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the thing is, is that in North America, alot of people are christans now, and follow the bible VERBATIM and dont consult the pope or other religious figures for clarity or, if you could call it this, errata. There's a video going around of some christian dude saying that its christian to say slavery is not wrong, yet this is not true for roman Catholics, there needs to be a hard line drawn between the two, as the former is what is a majority of trumps voter base, the the later find what they do is a bastardizaion.
I mostly agree, although I would say they follow the Bible verbatim™, where in reality they are just following what their local pastor or grandfather is saying the Bible says. Some common things they do take literally such as the Earth being only 6,000 to 10,000 years old, there being a literal Garden of Eden, and a literal Noah’s Ark.
Whatever whacko is trying to say ‘slavery isn’t wrong’ is not a Christian imo.
I feel that many Catholics I know call themselves Catholic first, rather than saying they are Christian and then clarifying that they are Catholic.
Off-topic: I feel a lot of these issues unfortunately came about from Christianity fracturing around the wrong thing. Christianity fractured around people having to do good works to go into heaven, as those leaving the Catholic church thought that faith alone was sufficient. The Catholic church of that time was greedy, they were letting people buy their way into purgatory, so that they could then go into heaven. The original Martin Luther, saw that greediness and called the Catholic church out, but he was calling them out and fractured the church over the wrong reasons imo.
Because they went off the basis of faith being sufficient; it opened the door for “Christians” to be genuinely awful to others since all they had to do was ask God for forgiveness right before they died and it was ‘All Good™’. The Bible calls on Christians to love one another, even people they might call their enemy they are called to love. I feel more of these people need to actually read the words of Jesus, because he is not condoning any of this type of hateful behavior.