Reply #14: As I said last night....the problem is more the TYPE of religion in the US [View All]

We have tons and tons of McChristians in the US who treat religion as though it were something to cling to only at convenience. It makes them feel as if they are really good by expressing faith in God verbally instead of actions and it often gives them a shield to justify their own petty bigotries against various groups of people. They use it to justify their hatred of people who are different in any way, whether it be sexual orientation or people of different faith such as millions of peaceful muslims around the world. It can even be used to hate those who are less fortunate or stricken with disease because they can just write it off as God's will.

Meanwhile, and I have seen this time and time and time again, these same people drink, smoke, sleep around, lie, curse, cheat, and sometimes steal. They are often the incarnation of the seven deadly sins: Greed, sloth, pride, lust, gluttony, envy and most of all ANGER.

They pop into church once in awhile (sometimes more regularly) and give a little to the church and the moment they step out of the threshold of the temple they shed anything worth learning in there while clinging desperately to the easy parts.

It's a sort of fast-food type of religion. It tastes good, but it's not really nourishing to the spirit or the society

They also think they are the majority and maybe their form of Christianity is in the majority. The strange thing is that Jesus himself said that true Christians would NEVER be the majority:

Matt. 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

Matt. 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.