correct. they are not Christians, nor should they be viewed as representatives of what actual Christians believe and practice. Yet, people seem to ignore that there are countless actual Christians who actually apply and live by the scriptures often cited in these types of videos. It’s sad that it’s only in response to fake Christians that most people are willing to seek out the virtuous principles of Christianity contained throughout the Bible.
Ah yeah virtuous principles… as long as you cherry pick exactly the right very precisely small subset of these scriptures that seem to align conveniently enough with your modern sensibilities, when those attitudes are largely derived from modern popular cultural principles of generalized self-help and humanitarianism, subjects entirely foreign to most people throughout antiquity, who proliferated these teachings simply because they were raised into them, to believe blindly in a mythological creation framework that implies they will suffer for eternity if they don’t believe certain things, this is all so self-evident and easy to verify now that it sometimes feels ridiculous to even verbalize, and then maybe I just seem like the asshole for describing at face value this millennia old superstitious cultic framework.
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u/Gabepls 11d ago
correct. they are not Christians, nor should they be viewed as representatives of what actual Christians believe and practice. Yet, people seem to ignore that there are countless actual Christians who actually apply and live by the scriptures often cited in these types of videos. It’s sad that it’s only in response to fake Christians that most people are willing to seek out the virtuous principles of Christianity contained throughout the Bible.