They say “God, Family, Country” but it runs more like “Self, Family, Self, Self, God, Self, Self, Self, Country as long as it doesn’t inconvenience: Self.”
That’s a good way of putting it. Honestly, Christianity is incompatible with the “family / country” part. Christians are supposed to sell everything they own and help the poor, not hoard it for their own. And “country?” Jesus couldn’t give a shit for countries.
Yeah, my impression is that “country” was more of an Old Testament thing. Jesus’ experience of “country” ended poorly, on a hill, and then they wrote the New Testament about him. At least in the Old Testament you have the Hebrew nation sticking up/together for themselves, even as other countries make them miserable.
As for Christianity in the US today, it’s like being in the soda and chips aisle of a grocery store: what brand are we talking about? Most of them are bad for you, but oh so appealing.
They say “God, Family, Country” but it runs more like “Self, Family, Self, Self, God, Self, Self, Self, Country as long as it doesn’t inconvenience: Self.”
That’s a good way of putting it. Honestly, Christianity is incompatible with the “family / country” part. Christians are supposed to sell everything they own and help the poor, not hoard it for their own. And “country?” Jesus couldn’t give a shit for countries.
Yeah, my impression is that “country” was more of an Old Testament thing. Jesus’ experience of “country” ended poorly, on a hill, and then they wrote the New Testament about him. At least in the Old Testament you have the Hebrew nation sticking up/together for themselves, even as other countries make them miserable.
As for Christianity in the US today, it’s like being in the soda and chips aisle of a grocery store: what brand are we talking about? Most of them are bad for you, but oh so appealing.