is erasing our identity to be more Christ like a sin?
(AskUpgoat)
There is a concept in modern churches that to be like Christ, one has to erase their identity. You can never question, criticize, or do anything contrary to the perceived way the church has decided you should live your life. In my own life, this has caused me to resent the church for how they approach this ideal. This has also caused a LOT of issues with prior Christian friends who hate me asking pesky, annoying questions.
A lot of times, people talk on "behalf of Christ", on subjects without really knowing what He would do. I've seen Christians condemn other Christians for not being Christ like enough. Ive seen the church condemn free thinkers for asking too many questions, admonishing the US for having too many rights, asking that Christians act more like slaves, complaining that people don't want to waste their entire lives at the behest of an overly demanding church, complain donations are down whilst they openly trash the country, trash peoples' efforts by undermining their own skills. if someone can barely make ends meet, how is guilt tripping them into donating gonna help them? Enter the prosperity gospel. Now you can be even more broke, but at least you can feel like you might not be broke later. Don't budget, God will provide. Ironic, since God provides and then you throw it away to greedy anti christ pastors.
Seriously, you'd think the church wants slaves, not converts. Any time someone has an achievement in their lives, they have to have humility and thank God. I can thank God for helping and showing me the way, but i dont think pride is what the church thinks it means. i even asked a pastor if pride is a sin wouldn't it also be a sin to be proud of your own kids? He had no answer of course, just that i took his teachings out of context. How fucking convenient, I must have heard it wrong. It couldnt possibly be that his teachings were retarded nonsense. Of course if pride is a sin you also cant be proud of your own people, your race, your accomplishments, your achievements, your nationality. You have to live your entire life being beholden to everyone else, helping them, going out of your way to fuck yourself over.
Seriously, if you were to have a "servant's heart" (their words not mine), your ENTIRE life would be spent catering to the church. At the height of my serving, I literally had no life outside the Church. It was absurd. And on top of this, the Church uses its flying monkeys and enablers to spy on you at every turn. They didn't give a shit about me serving, but when i told them to get bent, they got all worked up about it. Instead of seeing the people who helped them, they arrogantly assumed they were entitled to free labor and payments.
