Most have probably never read the Bible either.

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    Is anyone even surprised? This seems very par for the course for religious extremists. A lot of Islamic extremists terrorists were previously things like Drug dealers or or such who rarely appeared at Mosques.

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    I’m actually kinda surprised. I figured people go to church to learn how to be racist. If you didn’t have a bunch of bigots around you telling you how to hate the other, you probably wouldn’t have that attitude. And fuck knows, Christians can certainly do bigotry proud.

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    Most Christians probably have never read the Bible? Have you? I have and it’s… a challenge.

    And Christians mostly follow the New Testament, btw, not the Bible.

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      When talking about Christianity, the Bible refers to both the old and new testament. And while Christians don’t typically follow the “laws” in the old testament, it is still a huge part of Christianity

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      I have little doubt that the percentage of atheists who’ve read the whole bible is significantly larger than the percentage of people who call themselves christians who have done so, and still larger than the percentage of them who’ve only read the new testament.

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    They just take what supports their ideology and ignore all the rest.

    And to be honest, it’s actually quite a decent way of living. But then you also have to accept teachings from other religions as well as atheism. Otherwise you’re just a selfish cunt.

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    It’s almost like their supposed beliefs aren’t sincerely held and they are nominally attaching themselves to that belief system to lend credibility to whatever they want to spread. This post is about MAGA, people with “legitimate concerns” about immigration while rioting and destroying livelihoods, and about these fucks.

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    Christians are like the least Christian people so I’m not surprised.

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    lovely. I haven’t met many of these people (probably because the place I go to interact with Christians is Church) but from rare experiences, trying to discuss theology with these people is often quite difficult. There was someone online, albeit from a different country, who joined a Christian group chat and had a vitriolic hatred of muslims. We kept trying to correct him on his behaviour, and then he ended up leaving (whatever his version was of) Christianity because we weren’t letting him have a vitriolic hatred of muslims.

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      Same here, in France. I read everywhere that Christians are nationalists hating LGBTQ people and women’s rights… most of the grey hairs on my church’s benches fought for the legalization of abortion (I criticised May 68 one day and was almost lynched), my pastor marries homosexuals and the president of my church (a woman, by the way) openly condemned Le Pen and her party.

      But if I discuss with less active Christians, who I see only rarely or not at all (but send money once a year to our parish, they proudly say), the tone is very different.

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        I’ve noticed here in Australia as well. Our pastor hard that people were picking sides in the Israeli Palestinian Iranian war and he slapped it down in a sermon and told us that we were to love everyone with all our hearts.

        But I’ve mentioned that I’m a church goer to people who don’t believe at all and they told me that Australia should be a Christian country. I’m not sure what value they see in Christianity, but I doubt it matches what I’ve been taught