Most people, including most Christians, who don't know much about Christianity imagine its teachings to be along the lines of "Just try to be a decent person and help people" This "folk Christianity" is a BETTER RELIGION than most of the theologically accurate formulations of it
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If you seriously immerse yourself in all the theology people wrote up about the nature of atonement and salvation and divine grace etc you will have 1) wasted an immense amount of time and money, and 2) to the extent you take any of it seriously, be a weird prick
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Anyway, look, as much as later Church leaders tried to pretend the original Apostles were one big happy family, obviously there was tension between Paul and James that Paul attests to in his letters
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And the Epistle of James ended up in the canon despite some people's best efforts because, frankly, Paul's "camp" without any counterbalance from the "other side" makes Christianity monstrous
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Faith without works is dead You can talk until you're blue in the face about atonement and divine grace and whatnot but if you're still an asshole no one has any reason to carepic.twitter.com/PwmC52mSFP
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Whole lotta Christiana woke up and said, "Today’s the day to make my religion look like shit."
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