To give you credit people do wayyy overestimate how much faith plays a role in the average Christian’s actual practical life. It’s not like your local Christian mechanic is fixing your car with prayers, or that they’re just gonna have faith that the Nigerian prince in their inbox is gonna send them a million dollars.
I think a better point (than the one the other guy is attempting to make) is that there’s thousands of sects that will tell you thousands of different interpretations. There’s no one right way to be religious and anyone is free to interpret their text however they feel like, so it’s not like your flavor of belief is any more valid that the people who do believe God will always protect and provide. Regardless of how uncommon it is, it’s hard to deny that the whole faith thing has given us some communities that are susceptible to things like faith healing. Which is unfortunate for the kids who don’t know any better or have no power to change the situation have to suffer the consequences of that behavior.
But let’s be honest, even if we didn’t have Christianity or abrahamic religions, chances are those same people would be doing the same shit but with crystals, horoscopes, and tarot cards.
The real problem I wish more of us were talking about is the amount of faith people put into preachers peddling politics from the pulpit. (Accidental alliteration lolll)
To give you credit people do wayyy overestimate how much faith plays a role in the average Christian’s actual practical life. It’s not like your local Christian mechanic is fixing your car with prayers, or that they’re just gonna have faith that the Nigerian prince in their inbox is gonna send them a million dollars.
I think a better point (than the one the other guy is attempting to make) is that there’s thousands of sects that will tell you thousands of different interpretations. There’s no one right way to be religious and anyone is free to interpret their text however they feel like, so it’s not like your flavor of belief is any more valid that the people who do believe God will always protect and provide. Regardless of how uncommon it is, it’s hard to deny that the whole faith thing has given us some communities that are susceptible to things like faith healing. Which is unfortunate for the kids who don’t know any better or have no power to change the situation have to suffer the consequences of that behavior.
But let’s be honest, even if we didn’t have Christianity or abrahamic religions, chances are those same people would be doing the same shit but with crystals, horoscopes, and tarot cards.
The real problem I wish more of us were talking about is the amount of faith people put into preachers peddling politics from the pulpit. (Accidental alliteration lolll)