• solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    11 hours ago

    what has millennia of the “no true christian!!!” arguing accomplished?

    if someone calls themself a “christian” then that’s what they are, and they’re using the same stone age book of tall tales to argue why they’re the only true christians

    fuck religion altogether, i say

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      5 hours ago

      what has millennia of the “no true christian!!!” arguing accomplished?

      I mean, not much, but rejecting the teachings of Jesus is still literally heresy. If we are to have a useful definition of the word “Christian,” it kinda has to include believing in the word of Christ.

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        lol according to whom? “true” chrsitians? the ones who are the self-proclaimed “authority” on what that means, and what anything jesus supposedly said means?

        nope. “christian” is literally anyone who calls themself christian

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      11 hours ago

      No, seriously, there’s been a shift in the way the people use the word evangelical. I’ll have to dig it up, but I saw a street interview recently where a reporter person is interrogating a man identifying as an evangelical who when prodded on the teachings of Jesus responded with “I don’t believe in all that Jesus stuff, I’m an atheist”. Apparently a lot of people are identifying as evangelicals as a political identity, not as a religious identity. Evangelicals literally are no longer Christians anymore.