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KY_EnviroGuy

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37. We have a massive problem in our nation, that is....
Thu Mar 14, 2019, 10:53 PM
Mar 2019

loss of humility and empathy, both of which are foundational to most religions as well as many non-religious followings such as Humanism. In my lifetime that I can recall since the 50s, people have slowly became more selfish, self-centered, tribal and isolationist.

Although I never attended one, the things I've learned about the new Evangelical churches are completely upside-down from what I was taught in the old-fashioned Southern Baptist Church up through the late 60s. And, the Southern Baptist Convention now behaves like a branch of the Republican Party.

In recent decades, we've seen mega-churches and mega-pay preachers come to be very common, which appears to me to be a rabid worship of material things and human beings.

I would like for someone to explain how that complete change from humility and meekness to arrogance and materialism happened.

Are they now using a completely different Bible?

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