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My answer is responding basic on sociology of religion methods. Your response doesn’t work in the real world. How you define who is following it or not immediately cuts your data is half. Who are you to define who is a true follower or not? That’s not objective. By those standards there are no religious followers in China or Japan. Pew had to consider this when trying to abstract data on this very question there.
What a flashback! I thought this map was so cool in 8th grade lol
This line of thinking in American Christianity is certainly one of the many things that made me begin to question it. A similar common sentiment is to love gay people but be radically against them being gay. Which is pretty much saying I don’t support or love you in anyway except if you stop being yourself.
It’s annoying that every event has to have some godly context that some random Christian can easily see.
I’m not an atheist or anti-Christian but these sorts of people also drive me crazy.
I disagree. A religion is defined by how it’s lived. A big percentage of Christian’s in America think like that to various degrees.
It is a Protestant ideal to think a religion can be said to be purely what its scripture says but that rarely is how it works in followers’ lives.
That said, no one will disagree with you that this is not a Jesus thing to do. But this is a very Christian thing in the US.