RE: do you worry about if anything bad would happen if christianity died?
February 12, 2016 at 12:43 pm
I think it depends pretty much on whether the religion dies slowly, or all at once. In a slow death, at least the most likely one to befall modern christianity, it'd just continue hemorrhaging adherents until nobody worth a damn is left and the whole shebang is so irrelevant as to make its death meaningless.
On the other hand, were this to be a sudden thing, if suddenly we discovered something that makes christianity a completely untenable position- if, in other words, current day christians were suddenly thrust into a world where their treasured religious beliefs were invalidated explicitly and undeniably- then I think we'd get some very dramatic flouncing going on. See, particularly fundagelical christians are more likely to take disagreement with their positions as a personal affront, and they aren't exactly apt to take correction well either. I can see those types giving up on their charitable works and so on in the most public, loud way possible, making it half punishment for daring to disagree with them, and half overly theatrical argument from consequences to try and get people back under their nice comfortable status quo anyway. For a lot of right wing christians the whole charity schtick has never been about helping others anyway, just about projecting that image. Every other cherished tenet of their religion has been used as a weapon to get at dissenters before, I can't exactly see their "charity" being used any differently if they needed to.
On the other hand, were this to be a sudden thing, if suddenly we discovered something that makes christianity a completely untenable position- if, in other words, current day christians were suddenly thrust into a world where their treasured religious beliefs were invalidated explicitly and undeniably- then I think we'd get some very dramatic flouncing going on. See, particularly fundagelical christians are more likely to take disagreement with their positions as a personal affront, and they aren't exactly apt to take correction well either. I can see those types giving up on their charitable works and so on in the most public, loud way possible, making it half punishment for daring to disagree with them, and half overly theatrical argument from consequences to try and get people back under their nice comfortable status quo anyway. For a lot of right wing christians the whole charity schtick has never been about helping others anyway, just about projecting that image. Every other cherished tenet of their religion has been used as a weapon to get at dissenters before, I can't exactly see their "charity" being used any differently if they needed to.
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