What Christianity ought to look like...

[lees1975]

President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter.

[lastlib]

1. And what it ACTUALLY looks like:

mostly.

(guy looks like he's about to dump a trump......)

[Lunabell]

2. Building houses for people.

Feeding people. Loving others. Being kind. Having empathy and compassion. That's the christianity I learned about as a child.

The Satanic Temple has more "christian " values than actual christianity these days. Shame.

https://thesatanictemple.com/

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

8. The shame

is for you to think it's shameful that not-christians can be as or more moral than christians. When we always have been as or more moral.

[Lunabell]

10. That's not what I said.

Don't put words in my mouth.

[ironflange]

13. I'm with you, Lunabell!

[electric_blue68]

17. Wth?! She's talking about (hypocritical) "Christians" not living up to Jesus's actions in a big way!

😑🙄🙄🙄

[keithbvadu2]

3. Trump's Christians/evangelicals. The public face of Christianity in America today.

Support me; your savior, your Messiah, sent to you by God.

Overshadowing the few good ones.

[Sky Jewels]

4. To me it ought to be looked at in the rear view mirror.

Humanity really needs to leave behind these silly, convoluted, primitive, patriarchal, women-hating mythologies. Yahweh/God and Jesus have just as much to do with reality as Zeus and Thor do: zippadeedoodah.

Magic isn't real, and religion is poison for the planet.

[Calculating]

5. The problem is you cannot prove that

And religion isn't a poison, there have been plenty of extremely evil non religious ideologies.

[Sky Jewels]

6. That's like me saying: You can't prove that sparkly purple unicorns

don't cavort in candy cane gardens.

There's no reason to assert something exists unless there is some evidence it exists. A twisted book of collected mythologies from primitive Middle Eastern cultures that didn't know the Earth orbits the sun and not vice versa does not count as evidence.

The major religions all cast fictional male characters in the starring roles. That's ridiculous bullshit, and the whole framing of these idiotic stories have indeed been poison for centuries, at least for half the population.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

9. Name them

What few there are pale next to the many evils that religion has wrought.

[brooklynite]

7. Has nothing to do with Christianity....just simple humanism.

[Igel]

12. Agreed. n/t

[lees1975]

15. The Christian gospel

is just simple humanism.

[Act_of_Reparation]

11. Why doesn't it, then?

Moreover, why in the entirety of its 2,000 year history hasn't it?

[lees1975]

14. That's a false assumption.

It has. And there are numerous examples of individuals who "got it" when it comes to separating Christianity from counterfeit religion that has its roots and origins in Christian tradtion, and in an institutional church that is part of that 2,000 year history of insttutional religion vs. the actual Christian gospel.

[Act_of_Reparation]

16. It's not an assumption.

It's a measurable fact. At no time in its recorded history has Christianity, in the aggregate, resembled anything like what was expressed by those few who "got it"... whatever "it" is.

What was this early, "true" Christian Church like, before institutionalization ruined it? What are our sources?