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Why are Christians so full of themselves? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago by MayoPete@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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I'm at a new job and working on a Saturday. This place is very "Christian-values blah blah blah" and at the end of our work day one of the supervisors is holding a prayer about "please God let this _ go smoothly and thank you for helping us etc."

This isn't the first time I've sat at a prayer that's this selfish and asinine. Pretty sure I've been in a prayer thanking Jesus for some hot wings.

This kind of prayer was given today. Y'know, the day where some pretty awful things happened in a South American country but who cares about that /s

I don't get Christians. They say all this nice stuff about their religion but the worship songs are very individualistic, talking about "Jesus saved me", "my relationship with god", "thank you God for x". Never about other people. And of course none of the prayers today were for IDK the people who fucking bombed and murdered today in our bloody quest for oil?!?

Do these people really think their God gives a fuck if their hot wings taste good or if the printer works in the office today? If you really believed in this Devine being wouldn't you want it to focus on the important things like IDK making sure everyone has food and shelter and maybe making life less miserable for the homeless people? WTF is wrong with Christians? Is this banal kind of "worship" also common in other religions or is this yet another reason to escape the U.S South 🤔

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[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago

I mean, by the letter of the bible, infants go to hell. "No one comes to the father except through me" is an absolute statement. I had a very good friend for years (we lost touch over the last fifteen years or so but she was very important to me for a long time) who is a Christian and iirc a priest's daughter. She is also bisexual and has many close gay friends. I asked her how she reconciled that with her Christianity, and she said basically that it was easy, because she worshipped a Jesus and a god that wasn't homophobic etc - if she's wrong and biblical homophobia actually reflected God's will, well, she wouldn't worship that being anyway. Always struck me as an interesting take, if not spectacularly theologically sound. And of course I will take someone being a decent human being over bigotry justified by good theology (not that accepting the supposed proscription of homosexuality in the bible is good theology of course) a thousand times over. I sometimes need to remind myself that people like her exist and are just as Christian as the assholes.