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Telling members of non-Christian traditions or the non-religious, as a compliment, that they’re being better Christians than most Christians.
It is not a compliment.
Telling members of non-Christian traditions or the non-religious, as a compliment, that they’re being better Christians than most Christians.
It is not a compliment.
https://twitter.com/C_Stroop/status/1475498145404567554
At minimum, it positions “Christianity” as the highest possible good.
It’s also pretty damn insulting if you think it through, in the way it implies surprise that members of any other tradition (or no tradition) could POSSIBLY behave as morally as Christians.
It’s also pretty damn insulting if you think it through, in the way it implies surprise that members of any other tradition (or no tradition) could POSSIBLY behave as morally as Christians.
Like, “I gotta say, that rabbi is a better Christian than most Christians I know”
if you say the quiet part out loud, is actually
“Whoa who would have thought a JEW could be an outstandingly good person in the way ‘true’ Christians are?!”
if you say the quiet part out loud, is actually
“Whoa who would have thought a JEW could be an outstandingly good person in the way ‘true’ Christians are?!”
Moreover, if I behave in a way you find admirable, it’s not because I’m striving to behave like a Christian. It’s because I’m striving to meet the ethical demands of Judaism.
I don’t admire Christian ethics.
I don’t admire Christian ethics.
And given that Christianity has spent almost its entire existence trying to wipe out other traditions/cultures, telling any of the rest of us that we’re behaving like Christians is not something that many of us are going to hear as a positive.
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