Yeah, the whole “love each other and forgive everything” lessons of my youth have been replaced by “fuck you, I’m getting mine” christians.
Ah yes, the Boomer Christians.
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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I was “raised Christian.” The top reasons I despise religion is the a) hypocrisy from top to bottom, b) a person can go through life wrecking others others in ways that may be devastating, permanent, and/or traumatic that they have to live with forever and are supposed to just accept it like some mind of lesson from god, yet the person who does all the damage gets to go to heaven if the ask for forgiveness in just the right way.
Yeah, the whole “love each other and forgive everything” lessons of my youth have been replaced by “fuck you, I’m getting mine” christians.
nosuchanon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 days ago
You need to read your Bible more often if you think you’re the first person to have noticed that.
I recommend Isaiah 30:8-17.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Lol, the Bible is full of contradictions that are all rationalized and interpreted by the wants of the individual and leader. No desire to dig into that any more than I already have.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 days ago
So… it’s just like people are then?
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Not quite? You can have a person that does all those things on their own, sure… But when religion using that bible makes a group of people all doing the same thing it can be very destructive.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 days ago
point B was my favorite part of The Brothers Karamazov.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Ya you nailed it. Good people are punished and bad people rewarded.
CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Actually American Americans are the “Pharisees”. They just hate to be called to be called out by Jesus.
They act like Pharisees. They talk like Pharisees. I hope they will be judged like Pharisees.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Does anyone actually think these pseudochristians are actually pure in any way?
pachrist@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They do. That’s why they’re so hateful to anyone who contradicts them.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I figured most of them for the “religion is a useful tool to manipulate others” instead of actually believing in any sort of purity - other than rationalizing their shitty treatment of others.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Of course, everyone will be judged eventually. Pretty sure it says that in the Bible too.