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(self-professed) "Christians"... aren't what they're cracked up to be.

VirtualLarry

VirtualLarry

No Lifer

I no longer identify as "Christian", because of all of the raw abuse that I've suffered at the hands of friends and family that claim to be "Christian". (The high-and-mighty judgemental types.)
 
Most of the people I know that I'd consider "good Christians" are generally kinda non-denominational and also disillusioned with the church.
 
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nakedfrog said:
Most of the people I know that I'd consider "good Christians" are generally kinda non-denominational and also disillusioned with the church.
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My experience as well. "Red Letter" democrats for the most part. Not a lot, if any, church attendance. The christians who have no need to insist on their jesus being a blue eyed white guy who loves war and money but hates gays and immigrants.

I think it's telling that we see various religions get either positive or meh reactions from atheists and agnostics, but when it comes to evangelicals that perception is overwhelmingly negative.
 
Oh yeah, white Evangelicals are literally the largest cohesive bloc of evil people in this country right now. That's a lot of fuck nuts.
 
I occasionally go to an evangelical church (not my main church), and the messaging has changed substantially since Covid.

The pastors used to frequently talk about abortion laws. Now the message is “CNN and Fox are both pointing fingers, so don’t pay attention to them and let them divide your family.”
 
kage69 said:
I think it's telling that we see various religions get either positive or meh reactions from atheists and agnostics, but when it comes to evangelicals that perception is overwhelmingly negative.
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It's a function of familiarity and of local power. American atheists and agnostics are more likely to interact with evangelicals on a daily basis than folks with other belief systems and American evangelicals hold more power than folks with other beliefs. If we got to know the others and they held power, we probably wouldn't like them either. 😛
 
IronWing said:
It's a function of familiarity and of local power. American atheists and agnostics are more likely to interact with evangelicals on a daily basis than folks with other belief systems and American evangelicals hold more power than folks with other beliefs. If we got to know the others and they held power, we probably wouldn't like them either. 😛
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I agree on the level of interaction playing a role. Disagree that we'd see say, Buddhists fighting to make women second class citizens, or Sikh's organizing to assault the Civil Rights movement, maybe prevent sex ed and real science being taught in the classroom. The Jains wouldn't be attending town meetings with ARs on their backs, pledging to hunt down antifa and watch voting stations.

There is a creepy, malignant, racist element to the evangelical fixation on dominion, and I don't really see that being mimicked by others. The christians I've known from Canada, Ireland, the UK and Norway don't seem to exhibit anywhere near the level of batshit insanity their American Southern Baptist counterparts do. Their expressions over American mega churches or the racial divide in the south in particular spoke volumes.
 
MrSquished said:
That's very Christian of you. See, unlike the actual Christ.
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Jesus was only human. For all we know, bad kerning might have set him into a murderous rage. That and a little bit of capitalism in his dad's house and suddenly he's into light arms manufacture.
 
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