thread: 2007-02-26 : Exorcism followthrough
On 2007-02-27, wundergeek wrote:
James:
I don't know that anybody can really say that Christianity is about [x] - that's a pretty big statement and as soon as you say Christianity = [this thing over here] then you get other Christians arguing that no, in fact it = [that thing over there]. But yes, you're correct that love and peace are a big part of Jesus' message.
The reason our culture is so loud about being Christian is simple human nature. No one wants to think they're an asshole. So everyone does their best to rationalize their assholish behavior by finding some way, however contrived, to reconcile their behavior with Christianity. Sometimes you wind up with some pretty square pegs trying to fit into a round hole - like George W who claims to be Christian and yet didn't have a problem with killing people by starting a war (and who now refuses to even talk about casualties).
But that's not unique to our culture and Christianity. Hell, you've got all the extreme Islamists who blow people up and call themselves righteous Muslims - despite that their radicalism is pretty antithetical to the Quran. I'm willing to bet it happens with every religion. It's just people being people.
