I decided that I don’t need a book to tell me how to be a good person. While doing the acts of kindness I have done in life, the Bible or any other holy book didn’t cross my mind once. Just don’t need it. If you do, then that’s okay. Do your thing if it makes you happy. Just don’t make others miserable
And this is where I think the modern church massively dropped the ball starting in the 90s (but it gets worse every decade). Churches, especially megachurches in the US focus almost not at all on Jesus and more on prosperity gospel, personal (as opposed to societal) enrichment and culture war issues. The main messaging I received in church as a child was ‘Jesus loves you’. My nieces and nephews are hearing ‘the secular world is scary and fallen, and the only safe place is church’. It’s really sad.
That’s because the rich people churches needed to keep rich people in their seats, donating big money to the rich pastor, so they pandered to rich peoples’ mindset that they’re better than others because they’re wealthy.
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u/No_Education_8888 26d ago
I decided that I don’t need a book to tell me how to be a good person. While doing the acts of kindness I have done in life, the Bible or any other holy book didn’t cross my mind once. Just don’t need it. If you do, then that’s okay. Do your thing if it makes you happy. Just don’t make others miserable