glimmer_of_hope said: Ok seriously, making threads to piss people off just for points is getting old and stupid. Thats all this garbage is. "Jesus Fanboys"...are you fucking serious?
Do you seriously think I do posts in order to just tick people off? This post is in a general section, about issues I have, connected with other threads on here, where people have gone off and blasted Christianity, Christians and so on. My post is one similar, but venting in a different area, looking at one would expect from the Christian religion, and what someone who is actually plugged in is. It fits here, and has context.
I have no scoreboard at all here. And who the heck am I going to support? Maybe I couldn't of said "Fanboys". Would you prefer i go with "those who are fans of Jesus and love him, but aren't really followers"?
Go with this, if you prefer:
I consider myself a Christian and I wasn't even offended by this. I think Bill Maher gets it right.
Since I saw it, it resonated with me. I believe in the Eastern Orthodox Church, one of the errors/heresies they warn about is confusing national values and nationalism with Christian teaching. It is easy for the values of a nation to creep in, people buy into it, and then think that the national values are Christian values. I see a bunch of that around the American form of Christianity. There is belief that America is destined by God for greatness, and good things out of America are seen as proof of Jesus being valid. A bunch of junk gets picked up, and things Jesus teaches gets ignored.
