I've read the Bible many times, I read up on the Berean, watch videos, and use talk/poal to get additional content on top of Strong's concordance when I need to. What I have come to notice is that the Bible can clearly say one thing, very clearly, with zero room for interpretation, and people will twist the message completely into something its not.
The Bible is very clear on faggots. What makes it interesting is that the Bible mentions what happens when you accept faggots, queers, etc into your society (Romans and Leviticus), it shows how your customs will change, your society will become corrupted, etc. In response, most Christians I've talked to are utterly baffled how things have gotten so bad ... as if there's no connection between churches accepting IRS bribe money, allowing corruption in the ranks, ignoring problems, caving for church attendance numbers would cause people to reject modern Christianity.
And this brings us to a much bigger issue with the modern Church: for the most part it doesn't solve anything. If you factor in the NGOs and the Church's suicidal live and let live attitude, it actually created the modern day problems it pretends to solve. The church pastor was talking about some grandmother who was threatened at gun point, and how she was so brave for not shooting back, etc and turning the guy in after a long talk. Barring the fact the story sounds like complete and utter bullshit, the only reason this could work in real life is because the perp in question was white. Had it been a nigger or mexishit, she would have died and been shot on the spot.
The latest IRS swindle has been the obey all authority schtick being preached by pastors. It's almost like these people are in lock step, I can go to a completely random church and within minutes, I will already know everything the pastor will talk about, down to the similarities of the stories and excerpts. Lately they have been lock step on the obey all authority, take the vaccine, yaddi yadda. God expects some modicum of standards, and ethics, or something. Blind tolerance to every deviant asshole is not a Christian virtue and never will be.
If I can go to a completely random church and recite from memory from ANOTHER church what you're going to say, there's a big problem
CovidHoldout 4 points 1.7 years ago
It's kinda weird since "churches" in the areas I used to live in operated more as split off mini militias than actual church groups (there's a lot of those where I used to live). They had their own structures, Bible studies, etc, being hosted in homes, completely detached from any singular church. They even said it all the time, the church is its people, not the building.
I miss those days, instead I've been subjected to the biggest rape of my brain about what Christianity is by idiot pastors who can't tell me the difference between a finish nail and a drywall screw.