It's not taught, and you've yet to cite your source, claim it or pass. You could cite Westboro baptists or Salem witch trials, if you need help finding a source. Children, as I'm sure you know, don't need to be taught disobedience. People don't need to be taught to be judgemental either. Our brains are classifying machines.
I appreciate your compliments and I've found our talks enjoyable and informative and feel similarly in your regard. I will say that the world is full of misery and people are the main cause of that, not religion. I also concede, that any structured belief impacts psychology, and the surrounding social constructs that the individuals are a part of. We can argue the historicity, accuracy and semantics of events and their impact on the human condition but fundamentally I believe it to be a human feature (as opposed to a bug), not an institutionally taught principle in an organization that systemically causes significant human misery on the daily. It's not a scotsman if I'm not making the generalization. The pastor in question by definition claimed himself to be a fake and upon pointing that out, everyone else made the generalization that I would apply that to all Christians (which I would). Just as if you told me you were an atheist, I'd understand by definition that you don't believe any God exists. If you claim to be a fake you're most likely a fake. I was attempting to also delineate that having doubt doesn't mean you're a fake. If you don't appreciate my attempt to more clearly define the elusive "true Christian" I'm very fine with "someone who accepts Christ".
I appreciate your compliments and I've found our talks enjoyable and informative and feel similarly in your regard. I will say that the world is full of misery and people are the main cause of that, not religion. I also concede, that any structured belief impacts psychology, and the surrounding social constructs that the individuals are a part of. We can argue the historicity, accuracy and semantics of events and their impact on the human condition but fundamentally I believe it to be a human feature (as opposed to a bug), not an institutionally taught principle in an organization that systemically causes significant human misery on the daily. It's not a scotsman if I'm not making the generalization. The pastor in question by definition claimed himself to be a fake and upon pointing that out, everyone else made the generalization that I would apply that to all Christians (which I would). Just as if you told me you were an atheist, I'd understand by definition that you don't believe any God exists. If you claim to be a fake you're most likely a fake. I was attempting to also delineate that having doubt doesn't mean you're a fake. If you don't appreciate my attempt to more clearly define the elusive "true Christian" I'm very fine with "someone who accepts Christ".
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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