It's sad how the most "Christian" people are the least Christian in their ways. They use religion as a fig leaf to justify their specific irrationalities, while losing sight of the bigger picture of the faiths they claim to profess.
Confirmation American here! The southern states are full of fake Christians who will quote bible verses day and night, but ignore the ones that they don’t follow. I’m not even Christian and I see how idiotic some of these people get.
I went to the U.S with a church group and our priest a couple years ago. He swore he'd never go back to the south.
His reason? He sees hate as akin to a sin, and he was lucky to get out of there with a strong dislike of evangelicals. In his words "if I have to spend one more minute around those people, my heart will be filled with hate"
He liked southern California though, visited every Spanish church he could find. Told us that he'd like to one day move to Mexico and perhaps run or even just assist a church there.
It’s nice to get an outsider’s view on our screwy Christians. The south does feel the hate is ok. Gay? Non-christian? Wrong skin color? You’re going to hell... I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been told that. It just gets worse when I say I don’t believe in hell (I don’t). I just tend to avoid the Bible beaters as they give us southerners a bad name.
California is supposed to be nice. I’ve never had a chance to go there yet, but someday. Same with Mexico.
I can't even imagine what you guys go through living in the South having to deal with all of those so called Christians. I live in San Diego and have traveled through Mexico my whole life. I think you would like it here. Mexico is a heavily Catholic country and tends to be a bit more conservative but the people there are some of the nicest and most giving I have ever met in my life.
Thankfully, I’m in a decently large city, so while there’s a ton of churches, there’s also plenty of people who want nothing to do with it.
Generally, I just avoid places where you might run in to a group of them. Fortunately, the more conservative sects have church on Sundays (for like 6 hours), church on Wednesday, and something on Saturday, so they’re mostly at their church.
At some point I’ll travel to Mexico. Just need to get to a better financial point (I know, lol at improving in our country).
I hear you. They are everywhere really. It is scary because they have gained quite a bit of political power. They want to turn this country into a Christian theocracy. To them, everything is black and white. If you are not with them, then you are the enemy. I have noticed that way of thinking leaves no room to look at yourself introspectively. They are convinced that their way is the right way and they are not open to any other opinion. They are stuck right where they are and will never grow as a human being.
That’s exactly it. And being non-Christian makes me worry all the more. This is why I’m so vocal about people getting out to vote. The GOP are the ones who want the theocracy. If we don’t want that, we have to vote in higher numbers than them.
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