Why are Christians so full of hate?

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Maybe people lacking empathy are naturally drawn to religion more, because they don’t have the hardware for making moral frameworks. Of course, just being told what to do is never the same thing, but morality and commandments are often conflated in religion.

Or naturally drawn to the religion or branch of Xtianity that matches their empathy deficient morality. After all, how many Xtians have we seen on here talking about objective morality and universal moral rules. They don't understand why morality exists.

Because some people do become Xtian for the whole turning the other cheek, loving thy neighbour approach. But they don't join the evangelical churches of American Wahhabism that we see on this forum. My best friend for example is now a Quaker and she has lots of empathy and is the very opposite of a bigot. I knew her before she joined. I have a lot of respect for Quakers. I always have. They really do practice what they preach and they really are pacifists. For example, during the first world war when men were enlisted they resisted despite great personal cost. Or they would help foreigners who were being interned and a popular focus of hate.

But then I think the Quaker movement in some form would exist even if Xtianity didn't. It would just use a different mythos retold in a different way.

Sometimes I wonder if Xtianity really does exist except as a franchise that religions adopt rather than establish their own brand.

I think you’re right there, regarding people joining a religion/sect they weren’t born into. We know Drich migrated to Calvinism (he doesn’t call it that, but that’s what it is). Religion ultimately becomes a mirror. A talking one. Creepy, right?