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Every movement in history has hypocrites that follow it, and give the movement a bad name. Lumping “American Christians” together and then judging them based on the worst people who adopt that title is creating a straw man.

All American Christians that I know try and follow what you pointed out in your first sentence.

The statement on judging however is a bit misguided, Jesus didn’t say to never judge, but to be careful to avoid hypocrisy and to judge with love.

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QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
At this point a substantial portion of self identified Christians in America are supporting some ideologies and programs that are the opposite if Christ’s teachings. It isn’t a small part. It might even be close to the majority.

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- otterpop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yeah, that’s true and it’s very upsetting that so many hypocrites would exist within the wider church. I’d argue that someone that doesn’t follow the teachings of Christ isn’t a Christian at all since that’s literally what the word means.
  
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  - QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    The catch is for many of these their Churches are telling them thiscis the message of Christ
    
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