Looking for input to help center my thoughts regarding religion.
I had an astute man once tell me that to be a Christian, all you have to do is believe that Christ died to save us. That is all. There are no other requirements, though practicing his teachings would certainly be a personal bonus.
Okay, some background: I was taught Christianity from a Catholic school that had a mix of nuns and your regular school teachers. It was also a diverse group, where people like me (bi-cultured) were in the majority. So my concept of Christianity has always been a vision of diverse skin colors. Anything else would have seemed odd. Also, though Christ's teachings of kindness and goodwill appealed to me, I suspect that that aspect of Christianity just happened to fit in with my personality. And this is the fusion with religion that has stayed with me to this day, and quite frankly, I don't know how to protect that in lieu of the co-option that an Anglo-American culture is taking over Christianity.
The most difficult thing I contend with, is that I have always been skeptical of organizations. And when the pedophile Priest situation started, I was very young and became forever jaded with my trust in the Catholic church. But it didn't affect the other qualities, which I pointed out in the above paragraph.The negative though, is that I'm a lone-wolf practitioner, which means, I will have to fight this battle alone.
So, my dilemma: How do I survive a barrage from Anglo-Conservative Christianity, that wants to sell themselves as the only true way to practice Christianity? They are like borgs, killing everything around them in order to sustain themselves. Shouldn't we have, in this day and age, a clear understanding that there are Christians who feel no kinship with the borg-style Christianity that the Right is pushing? And I know the answer is, yes, I just wonder how we get that point across, so they understand it?
As of today, the only way to make myself understood is to call their version, White Jesus. Some have been very shocked by this, but by the time I'm finished with my argument, it becomes very obvious why the Republican party is anti-woke.
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