I think the way many Christian churches and congregations act is toxic, but every Jewish person I’ve spoken to has had a good...
I think the way many Christian churches and congregations act is toxic, but every Jewish person I’ve spoken to has had a good relationship with faith.
oh yeah this was one line I found amusing from that post about how actually all religions are great except for Christianity.
like it’s not even false (for reasonable interpretations of “many” and “every…I’ve spoken to”), and yet.
or this kind of thing:
Christianity is a textbook cult.
Most religions are not like this.
the only way you could possibly think that is (ironically!) if you take Christianity as the hegemonic background assumption so strongly that every other religion is a tiny minority by comparison, and hence occupies a different role in society, without considering that other non-Christian societies exist.
(or you think that Christian belief in the afterlife is uniquely different from every other religion in a way that makes a material difference to its practices).
every post accusing people of being Christian-centric and ignorant of other religions somehow ends up being Christian-centric and ignorant of other religions.
I mean “cult” was kind of defined around the disciples in the wake of how the Great Age of Protestant Evangelism and early archaeology at the turn of the 20th century were kind of revealing Christianity to be a totally normal religious movement; more so with the postwar studies of “new religions” in post-occupation Japan