Please don't misjudge religion by those that parasitize it.
I've known a few Christians in my life. They were extraordinary persons.
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I've known a few Christians in my life. They were extraordinary persons.
The contradiction between what Christianity started as and what some people did to it with the Crusades, Inquisitions, and Conquistadors, is just amazing.
I've had a few good friends that spoke Spanish as their native tongue.
They were neither Spaniards nor Inquisitors, none named Torquemada.
Separately, among the Christians I've known, my 6th grade teacher, about the most saintly man I've ever met.
It was rural New York State in the mid-1960's. He was paid poorly enough not to buy an overcoat.
Throughout the Winter he wore a beautiful apparently hand-knitted sweater, & undertook to teach our diverse class a broad range of subjects.
He taught with infectious enthusiasm & noble patience. For Christmas, with pittance for salary, he gifted to each of his students
a paper printed copy of this artwork by Albrecht Durer:
beautifully mounted on thin wood veneer.
That's about as close to proselytizing as he ever got.
A few years ago there was a lunar occultation, sometimes called an "eclipse".
The path of totality straddled Long Lake, NY.
We met there, and enjoyed the spectacle together.
I do not know if he attends church regularly, if at all.
I visited his home a few times, don't recall having seen a Holy Bible there.
We also got together for his 80th birthday anniversary, where he described to me looking out his office window and seeing this:
You may recognize it as Wall Street, NYC.After teaching he went into banking. I gather he might have been a $millionaire many times over, BUT !
He lived quite modestly, as an (apparently conscientious) vegetarian.
I do not know, but imagine he kept enough of his earnings to live on, and donated the rest to charity, apparently far more than $10% tithe.
To celebrate his 80th we dined (probably sushi) and discussed matters such as Glass–Steagall.
In the four years I attended that school I recall him uttering the word "Christian" once, though he might have uttered it a few times more.
It was in answer to a student's question about the school's Christmas festivities.
He's not the only Christian I've met. None better.
The message I hope to impress here:
it is a disgraceful injustice to misjudge those that live by the teachings of Christ not for prestige, but for their own conviction.
Misjudging them on basis of charlatan poseurs:
- rewards the imposters
- insults Christians, &
- undermines your own credibility.
From one agnostic to another, I think we're better than that here.
Don't you?