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In reply to the discussion: The newfangled atheists' normalization of Islamophobia was a... [View all]Bretton Garcia
(970 posts)All your remarks typically reveal the strong points ... and weak ones, of modern, post-fundamentalist Christianity.
One of the questionable acts of modernist Christianity, is its 1) frequent citation of 2) but then notable deviation from, the Bible, overall: Old AND New Testaments.
"Following Jesus" is a standard modern code for not following God. It is well known by moderns, that the New Testament broke away from the Old with a New Covenant. Even as moderns fail to note the hypocrisy of claiming to follow the Bible, and God... while Jesus departs from the "everlasting" laws of God.
Here, I am not bothered so much by the fact that Jesus and Paul and modern Christianity, broke away from God; I'm just troubled by their hypocritically not making that break crystal clear.