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In reply to the discussion: Woman Said she Redirected Tornado to Another Neighborhood When God Gave her authority over winds [View all]Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)Who are self professed Christians, I'd estimate that as many as 3 to 5 actually walk the walk.
The rest? Well those would be like my sister in law, an aunt and a co-worker who donate a couple dented cans of unwanted veggies to food drives once or twice a year. They vote for the repub candidates who made their careers doing the very opposite of what their precious Jesus teaches, in the form of inflicting suffering on the poor, the elderly, the infirm, even the children they profess to care so deeply for, in the form of budget cuts to food, heating, housing assistance, the denial of medical care. Especially when the savings of those cuts is too often passed along as tax breaks to folks who already sit on more wealth than they could burn through in 10 lifetimes. Their votes are tantamount to hiring the elected officials to inflict these miseries, in direct conflict to what the bible teaches, and to do it in THEIR names as THEIR representatives. They're fine with that concept or they wouldn't vote that way. If you hire someone to commit a murder for you. you are legally and morally responsible. If you hire, ( vote for) someone to starve children, freeze the needy and elderly, you are also morally responsible and are in no way a genuine Christian.
Then there are the ones who insist gay marriage/life style is an abomination,and condemn those engaging in it while eating their ham dinners. Leviticus lists both as abominations, as well as things like laboring on the sabbath or have tattoos. These pious people mow yards on sundays, eat pork, in the form of BBQ, or on the 2 holiest if Christian days, Christmas and Easter, settling in for traditional baked ham dinners. These are the genuine Christians which you speak of? The ones who cherry pick which biblical "rules/laws" they'll live by and which ones YOU should live by? Please.
The routine hypocrisies displayed by such people aren't worth mention, being so obvious and numerous. The calls for prayers for elected officials to die horribly in plane crashes or slow, painful cancerous deaths cannot be described as genuinely Christian in any fashion connected to reality. Yes, I see and hear these types of things around me all the time. The prayers for a horrible end times to come soon and be mostly visited on those who differ from them. Michelle Bachman? Christian? LOL!
I suggest that anyone who attended sunday school/church as a kid knows the bible says when the time comes, few will be called. I understand how easy it must be to fool oneself, and other like/weak minded folks, into believing they are genuine, but they certainly are not.
Viewed in that light, which I can't help but do, the idea of a billion genuine Christians is laughable. It's my long considered opinion and conviction that there aren't more than a relative handful worldwide. Claiming to be one does not make it so and the vast bulk of the ones I encounter make the claim, but that's all.