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I call a lot of these people Xtians, because there is no Christ in them. It seems to be just a tribal thing these days.This seems very clear to me as an outsider who has actually studied Christianity and who was coerced into church as a child. Nohing wrong with the principles, but the principles are not followed--at least, not the ones that would cost people something.
It is like the whole pro-fetus (I will not call it pro-life) movement. It is easy to be pro-fetus. It doesn't cost much and looks good. Much harder to actually be pro-life. Costs a lot more. You might actually have to do stuff besides stack the court system and run your mouth.
My first question to pro-life people is usually about what their stance is on the death penalty.
There are a lot of rules about sexual behavior and about respect for (the proper) hierarchy and authority. The social justice seems to get lost in that or is reserved for those that "deserve" it. Works have been detached from faith, when scripture makes it fairly clear that works arise out of faith, are the realization and exemplification of faith and that they are important-important enough that you will be damned for failing in them (read the parable of the Sheep and the Goats).
And do not even get me started on the prosperity gospel folks. How do you get that stuff out of Christianity? Where does it come from? (The question is rhetorical).
That would apply to all those "holier than thou" supposed christians in this country.
They used to call themselves "the silent majority." They have become the very loud pot-banging minority.
I call a lot of these people Xtians, because there is no Christ in them. It seems to be just a tribal thing these days.This seems very clear to me as an outsider who has actually studied Christianity and who was coerced into church as a child. Nohing wrong with the principles, but the principles are not followed--at least, not the ones that would cost people something.
It is like the whole pro-fetus (I will not call it pro-life) movement. It is easy to be pro-fetus. It doesn't cost much and looks good. Much harder to actually be pro-life. Costs a lot more. You might actually have to do stuff besides stack the court system and run your mouth.
My first question to pro-life people is usually about what their stance is on the death penalty.
There are a lot of rules about sexual behavior and about respect for (the proper) hierarchy and authority. The social justice seems to get lost in that or is reserved for those that "deserve" it. Works have been detached from faith, when scripture makes it fairly clear that works arise out of faith, are the realization and exemplification of faith and that they are important-important enough that you will be damned for failing in them (read the parable of the Sheep and the Goats).
And do not even get me started on the prosperity gospel folks. How do you get that stuff out of Christianity? Where does it come from? (The question is rhetorical).