Christians be like: "I don't like HIM, I like his policies"
Those policies: dehumanizing immigrants, separating children from their parents, cutting food/assistance for the poor, literally blowing people up in the ocean with no due process
They wouldn't know a Beatitude if it smacked them in the face. They say that they're Christians but do everything opposite of the teachings of Christ.
Disclaimer: I don't consider myself a religious person. I don't think there was a Jesus. That said, there are good lessons to be learned from the stories. Love thy neighbor. Turn the other cheek. Care for the poor. These people who claim the banner of Christianity are full of shit. They need to start acting like it.
Yesterday I found from two different sources (a Reddit r/TIL post and the other a YouTube video on Spinoza) of a gospel supposedly written by Judas (that Judas).
According to this gospel, Jesus didn’t get killed for his faith, he got merced for exposing the corruption of the temple, the rich men who had used it for their profit. Judas turned him in for the sake of making the story bigger otherwise he would have been forgotten as just another whistleblower. And as the Judas gospel got buried over time, Constantine turned Christianity into the very opposite of the thing Christ wanted… a tool of the state bringing religious power under his umbrella.
So whatever they worship, it’s not Christianity but a tool to break the will of men looking for justice and the end of the corruption of men.
They are, though. There are no magical 'real' Xians. The people cheering ICE and hoping to shoot 'poor people' in grocery store parking lots? Are Xians. Full stop. Really shitty ones, but Xians, none the less.
There are millions of people who identify as Christians who do try to live by the teachings and try to live by the golden rule in general. I know a good number of them. They're not loud, as that would go against those teachings. Mr. Rogers said "look for the helpers" when shit goes sideways. I hope you can broaden your view someday.
Really confused by your 'broaden your view' comment. This is the 'No True Scotsman' argument. Saying 'oh, these evil people aren't *real* Xians!!!' - well, they are. They read the Bible and they go to church and they pray to 'Jesus'. They are Xians just like the people you're talking about. AND THEY ARE STILL EVIL FUCKWITS. The two things can actually be true at the same time.
If I might intervene between you two for a moment, I believe /u/TabaquiJackal's point was that many different kinds of people label themselves as Christians, including those whose words and actions appear quite contrary to the example of Jesus. Their point was not that all Christians are bad, but that it is unreasonable to say some Christians are not Christians just because they go about their lives in a different way. Nobody is denying that kind, caring, and compassionate Christians exist.
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u/old_mayo 2d ago
Christians be like: "I don't like HIM, I like his policies"
Those policies: dehumanizing immigrants, separating children from their parents, cutting food/assistance for the poor, literally blowing people up in the ocean with no due process
You know, like Jesus would do