Kricket wrote: ↑January 25th, 2021, 9:24 am
Jonathan Carone wrote: ↑January 25th, 2021, 8:17 am
thepostman wrote: ↑January 25th, 2021, 7:45 am
Biden goes to weekly mass, that alone makes him more of a practicing catholic than a lot of American catholics I've known over the years.
I got eviscerated for questioning if a university president was faking Christianity in part because of his lack of church attendance but because it’s politics, it’s completely acceptable to say someone is faking it despite being a regular attender.
I feel like this post combines multiple thoughts and multiple people into one argument. I'm not really sure if it's referencing a specific person or just a post to make yourself feel better about past conversations. There's nothing wrong with either, just trying to judge if it's pointed at me.
Not pointed at any one person in particular but more about how we change our definitions of how we judge someone's religion based on if we agree with their politics.
I think it's okay to judge someone's religion based on the fruit they bear - as long as you're consistent with those judgments. I refuse - on either side - to let someone's politics be the determining factor of if I believe they are living the faith they claim. I've seen too many people who honestly and authentically love Jesus fall on each side of the political aisle to let that be my litmus test. Well meaning Christians can read the Bible and believe Jesus teaches us to to treat people a certain way and then disagree how we apply that to politics and government.
I'm good disagreeing on a lot of things - anything really - as long as you (in general, not Kricket) apply the same logic across all your arguments. Hypocrisy is one of my pet peeves. I recognize I'm guilty of it more often than I'd like and it's something I actively try to work on.