Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate?

• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not every Christian group is like that. You only notice the loud lunatics.

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We only hear the loud lunatics because the quiet followers never say or do anything about them.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      genuinely want to know your thoughts: what do you think we can do?

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      • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Practice your religion by yourself and speak and connect to your beliefs on your own. No one needs a public and constant display or acknowledgement of what you believe. And we don’t need to conform the entire world and everyone around to satisfy your beliefs and your religion. And a religion doesn’t need a billion dollar industry and infrastructure in order for it to exist.

        If what you believe is moral, respectable, useful and beneficial to society, then there should never be a need to display your religion, your beliefs or to have the need to want to convert others by force or coercion. If what you believe is morally good for everyone, people will gravitate towards your religion … forcing it on others and onto society is a sure sign that what you believe has more to do with wanting control over others rather than in creating a belief system that would benefit people.

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• How_do_I_computah@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, there are definitely bad people out there trying to take advantage of Christians and make money off them. I think that’s exactly what Jesus was mad about. If Jesus was born today he would probably be chasing televangelist’s phone operators away from their desks with a whip and flipping computer desks of the people trying to scam Christian grandmas.

  Like any other organization if you look hard enough and if it’s what you’re looking for then you can see people doing bad things but I do not think organized Christian religion is bad as a whole.

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m Indigenous Canadian and my parents were victims of the Residential School system in Canada in the 50s, 60s … residential ‘schools’ which were literal torture centers for Indigenous children run by Christian organizations.

    From my point of view … Christian religion is bad as a whole.

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    • How_do_I_computah@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m very sorry about what happened to your parents and in turn the effects these schools had on you and your family. From everything I’ve heard the Canadian government has treated the indigenous people terribly.

      Nothing in Jesus’s teachings or the New Testament says “Running torture centers is what you should do”.

      There are a lot of bad people who want to claim what they’re doing is what God told them to do because it makes it easier to get away with or easier for them to stomach themselves.

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      • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        At this point in history, the image of Jesus Christ is a caricature of what he is supposed to represent. He is just an image and idea that is worshipped and that is all. No one cares about his teachings or his ideas, they just care about his image, praising him and getting their free ticket to heaven.

        In essence, the image of Jesus Christ has become their golden calf that people mindlessly pray to and worship without thinking or wondering about what he actually represents.

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