I was so close to posting this on main

A lot of bad Xtian behavior that's attributed to malice is really just fear. Those people weren't sadists, they were scared. They were angry bc they were scared. To have any hope of understanding their behavior you have to remember that eternal Hell is a very real place to them, not a hypothetical.

I mean I care in the sense that it breaks my heart, and I think their bad behavior should be vocally opposed and impeded whenever possible. But none of it impacts the truth of Christ. It may make me embarrassed but none of it makes me want to abandon Him.

Universalist Calvinism allows for God’s love— God’s love for His toys, I guess comparable to a writer’s love for their characters— but that’s not enough for me, I need to believe in two-way love.