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(135,637 posts)dalton99a
(81,077 posts)FreeState
(10,553 posts)He's Christian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
No true Scotsman or appeal to purity is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect a universal generalization from counterexamples by changing the definition in an ad hoc fashion to exclude the counterexample.
unblock
(51,974 posts)i see your point, and certainly, they call themselves christians.
but this isn't an ad hoc exclusion; it's more of a fundamental schism, dividing christians who try to live their lives as jesus would or as jesus would want them to vs. christians who prefer to live their lives as lucifer would but to claim worship of jesus and use it to justify their evil deeds.
one can imagine a time when the church might split along such lines, perhaps leaving christians and paulists; whereas one can't easily imagine a time when scotland will split over who puts sugar in their porridge....
onit2day
(1,201 posts)uponit7771
(90,225 posts)progressoid
(49,827 posts)But I still approve of the smack down.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)The way I read the NT is that Jesus disliked hypocrites most of all.
Interesting the name Falwell, does it mean those with that name fall well?
Poiuyt
(18,087 posts)How did Christianity get so distorted?
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)Like many other things human when greed and the thirst for power over others take hold like a cancer.
The Prosperity Gospel got totally out of control......
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)wtf does he know about poor people.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)In the first Avengers movie, Hawkeye and Black Widow are just starting the final battle with the alien invaders. They have a little patch of land in Manhattan they're defending. As they start shooting aliens, Black Widow yells over to Hawkeye, "This is like Budapest all over again!" Hawkeye replies, "You and I remember Budapest very differently."
Jerry Falwell Jr. and I read the Bible very differently.
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)* Fascism not Christianity
Truth well said!
Marcuse
(7,399 posts)gademocrat7
(10,623 posts)Failwell is a despicable charlatan.