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Whilst I can understand the appeal, I feel like modern day Christianity is weird. There are so many plaguing issues Christianity has in today's world. The first one is most churches are desperate for members, causing a complete revocation of the core principles. They've started letting everyone in, regardless of who they are, including gays, transgenders, and who knows what else. This is also shown by the complete downplaying of some of the teachings of the old testament.

The second is low members = low dues. This wouldn't be such a big deal, if it wasn't brought up literally every week. I get it, churches need money to function, but you know what turns me off the church? Making it into an event every sunday where you talk about it.

But realistically, the issue is the weird inconsistencies between all the factions. For example, we use KJV standard which is nice. But how do we know which bible version is right? How do we know which is wrong? If God truly wanted us to know his words, why are their so many factions of Christianity, split upon multiple books, all over the place. And why does Jesus in the bible always seem to talk in super cryptic parables which have yet to be understood properly by people who have studied the bible for years?

Whilst I can understand the appeal, I feel like modern day Christianity is weird. There are so many plaguing issues Christianity has in today's world. The first one is most churches are desperate for members, causing a complete revocation of the core principles. They've started letting everyone in, regardless of who they are, including gays, transgenders, and who knows what else. This is also shown by the complete downplaying of some of the teachings of the old testament. The second is low members = low dues. This wouldn't be such a big deal, if it wasn't brought up literally every week. I get it, churches need money to function, but you know what turns me off the church? Making it into an event every sunday where you talk about it. But realistically, the issue is the weird inconsistencies between all the factions. For example, we use KJV standard which is nice. But how do we know which bible version is right? How do we know which is wrong? If God truly wanted us to know his words, why are their so many factions of Christianity, split upon multiple books, all over the place. And why does Jesus in the bible always seem to talk in super cryptic parables which have yet to be understood properly by people who have studied the bible for years?

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Why did Jesus speak in "cryptic parables?"

  • Maybe because he was trying to impress his audience.
  • Maybe it's the way he was taught to speak in whatever school he went to.
  • Maybe because, by speaking in parables, he could say things without actually saying them.
  • Maybe by speaking in parables he forced his audience to think about his words.
  • Maybe he just liked parables.
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If you, a person in the 21st century, were trying to explain to a caveman how laptop computers will work in the future, you'd use parables, too.

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There's a meme about this, a greetext, and I'm so fucking annoyed that I can't find it. It was literally someone using century-appropriate metaphors to explain how a CPU works to a medieval monk. It was pretty fucking bad-ass, and contextually fits perfectly in to this conversation. If anyone can find it, link plz. I'll keep looking for a bit.

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Maybe because, by speaking in parables, he could say things without actually saying them.

Makes the most sense, look at today you can't call out the jews without being banned online, nor mention the violence of blacks instead we use 13/52. Can't talk about Mean Mr. Mustache so we say 1488.