believing in God and the Day of Judgement, having it in your mind 24/7, will help you choose virtue when it doesn’t feel convenient and your whims and greed scream against being righteous
Then why do so few Christians act virtuously? Why is it Christians are the ones most in favor of Trump and everything he’s doing? Why are people being shot in the streets, families torn apart, immigrants dying in cells?
If Christians are, on average, more virtuous, why are they disproportionately supporting unethical, amoral leadership?
Why is it when Tim Walz implemented free school lunches for children, it was the Christian right that opposed it? Why were childless atheists like me stronger supporters of it than Christians?
I don’t think they are and Christianity itself was fucked from the start, being the empire’s state religion that co-opted the image of the man they murdered and changed the core “morality=goodness=what God wants from you” into “believe this person is God and you’re saved! Faith without deeds is a valid thing!”. Remember, Jesus was just a Jew of his time. I don’t think they actually accepted the message of Jesus, I think they accepted whatever Paul and the church said and never read a word in the Bible (which has a lot of crap but at least they’d know what they should be for/against from the actual source). I mean, God says “do not kill” but the Crusades happened, so from the beginning Jesus’ message, the Law and the prophets were not taken seriously in some parts of the world, just as a cover-up for the actual values they have (might makes right and fuck you if you get on my way, something like that, right?).
Then why do so few Christians act virtuously? Why is it Christians are the ones most in favor of Trump and everything he’s doing? Why are people being shot in the streets, families torn apart, immigrants dying in cells?
If Christians are, on average, more virtuous, why are they disproportionately supporting unethical, amoral leadership?
Why is it when Tim Walz implemented free school lunches for children, it was the Christian right that opposed it? Why were childless atheists like me stronger supporters of it than Christians?
I don’t think they are and Christianity itself was fucked from the start, being the empire’s state religion that co-opted the image of the man they murdered and changed the core “morality=goodness=what God wants from you” into “believe this person is God and you’re saved! Faith without deeds is a valid thing!”. Remember, Jesus was just a Jew of his time. I don’t think they actually accepted the message of Jesus, I think they accepted whatever Paul and the church said and never read a word in the Bible (which has a lot of crap but at least they’d know what they should be for/against from the actual source). I mean, God says “do not kill” but the Crusades happened, so from the beginning Jesus’ message, the Law and the prophets were not taken seriously in some parts of the world, just as a cover-up for the actual values they have (might makes right and fuck you if you get on my way, something like that, right?).