The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

=> How Christian Teaching Fucks Us Up...

How Christian Teaching Fucks Us Up...
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Saturday, August 9 2008, 19:31:15 (CEST)
from *** - *** Network - Windows XP - Internet Explorer
Website:
Website title:

...people always say there's nothing wrong with Christians teaching; that it's indivduals who get it wrong. I don't think that's accurate. The FBI has just apologized for getting phone numbers of reporters...what do they mean by "apology"? Don't they just mean they're sorry they got caught? How many times do government officials say, ""im sorry if YOU got upset with me calling your mother a whore...so I apologize". Apologize for what...exactly? Apologize for thinking it...or saying it...or for getting caught...or for YOU being upset?

...People focus too much on the facile apology and not enough on the thing they did that they only "feel sorry" about because they got caught.

Like many other distturbing behaviors that have cropped up more and more the more people have begun ranting their Christianity, this is tied into Christian teaching...specifically the idea that you can sin all you want to six days a week and wash yourself clean on Sunday...before you start all over again.

Christians, the noisy ones, even feel "better" when they, or someone else, fails over and over to live a decent a life the rest of the week...they see such chronic failure as a "test" or proof that the person is "committed" to seeking divine forgiveness...nowhere do they say, "listen fella, why don't you try being BETTER and not simply covering over your fuck-ups with simple apologies and empty promises to do better...stop gettting such satisfaction out of tearfully declaring your sins and washing in blood of lambs...all of it in front of teevee cameras and instead stop yourself with a little discipline and better behavior.

There's a great joy in "repenting" that's swept America...the end result of which is that the FBI, the CIA, government torturers etc can go on committing illegal and immoral acts they KNOW they'll merely "apologize" for when they get CAUGHT.

It's a great aid to hypocrisy and is a part of Christian TEACHING, not "personal failure".



---------------------


The full topic:



***



Powered by RedKernel V.S. Forum 1.2.b9