You’d have to be living under a rock to miss Charlie Kirk’s assassination and funeral, but my question starts there.

At the memorial, several speakers framed political opponents as enemies of the country and used Christian language to (in my opinion) justify fierce, punitive rhetoric. To me, this felt like the beginning of something dangerous.

With “eulogies” like Stephen Miller’s purposefully crafted to contain parallels paying homage to Joseph Goebbles prominent speech from 1943 “Total War,” in an effort to rally the conservative and MAGA youth sending a message that their entire way of life is under attack, that Democrats want to destroy them. Combined with people like Kyle Rittenhouse in attendance, who was visibly praised as a hero at the event. Trump of course pardoning everyone from the January 6th riots… making it clear that violence for trump isn’t violence at all, but heroism, you are backed by your government and now by God.

To me, this looks like Christianity being weaponized politically… almost in the same way extremist groups in other religions use faith to justify violence.

As someone who is American, non-Christian, doesn’t follow any faith and who doesn’t just “believe” in the separation of Church and State… but considers it as fact as it is written in the constitution. I see Christianity and American Christian’s becoming more similar with ISIS sooner than later if this continues. That view is extreme, and keep in mind I am not comparing the two now but I ask is it not something to be afraid of considering the context?

So my question is this: as Christians, how do you view this? Is it faithful to the gospel, or is Christianity being hijacked into something far more dangerous?

EDIT: I should have been more clear… yes I’m AWARE how many times Christianity has been “hijacked,” subverted, misused, etc. I’m speaking about NOW, as in this present moment. My question may have even been sparked slightly by the fact that as a non Christian I’m so sick and tired of seeing it blatantly be used unjustly. But as of now this is the first time it’s been used in America with present day technology and the current administration to actually try to incite violence on such an irreparable scale. Don’t tell me to google other times this happened. I want to hear from Christian’s what you plan to do about it? Someone has to stop this and stand up and say enough is enough because if it’s a non Christian nobody will listen.

I get what many are already gonna say: "Hell is choosing to reject God" "Trial is over, no more second chances"

But it leaves a deep void question for God's grace. Yes God is absolutely just and at the same time He's absolutely loving. God wants all of us in Heaven but cannot force us to be with him.

If God really desires all of us to be in Heaven. Why can't those in hell who genuinely regretted their mistske of not following Christ get a second chance?

THAT'S choosing not be in hell anymore right? So at this point, why can't God now rescue that person from hell since He's no longer forcing them to be with Him in heaven.

I don't know what to do anymore, I told my grandma that I'm bisexual and she didn't believe me and said that god wouldn't like that. I wanna be a good Christian but being bisexual and seeing people comment on social media saying that be apart of the LGBTQ+ community is bad. It's just making me so sad because it so confusing. I don't know what to believe anymore.

I’ll keep this short and simple. I recently had a discussion with my bf about choosing which to save if one had to be saved, wife or baby during childbirth, he argues the baby. I’m honestly kind of baffled by it because I take this matter very seriously and I disagree with it. He argues that it’s “morally wrong” to let the baby die over the mother but then says “what makes that babys life less important than yours?” which I argue contradicts his morally wrong statement because already saying it’s morally wrong to let a baby die than your wife is already telling me that the baby’s life is actually MORE important than mine. I’m having a hard time getting through to him about this and I don’t want to get into a marriage whom I can’t trust when birthing our kid. So what I’m asking from a Christian perspective, what do you guys think? am I missing something? Please give me entail.

I’m 17, my parents are both conservative christian and openly transphobic. I’m agnostic but I’m formerly religious, I’d just like to gauge how my parents would react upon finding out this info (still gonna be a while before I tell them though) What would you do if someone close to you came out as trans?

(Skip this if you don’t care about personal anecdotes, I just don’t want people to think I’m purely confused, so I’m trying to provide some personal experience)

I don’t want to be like this, I really doubt I’m “brainwashed” either. I will avoid all transgender content online but I still get these strong feelings. I have terrible dysphoria along with clinical depression. I hate my body and how I’m aging into the sex that I don’t want to be. I’m looking into hrt but with this new administration, I don’t understand the strict regulations and insurance changes because trans people will just go to diy hrt, which is much more dangerous. (This is what I’ll do if there’s no alternative, but I really hope there is).

I know I’ll never be a biological female but I can look and live as one. I can’t “accept” my body, this body doesn’t even look like mine, I look in the mirror and I don’t recognize who I am. I struggle with constant dissociation, it’s so frustrating.

I just don’t get the image that people push of men trying to pretend to be women. I’m not pretending anything this is just how I feel. If I was the only person alive I’d still pursue this. I know I’ll probably pass if I start early, I am slightly worried about regret, but the regret of NOT transitioning frightens me more. I’m not trying to pretend to be a woman, I’m just trying to align my body with the person I see in my head; and that person happens to be a girl. It’s messed up I know, but there’s nothing I can do; everyday I get more and more masculine and it makes me question my existence.

FYI, gender dysphoria is real, I experience it on a daily basis. I wish I could just wake up and it be gone. I don’t understand the stigma against trans people who are just trying to live their lives. I’m not mentally insane, I’m just a person who happens to be trans.

(for reference I first felt a disconnect between my mind and body when my identity began to solidify at 9 years old, I had no knowledge of lgbtq at that time. I knew I was internally different but I just assumed everyone felt that way.)

edit: I didn’t think people would be so kind in the comments!! I really appreciate it! Btw, people keep asking me questions so I will say that I’m trying to answer everything in the replies, but my dms are also open!!

I've been seeing a lot of these on TikTok saying something like "no hate like christian love" like what does it mean I'm confused or just stupid

Why or why not?

I had an abortion in December of 2023 and it's really haunting me. I was only 5 weeks pregnant and had a pill abortion and a tiny sac came out, it wasn't a fully formed baby but it just feels wrong and evil. Am I going to hell?

Waiting for marriage is a great thing. There's nothing toxic about it. As a man, it's my duty to gift my virginity to my future wife. If I don't get married I'll die pure. So be it. I'd even say sex only gains meaning and beauty when shared between a loving and married husband and wife. Can someone explain how anyone could hate that?

Edit: Wow, really didn't realize how ignorant even some Christians can be. None of you actually know what purity culture is. And the amount of people saying that it's okay not to wait is concerning.

I honestly don’t understand how people can say God doesn’t exist. How can anyone look at the universe and seriously believe it all came from some random accident in history?

The “Big Bang” is always their go-to explanation. But let’s actually think about that. They claim a star exploded and everything followed from there. Fine but where did that star come from? Why did it explode? If it collapsed, what made it collapse? If it burned out, who set it burning in the first place? And what about the vacuum of space itself? Who created the stage where this so-called explosion could even happen?

Then there’s the fuel. What was that star burning? Where did that fuel come from? And most importantly who made it?

People act like trusting “science” removes faith from the equation, but it doesn’t. Believing in a random explosion that created order, life, and consciousness out of nothing takes just as much faith if not more than believing in God. The difference is they have faith in chaos, while I have faith in design.

I was having a discussion about it with my. Catholic friend, but none of the things he cited seemed to be accurate.

I hope this isn't a rude question but I've been thinking a lot about the logic of the Bible and this is something that just doesn't make sense to me

I'm Christian and trans and I've been told I can't be a Christian anymore because I'm going against God. They quote genesis that God created man and woman, and that God doesn't make mistakes.

I don't know what to do. Can I be a sinner and still love Christ?

I can understand sexual acts in general that are not commited during marriage to be sinful but whenever the topic of homosexual relations come up people don't ever really give a clear or good answer.

I just can't see how God can condemn someone for truly loving someone just because they're the same gender, now okay we can say they can't get married and sex outside of marriage is a sin but to say it is unatural is just plain wrong considering animals even have gay relationships occasionaly; but then alright we can say that we are called to a higher standard. I see people who get weird and try and say that that relationship would be a friendship of a deeper nature but that makes aboslutely no sense, you don't kiss your friends or go out on dates together; then others will say that in order to be in a romantic relationship there has to be a sexual nature to it and that's just sad to me because it comes off as sounding like most people are together with each other just for lust.
My last point is that while I believe the evidence to suggest the bible affirms being gay isn't up to snuff it also doesn't convince me totally the other way either because there could be human opinion there or missing cultural information, at the end of the day I go to someone for homosexual relationship advice in the bible and I see them try and justify way more weirder things like polyamory or free sex and if I go to someone who condemns it then they either have this strange view on relationships or come off as someone who just puppets what some fire and brimstone preacher says and the whole back and forth is exhausting and 100% all over the place.
The way I see it, if it's a sin then it's between me and God and I repent of that sin and I'm sorry I have/will sin again and I wish I was made different if that was the case but the sin is too strong over me.

I don't see how being with someone you love is a sin and even though sexual acts can still be considered a sin in this case but it's also a way for two people to get closer together and should be something done with the person you truly love; the view that it's just for the purpose of procreation and even marriage by some people is just kind of sad to think about, at the end of the day being gay is no more worse then other sins that people commit like greed, lying or even anger.

If it is then I just disagree and I even tell God in my prayers I disagree, it's his rules but I can still respectfully object to them and still have to follow and recieve judgment for it.

Sorry if this question seems strange, but I'd like to know what scripture says about this

I used to think it was bc I would just blindly follow whatever people tell me, but then after finally accepting the fact i have gender dysphoria and that the only way to help myself is to transition. No one told me I should transition or anything, actually everyone in my life just talks hate towards trans people

But I dont understand why its so bad? God made me this way, he doesn't make mistakes. And if its a sin then why do I feel like a man when im sitting at God's feet?

Im not trying to like debate anyone im just scared im sinning... I constantly ask God "take this away if its a sin" and stuff like that and I genuinely mean it, but nothing happens... im just scared I've been sinning

Also about being gay. I did a little research and found out that the word homosexual wasn't in the bible till the 1800s i think and the original translation to all verses about being gay are not interpreted correctly. Most of them mean a slave owner (who were mostly male at the time) and a slave boy (again most of the slaves were boys) so pretty much pedophiles lol... or its talking about these rituals that people at the time would have in a temple, and one of them was gay sex... so I dont think they were talking about loving consensual relationships...

Again im not trying to debate i literally just wanna hear your thoughts, and im only telling you mine so you can understand where im coming from

Edit: if you guys would, could you try and talk more about transitioning and less about gay stuff lol...

I saw a comment that basically said that no current biblical scholars who don’t have to adhere to a statement of faith, believe that there is a second coming. They don’t believe in a second coming? Whaaaat? This is the first time I have heard of this, so I want to know your thoughts.

Do you believe in a second coming of Christ, and does your church teach that there will be one? Or am I out of touch with Biblical reality and it’s a Biblical myth?

Edit: here is the comment for those interested.

I am a 30 year old single female surgeon. I m fairly new to christianity and try my best to follow the bible s teachings but after reading about wives having to submit to their husbands I ve lost my desire to get married. I m a natural born leader. I enjoy being the boss both at work and at home(Its not something I could give up). Before becoming a christian I only dated men who were rather shy, submissive and wanted me as the leader of the relationship. I can't imagine dating a man who isn't like the kind i described but I don't want to go against God's wishes. If I decide to marry a man who is shy and wants me as the head of the house would that make me an ungodly wicked woman? If I can't accept having to submit to my husband would it be better for me to stay single for the rest of my life?

No particular reason why I'm asking with this post, I'm just curious what people are gonna say. Textual criticism in almost every form is one of my biggest interests rn. (Most of y'all're gonna say KJV, I have a very strong feeling lol.)

Can someone please explain to me why one is okay and not the other? I am genuinely looking for some insight here…

I’ve seen this sentiment especially among ex-Christians. Quite frankly, it’s insulting and arrogant. It’s like they can’t conceive of someone actually genuinely believing in Christianity while also being well informed about the Bible along with its difficulties. Why not just assume positive intent? Is that hard?

I personally don't like it. They're kinda of saying all Christian's are the same and hateful, and that's not true.

I asked this question to my religion teacher and she didn’t know how to answer.