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Evangelicals now hate Jesus because he sounds like a liberal wimp
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I like your Christ, you Christians are nothing like your Christ
The closer I got to Christ, the less republican I became. I had to actually stop going to church because my views changed so drastically, the other church members were attacking me. It's certainly crazy to discover that mainstream Christianity today is anything but.
It has pretty much always been that way. This isn't new. Your eyes have just been opened to it. Conservatives especially, but most Christians cherry pick passages from the Bible to justify their actions, which is easy to do, since every passage has a contradicting one. Conservatives have now focused on only the old testament, which is mostly Judaism, and they ignore the new testament, you know, the part of Jesus. They like the fire, retribution, punishment, ect. Screw all that hippy bullshit love thy neighbor. Feed the hungry and poor.
It is because, like pretty much all religions, it is used as a tool to get people to act a certain way. It is why we had the crusades hundreds and hundreds of years ago, and why we have the jihad situation now.
If you have to be a good person from the threat of eternal damnation, you're not a good person, you're just evil on a leash.
Christians talk about "thought crimes". My grandfather who was a minister for 30 years legitimately believes that if he sees written profanity, he will go to hell. He even believes that partaking in alcohol consumption will send you straight to hell (completely ignoring the fact that Jesus provided wine for a party).
I remember in jr high relgion class and learning about how jesus was fighting against corupt religious authority. In a Catholic school
Christianity was a grassroots religion for roughly 300 years, but then emperor Constantine "helped" to "standartize" it. Ever since then Christianity is more about making you more manageable by the state than it is about saving your soul.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea