Those quotation marks are unnecessary. This is hardly unusual behavior for a Christian.
I’ve never met a Christian, who actually embodied Christian values. Every one of them, especially the more religious of them, is a lying bigoted hypocrite, who only gives a shit about themselves and their own family. Maybe I’ve met the wrong kind of Christians, but there it is.
I have, however, met a great deal of atheists, who, in fact, do embody what Christians proselytize as their values. Kindness, acceptance, understanding, a duty to help others… in my life, the worst people I’ve ever met were strongly religious. And the best people I’ve ever met were atheists.
Completely agree with this. To be “Christian” is to embrace this concept of an in-crowd and an out-crowd; if you’re not part of “my” crowd you can literally go to fucking hell and my omnipotent God-ruler is going to make sure you’re punished eternally if you don’t do what I say.
Being a shitty person is baked in at the deepest foundation of being Christian, and probably most types of religion tbh.
Just saw a fairly prominent example of this in a Denver restaurant owner - dude was quoting the Babble even as he was being accused of…checks notes…misusing PPP loan money. Never mind all that, don’t look into it, because he and his wife are magical xtians.
(This is from back in March. He was arrested about a week ago because of his crimes.)
The closing statement of several posts refer to us a “Christian grifters”… I had to laugh out loud as I read that… yes, we’re proudly Christian. Hard-working ppl that put everything on the line, to open businesses, provide jobs, training, support local schools & charities are definitely not grifters.
Being that we’re Christian & proud to say so, I will reference john 8:7 (related to this public judgment of the situation)… “So when they continued asking Him, He lifted Himself up and said unto them, “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.”
Jesus was talking about a prostitute in this verse, who was being publicly presented with her sin visible to everyone. They were going to publicly stone her. That was 2,000 years ago. I hope we’ve evolved since then… but maybe some of us haven’t.
You know that people being in your face about something doesnt automatically mean they are serious about it and vice versa, people not being in your face about something doesn’t mean they aren’t serious about it.
Those quotation marks are unnecessary. This is hardly unusual behavior for a Christian.
I’ve never met a Christian, who actually embodied Christian values. Every one of them, especially the more religious of them, is a lying bigoted hypocrite, who only gives a shit about themselves and their own family. Maybe I’ve met the wrong kind of Christians, but there it is.
I have, however, met a great deal of atheists, who, in fact, do embody what Christians proselytize as their values. Kindness, acceptance, understanding, a duty to help others… in my life, the worst people I’ve ever met were strongly religious. And the best people I’ve ever met were atheists.
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Completely agree with this. To be “Christian” is to embrace this concept of an in-crowd and an out-crowd; if you’re not part of “my” crowd you can literally go to fucking hell and my omnipotent God-ruler is going to make sure you’re punished eternally if you don’t do what I say.
Being a shitty person is baked in at the deepest foundation of being Christian, and probably most types of religion tbh.
Just saw a fairly prominent example of this in a Denver restaurant owner - dude was quoting the Babble even as he was being accused of…checks notes…misusing PPP loan money. Never mind all that, don’t look into it, because he and his wife are magical xtians.
(This is from back in March. He was arrested about a week ago because of his crimes.)
https://www.denver7.com/news/front-range/denver/state-of-colorado-seizes-michelin-recognized-ajs-pit-bar-b-q-for-failure-to-pay-taxes
It’s crazy because what I read in that is
“Don’t be a fucking hypocrite”, yet here is this dude embezzling money from the government and therefore the people while preaching the word of God.
I actually have. They are rarer than crow’s teeth though.
I agree that the atheists I know are generally better people, cheat less, have fewer criminal records, etc…
You know that people being in your face about something doesnt automatically mean they are serious about it and vice versa, people not being in your face about something doesn’t mean they aren’t serious about it.