What a 'true' Christian is seems to be very ill defined and rather subjective.
Oh it is, which makes this whole matter very sticky.
Not to be a bad person here but Hitler's ideals were based off of Martin Luther's. Ring a bell? If not then let me fill you in, he's the father of the modern day Protestant reformation; if you're Christian but not Catholic or completely mental you're protestant. Luther was a violent antisemitic as was Hitler, obviously.
Martin never acted upon his antisemetic veiws unlike Hitler who started a little thing called the hollocaust which I don't remember God telling anyone to do.
Martin never acted upon his antisemetic veiws unlike Hitler who started a little thing called the hollocaust which I don't remember God telling anyone to do.
It doesn't matter he was the father of the belief with theological backing (or so he said).
1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nationsâ"the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you- 2 and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. [a] Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.
Yes, because the annihilation of 7 races is so much better than the attempted annihilation of 1 belief system.
/sarcasm These religion threads get more activity than I can shake a stick at!
Saying you are a Christian and being a Christian are two seperate things.
I used to tell people I was Christian if they asked, but considering I never did anything to support it I felt out of date and dropped it altogether. It Felt like removing a burden actually.
That it did, never felt more free or less guilty in my life. Of course at some point in time a massive feeling of being alone came upon me but I shrugged it off quick enough.
That it did, never felt more free or less guilty in my life. Of course at some point in time a massive feeling of being alone came upon me but I shrugged it off quick enough.
That's been the story from pretty much everyone I have run into who has deconverted, myself included. For the loneliness we have our fellow humans to turn to, or failing that maybe a pet of some sort.
That it did, never felt more free or less guilty in my life. Of course at some point in time a massive feeling of being alone came upon me but I shrugged it off quick enough.
Not really.... I feel guilty for lying to my friends sometimes. And I never really felt alone, As mage said, I have half-feline half-liquid cat to keep my company. And I also have teh interwebz 4z c0mF0Rt
