Like some people who are in love with love...?

Question

...do Christians romanticize their religion and just believe all the warm, glowly parts?

Answer 1

LOL... They certainly spend a great deal of their energy staying on the sunny side of the street, don't they.... ? I'm sort of surprised they don't include the wearing of rose colored glasses as a part of their daily dress code since staying in La La land most of the year without the help of glasses has got to be a tough trick for newbies and a few others who aren't completely over the edge.

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Answer 2

This is a warm and glowly poem:

No man loves God who hates his kind,
Who tramples on his brother's heart and soul;
Who seeks to shackle, cloud, or fog the mind
By fears of hell has not perceived our goal.
God-sent are all religions blest;
And Christ, the Way, the Truth, the Life,
To give the heavy laden rest
And peace from sorrow, sin, and strife.

Behold the Universal Spirit came
To all the churches, not to one alone;
On Pentecostal morn a tongue of flame
Round each apostle as a halo shone.

Since then, as vultures ravenous with greed,
We oft have battled for an empty name,
And sought by dogma, edict, cult, or creed,
To send each other to the quenchless flame.

Is Christ then twain? Was Cephas, Paul,
To save the world, nailed to the tree?
Then why divisions here at all?
Christ's love enfolds both you and me.

His pure sweet love is not confined
By creed which segregate and raise a wall.
His love enfolds, embraces human kind,
No matter what ourselves or Him we call.

Then why not take Him at His word?
Why hold to creeds which tear apart?
But one thing matters, be it heard
That brother love fill every heart.

There's but one thing the world has need to know.
There's but one balm for all our human woe:
There's but one way that leads to heaven above--
That way is human sympathy and love.
--Max Heindel.

Answer 3

Yes some do. Then they turn around and judge all the non-believers and say that those people will be going to hell. A lot aren't even aware that there are parts of the "Good Book" that weren't even incorporated into the final copy. Believe that.

Answer 4

My experience is that Love is objectively good. And by Love I mean putting the concerns and needs of others at least as high as your own. Jesus said in Luke 10 that this is the whole essence of the Law and the Prophets and that if we do this we will live eternally [yet in the present].

So do I ignore the bigotry, misogyny, and violence in Christianity in favor of this message?

Yes, absolutely.

Our visions of God are produced by our formative, daily, and spiritual experiences and we interpret the Bible and our religion through that mental lens. There is a loving God and there is a violent God in the Bible and in Christian tradition. I choose the loving vision of God. And I am more than willing to state my case for the Divine Ground of Being whose nature is Love and state my case against the violent Midianite volcano god Yahweh.

This is not so inconsistent or hypocritical as any other philosophy, relationship, etc. Gandhi held the Gita up as the manual for nonviolence. Read properly the main thrust of teh Gita is Krishna telling Arjuna, who doesn;t want to fight his brothers on the opposing side, that he should commit violence because that is the duty that presents itself and doing what you are supposed to do is always good, essentially. No one questions Gandhi because he walked the walk and engaged the discussion. So if I do love my neighbor as myself and am willing to discuss the violence in my religion, what's the difference?

Answer 5

Glass houses

Answer 6

yeah... like the warm, glowly, appocalypse.

Answer 7

Some do. Some research history then go on to something that makes sense.

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Answer 8

oh dear...

you say "Christians" as if there is one homogenous befuddled misled deluded entity that we all belong to---it's like saying "do all black people like fried chicken" or "do all Mexicans like fuzzy dice hanging from their rearview mirror..."

I have a very good black friend who does not like fried chicken OR watermelon, my neighbor who is Mexican would never put anything tacky on her rearview mirror, and there are almost as many Christian belief systems as there are Christians.

Answer 9

Not in love with religion, definitely in love with God for all He's done in my life - if that's romanticizing, I plead guilty

Answer 10

I'm sure they do otherwise how could they sleep at night ... unless they were psychopaths as well as pathetic, potential, psychiatrist fodder?