{"id":2465,"date":"2025-09-06T17:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T21:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2025-09-06T17:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T21:01:17","slug":"the-sin-of-calling-something-a-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/?p=2465","title":{"rendered":"The Sin of Calling Something a Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Reid Fitzsimons (note that an edited version of this article was, I'm happy to say, published at The American Thinker: (www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2025\/08 the_sin_of_calling_something_a_sin.html )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a Christian guy in Denver, CO, Jamie Sanchez, who felt \u201ccalled\u201d to open a charity project for homeless people in 2012. It was named Recycle God\u2019s Love (www.recyclegodslove.com\/<\/u><\/a>) and gradually expanded, but remains small in financial terms. The \u201cnon-profit\u201d charity world can be, and often is, a cutthroat place of greed, deceit, and essentially money-laundering: putting millions in the pockets of wealthy people while pretending to do something meaningful, but Recycle God\u2019s Love seems legit, operating in the $100,000 range and the people who run it do so without pay. Besides the usual meals, they provide homeless people (in the 300-400 range) clothing, wound care, hygienic supplies, help with obtaining official ID, even haircuts (and, of course, the Gospel). In 2023 they opened a cafe as a way to provide employment and job skill opportunities. Of note is they receive no government funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jamie Sanchez, founder of Recycle God's Love, with family. I believe the woman pictured is his wife who died of cancer in 2018<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

They have an 800 word statement of \u201cwhat we hold to be true,\u201d and 18 of those words are \u201cWe believe that a homosexual lifestyle is contrary to God\u2019s Word and purpose for humanity and is sin.\u201d They list a number of other sins, including thievery, murder, extra-marital sex, adultery, and hating your neighbor. Their statement adds, \u201cMoreover, this organization is instructed to Love those living such lifestyles<\/strong>. We Believe that showing hate towards people in these communities is not the way Jesus would respond. Therefore, although disagreeing with the lifestyles we believe to be sinful, we must show love.\u201d All in all, this is pretty standard true<\/em> Christian doctrine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

It seems some enterprising activists- the Denver Communists- happened upon their statement and, predictably, were outraged. Their angst and furor manifested in the form of street protests, vandalism, and intimidation, i.e. the usual. The Denver Communists \u201corganize together on the basis of mutual commitment to revolutionary socialism, internationalism, and liberation from all oppression.\u201d Their catchy slogans include No Borders No Nations, Palestinian Liberation By Any Means Necessary, and Defund, Disarm & Defeat the Police. The few photos of their members\/activists on their website, not surprisingly, reveal exclusively white people (denvercommunists.org\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From the Denver Communists website, 9 out of 9 white activists on the left, on the right their dream of a police free utopia<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Denver Communists claim they don\u2019t oppose Christianity in general: \"There are plenty of Christian denominations that don\u2019t share their (Recycle God\u2019s Love) bigoted view, such as the ELCA [Evangelical Lutheran Church in America] \u2026\u201d It might be noted that the ELCA and a number of other establishment denominations, the Presbyterian Church, USA, the Unitarians, and United Methodists, for example, have simply rejected the parts of Scripture they don\u2019t like and amplified they parts that make them feel good about themselves, similar to claiming to be a vegetarian (which I am), talking about love and compassion for animals, but eating Whoppers. The Unitarians are amusing in that they actually place the word \u201cchurch\u201d in quotation marks: Every Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) congregation is a \u201cchurch\u201d under U.S. tax law, therefore tax exempt, charitable, and exempt from tax filing\u201d (https:\/\/www.uua.org\/<\/u><\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Left<\/strong>, the Unitarian \"church\" consists of about 85% white, affluent, and leftist progressives (4 white Unitarians in Burlington, VT virtue signalling); Right<\/strong>, ELCA \"pride\" event 2023, 25 of 25 people white <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Though I was raised and remain a non-believer and have never thought of things in terms of sin, I have studied theology a good deal. Both the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and New Testament are replete with the word \u201csin,\u201d the most commonly mentioned being idolatry, meaning worship of other gods or<\/em> creating images of them (the first two of the 10 Commandments). Original Sin is really a Christian concept, not a Jewish one, and likewise the idea that all people are innately sinners is much more of a Christian construct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though there certainly are \u201cburn in Hell for eternity\u201d Christians, it is much more Scripturally and doctrinally sound to regard sin as something to overcome, and to always treat the sinner with compassion. Progressive leftist groups need to portray Christians as hate-filled lunatics as a means to accomplish their goals, much as Jim Crow politicians of the past century needed to blame \u201cuppity\u201d black people for all their woes: the reliable\u201cUs versus Them\u201d power strategy. For a Christian to berate or injure someone because they are a sinner- homosexual in this case- is antithetical: Jesus got into a heap of trouble with the Establishment because he willingly associated with sinners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the left,<\/strong> the Left needs to portray Christians as ignorant morons; Right<\/strong>, the actual Christian belief<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The idea, as expressed by the Denver Communists in regards to Recycle God\u2019s Love, that individuals and groups must be in total compliance with a particular doctrine is as old as humanity. It\u2019s found under many names and systems, including authoritarianism, despotism, tyranny, dictatorships, theocracies, and perhaps can be collectively called fascism. It doesn't matter whether it\u2019s extreme left (communism) or right (Nazism) it all amounts to the same thing: a limited number of people in power trying to control the words, thoughts, and actions of the population through coercion, intimidation, and violence, but also at times bread and circuses, depending on the situation. Fascists on a global scale, and at a petty level like the Denver Communists, simply cannot abide by anyone not in total compliance with their dogma, rules, and cultural mandates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As alluded to in the first paragraph, too many ostensibly charitable organizations use marginal good works or compassionate sounding words to channel money, prestige, and power for their own benefit. The \u201cnon-profit\u201d world is filled with this, along with their cousins, the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), various unions (the massive National Education Association a well-known example), and certainly government and global bureaucracies: corruption, fraud, and waste can be misdirected if camouflaged by words and phrases such as \u201chuman rights,\u201d \u201chelping children,\u201d and \u201csaving lives.\u201d Likewise, those who question the reality of such organizations are accused of being against human rights, children, and saving lives. As someone who has spent well over 20 years at the financial low end of the charitable world, where amounts are measured in $100s, not $1,000,000,000s, I\u2019ve learned to be both skeptical and even cynical. From my research the \u201cRecycling God\u2019s Love\u201d project is everything a charity should be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The CEO's of two \"non-profit\" teacher's unions, Betsy Pringle (left) of the NEA and Randi Weingarten of the AFT. Both have salaries in the $500,000-600,000 range, and at least Weingarten has a net worth of $7-8 million<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A final thought is that the Denver Communists are supposedly repulsed by the mention of homosexuality being considered a sin (by Christians) while expressing support for Palestinians. Forgetting that the Denver Communists are fully ignorant about the concept of sin in Christianity, it\u2019s doubtful they would ever consider opposing, let alone vandalizing, anything Muslim. Islam is not \u201cgay-friendly,\u201d and its Scripture and doctrine allows for and\/or demands punishment for the \u201ccrime\u201d of homosexuality. The prescribed penalties vary from flogging to execution: It was narrated from Ibn`Abbas that the Messenger of Allah said: \u201cWhoever you find doing the action of the people of Lut, (referring to Lot and Sodom in the book of Genesis) kill the one who does it, and the one to whom it is done\u201d (<\/em>Hadith 2561<\/u><\/em><\/a>). <\/em>This should not impugn Islam universally, however this is not some arcane historical thing going back 1,200 years, but exists in the here and now- around 12 counties include in their legal codes execution for homosexuality, and all but one are Muslim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s impressive the contortions privileged white progressives, such as the Denver Communists, will go through so as to make the world and reality conform, in their minds, to their beloved narratives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Map from 2016 where homosexuality is illegal and at times a capital crime (in red)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A graphic from the Denver Communists website; apparently it's okay to execute homosexuals as long as it's done under Sharia law<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Note the impetus for this article was a Fox News story: https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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