[Serious] Over the top

[Mister Agenda]

You know how in the USA non-whites get tired of saying 'not all whites' when they make an observation about white people? And most white people don't take a criticism of white people as applying to them if it doesn't apply to them? But a similar observation from a generic American white person about an ethnic minority is considered a sign of bigotry? There's a reason for that. The white person is punching down, the ethnic minority is punching up.

There's a similar dynamic going on in America between atheists and Christians. We know not all Christians are alike in every respect. You know not all Christians are alike in every respect. But the Christians in America are represented by 90% of our legislatures and 100% (at least professedly while in office) of our presidents. We're punching up, and we're doing it in a space where the vast majority of us are atheists and 99% of us get than when we say 'Christians' we rarely mean 100% of them without exception.

But I'm sure there are guys on 'black twitter' admonishing people to be more accurate when talking about white people, they're not all alike, you know. Even the ones named Becky.

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[quote='Grandizer' pid='1928277' dateline='1566452807']
Reread 1 Corinthians, and you'll see how he wants us to deal with the fact that people are so often bad. Hint: not through hating them.

Then there was Jesus, who had a lot to say about loving one's neighbor, one's enemy, etc. Loving people is not hating people, by definition, and misanthropy is hating people.

This means, I guess, that according to certain definitions of True Christianity recently seen in action, we can judge that Jesus wasn't Christian.

I think the judgment that follows from that is that few Christians are Christian. Jesus is supposed to have said that we would know his people by their love. A lot of the representatives of Christianity in America don't fit that description.