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Posted by11 hours ago

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The Chosen was by far the best Christian television show I've ever seen. Not movie, that goes to the Prince of Egypt (my favorite movie). Anyway, The chosen does an incredible job of representing Jesus Christ in an authentic and meaningful way. If you haven't seen it, check it out.

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I'll not be ashamed to admit this man brought me to tears.

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Posted by9 hours ago

The diffrence between American Christianity and German Christianity is insane

Hello everyone. I'm a Christian for I think 2 years now and I traveled all over the world including America and other places in Europe. I feel like our belives is honestly so much diffrent then those of America and how we practice it. And to be honest if I lived in America I would probably never been a Christian.

The way we interpret the Bible is in most country's very diffrent and I think Americans often forget about not judging others or turning the other cheek. I think most of Europe is not very vocal about their religion and also much more open minded. Which is also due to the Biblical translations. For example in Germany the line you should not sleep with another men like you do with a women has a completely other meaning in many German translation in which is translated into Knabe which means boy. Many German believers see it against pedophilia and not about homosexuality.

And even our churches are a lot more chill. I was in churches all over Europe and America and I honestly find it really weird how vocal Americans are about the religion and how close minded they are when it comes to science and things that are not in their belives. In most of Europe your religion is a private matter. We have the mindset of live and let people live. In America your religion is sometimes a person's whole personality. Which is insane for an European Christian.

And also on this reddit community I can see the diffrence between German Christianity and American. I think Germans are more chill about their and others belives and are open minded. We see many things like Adam and eve or Noah's story as symbolic. Since science disproved many of these. So I think it's pretty interesting that in America people still belive its not symbolic.

But if you traveled abroad what did you notice about our belive? And do you agree with me with your own experience? And how is it in your county?

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Posted by16 hours ago

I walked out of my church today

I haven't been going quite as regularly as I did before the pandemic. Today, the pastor let a church councilmember address the congregation, warning them not to give money to the homeless, because it would attract more of them to the church, and they might use the money to buy alcohol. The church would give them bags of a few pieces of food and point them to a homeless shelter, but as the "security team", it was important to protect the church and not enable "bad behavior".

My blood ran cold and I left the church at that point. I don't think what was said was right. I've given money to homeless people before plenty of times, and what the church councilman said stigmatizes homeless people as pariahs, problems to manage and not people made in the image of God.

But... maybe I'm wrong. What are your thoughts?

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Christian (Alpha & Omega)

21 minutes ago

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Orthodox Baptism in Loch Lomond, Scotland

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Posted by43 minutes ago

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Someone told me this would be better without the cross, they didn't understand that it was my main inspiration 😂😂. Anyways I call it "Power through Christ"

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Non-denominational

23 hours ago

Pray for our LGTBQ+ brothers and sisters and siblings, and pray for everyone

EDIT: I guess I need to specify SOME people who call themselves Christians. The point of saying “people who call themselves” was to refer to people who are only christians by label and do not practice what is preached (loving your neighbor)

It’s becoming very obvious in the US that people who call themselves Christians are using a minority group of people as a scapegoat for all of our problems. I feel like some people don’t care because it doesn’t affect them but don’t forget an injustice to one of us is an injustice to all. Before it was people of color, women, the disabled, etc (it still is) but this is the newer prominent group to attack. People are so quick to turn the blind eye to the predatory behaviors in other communities but claim that the LGBTQ community are predators. People spread lies instead of using compassion to learn and understand. They are not the enemy. The more they are demonized, ostracized, and rejected, the more they are pushed into the enemy’s hands. Don’t forget these are God’s children too. Don’t forget all are called to love their neighbors and even their enemies. Stand up for what is right!!!

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Jain

6 hours ago

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