Here’s a promising-sounding new book: 10 Dumb Things Smart Christians Believe:
Many Christians, new and seasoned alike, tend to bank on promises that God never made, says one pastor.So when God doesn’t come through on those “promises,” some are likely to become angry at God.
And “that to me as a pastor over all my years is always one of the saddest things,” says Larry Osborne, teaching pastor at North Coast Church in Vista, Calif.
Osborne, whose church draws over 7,000 people, is hoping to spare a lot of Jesus followers from that anger. He’s also hoping Christians will peruse Scripture more and align themselves with what God really says rather than the “word on the street.”
Wait, that doesn’t sound promising at all! Does he at least have a good list of ten?
- Living God’s way will bring good fortune
- Faith can fix anything
- Forgiving means forgetting
- A godly home guarantees godly kids
- God has a blueprint for my life
- Christians shouldn’t judge
- Everything happens for a reason
- Let your conscience be your guide
- A valley means a wrong turn
- Dead people go to a better place.
Well, a number of those are stupid things. But if I were making a list of “Ten Stupid Things Smart Christians Believe,” none of those would be on it. What’s that? You want to know what would be on it? Good question!
Ten Stupid Things Smart Christians Believe
- A mistranslated book written by cave people is a reliable guide to the modern world.
- There’s an invisible man in the sky who likes to watch you while you’re showering.
- Two thousand years ago, an alter ego of this invisible man knocked up a Jewess whose husband wasn’t satisfying her.
- The progeny of this drunken coupling was both god and the son of god.
- This son of god was killed (but not really, since he’s also god, and god can’t die) and then came back to life to seek revenge, just like J.D. Walker.
- His killing was a necessary sacrifice in order that we might be forgiven for the sins of Eve, the first woman in the world, who lived 6000 years ago in a magical garden, where a talking snake convinced her to eat a forbidden apple.
- To show our thanks for this sacrifice, we should put special crackers and wine in our mouths, where they will be magically transformed into his flesh and blood, which we should then swallow despite taboos regarding cannibalism.
- If you don’t believe all the preceding items, then after you die you will be plunged into a lake of fire and tortured for all eternity.
- If you do believe all the preceding items, then after you die you’ll get to go to heaven, which is a cloud in outer space connected to the earth with a dotted line bent into a heart-shape
- Thomas Kinkade is an awesome painter.
Which book would you rather read?
Joel,
May I post this list in another blog with a link to your blog and giving you full credit? This is a masterpiece!
Go for it!
Joel,
I understand this seems completely foolish, i would have agreed with everything you said just a few years ago. Please listen to the sermon titled “The kings table” dated 12-9-2007. As a matter of fact please listen to any sermon before February of 2008 and then please email me with your thoughts. I was raised as a child of culture (in a Jewish family)and the Bible agreeably was ridiculous, but I was drawn to the Gospel and finally completely broken and destroyed so i could be made again, and now I understand. I’m 32 with 2 broken marriages and 4 kids and I believe. I would love to continue this dialogue, please listen, and try to do so with an open heart.
Peace Joel,
Jen Z
http://www.lakeshoremuskegon.com/listen.php
this is the link
Joel, you are an uneducated, ignorant and deceived fool.
Re-read John 8:58 and then Exodus 3:14, then Romans 6:23 and finally John 3:16.
There is hope for you yet. But your time is running out.
http://www.NeedGod.com
I may be uneducated, and I may be ignorant, and I may be a deceived fool, but … what was the last thing you called me?
“Joel, you are an uneducated, ignorant and deceived fool.”
…the kind of Christian vitriol that would make Jesus proud.
Technically, we don’t know it was an apple. The Book of the Cave People merely calls it “fruit”. It might have been Rock Hudson they she took a bite out of, which goes a lot further explaining God’s wrath.
I thought your links would lead to appropriate proof-texts, but I was greatly disappointed. All your article is, is a list of sarcastic assertions with nothing to back them up, a few ad homs– plus a truly humorous reference to Family Circus (which is number three on the Amateur Atheist Top 40 Hits after Chick tracts and eHarmony).
Joel, I’d like to reiterate what HPJames said, but only because I know you personally.
Joel, you are an uneducated, ignorant and deceived fool.
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Well, that’s enough for me. Good luck Joel, I will be praying for you to truly see the light – but of course you have to want to see it. God will not make you.
Sincerely,
Kevin
trouble with “true believers”
Believes in and talks to an invisible being
Believes that worshiping invisible being will affect reality
Delusions of granduer and persecution
Warps reality data to fit predefined beliefs
Accepts doctrinal beliefs of others without critical examination
Characteristics of schizophrenia, narcissistic personality disorder, and more…
Get a grip
The writers of your ‘authoritative book’ thought wrongly that the earth was flat, and that the sun rotated around the earth…Not ‘inspired by’ something ‘god’ like, as the book reflects the human ignorance of the time…
There are 3 things that I love about your site. The First, is the title picture at the very top. The second is the picture on your book titled “Your religion is False”. Third, is under shirts and stickers the word FALSE spelled out in symbols. One thing I get what all of the symbols are except the L. What does the L symbol mean?
Last of all, even though these people have a false, or a Christian pagan religion doesn’t mean that there isn’t a God. They just don’t have the right deity yet. God said good Atheists go to Heaven, kicking and screaming all the way. God said that Richard Dawkins goes to Heaven. So that kind of opens the door for all of the other Atheists.
Gods messanger, Melanie
While “God” gave us carbon dating and the math supporting it to determine the age of the Earth he decided to litter the place with dinosaur bones, oil, suspicious layers of carbon…basically made the entire planet proof that it’s older than Christians believe just to “test us?” He also purposely made the ages of everyone in the bible add up to the creation year of the planet, but didn’t let anyone figure this out til a british fellow came along in the 1800′s.
Christians set the entire Western world back by hundreds of years in the dark ages when running water, sanitation, and medicine were tools of the devil because people that never heard of Jesus invented them centuries before. Allowing innocent children to die in agony because it’s god’s wish.
They burned, drowned and tortured teenage girls for having sex with the devil, thereby gaining the power to stop their neighbor’s cow from giving milk, or making other girls in the town itchy.
They oppose homosexuals to the extent of dragging them down a dirt road and leaving them to die on a fence, or publicly claiming they aren’t people with huge signs exclaiming how they don’t deserve rights….yet their esteemed representatives continue to have more then disturbing, abusive sexual relationships with male children and openly promote incest (Adam & Eve, Noah’s whole family, etc).
For some reason their God always needs money in the worst way.
They beg for money to get medical care for children in Africa but will fight to the death before the poor in their own country have free(or even affordable) medical care.
I’m so glad this religion is fading. I love that churches across the country are combining because of falling numbers. Seven churches have closed in my city in the last year and I am so happy to see this age come to an end.
Jesus = Personified Sun God
Yahweh = Personified Volcano God
Christians (whatever denomination) study comparative religion/history and free your mind from blind faith/superstition.
j
joel… y
you, sadly, truly are deceived… massively and pathetically so. not only that, but worse, you are smugly arrogant in your delusion. aside from radical humility and repentance before the God you disparage (Jesus Christ, Lord of all), you are a lost and hopeless soul; believe it!
dont know where you learned this, but its so wrong. its a lot deeper than that. i’ll be prayin. peace homie.
Great article!
Particularly liked the part of the perpetual virginity of Mary! Does that mean that Joseph never got lucky in his entire life? DUDE! No wonder they made him a Saint XD
One little thing, the link for “Lake Of Fire” should be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_of_Fire#.22Lake_of_fire.22_in_the_Book_of_Revelation
This is one of the most brilliant yet hilarious sites I have come across that denounces Christianity. Christians, believers of the Bible, wake up and to to most of you Christians- read it! The greatest argument against the Bible is the Bible itself. There is no denying that this is a fictional, poorly written collection created by peoples who were 2 hairs away from being apes. It is full of superstition, a total disregard for human life, brutal acts of cruelty and sexual deviance …acts condoned by God. There is a possibility that we may have a Creator but as for the Bible being a work of The Creator …please.
Eve ate a fig, actually, hun. Which is why I make a habit of buying fig newtons daily and eating them while staring at the sky/haven of omnipotent old stalker man.
Thanks Joel, your article made my day!
And to all those stupid christians out there: Go fuck yourself.
Lmao at Simon’s comment. You made my day sir! I’m actually on my way to church (not by choice, visiting my mom from Florida, and she is making me go) . We had a argument before we left, I was trying to explain to her how stupid and Fucking pointless church was, I was like yay, lets go pray to an invisible man in the sky etc….. wish I could continue this lovely conversation, but I’m in the house of the lord, gotta take my hat off and put the cell phone away, so I don’t go to hell…….. lmao
Well honestly this sounds like some angry teenager wrote this and not a smart one. I myself have no idea what I believe, but I do know that I would never base my own opinions or beliefs off of this loser. There so many sites that have way better arguements about how god isn’t real and their are definitely way better sites than this Joel characters that have way better arguements that would put this kids ideas to shame cause I doubt he could back them up. He simply heard them from other people much like everyone here has heard anything, be it proreligion or antireligion, either way every dumbass learns from some other dumbass on both sides. So, why waste you’re life trying, just live it because in the end I wouldn’t want to have wasted my whole life wondering about any single question.
I have to say, i was raised by a very christian mother but my father was atheist – it never got between them and they never enforced anything onto us. we were raised as though there was nothing to have to believe and nothing to not believe in. it was great! I have studied for many years not only Christianity and Judaism extensively but other religions as well, I myself do not believe in god but I find it very interesting. Juts like Greek mythology! And I must say – that a vast majority of the bible does not make complete sense and it is very contradicting in a variety of matters with it saying one thing but then saying another, and it’s views are very old school and if you truly read and examine it, it condones a lot of violent and abusive matters – that is why there are so many people out there pretending to be “god people” and doing bad things and abusing what he would really want. I believe that if there was a god and he created us – he/she would want everyone to just do the right thing by everyone else. That means no war or abuse to anyone regardless of what they believe, who they love and how they choose to live. In saying that, if you don’t want people to judge your belief on not being religious then don’t judge them. But I mean – you wouldn’t have posted something like this to make friends lol
I love how christians so often claim someone is “ignorant” and “arrogant”. First off, these words are overused by idiots. If it is in the first sentence of a comment, you know you are dealing with an idiot. They then never actually back up these claims. How’s this for “ignorant”? Opposing evolution by natural selection without actually understanding it (most christians do not at all), and generally being the biggest opponent of science throughout history. How’s this for “arrogant”? Claiming that you are privy to some absolute, objective truth because you have read a book and gone to church, and that only people like you will escape torture after death. These things are highly ignorant and arrogant, but you do not notice them because you are so sure you are correct that you give yourself a free pass. Plus, you were raised by people that are ignorant and arrogant in this way and so you don’t much notice it as being abnormal.
Christianity is not a religion. Athiestism is a religion and you are the most believing of them all. GF nubs…
This blog is Great! When Gaia comes back she is going to KICK your christian, jewish, muslim, false god worshiping asses. ha ha ha ha. Either she will or Buddha will. Well maybe not buddha, but someone will. Oh yeah, perhaps its going to be everyone else in the world who lives in reality and knows there is NO god. There is no one looking out for us. WE ARE ON OUR OWN. There is NO place we go when we die. Man created religion to help us deal with our lives, the hell we see around us, and the fear of death. Man created religion so that powerful MEN could gain and keep power over other men and in towel head land keep total control over women too. How does killing an 8 month old baby who ODs on crack because his mom was beaten into a coma by his dad who was high on the same crack that killed the 8 month old baby. Tell me where was your god then. Try living one day in the hell thats all around you. Get out of your book of lies created by MAN writen by MAN and look at the people suffering in front of you. All religious people are affraid of the real world and are too week to deal with life on their own. You dont need a god to help you, you only need other people. People help People, People KILL People. Its up to us. Not god.
Christians are so stupid. I feel sorry got them, for they shall never be as smart as normal people. Joel, you are awesome. A few people have been saying that you are a stupid and uneducated teen. If in fact you are a teen, then you are clearly not stupid, nor uneducated, considering your vocabulary. Most Christians I know do not have a vocabulary even half as good as yours, reiterating my point that Christians will never be as smart as normal people. I’m sorry if there are any imperfections in my spelling or grammar, I am only 12. I’m only saying this, because when stupid people have been outsmarted, they seem to start picking on spelling, calling them stupid for making a spelling error.
Please help God join the digital age through Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/God/153252724725919
I helping him out a little to get the hang of FB.
Whats wrong with all you people. There is way too much doubt and ignorance going on here. Im jewish and my friends are bootist, christian, and athiests. Togeather we all get along fine. I dont know why you athiests are crushing everyones beliefs and i dont know why you christians hsve some reslley strsnge beliefs, and ill never know why some prople dont hope that there is somewhere u go after u pass. But scientifically or how ever you spell it god seems really false. But u cant prove him wrong, and u cant prove him right. But there have been signs of him existing, and there has been proof that he cant exist. But i think that theres more to it thsn just some guy floating in the sky, there has to be some way of redistributing are minds into the cosmos, where we will have thought and we will also be at peace. So Dont be so ignorant, be open to new ideas.:)
Hey Yall,
No offense to all the atheists, but you’ve got it wrong. The carbon-dating system is completely based on preconceived ideas about what happened in favor of some dude Darwin’s sketches and daydreams with no real evidence. There is much more evidence supporting a cataclismic event like the Great Flood in the Bible, making the earth between 4 and 11 thousand years old, than for millions of years of evolution. Genetically, evolution (not adaptation) is impossible. Flies can get immunity to DDT, but that’s a far cry from becoming another species.
I’m not just saying all this, I have a doctorate in Archaeology, Masters in climatology, and bachelors in biogenics.
Joel! This article was hilarious!
Jesus Freak: Isn’t lying against your religion? I too studied archaeology at the graduate level, and either you got your degree from the back of a cereal box, or, frankly, you’re full of crap.
Jesus Freak, carbon dating hasn’t got anything to do with Darwin =.=
I have a question for the christian people.
If jesus says to love your enemy and turn the other cheek and satan is the enemy of god, why then do christians reject satan and all his works? Shouldn’t you all be embracing satan and forgiving him?
I’m just genuinely curious and a bit confused. Can anyone help me out here?
Although I am an Atheist/former Christian who is a Nichiren Buddhist, and currently I am reading and loving the Satanic Bible(Anton Lavey despite being in some places deluded even by my standards, hit the nail on the head with peoples hypocrisy who are Christian, doing the same thing over and over again Monday through Saturday and on Sunday begging for forgiveness and lying to themselves about the fact that they are doing EXACTLY what they WANT to do), why does anyone care(including myself, which I am concluding slowly but surely that I am a slave to my resentment towards Christianity for all the lies I told in accordance with what Romans said, it is the sin that lives inside of me not me that does whatever “sinful” thing I am doing). You can’t convince a deluded sociopath or schizoid that they are crazy anymore than you can convince a Christian that there book is screwed up. I told a former friend of mine that my morals were based on what causes suffering VS. what doesn’t cause suffering and it was like it went in one ear and out the other, I have no basis for morality says he(I can point out every contradiction in the Bible, and they simply lie to themselves and me about it not mattering when in there hearts they know it does only to sweep it all under the rug and flat out unapologetically IGNORE what I just said). The way to deal with these people is to shove it in there face and when they say something foolish FORCE them to apologize-but do it verbally. Corner them and don’t let them leave until they apologize to you for harrasment. Man is God, so they will answer to ME. We invented God, so we are God. We dictate to the divine what it ought to be, so we are the judge jury and executioner of God, let’s murder him and take our rightful place as God.
Also, someone should make up a T shirt that says:
“God, an imaginary friend for grownups.”
@Jesus freak, you forgot your PhD in gullibility.
you are only human and that’s good because your name is in the Bible you should read Psalm 53 all of it and take a good look at your self.
honestly, this article doesnt give proof. its simply someone venting their thoughts about their lack of believing in a higher power. and its a free country so do what ever you like. but instead of completely attacking people who believe differently than you accept the difference. i am a christian, and this article and most of the comments are attacks on people who call themselves christians and not the religion. the hipocrisy that you see isnt due to the religion but human nature and the best and worst thing God ever gave us was free will. i personally believe in an eternally logical and reasonable God. but instead of you actually talking to an educated christian you attack all of us for the down falls of the dumb people that you have encountered. oh and only an idiot believes that communion is the actual flesh. its just a symbol. a sacred symbol. and you are a simplton for thinking every single christian is that stupid. and not all christians believe that humnas have only been on earth for 6000 years. you have again made offhand judments on a few extremely rightwing christians. and anything eles that you would like to ask me i will happily answer. but i wont attack you for being an atheist but i can and will go on the offensive for tolerance, and abolition of this kind of hatred and stupidity. if you dont believe that is you, but dont push your lack of religion in someones face in a truly ignorant and disrespectful way. i hope you are a better, less pigheaded, and more intelligent person than this article portrays you. i am definitely praying for you, and i hope that you change will your view, but its not my job to push it on you, and be a douche about it. and even if you dont being more intelligent than this would be nice.
oh and adding to my last comment if you dont believe why do you care if other people do if its not harmful. God even gives hope to people in hard situations. if you were upset about religion you would also have complained about buddism, hinduism, daoism, janism, scientology,ect. but you didnt you only attacked christianity. and not faith in general so whats really the problem. i think that you encountered some stupid, hipocritical so-called “christians” that where enormously vapid. but not all of us are like that.
To everyone saying that this article doesn’t offer proof against believing in God…. when did he say it did? His article is called “Ten Stupid Things Smart Christians Believe” and it is his opinion, as everything we write is ours. He didn’t call the people who believe them stupid either actually, he said he thinks they are stupid things to believe, and I’d agree.
And quite frankly, all the freaks on here trying to “save his soul” etc. are the ones who aren’t convincing and sound like they are either in need of a psychiatric evaluation or just need a fucking hug from people who actually exist. Funny how people only believe all of it when they’re indoctrinated as a child or when they “find Jesus” when they’re going through a hard time and need someone or something to believe in. You don’t often hear of happy atheists just walking along loving life and then “finding Jesus.”
Believe whatever you want but don’t try to force it onto others who say they believe in something else, for their own reasons. Because nobody forced you onto this website or barged into your Church while you were discussing Jesus, to tell you that you need to be “saved” from your stupidity. Plenty of forums out there for Christians so go use them.
I just talked to a christian girl who told me that I’m basically going to hell and going to be tortured for all eternity because I don’t have the same beliefs as her. AKA Nobody really knows the origins of this universe and why things are the way they are, and there is nothing on this world to prove it, but her views are RIGHT and mine are WRONG and I’m going to suffer for not believing her way.
Can some Christian here really tell me that doesn’t sound messed up AT ALL in the slightest?
Haha i lol’ed
i’d like to see all that shit about “ooh theres hope for u yet” and “ignorant, decieved fool”. To them i ask you this: you believe that someone you can’t see or hear suddenly snapped his fingers and mud and stuff jumped together and created human beings. How can you deny scientific evidence; solid, unquestionable evidence, and believe your version of the story. And also, it says to turn the other cheek, so stop dissing Joel.
and if anyone is planning me a bible link and says theres hope for you yet, then f**k off.
good discussion. this leads me to an off-topic of mine:
one thing that strikes me everytime i look into such issues is how christians pick and choose what they wanna say from the bible. they have already made up their mind what they wanna read in the good book. ask them a simple question and they will take 5 pages to explain it to you, morphing the question into an essay, using apologetic words like ‘symbols’, it was a barbaric age, triune god, etc.
try asking them this “why did the old testament god demands animal sacrifice because according to the book, he likes the aroma of burnt offering (not unlike the pagan gods of other religions)?” christian reply ‘oh, that is just a symbol because blood purifies sins that were committed. offering animal sacrifice is just a Shadow of what is due to happen which is the ultimate sacrifice of jesus on the cross and his holy blood to purifies our sin” …. the real reason? the prohets/priest/tabernacle people of the old testaments just created that rule so that they have steady supply of meat protein in a bronze age.
if you ask them anything serious (aka more barbaric practice in the old testament), they will respond with : have you read the whole scripture in full? if not, you dont know what you are talking about. they will always nullify all the barbaric, inconsistent, ridiculuous things in the bible.
for another example, the god in new testament (abba) is ever loving, warm, fuzzy. in the old testament, he (yahweh) is just plain nasty, inconsistent and definitely tribal. why the big difference???
if you think about it, the god of the old testament is the god of the new testament. the god of old testament is only 1500 to 3000years earlier than the god of the new testament. can an eternal god change his attitude in such a short time? no. according to the bible, god said “i change not”
yet if you read Judges chapter 19 verse 24 to 29, you will see a man allow his wife/concubine (coincidentally labelled as an unfaithful one) to be gang raped throughout the night and left to die on the door step. When he found her in the morning, all he said is ‘get up, it is time to go”. after realising she is dead from her ordeal, he cut her up limb from limb into 12 pieces and send it to 12 tribes in israel to incite a holy war.
a christian will try to justify that chapter with: god did it because he wanted to stimulate the jews to teach those morally depraved gentiles barbarians a lesson and to draw the barbaric men closer to god by killing them off. right…. so he didn’t selectively kill those men who gang raped that poor woman but he chose to strick down on a husband & wife who did not donate all their money to the early church and kept some of it themselves (read new testament).
And I dont ever think those Judges chapter has ever been discussed on a cherry sunday morning service. i nearly vomitted when i first read that chapter.
quite hyprocrites. christians will always try to come up with some answers to justify such things in the bible and wrap everything up with john 3:16 – “for god loves us so so much that he sends his only son jesus to earth and die for our despicable sins”
the way christians view things:
a) if something doesnt make sense in the bible, you must re-read the scripture and realise that god punishes us so severely
because he loved us so much. if this still doesnt work, you say it is
metaphorical/symbolic, dont take the literal meaning of that verse.
b) if something does make sense in the bible, you glorify it. and you use it everytime someone ask query (a) and wrap it out with jesus sacrificed himself in such a horrible death FOR YOU!!!!!
let me ask you a question, why does god sound so emotional in the bible. he sounds almost human. and definely a narrow minded man.
the bible says when we die, we don’t go up to heaven or hell immediately. we only go there once judgement day comes when everyone is resurrected and judged according to his deeds in life. those who belived in god goes up to heaven, those who don’t go down to hell. if so, why does the new testament claim that moses and elijah appeared in white next to jesus?? shouldn’t the prophets remain dead in an intermediate state? why is it that the two prophets have ascended to heaven before everyone else????
after some time, you gotta ask yourself…..do i just focus on how jesus saved my poor soul and ignore everything else in the bible? if you even choose to ignore asking yourself this question, clearly, your education has failed you. some kid in an african poor country should have been given that education than having it wasted on you.
we can all read the bible in a way that appeals to our own sense of right and wrong, but if we are depending on our own interpretations of morality, why do we need god at all?
amen.
Christians use a lot of mental gymnastics to validate their faith.
Awesome. Don’t you love the idiot Christians who try to argue with their version of ‘logic’. Spew the lines, regurgitate the the dogma, have an ‘open heart’, whatever that means. Nothing beats sensibility, science, math, etc. You know, those difficult to understand concepts that Christians are so afraid of.
I remember being in the car with my dumber-than-a-clam Christian Brother-in-Law and his brainwashed kids when a news story about Abortion came on the radio that I wanted to hear. He reached for the radio so fast that I though his arm would break. I got there first and held my ground. They were so freaked out that they though God was going to strike them down that he almost pulled over before the news story was over. They were seriously rattled and didn’t say a word for the last 15 minutes of the ride.
These people are seriously disturbed and in need of mental health care.
Christians…you are insane. Get help. There is no God, Jesus was a fictional character. We’re here because given billions of years and the right conditions molecules eventually become humans that get stupid. When we die, we’re dead. Your perverted Christian Uncle Bill won’t see you in Heaven to play with your weenie.
Christians are dopes that enjoy being manipulated by thousands of years of con artists.
By the way, how come my cat won’t meet me in heaven?
@Frank, that is seriously messed up.
Also, the whole idea of a perfect heaven is ludicrous and would take away the joy of life, thus contradicting the idea.
Religion is for those who can’t face reality. Can’t blame them though, who honestly wants to die ?
I am whatever-you-want-to-call it. I got a good name for me: human, male specifically. But what name I have for my beliefs I cannot come up with because they are just that, beliefs.
I dislike the self-righteous attitudes of anyone that claims to be “Christian”. I honestly would rather be around those who hate “Christianity”, “sinners”, if I had to choose a “side”.
As far as stupid is concerned there is not one human on this earth that can put on their life’s resume “I got this life thing down pat”. I genuinely believe there was only one being that nailed it, and they nailed Him. They nailed Him because He silenced organized religion, and welcomed those who were confused and wanted comfort.
Yes, it is a struggle to honestly care for such people who lay claim to be in the name of Jesus Christ while condemning and judging the very same construct and fiber of the same origin, the Creator. I don’t blame those who are unbelievers that detest “Christianity”. I don’t like it either.