But it won’t. The word “Christian” doesn’t mean “a person who follows the teachings of christ”, it just means you’re a member of a hyper-authoritarian political club.

I try to live the way Jesus demanded people live. It’s very humanist, almost buddhist, even. But I would never, ever call myself “Christian” because it stands for the opposite of everything Jesus stood for. It’s very decidedly anti-christ.

As a person of faith, I have been horrified to watch Christianity’s fall from grace in mainstream America today. Having mentioned my church in passing to a group of peers, I was once recently met with surprise—surprise that I’m a practicing Christian because, I “seem like a nice person.” I’m no biblical scholar, but I’m pretty sure that if people conflate your religion with being a terrible human being you’re probably doing it wrong. Yet in recent years that has arguably become the face of mainstream Christianity, and any Christian who cares about the future of our faith should be deeply concerned.

Amen to that.

To be fair, a lot should make the Christian right feel ashamed. Like, you know, completely ignoring the teachings of Christ so that you can make rich people richer and lick the boots of your oppressors.

I've recently met someone who made me reconsider line between the institution of religious Christianity and what it means to practice the Christian faith. I won't repurpose anything in this article, as it alludes to much of what I've considered, but I want to add a thought to it.

The fundamental problem with the modern Christian faith is that they have no intention of following the ethics and philosophies of Jesus Christ, and instead worship the man himself. They place the man before the teachings, and then define the man however they choose, filled to the brim with their own personal bias', and use their cherry picked and context free Bible passages to justify it.

Motherfuckers need philosophy in their lives. Too bad right-wing politicians have worked hard to gut any form of free-thinking arts.

If they were capable of shame, or any form of self-awareness, they'd have committed mass seppuku long ago.

"Christian Right Feel Ashamed"

These words don't belong together in the same sentence.

I see the author has never met anyone from the Christian right.

There is no hate like Christian “love”.

When Jimmy grew up his house didn't have electricity or running water. Or malice, as it turns out.

Heaven is a peanut farm

One for you and me

With friends and music, banquets and balls

And a good man named Jimmy

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Heaven is a peanut farm

Surely it's the best

There's a porch with a sleeping dog

One where you can find rest

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They say there is a man out there

Who made sure every heart he would fill

When God said "it's okay, you can stop your work now"

He said "no, I don't think I will"

.

When you come to this peanut farm

You will be filled with this delight

Friends and family, we gather 'round

To wish Mr. Carter goodnight

Too bad they have no shame or any idea of what Christ taught. Most are just selfish hypocrites who hate more than they love.

"Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar" John 4:20

Why aren't churches free housing for all?

LOL! Those cunts have no such concept.

Jokes on everyone. They don’t give a fuck.

In order to join the cult of the right, you must cast any sense of shame away.

You must be willing to soil yourself so that your enemies will smell it.

Organised religion is a political institution, it has always been. It will do whatever gives them the most power.

That would mean that the "christian" right needs to know the concept of shame.

What does concern me is the number of people fleeing organized religion because they view it as a source of harm. Seeing the way faith has been wielded as a political weapon for much of the last few years speaks to that.

Faith is inherently and specifically a weapon. It works like this: Tell everyone to believe a certain thing based on nothing at all but believe it right to your very (native and stupid even) core where no evidence will sway you no matter what. Just believe the things we want and fight for that reality when needed.

Get a critical amount of people believing the right thing and yes, you get a weapon. One like maga. A weapon that will try to start a coup and cheat an election and then just kinda say "nah, that's not what happened". And you know photos and videos of it would've been enshrined in history books as a "how we took the country back" type of deal if it had worked. Thankfully it didn't but they're all doing that face from the meme (I think from Cuphead) of the flower doing the bashful face instead.

This kind of faith will always lead to these kinds of outcomes. You can't have radical belief without radical action.

Faith needs to be removed from society completely. That's probably one of the steps of evolution the aliens are waiting on to finally greet us lmao.

That and learning how to stop being psychos. But that could happen faster if we could at least all believe the same general thing. Everybody will have differing other beliefs of course, but if we can stop believing in supernatural sky daddies first then that will go a long way.

Islam and Christianity both need to die. Breaking from those 2 will have the biggest immediate impact given their populations, and I would hope that lack of belief starts adding up when the other religions start finding themselves with bigger and bigger amounts of non theism.

Plus those 2 are the most likely to fight about it. Christianity in particular has caused more suffering and death than any single other thing on the planet probably. I don't have sources for that but it's definitely up there. Plagues are up there too.

But yeah. Faith is a weapon. Sorting out your beliefs based on how much it agrees with your favorite book (that you haven't read) is never a recipe for success.

And even in their own religion god deserves hell based on the book. Like even Jack the ripper and the OKC bomb guy (literally blanking on his name atm- Bundy maybe?) would deserve heaven so much more than god would. But he gets a free pass because of something or other.

It won't. They hate and despise him instead.

They don't care. The hypocrisy is part of their ideology, they just hope they can get away with the hypocrisy, and not just the top few percent.