Reply #24: blame it on Paul

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from a great piece called, Views from a former Christian conservative (this was posted on DailyKOS a while back and I x-posted here:
http://johnsoncity.blogspot.com/2005/06/views-from-former-christian.html

We take everything Paul said seriously, actually. Way, way, way too seriously, but the reason we take it so seriously is because Paul has this way of delineating Christianity as a practice so that you can live it out very easily. He basically teaches Christians that they are to live every day as though they are battling persecution. Paul is the classic propagator of the Us/Them mentality. Them is the World. The World is evil and sinful and wants to persecute Us. It is Our job as Conservative Christians to don our armor and wage war against the World.