might convict him of his sin.
Then don't fucking do it.
As Christians we should prepare ourselves to be persecuted in this area....
Cause not persecuting someone is going to get you persecuted.
... we should prepare ourselves to be persecuted in this area ..
Which area? There's a little persecution of Christians going on now in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, but it's a disorganized, hit ot miss sort of thing. Do you live nearby?
We have a name for this sort of person where I come from: a fucking selfrighteous troublemaker.
If your family had had sense, Love your Jesus (frankly I think you are incapable of love: you are capable only of prejudice and hatred) they would all disown you, for you are an obnoxious parasite.
I do hope you get your dearest wish and die of persecution...very slowly and in excruciating pain.
You may love your Jesus, but you certainly don't love your brother. Your parents deserve to be applauded, not condemned, for embracing your brother even if they might not be comfortable with him being gay. If my brother turned out to be gay, I would still love him, no matter what. You're nothing but a selfish, self-righteous scumbag.
-My own parents that claim to be against the lifestyle do not want me to do or say anything that might rock the boat where my brother is concerned. So in essence I am being silenced by my own family.-
Or maybe they realize it's more important to try and stick together, as a family?
Help! I'm not allowed to torment my brother! PERSECUTION!
How can you entertain the illusion that your brother is not aware of exactly why you think it's a sin to be gay? He probably knows more than you regarding that. There's nothing you can say or do to make him not gay, so leave it, m'kay.
Your parents seem to be wonders of openmindedness and acceptance, compared with you. They might actucally love him unconditionally, as parents ought to do.
What can happen? Sisters attacking their brothers for being who they are? Yeah, that is kind of scary...
I never will understand how anyone can translate "I'm not allowed to persecute others" into "I'm being persecuted" .
Your brother isn't trying to dictate your life, and you shouldn't be trying to dictate his.
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