The atheist is often left to wonder why Christians seem to universally deny that any of the evils committed by Christians in the name of Christianity, or for God more directly, have anything to do with "real" Christianity. And they very much do the same thing with anything yoked to their Christianity as well, which in America means capitalism.
When the Nazis murder Jews by the millions, such genocidal acts are always seen by Christians as "the fruit of the tree" of Nazism, even though Hitler and the Nazi's were either Christian, or couched all of their antisemitism and justification for genocide of the Jews, on the Christian bible.
When Stalin murdered millions to advance his own totalitarian brand of "communism," which was as far afoul of Karl Marx's ideas of communism as it was of the communism of the Christ's original twelve disciples or the Inquisitions were afoul of the teachings of Christ, Christians almost universally argue that such actions are the "fruit of the tree" of "true" communism.
But when Christian preachers and politicians defend slavery, start wars, and drop atom bombs, the Christian everywhere denies such actions are in any way "fruit of the tree" of their own Christianity.
Instead, the Christian insists that the ONLY fruits that can be said to grow from the "true" tree of Christianity is whatever "virtues" they wish to attribute to it, even if the Christian offering such a perspective is alone in the particular thing they choose to define as a Christian "virtue."
This miraculous double standard allows the Christian to lay claim to every virtue that has ever been committed by humanity on the one hand - even when those virtues are committed by atheists and non-Christians fighting against so many evils being committed by Christians in the name of Christianity - while simultaneously insulating the Christian from ever having to take any responsibility for the evils so often committed by Christians for their "beliefs" on the other, and especially when committed by the very Christians using those double standards.
This, then, only illustrates how often Christianity is preached everywhere as a religion of responsibility, even as it is practiced as a standard that simply defers all responsibility for one's beliefs, and the worst effects such beliefs have on both others or the world overall, to either a bible, or a God.
When the Nazis murder Jews by the millions, such genocidal acts are always seen by Christians as "the fruit of the tree" of Nazism, even though Hitler and the Nazi's were either Christian, or couched all of their antisemitism and justification for genocide of the Jews, on the Christian bible.
When Stalin murdered millions to advance his own totalitarian brand of "communism," which was as far afoul of Karl Marx's ideas of communism as it was of the communism of the Christ's original twelve disciples or the Inquisitions were afoul of the teachings of Christ, Christians almost universally argue that such actions are the "fruit of the tree" of "true" communism.
But when Christian preachers and politicians defend slavery, start wars, and drop atom bombs, the Christian everywhere denies such actions are in any way "fruit of the tree" of their own Christianity.
Instead, the Christian insists that the ONLY fruits that can be said to grow from the "true" tree of Christianity is whatever "virtues" they wish to attribute to it, even if the Christian offering such a perspective is alone in the particular thing they choose to define as a Christian "virtue."
This miraculous double standard allows the Christian to lay claim to every virtue that has ever been committed by humanity on the one hand - even when those virtues are committed by atheists and non-Christians fighting against so many evils being committed by Christians in the name of Christianity - while simultaneously insulating the Christian from ever having to take any responsibility for the evils so often committed by Christians for their "beliefs" on the other, and especially when committed by the very Christians using those double standards.
This, then, only illustrates how often Christianity is preached everywhere as a religion of responsibility, even as it is practiced as a standard that simply defers all responsibility for one's beliefs, and the worst effects such beliefs have on both others or the world overall, to either a bible, or a God.
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