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I was raised with Christian values, but the household was leftist and academic. My parents were really an atheist and an agnostic, but they told me to tell people we were "Presbyterian" if asked.

My dad claimed he "didn't know" what happened after death. My mother was sick of the question and assumed it was "just over".

TLDR: I came into the world with a stacked deck against organized religion.

Around age 11 or so, I made up my mind that Christianity was a bullshit social control system. First of all, the white bearded sky God was cartoonishly simpleminded.

The thing that really made up my mind were the double standards. Murder was a sin, but if your "government" went to war, then suddenly it wasn't murder anymore, and OK to kill because it was politically beneficial to a bunch of powerful people. This was the crux of my early decision that popular Christianity was bullshit for idiots.

Then at some point in middle age I became spiritual again, and started to study scripture with a more open mind.

My conclusion now is that almost all organized religion is clever idolatry.

Most organized Christians idolize government authority figures as God. They idolize their government, so if the government declares that killing in war is not murder, the government is God, and therefore it is not murder.

This is true with almost all authority figures with organized Christianity.

So these people are simply not Christians. They think they are, but they are not. They are sheep led by deceivers.

Then as I studied more, I realized that modern versions of the Bible were entirely rewritten from the original Greek. Likely rewritten by jews, because all of the warnings about jews from the Greek versions of the Bible are removed in current versions. They've become references to "evil", and that's about it.

What I'm struggling with now is a lack of a version of Christianity that isn't deeply corrupt, both in practice and in scripture.

I was raised with Christian values, but the household was leftist and academic. My parents were really an atheist and an agnostic, but they told me to tell people we were "Presbyterian" if asked. My dad claimed he "didn't know" what happened after death. My mother was sick of the question and assumed it was "just over". TLDR: I came into the world with a stacked deck against organized religion. Around age 11 or so, I made up my mind that Christianity was a bullshit social control system. First of all, the white bearded sky God was cartoonishly simpleminded. The thing that really made up my mind were the double standards. Murder was a sin, but if your "government" went to war, then suddenly it wasn't murder anymore, and OK to kill because it was politically beneficial to a bunch of powerful people. This was the crux of my early decision that popular Christianity was bullshit for idiots. Then at some point in middle age I became spiritual again, and started to study scripture with a more open mind. My conclusion now is that almost all organized religion is clever idolatry. Most organized Christians idolize government authority figures as God. They idolize their government, so if the government declares that killing in war is not murder, the government is God, and therefore it is not murder. This is true with almost all authority figures with organized Christianity. So these people are simply not Christians. They think they are, but they are not. They are sheep led by deceivers. Then as I studied more, I realized that modern versions of the Bible were entirely rewritten from the original Greek. Likely rewritten by jews, because all of the warnings about jews from the Greek versions of the Bible are removed in current versions. They've become references to "evil", and that's about it. What I'm struggling with now is a lack of a version of Christianity that isn't deeply corrupt, both in practice and in scripture.

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[–] • 5 pts

The church where I attend and study teaches a Greek language exegesis of the New Testament, word by word, even parsing the grammar for its original nuance.

The pastor is a “founding fathers” libertarian who believes the Articles of Confederation were superior to the Constitution. He also plainly states the US has no funds and no military power to share with Israel, but avoids going so far as to condemn the rogue state directly, asserting their judgment is best served by God, not man. In short, while he isn’t ready to openly deny the Holohoax and call the juden enemies of God, he sees their religion as wholly occult and their state as “of man, not God.” He also believes they can be saved by Christ, which, while technically true, is optimistic, to put it mildly.

The truth is that finding a church or pastor that isn’t at all pozzed is going to be a needle in a haystack experience.

Roman Catholicism was infiltrated by (((fellow Christians))) from the start, hence their establishment that the bishops and Pope were the “new apostles” whose decrees supersede scripture. All subsequent offshoots have been compromised to some extent because of this.

Even Paul in his letter to the Galatians expressed his frustration and dismay at the “judaizers” attempting to mandate circumcision for male believers. He also spoke to the creep of “Law keeping,” not God’s law, but man’s watered down version, among his Christian brothers, as inspired by “false brethren” (jews posing as Christians).

The key is to finding a pastor who at least parses the Greek, focuses on the New Testament, doesn’t “support” modern Israel, and is honest enough to acknowledge he isn’t infallible, but Scripture is.

[–] • 6 pts (edited )

Thanks. First non-subversive and helpful comment. I'll start looking for non-pozzed churches/pastors.

[–] • 2 pts

Glad to be of any help I can to a brother in Christ.

[–] • 0 pt

If you find one, don't hesitate to share.

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

No, I'm not going to "share" a based local pastor I find on Poal, both for their sake and for mine.