I used to be one, and met a few others in my time. We didn't live exactly as the NT suggested for a couple of reasons. One was that the NT makes a bunch of contradictory statements and it wasn't always clear as to which one should be observed. Do we actually love, or do we ex-communicate the gay people? Do we render unto Cesar what is Cesar's when Cesar is stealing from the poor and spending it on his mistresses? Are women really not supposed to talk in church and does god really give a fuck about how many kids a family has?
A second reason kind of grew from the first. The NT was written over the course of a couple of hundreds of years by people who, quite literally, knew nothing about the history of the cosmos or humanity's place in it. They didn't know about planets or orbits, had no clue there were countless galaxies, let alone stars. They didn't know about microbes, viruses, and believed that psychological problems were not due to evil spirits. Their's was a world of kings, not democracies; of obedience, not liberty, and of worship, not wisdom.
Another, at least for me, was that the "real" Christians took up conservative politics in order to enforce the social agenda that they actually found in the NT. It is all of a rage today to say that the real Christians don't support the Trump / Republican party. In my view that is simply inaccurate. Why wouldn't a group that sees god as the ultimate judge, one who will punish most of humanity with an eternity in hell simply because they would not bow in worship, support dictators and strong armed governments?
i know "real" Christians. I used to be one. I am not one any longer.
A second reason kind of grew from the first. The NT was written over the course of a couple of hundreds of years by people who, quite literally, knew nothing about the history of the cosmos or humanity's place in it. They didn't know about planets or orbits, had no clue there were countless galaxies, let alone stars. They didn't know about microbes, viruses, and believed that psychological problems were not due to evil spirits. Their's was a world of kings, not democracies; of obedience, not liberty, and of worship, not wisdom.
Another, at least for me, was that the "real" Christians took up conservative politics in order to enforce the social agenda that they actually found in the NT. It is all of a rage today to say that the real Christians don't support the Trump / Republican party. In my view that is simply inaccurate. Why wouldn't a group that sees god as the ultimate judge, one who will punish most of humanity with an eternity in hell simply because they would not bow in worship, support dictators and strong armed governments?
i know "real" Christians. I used to be one. I am not one any longer.
