Crosstians? They sure like to carry them and seem to be quite cross with the rest of society, fits for me.
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HawlSera@lemm.ee 9 months agoI do know many Christians who are all about love and tolerance, the problem is, they aren’t the ones going onto Fox News to declare they’ll be shouting how much “Jesus loves you, but only if you’re straight!” at your local university…
They’re the ones quietly living their lives according to Jesus’ teachings…
A few of these friends have taken to calling the kind of Christians the Alt-Right claims to be 'Xtians", for they have taken the “Christ” out of “Christians”
stringere@reddthat.com 9 months ago
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Many of today’s hard right xtians now complain that the things Jesus said sound overly “woke”.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 9 months ago
There were literally cases of Preachers being asked to stop teaching the Sermon on the Mount for being too “leftist”
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 9 months ago
True. I was raised in a religiously leftist household, and even as a child, when I first came across right wing xtians, I was legitimately confused by how they even exist. Our instruction was pointedly about reading the words of the character of Jesus (or for those too young to read, having it read to you) and boy is there a lot of stuff in there that I have no idea how the hard right xtians explain away.
Of course, there are the later writings from someone who never even MET the character of Jesus, which seem to be more problematic. I think it was RAW that said the people that seem to want to follow Paul more so than Jesus should really be called “Paulian”, not xtians.
Of course, the OT and NT taken as a whole, and then trying to treat it as a cohesive message is a fool’s errand and it quickly falls apart, but…
HawlSera@lemm.ee 9 months ago
My dad converted from Christianity to Wicca, but he more or less had the same problem, you saw all of the relatives on his side of the family seemingly refusing to stand by everything they ever taught him.
As for the old and new testament, it really is a fruitless Endeavor to try to make sense of it without the proper background there’s a lot of it requires a historical context or knowledge of alternate translations in order to make much sense. This is why theology is considered a science in and of itself, the science of studying religious texts.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Heh… Xtians I like that.
Though technically X was Greek shorthand for Christ so Xtians means Christians just as Xmas means Christmas.
But I doubt any Xtians would know that so I think I’m going to start using it.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Well these are the same crowd that likes to chant keep Christ in christmas, because they are offended by Xmas and for some reason Santa claus, even though Saint Nicholas was a real person canonized by the Catholic Church
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Yup. These people just want something to be angry about, so they aren’t going to let facts get in the way of that.