Comment by Forester@yiffit.net on And people wonder why I have a hard time believing Christianity

I’m sorry that you were raised Catholic.

There shouldn’t be a marriage of church and state, with that said, there are sects of Christianity that actually follow Christ’s teachings and not the myriad laws and interpretations added over the ages though they are rare.

there are sects of Christianity that actually follow Christ’s teachings

ok. ‘original sin’ is bullshit too. the thing is, you CAN be a good person without any of the supernatural stuff about “you must believe if you don’t want to go to hell”

also, please name a sect of christianity for which one of the MAIN duties of the “good christian” is not to convert the world to christianity?

Greek Orthodoxy, Ethiopian Orthodoxy as well as the Coptic Christians

Much higher emphasis on taking care of people and being a caring person.

Not sure that’s true. Christianity is pretty inherently evangelical. That’s one of the big reasons why it spread so far.

If you want to have a historical discussion about this I would be more than open to that. I have spent many years studying abrahamic religions. The three sects of Christianity that I have mentioned are all prior to romanization of the church. The Catholic church is the foundation of almost all sects of Christianity, but the Catholic church is itself a splinter group from the original church that was a sect people who still thought of themselves as Jews and were not very open to outsiders. See the whole Jew versus gentile discussion in Acts. But the long of the short is that the Roman Catholic Church did not become a thing until roughly 200AD. And it was only after that point that it became the monster from the meme. Prior to that it was the religion of the poor and downtrodden because it promised a better life after you died. Which was in direct contrast to the Roman religions where you had to pay in to get to heaven.

Which was in direct contrast to the Roman religions where you had to pay in to get to heaven.

I’m about to go to sleep, but that’s not even close to correct.

Source?

The early Church would be gathering in people’s private houses and back rooms with no admission fee and food and drink would be freely sheared in common.

For most popular religions such as the cult of Mars or Jupiter or even Judasim you were required to either give to the temple or provide sacrifices to the temple sacrifices are not cheap.

wow, ok THREE even. do you belong to one of those sects?

Show me on the crucifix where the Catholics touched you. Greek Orthodox

LOL i was never catholic, i couldn’t care less if you think your sect is superior to another-- it’s ALL make-believe. santa claus for “grown-ups”

and you haven’t yet addressed the core belief of original sin, which honestly, pounding that crap into kids’ heads is child abuse if you ask me. here you are, a grown ass adult, genuinely believing that because you were born human, you and everyone else is paying the price for an equally make-believe storybook character’s egregious crime of eating “forbidden fruit”

sure “it’s allegory,” whatever. the fall of man has to do with knowledge, somehow.

i really don’t care about the details, because it’s all bullshit anyway. and there’s always someone there to preach about it. thank you for illustrating that point

Maybe you should have phrased it differently then because I didn’t disagree when you said original sin is bullshit. Adam and Eve sined. That was their issue. You live your own separate life

Original sin is a Catholic teaching. So which flavor of Catholic are you? Were you a Methodist? A calvinist a Lutheran, a Baptist, a born-again or just generic American ist

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