RE: "Good" & "Bad" Christians?
August 24, 2019 at 5:47 pm
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2019 at 6:04 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(August 24, 2019 at 5:16 pm)Acrobat Wrote:(August 24, 2019 at 2:55 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: @Acrobat
Like I've said, Christianity has strayed from what it originally was. Christians today are hardly Christian at all.
edit: When's the last time we had an inquisition? At least those guys believed they were carrying out god's work. Your average Christian today only goes to church when their parents are in town and they hardly follow any of the teachings of the Bible, metaphorical or otherwise.
There is no debate to be had here. Christians today HAVE strayed from what Christianity used to be. And thank god for that. Christians use to be some despicable fucks.
Inquisition was some 1200 years after Christianity originated. To call it representative of original or authentic Christianity is just stupid. We know what the early christian movement looked like, from both it’s critics and supporters and it wasn’t for that.

In so far as the adult long accustomed to having free reign to act act out his proclivities is less authentic than the fetus stuck in the womb able to do nothing, perhaps the inquisition is not authentically Christian.
But how about the Adolescent was just beginning to explore his power when barely out of the house in which he was born. Is that more authentic?
Or is it your view that Christianity is only authentic when utterly powerless like a fetus in a womb?
If so, I would be happy with any arrangement required to keep Christianity as authentic as possible.