How Did Christianity Get so Toxic?

[donquixote99]

Anyone who was raised Christian a couple of generations or so back may have been asking themselves this question. The Weekly Sift digs into it.

[Dondilion]

Please expand.

[donquixote99]

From the introductory paragraphs:

But at the same time, when you look at the bigger picture, it’s hard to escape the idea that Christianity is your enemy. The loudest, best-funded, and best-organized groups working to make the world harsher, crueler, and less forgiving are the ones waving the cross. There’s nothing subtle about it. All their rhetoric is about what God wants, what God hates, and the “Christian values” that the law should impose on Christians and non-Christians alike.

And strangest of all, those “Christian values” seldom have anything to do with healing the sick, feeding the hungry, or welcoming the stranger. These followers of the Prince of Peace aspire to be “spiritual warriors“. They revere a man whose self-sacrifice brought forgiveness to the world, but their focus is on punishment.

[RickeyM]

Seems like to me Christianity teaches you to worship God while religion wants to tell you how you should worship God.

[nailer]

Religion orders us to worship God and Chrisianity is one of many.

[Pio1980]

Which "God"(s), and why?
What "God"(s) are so feeble and insecure as to need the assistance and validation of mortals?

[donquixote99]

The point here is the contrast in ethics. What Jesus is said, right there in the Bible, to have said and done, contrasts sharply with the concerns and agenda of 'Republican Jesus.'

[BigElCat]

They have been deceived, the same as y'all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormwood_(Bible)

https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Matthew%2024%3A24

The 'how' won't make any more sense than the rest, if you don't believe it.

They have the Prince of the Power of the Air, instead of the Prince of Peace.

Another name for it is; apostacy.

Lucifer's greatest achievement; to supplant the Creator (for a period of time).

[nailer]

Based on all those M24 'quotes' there are over 60 Jesus Christs, each with his very own Bible. Wonder what Jesus of Nazareth 'actually' said.

[barbara]

Organized religion is, by definition, a cult and like any other cult can be taken to extreme by leaders with ill intent.

I think christianity was headed toward extremism and when Trump came along, they latched on to him and the train headed off the extremism cliff. I don't blame the extremism on Trump but, he was the right vehicle at the right time to push things too far.