Why is this diversity not worrying Christians?

Albion

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Seems to me that the churches do have limitations and restrictions and some of the churches you listed shouldn't be on your list.
Then those churches could be replaced on the list by others. The reason I chose those as examples was, in part, because they are so prominent.

When you ask "What churches teach it's okay to get an abortion?" it sounds as though you think there are none, however, but there are plenty.
The Pharisees and Sadducees call Jesus a wine bibler _ what is a wine bibler / meaning he often drank wine / even if it was once a day with his dinner.
The issue here wasn't whether or not Jesus drank wine (which he did).
 

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I disagree. If the person who committed the crime realizes the wrong he has done and doesn't want to do that again, then that is all that justice requires! No one has to be punished because punishing for the sake of punishing serves no purpose. Who does it benefit that someone pays my fine if I don't realize the wrong I have done and I remain unchanged? I may not commit the crime again due to fear of punishment, but I have not understood why it was wrong to do said crime, nor have I been set free of the desire to do it.

Whether the person who pays the fine does so voluntarily or not is irrelevant. The entire premise is flawed. You are describing a situation in which forgiveness can't be freely offered and can offer no rational reason for it. "Justice demands it" is not a rational reason. Justice is not a sentient being, so it cannot demand anything. Whoever created the rules on which justice is based should have a rational argument for why justice demands that payment should be offered in exchange for forgiveness.

Do you know of any government that doesn't punish people for their crimes? I'm talking major crimes. Do they just say, Oh, you're sorry, so go ahead and walk the streets.
 

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In the fallen world we live in? No, I do not.
 
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