There are rules and tenets and ideals of the religion. It’s not about meeting them, but it is about wanting to and more strictly attempting to.
It’s not even a no true Scotsman fallacy, because there’s a book no flavor of Christianity I know of openly rejects while claiming to be Christian, even if they have adendums like the book of Mormon. The rules are defined.
They aren’t only not trying to live up to those rules and ideals, they aren’t only just paying them lip service, they are actively, jubilantly, and studiously undermining and working against the most belabored edicts of their belief system without end and calling that Christianity.
Cheering for the torture of the meek, demanding cruelty upon people from foreign lands and calling oneself Christian, ie Jesus of Nazareth as written in the New Testament, is like claiming to be an academic because you burn a book every morning and brag about how illiterate you are.
“What you have to know how to read and… read books instead of burning them to be an academic?” Actually yes.
You’re looking in the wrong direction. Inconsistency in religion is the name of the game. No base to stand on in the fucking Bible. Look in the direction of sociology, and on your way, take a peek at Buddhist theories of mind. The Buddha was a real philosopher whose system is partially used today everywhere in psychology. Christianity popped up in an area dominated by Western philosophy, and it’s valuable to take a look at what the East had going on.
Academia is a capitalist indoctrination/gatekeeping machine, but I won’t get into that. You know there are mixed, opposing religions, right? Things like African American Christians still worshipping indigenous African gods. I don’t know if you’ve heard, but the world isn’t black and white anymore. You can use language however you want, but you can’t just do religion correctly, Christian is a self-proclaimed title linguistically and by subjective categorization (even the tree of life is old news - labels to make sense of shit), and from my experience “real Christian” is a term used by apologists to distance themselves from people like The Westboro Baptist Church (who actually read their bible). Been that way since I was balls deep in watching Matt Dillahunty and shit 15 years ago when I gave a shit about atheism.
Untrue. Christianity is self-proclaimed. This “real Christian” bullshit is apologetic nonsense, just like “the devil made fossils.”
As an atheist raised roman catholic, I disagree.
There are rules and tenets and ideals of the religion. It’s not about meeting them, but it is about wanting to and more strictly attempting to.
It’s not even a no true Scotsman fallacy, because there’s a book no flavor of Christianity I know of openly rejects while claiming to be Christian, even if they have adendums like the book of Mormon. The rules are defined.
They aren’t only not trying to live up to those rules and ideals, they aren’t only just paying them lip service, they are actively, jubilantly, and studiously undermining and working against the most belabored edicts of their belief system without end and calling that Christianity.
Cheering for the torture of the meek, demanding cruelty upon people from foreign lands and calling oneself Christian, ie Jesus of Nazareth as written in the New Testament, is like claiming to be an academic because you burn a book every morning and brag about how illiterate you are.
“What you have to know how to read and… read books instead of burning them to be an academic?” Actually yes.
You’re looking in the wrong direction. Inconsistency in religion is the name of the game. No base to stand on in the fucking Bible. Look in the direction of sociology, and on your way, take a peek at Buddhist theories of mind. The Buddha was a real philosopher whose system is partially used today everywhere in psychology. Christianity popped up in an area dominated by Western philosophy, and it’s valuable to take a look at what the East had going on.
Academia is a capitalist indoctrination/gatekeeping machine, but I won’t get into that. You know there are mixed, opposing religions, right? Things like African American Christians still worshipping indigenous African gods. I don’t know if you’ve heard, but the world isn’t black and white anymore. You can use language however you want, but you can’t just do religion correctly, Christian is a self-proclaimed title linguistically and by subjective categorization (even the tree of life is old news - labels to make sense of shit), and from my experience “real Christian” is a term used by apologists to distance themselves from people like The Westboro Baptist Church (who actually read their bible). Been that way since I was balls deep in watching Matt Dillahunty and shit 15 years ago when I gave a shit about atheism.