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Originally Posted by The Bear
In my opinion a TRUE Christian is a person who follows the teaching and actions not of any church but the written teaching and actions attributed to Jesus.
In my opinion the closest to true Christianity is based on the Anabaptist movement and its later forms especially The Brethren, in other words VERY “Low Church”.
I do NOT see the Roman Catholic church as being Christian if for no other reason than it having intermediaries between God and Man, a thing that is anathema in Christianity.
I also find the corruption of The Ten Commandments appalling, there is NO justification for it as the Ten Commandments are there in black and white in every Torah there ever was, is, or will be.
Can I even see myself “regaining my faith”?
No way. I see the whole thing, be it Judaism, Christianity, Islam, or whatever god based belief thing utterly ridiculous, and were in not for the evil that results it would be hilarious to watch grown people do what they do in their worship of their imagined “god”.
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I think you have an extremely selective view of what the words and teachings of Christ were or mean. They are both very peaceful and loving and very violent and negative. And that is without examining the problems with the selection of the cannon.
I much prefer the Catholic churchs like the Roman and Anglicans to the fanatical protestant sects.