My boyfriend has been trying to get me to go to church with him. I haven't gone to church since I was a kid, but I wasn't offended by the idea or anything I was always just kinda lazy about getting up on Sundays.It didn't feel much like church, and I felt out of place. Everything was politics, they were talking about how evil liberals are and preaching about the Charlie Kirk stuff and it just felt like surreal indoctrination.I almost want to tell my bf he should find a new church, because they shouldn't be preaching politics. I'm scared he won't take it well though. What's the best/most tactful way to do it?
>>33661935The antichrist has it rigged so churches can lose their tax exemptions for being political organisations. Call the IRS.
>>33661935>protestantism
>>33661935did he take you to one of those T = Mercy church’s? they’re literally a breeding ground for right wing propaganda and tell their followers that empathy is a sin. you should take him to one of those small town churches where the only people there are 60+
>>33662357LOL Please. The unitarian universalists will get their exemption pulled decades before the line shifts to a real church.
was this a real church or one of those goofy megachurches where it's like attending a party/mass hysteria event?
>>33661935Going to a church to support your boyfriend is fine. It’s okay if you’re not religious. You’ll just be bored. On the other hand…> Everything was politics>evil liberalsThat’s a red flag.
>>33661935>they were talking about how evil liberals are "Liberals" as used in America to denote radicalized globalist foot soldier left wing extremists, are evil. Literally nothing advocated by the Democratic party is good from the Christian viewpoint>Muh social programsA means of population control and not true Charity
>>33661935Is he Protestant? I grew up going to Catholic Church and what you’re saying is so different from my experience.
>>33662603>Literally nothing advocated by the Democratic party is good from the Christian viewpointTrue, but the Republicans aren't much better (just Democrats with a slight time delay), and when the church devotes its energy to politics rather than emphasizing unchanging Christian principles directly, there's probably something wrong.
>>33661935We're in an era where all normal religions are declining but extreme variants of those religions are increasing. There are still normal churches but it depends where you live and whether your boyfriend is fucking crazy. What happened to Charlie Kirk was brutal and a bad omen for our society, so church should be helping people live well in spite of what happened, not capitalizing on it.
>>33662603>Literally nothing advocated by the Democratic party is good from the Christian viewpointThis is gonna be a no true Scottsman conversation but social services, accepting people who are different or maybe even a little fucked up, and sharing wealth are all New Testament principles. Now, the only problem is the Democratic party establishment is corrupt and doesn't really give much of a shit about those things.
>>33663790You're making too much sense. I'm going back to my gay conservative safe space.
>>33662570It happens all the time.
>>33664013Define "all the time" or provide a single example that's gonna make me think wow, government overreach. If you took American Government in high school or community college you'd know that law is rarely enforced. You people just say whatever you want, such as calling empty nothings the "antichris," because you're too lazy to explain any of your incoherent beliefs. Even a numbskull like you knows that's not what antichrist means.
>>33661935Tell him to go cath
>>33661935Do not allow any man to drag you into a cult that requires women to be totally subservient to men
>>33661935Leave him. He's too good for you.
>>33664137Waco
>>33664137Ruby Ridge
He´s way too good for you,you either step up your game or let him be happy or listen to this unhappy people here and see that as a red flag and dump him and in 5-10 years he will have another women will be happy and with kids while you? will be seething from a bigger body count and not being able to fullfill the emptiness inside yourself.
>>33663790I ain't gonna disagree. The sedevacantists aren't right but their feeling of the "modern" era church being corrupted especially from Vatican II and beyond may be valid.>>33663821>This is gonna be a no true Scottsman conversation Except it isn't, because Christians have a specifically defined set of rules and a leader to follow an example on.>social servicesBIG NOPE. Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's. If they use my tax money to try to feed the poor fine, but that's not charity>accepting people who are different or maybe even a little fucked upYou accept them and then convert them to the way of God. Everyone remembers Jesus telling the crowd "Let he who is without sin." Seems like no one remembers him telling Mary Magdalene "Now go and sin no more.">sharing wealthThis is something Jesus advocated but he said to directly donate your wealth and goods to the poor, not that rendering them unto Caesar was a necessary and sufficient condition. There are many, many Gospel passages of Jesus telling people to sell their belongings and give them to beggars, give your cloak to a homeless, etc. And I actually do give money to homeless people, I don't care if they're gonna buy drugs or alcohol that's their cross to bear. I do remind them to not thank me for it, but to thank Jesus instead.I love when the "no True Scotsman" fallacy claim gets whipped out on Christians especially Catholics, since we have the Bible, the Catechism, and Missal sermons telling us exactly what we should and shouldn't do as followers of Christ
>>33661935Want to ditch him and hang out and listen to satanic music?
>>33661935I'm a Christian and would dump your boyfriend over an experience like this if I were in your shoes, for what it's worth. I hope this is just creative writing.The most tactful way to go about it is to be honest about how you felt in that church and tell him that you won't be returning to it with him. Don't try to tell him what to do; he won't take it well. He sounds like a fucking idiot.
>>33663809>What happened to Charlie Kirk was brutal and a bad omen for our society, so church should be helping people live well in spite of what happened, not capitalizing on it.Well said.One easy litmus test I've always used for churches is how much time the guy at the podium spends talking about all those nasty sinners out there versus talking about how nobody is too nasty for God.
>>33671298>Catholicbased
