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When I take issue with a Meme

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Recently a friend posted this meme on Facebook: I couldn't just scroll by, as some would have suggested I do (surprise, surprise!)  I felt someone needed to address the obvious (well, it was obvious to me anyways...)  And I suppose that someone had to be me.  So, I post, for your reading pleasure (and my venting need) my dialogue and a few of the comments others put (hope they don't mind!): A person by the name of Kyle wrote:   Biblical Jesus is hard core and is all about the truth, and modern Jesus is about the feels and about making faith about you instead of him. I hope to see more people respond to biblical Jesus. So I said: May I remind you He was full of grace and truth - not solely about truth to the exclusion of 'the feels', as you call them. Biblical Jesus is God incarnate who is described to us as full of compassion. 'He looked at him and loved him' 'Jesus wept' 'Jer usalem, how I have longed to gather you...' It is appare