"Jesus Saves"
American churches often send missionaries into other countries to "save" their populations from eternal damnation. Non Christians, regardless of their beliefs, are considered to be going to hell. While missionaries are often some of the most kind and selfless people on this earth, they often hold the view that anyone who is non Christian is not going to get an afterlife.
This means that if you were a Buddhist, and spent your life picking up dying people off the streets, and never hurt anyone in your life, that doesn't matter, in the eyes of these churches, you're still going to burn in hell. On the other hand, if you raped and murdered a bunch of little boys, but then converted to Christianity at the last minute, that means you get a ticket to heaven. Sounds like a fair deal huh?
Because the heart of this country was founded on Christian values, and there has never been another major religion throughout our country, people have not been exposed to it, so they believe Christianity is the only way to go.
I often see reports of someone who dies in the heartland, and invevitably one of his friends will say, "he was a good Christian man." What, like that somehow makes him better than those evil heathens that aren't Christians. Geez.
Anyway, this one-sided view that non Christians somehow don't know what's best, spills over into all of our world views. It's arrogant, and I blame it all on this "Jesus saves," crap.
That's the way I see it.
American churches often send missionaries into other countries to "save" their populations from eternal damnation. Non Christians, regardless of their beliefs, are considered to be going to hell. While missionaries are often some of the most kind and selfless people on this earth, they often hold the view that anyone who is non Christian is not going to get an afterlife.
This means that if you were a Buddhist, and spent your life picking up dying people off the streets, and never hurt anyone in your life, that doesn't matter, in the eyes of these churches, you're still going to burn in hell. On the other hand, if you raped and murdered a bunch of little boys, but then converted to Christianity at the last minute, that means you get a ticket to heaven. Sounds like a fair deal huh?
Because the heart of this country was founded on Christian values, and there has never been another major religion throughout our country, people have not been exposed to it, so they believe Christianity is the only way to go.
I often see reports of someone who dies in the heartland, and invevitably one of his friends will say, "he was a good Christian man." What, like that somehow makes him better than those evil heathens that aren't Christians. Geez.
Anyway, this one-sided view that non Christians somehow don't know what's best, spills over into all of our world views. It's arrogant, and I blame it all on this "Jesus saves," crap.
That's the way I see it.
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