Religion
Related: About this forumYou know things are weird when "non-religious" people follow Christ and Evangelicals do not.
For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/24/republicans-turn-more-negative-toward-refugees-as-number-admitted-to-u-s-plummets/
By more than two-to-one (68% to 25%), white evangelical Protestants say the U.S. does not have a responsibility to accept refugees. Other religious groups are more likely to say the U.S. does have this responsibility. And opinions among religiously unaffiliated adults are nearly the reverse of those of white evangelical Protestants: 65% say the U.S. has a responsibility to accept refugees into the country, while just 31% say it does not.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)I am not a Christian, never have been, never will be yet I follow the teachings of the Prophet Jesus. I also believe in some Buddhist teaching, some Tao teachings, some teachings from my Elders and a few pagan ideas thrown into the mix. Mostly, I believe in trees and my black lab names Luna.
Major Nikon
(36,900 posts)More often than not I see them using their religion to justify an agenda. Meanwhile religion and demagoguery go together like drunk and disorderly.
gordianot
(15,515 posts)Particularly those attributed to Jesus would be at severe risk of being flayed, beaten, tortured, molested, ridiculed and yes crucified. The current crop American Christian Evangelicals are particularly egregious in denial and contradiction of what they claim to worship.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)Like, "Believe in me or you're gonna burn"?
Call me hokey, but I'm actually kind of glad no one actually behaves like a first century Joe the Plumber says they should.
gordianot
(15,515 posts)The sermon on the mount really did not take.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)We can do better than pithy dismissals of mortal life.
DetlefK
(16,455 posts)The Torah was written down for the first time during the babylonian exile. Palestine was occupied by the kingdom Babylon and israelite scholars finally wrote down what had been before passed on through oral tradition: They were afraid that their culture and religion would be assimilated and wiped out by the Babylonians.
It is my personal theory, that the original jewish religion was ret-conned by the editors during this process. Before, the Jews were polytheists and venerated beside Jahweh the canaanite goddess Ashera. (Can be seen if you read between the lines in the Bible. "cut down your Ashera-poles..." From his choleric character, I think that Jahweh used to be a god of war of the Israelites, who was then ret-conned into the only god of the Israelites, because when your country is occupied by a hostile military force, you need a god of war.
And consider the time when the New Testament was written. Israel was occupied again, this time by the Romans. And Israel was governed by the brutal tyrant Herodes (it's a historical fact that he was a brutal tyrant).
In this time, someone comes up with an idea for a new jewish cult, that takes all the prophecies about the Messiah and says "this guy is it". The cult is small. The mainstream-Jews see it as heresy and the market is oversaturated with religions: Every country has their own religion, there are even cities with their own gods. So whom is this cult supposed to recruit as followers?
The christian religion could not afford to lose their precious few believers to any of the dozen other religions with their a hundred gods. So they became extremist.
An example for how over-saturated the world was with religious ideas back then is the Corpus Hermeticum. It's a religious book written in the 2nd or 3rd century AD and the author generously mixed christian, greek and egyptian religion into something new.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)uriel1972
(4,261 posts)because it's the right thing to do. Regardless of what's written where.
MineralMan
(147,591 posts)It correlates with politics, too, I think. I would have added a political party question in it, though. That would be telling, I think.
Republican
Democratic
Unaffiliated
I'd like to see those numbers.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)demographic is? Just curious.
muriel_volestrangler
(102,485 posts)https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/03/01/5-facts-about-u-s-evangelical-protestants/
So that's 'somewhat', and a lower educational level does correlate with rejection of refugees, but I think the unthinking political loyalty of white evangelicals to the Republican party is a far greater factor. They take their morals from Republican leaders, not their Bible.
Comatose Sphagetti
(836 posts)"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."
- Thomas Paine
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)C. S. Lewis
By their fruit you will recognize them?
Voltaire2
(14,719 posts)judging who is doing the christian thing the right way and who isnt.
NeoGreen
(4,033 posts)...since, empirically, that is how it seems to work in the real world.
Every one who claims to be 'christian is, by definition, a 'christian', and thus, how ever they 'do it', it is the correct 'christian' way to do it. This is irrespective as to whether it contravenes the way any other 'christian' 'does it'.