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[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 61 points 3 months ago

I don't know who Colin Bodayle is, but from the responses he got from his students I think he is located in the US. There is rot in the US culture that's too deep, Trump is just it surfacing. Greed, individualism and selfishness are considered virtues, I noticed it when talking to coworkers there through the years. If Jesus ever went to the US he'd be crucified that is if he wasn't arrested at the border by ICE for being a Palestinian. The US claims to be a Christian nation, yet it is the furthest from it. What good is your religion if it doesn't make you do good? What good is your religion if it doesn't make you overcome your selfishness and greed?

[-] EldritchFeminity 26 points 3 months ago

Also worth noting that the US is not and never has been a "Christian nation." Not only did the Founding Fathers specifically separate church and state for that reason, but they also didn't declare a national religion and enshrined religious freedom as well for that same reason. Plus, half of them were agnostic or atheists. Anybody who says we're a "Christian nation" is just using religion as an excuse for bigotry.

If God truly exists, he more so loves the atheist who questions the world around him than the Christian who blindly follows.

-Thomas Jefferson

[-] frostysauce@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I mean, the US has obviously become a "Christian" nation, it matters not if it was founded as one or not. Simply, like, look around.

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 18 points 3 months ago

Yeah, it's the fruit of almost a century of anti-communist propaganda.

[-] phar@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

To be fair over many many centuries, Christians aren't exactly very following of the ways of Christ.

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, it's what led me to leave the faith. What I read in the NT wasn't what was practiced in the church.

[-] AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

If Jesus came to the US he would smack the shit out of all of us

[-] Trollception@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Was Jesus a political man?

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