re: #412 ObserverArt

This triggers a few thoughts I’ve been having.

There was a time when Christians were humble, meek, helpful, full of unwavering love and all that good stuff.

Lately they have become so full of themselves like they are the chosen, better than everyone, capable of judging and condemning, etc. Righteous to the point of just being in-your-face assholes.

Is a lot of that type of thinking coming from the newer Christian churches that have the arena-like sizes with the stages, sound systems and lighting? Are they all being turned into “Christian Soldiers” that are being taught to go out and proselytize and be more active.

It just seems some of these people just pound on their pumped-out chests and think they are saved and you are not and they just have to tell you.

Which all seems very different from “religion” as I remember it years ago. Maybe it is just the ‘net allowing them to be assholes, but I don’t think this is what the “Message” was all about. Seems to me this is all going to lead to something real bad. Just a feeling…a feeling that this is all so wrong.

It’s just the intertubez allowing them to believe that they’re a greater majority than they really are.

Trust me, as someone who’s lived basically my entire life in the south — and not even the “deep south” — people that identify as highly religious have always been monumental racists and bigots. They just didn’t feel free to express those sentiments without consequence before. My grandmother was the sweetest lady you’d ever meet in public — but at home, around the table? She didn’t hesitate for one moment to complain about ‘the blacks’.