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DW_a_mom
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25 Feb 2022, 9:34 pm

kitesandtrainsandcats wrote:
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Quite a few Christian thought leaders are using disparities like that as evidence the American Christian community needs to clean house.


Oh, the way I see it, the American Christian Church and community has long ago cleaned house ...
They cleaned Jesus Christ out of the house,
As in,
"Hey mate, your power to transform lives and to save the lost for eternity are great and all but we have matured and advanced and moved on from that to agendas and policies and programs and causes and candidates and politics and parties. Any time you want to change your priorities and join us you are welcome to, but we got to get going, there are things to do."


I don't take it quite that far, but you have a point. It's funny, the Christian community worries so much that it is under attack. But the biggest enemy to modern Christianity comes from within.


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25 Feb 2022, 10:16 pm

DW_a_mom wrote:
kitesandtrainsandcats wrote:
DW_a_mom wrote:
Quite a few Christian thought leaders are using disparities like that as evidence the American Christian community needs to clean house.


Oh, the way I see it, the American Christian Church and community has long ago cleaned house ...
They cleaned Jesus Christ out of the house,
As in,
"Hey mate, your power to transform lives and to save the lost for eternity are great and all but we have matured and advanced and moved on from that to agendas and policies and programs and causes and candidates and politics and parties. Any time you want to change your priorities and join us you are welcome to, but we got to get going, there are things to do."


I don't take it quite that far, but you have a point. It's funny, the Christian community worries so much that it is under attack. But the biggest enemy to modern Christianity comes from within.


I've been watching the latest instalment of Vikings in netflix which depicts the spread of christianity in scandinavia and England. It doesn't surprise me the christian always live in fear of attack....there entire history from the time early followers voluntarily became martyrs in roman colosseums has been about being attacked.

It's kinda weird but most of the sermons I recall in church were about the end of times and the forces of evil at our footsteps, I recall the pastors kids were really rude and foul mouthed and would smoke weed behind the church so he must have mean't his fears were closer to home than he revealed.

Christianity has a strong vein of fatalism at its core.



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26 Feb 2022, 12:49 am

DW_a_mom wrote:
kitesandtrainsandcats wrote:
DW_a_mom wrote:
Quite a few Christian thought leaders are using disparities like that as evidence the American Christian community needs to clean house.


Oh, the way I see it, the American Christian Church and community has long ago cleaned house ...
They cleaned Jesus Christ out of the house,
As in,
"Hey mate, your power to transform lives and to save the lost for eternity are great and all but we have matured and advanced and moved on from that to agendas and policies and programs and causes and candidates and politics and parties. Any time you want to change your priorities and join us you are welcome to, but we got to get going, there are things to do."


I don't take it quite that far, but you have a point. It's funny, the Christian community worries so much that it is under attack. But the biggest enemy to modern Christianity comes from within.


I could not agree more! Christianity, then later the Protestant Reformation, had been born out of a resistance to legalism. But it's the legalism of fundamentalism that's the greatest threat to the faith.


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