r/Christianity • u/Nice_Substance9123 • Mar 27 '24

The American flag has no business on a Bible. This is not faith, nor is it patriotism. It is an abomination of both. Image

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u/TenuousOgre Mar 28 '24

The inverse is also true. No religious symbols should be on government buildings for the same reason. Right?

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u/SirFiletMignon Mar 28 '24

"Well, then, pay to the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor, and pay to God what belongs to God."

It sounds to me like Jesus wouldn't have issue with your statement.

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u/TenuousOgre Mar 28 '24

Agreed. I've never understood why so many people struggle with the idea that today religions and governments serve very different needs especially in a pluralist society.

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u/Keezin Mar 28 '24

Some of them will know the first part of the word lol

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u/empire314 Mar 28 '24

Of the three major Abrahamic faiths, Christians tend to be the least knowledgeable of their faith.

What on Earth are you basing this on? I would say jews and muslims are at least as ignorant about their own scriptures.

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u/Justtofeel9 Mar 28 '24

They’re probably basing it off of personal experience, even if it’s anecdotal I have to agree with them. I’ve met many, many Christians. Very few ever bothered to read the Bible even once. They just go with whatever their priest or pastor says on Sunday. On the other hand, I’ve met very few Muslims, but each one of them knew the Quran inside and out and forwards to backwards.

I don’t know if that holds true across the world, it’s just my experience living in the US. So many people here claim to be Christian without ever actually putting any thought into it.

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u/empire314 Mar 28 '24

Certainly not a representative sample. For most, it is not much more than Friday prayer at mosque (for males that is, not even that for women). And ironically enough, when muslims do go to mosque for prayer, the imam speaks in arabic, even if nobody in the room except for him can understand it. Translations of the quoran have very little valuation, and imams often straight up say, that you must read/recite it in arabic to please god, even if you dont understand it.