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> “ ... it’s been co-opted by pessimistic baby-boomers and turned into a dark nightmarish scenario ... “ Similarly, this is how Christianity's public image was

• rorykoehler 8y ago
  Can you explain what you mean by this? Priests raping kids did it for me with Catholiscm....and people like Blair and Bush murdering people en masse to serve their fairy overlord sealed the deal for protestantism. Not sure how this ties in?
  • davemp 8y ago
    It's certainly multifaceted. I could write a pretty substantial article on this topic. My comment was mostly alluding to the unsupported imagery of a fire and brimstone pit of eternal torment for all non-believers. There's also excessive pessimism about the implications of Christian values not being mandated by legislature (ex: abortion). For your concerns, I would attribute those to the collapse and corruption of internal governance systems. Without much exposition, churches do a pretty terrible job of ensuring their leaders are moral and capable of conveying responsible interpretations of doctrine. Again this is more or less due to fatalism. EG: "Humans are inherently sinful, therefore there's nothing we can do about awful leaders" If anyone is actually interested in a related article, send me an email. I'll assume that, if a few people spend the effort to send me an email, it will be worth the effort to synthesize a responsible article.