Don’t do that. They’re Christians because they said so, there is no standard or membership card. To act like the bad ones aren’t “real Christians” is a cop out and ignores the problems within your religion. Own it, fix it, re-educate your fellow believers, don’t act like they’re not real and sweep them under the rug.
You may have gotten the impression that I’m claiming their religion. I do not. I just figure they all specifically worship a guy who was definitely homeless and born in a barn.
The same right as every other Christian who has believed in and committed atrocities over the last 2000 years- they worship Christ.
You don’t have to follow your religious leader’s teachings to worship them.
Most of the Germans who participated in the Holocaust called themselves Christians. Some devoutly said their nightly prayers and went to church every Sunday.
Translation: Whatever “sin” one conducts has none of the consequences, which have been well described and in short, have nothing to do with real life, and one must be accepted by the community via the magic word invocation.
All the rest is just nonsense for anyone intelligent enough to ask questions.
By what right can they call themselves Christians?
There weren’t a lot of other options and it sounded better for recruitment than “Selfish Assholes”, understandable really.
Don’t do that. They’re Christians because they said so, there is no standard or membership card. To act like the bad ones aren’t “real Christians” is a cop out and ignores the problems within your religion. Own it, fix it, re-educate your fellow believers, don’t act like they’re not real and sweep them under the rug.
You may have gotten the impression that I’m claiming their religion. I do not. I just figure they all specifically worship a guy who was definitely homeless and born in a barn.
The same right as every other Christian who has believed in and committed atrocities over the last 2000 years- they worship Christ.
You don’t have to follow your religious leader’s teachings to worship them.
Most of the Germans who participated in the Holocaust called themselves Christians. Some devoutly said their nightly prayers and went to church every Sunday.
Translation: Whatever “sin” one conducts has none of the consequences, which have been well described and in short, have nothing to do with real life, and one must be accepted by the community via the magic word invocation.
All the rest is just nonsense for anyone intelligent enough to ask questions.
That and you can interpret the Bible in so many ways that it doesn’t really matter what Jesus supposedly said about pretty much anything.
Protestantism, baby! Where the liturgy is made up and the doctrine doesn’t matter!
Then there’s Catholicism, ubi pater papa penetrit pueris…