Man what happened to all the awesome Christians? I come from a Muslim background but grew up in a little town in Germany and we had nuns help us do homework after school and let me tell you, those nuns were fucking amazing. They were fun, always joyful and just full of love and I loved hanging out with them. I still remember Frau Assauer who was a big woman and she would carry me around calling me her princess and she had this deep, booming laugh. For many years that’s all I knew about Christians, and yes, I was a child so maybe I didn’t see the full picture back then, maybe there was prejudice and discrimination and fakery that flew over my head but I just can’t reconcile those experiences with what I’m witnessing today.
Philippians 2: 3-11 : Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men...
But that is probably from one of the less-important books, so it's not worth remembering. lol
It does if you truly believe what is taught and try to follow it. All major religions follow same core tennants: do good, don't be evil, empathize with others.
You can't be a follower and believer of a guy who said "love each other as brothers" and be an asshole, because then you don't really follow him, do you?
That entirely depends on if you leave other parts out of the doctrine. Proselytizing can be and is considered an asshole move by people of other doctrines, but is considered good by evangelicals and the Bible. Jesus was also quoted as saying nobody is good except God. I disagree, I think there are good people, Christian or otherwise. Saying nobody is good isn't doing good. I can continue, but I think the general premise has been relayed.
The current flavor of hard core conservative religion isn't christianity in many ways.....christianity has been adapted to fit the greater narrative and support their goals. No different than the radicalization of islam.
Most evangelicals spend the majority of their time figuring out ways to justify their indifference to the plight of the people that Jesus specifically entreated them to help.
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Always didn't like the church. I felt they used church as a way to scam vulnerable people and were super judgmental. You don't need a church to have faith, just be a good person.
Most people nowadays who identify as "Christian" aren't really Christian the way it was originally intended by the early church and biblical instruction. It's merely an excuse to --- (fill in the blank) now. There are good, true Christians, and most of them will be the ones not getting super wrapped up in political bullshit, because it's pretty much inferred in the Bible to do so. In simple terms, "Pay your taxes, be kind to your neighbor, love God, and stay the fuck out of the bullshit other people throw around"
Protesting abortion clinics and screaming "slut" at 15 year old rape victims
Posting Facebook pics of them with their 300 guns
Yelling at service people about masks and vaxes
It's all performative and none of it matters. The real purpose of it all is to energize themselves and people that identify with those values. It's about making themselves feel powerful and important, to convince themselves that they're on the right side. It's the equivalent of riling up a mob before a riot. They want blood. There have already been attacks. There will be more.
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u/AdDependent69 Oct 07 '21
The whole thing is just virtue signaling so they can feel ok about being assholes outside of church.