What concerns me is the fact that there is so much pro-Christianity right now in the American culture and it appears to be having great effect on our daily lives through politics, education, etc.
Buttrumpet, is this really a fact? If it is a guess, I would guess the opposite: that there is LESS Christianity right now (at least in the U.S.). I could be wrong, though.
The Nazis proclaimed themselves to be Christians. Many members of the Klan profess to being Christians. We all know about the Crusades. We realize how religions of all factions have been used as a tool to control the masses of the less fortunate. We see the problems within the preisthood today. We see multi-million dollar settlements being made to satisfy law suits against the Catholic church. Why wasn't this money used previously to help the needy instead of hoarded? Why were not the art treasures of the Vatican used to help the needy instead of being hoarded? Why were underhanded and shady deals made between the Catholic church and Italian government in association with the mob in the '70s and then swept under the rug when money was lost and leaders turned up murdered? This just goes on and on.
While it is interesting to see how Christianity (especially the Catholic church) has tracked alongside politics during the last several centuries, it isn't really fair to imply that "Christianity" as a belief is somehow responsible for the bad behavior of all of these people. People are still responsible for their own behavior as individuals, whether or not they subscribe to a particular religion or ideology. Just because you call yourself a great guitarist or an environmentalist doesn't make it so. It still comes down to how you behave--there are BAD Christians as there are bad muslims and bad democrats. So you cannot assign blame to an ideology or religion, I'm afraid.
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