Comment on Xmas at the mega church

Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• mcv@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Everything is business, everything is entertainment, everything is about money.

  There is still real Christianity in the US, but this isn’t it. I recently read about someone asking for help from various churches, mosques and temples, and everybody offered help, except the churches. The churches that did help were predominantly black.

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  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t even know what “real Christianity” should be. I, personally, hate cults of all kind from the depths of my heart.

    This silly tribalism is most always just about cash, power and separating themselves from “the others”.

    And just because a group of evil people have some “good” amongst them doesn’t make the whole system any less evil, and they, themselves, are also evil because they’re part of something evil, no matter how hard they try to be good people.

    The argument “but it was just a job and I needed money, I don’t believe in any of it” was never a convincing reason to work at a concentration camp.

    Nothing against belief though. Who am I to render a final judgment about the universe without even knowing a fraction of the facts. But joining a cult/religion is the bad thing here. It’s a virus that spreads by word.

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    • mcv@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s definitely a difference between faith, and organised religion. I think the worst thing that can happen to any religion is to become an official state religion. At that point it becomes a tool for politics and social control. It unavoidably gets corrupted in some way. People aren’t part of it because they believe, but because they have to.

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      • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Horrible indeed. Being force-joined into a cult. Where I live I was joined by my parents at birth (just because “it’s that way”, not because they were believers) and I had to PAY to leave that church officially much later. Incredible. I didn’t sign a contract or was at a legal age to do so, I wasn’t asked and couldn’t even speak anyway, yet I had to jump through a lot of hoops to get out of that contract 18yrs later.

        At least in this country it’s without consequences (except saving a shitton of money) or social pressure. Other societies have it much worse :-(

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If this is how most Christians behave, then I’m sorry to inform you this is real Christianity.

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    • mcv@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Then what would you call the people who actually follow the teachings of Christ? What would you call the Christians in other countries? Why would appropriators of a word get to own it?

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      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Also Christian. Even calling this appropriation is distancing them from the guy with the golden throne.

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