maryjthom wrote:
Mundina O'Driscoll wrote:
...Not all are all that bad, but the biggest ones have the most cultish qualities.
It is a relief for a Christian to be able to read the Bible and not have to sift out what is true. Everything else has to be sifted. Some conservatives, the cultish followers, seem to drink in everything they hear from their favorite talk radio host and then use what they hear as "the gospel truth". The problem is that they pass it along as truth and that makes for a lot of misconceptions. We know how that affected Huckabee's chances in '08 -- and I wonder whether it had an influence on him as he decided to run in 2012.
As the resident devil's advocate, I feel I must point out that Christians do not have it quite that easy else we would not have thousands of different denominations rather than the one that Jesus originated.
In fact, it can even be difficult to agree on who has the right to call themselves a Christian - it has become such a generic name that it is loosely used for any group that claims to follow Jesus (& we have even reached the point that our POTUS uses it to describe his allegedly altruistic atheist mother without mainstream correction

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