• @solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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      346 days 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

      • Wugmeister
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        6 days 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.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness
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        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.

        • @solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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          35 days ago

          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

      • @confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world
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        15 days ago

        If someone tells everyone he knows he is a man, he is a man even if he doesn’t seem like a man sometimes. Same with Christians. It is really annoying when they don’t seem to follow many Christian teachings but they are still Christian. IMO anyway.

    • blaue_Fledermaus
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      56 days ago

      There’s the problem that “Evangelical” is too broad a category, there are churches that historically are considered Evangelical, but don’t share in that anti-christian insanity.