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Look, I have to say one thing. I grew up in a Catholic household. I went to mass each sunday. And in every single sermon, the morale was: *act* the way Christ would want you to act. Help other people. Be kind to other people. Fight for other people's wellness in every way you can
Not once this was meant as 'convert them'. The point of 'spreading the word of Christ' was that the word of Christ must be spread through *actions*. Not by forcibly convert other people. That is something incredibly violent to do, because I was always taught that fait is -
- something deeply personal. Of course, the church would love for more people to become Catholics, but that is not a goal that must be met by going door to door and hello would you like to hear about Jesus Christ? NO. To think otherwhise, to think that the core principle of -
- Christianity is to go full wololo and create as much Christians as possible feels blasphemous to me. Like, I literally have a 'I LOVE SATAN' poster on my bedroom's wall but what truly makes the little part of my brain that has been conditioned by years of catechism sick is -
the notion that the core principle of Christianity is not to help people but to *force* them to join your squad. This is such a blatant misinterpretation of the gospels, it goes against /everything/ I've learned during my Catholic education, it's like spitting in the face of g-d
To think that WASPs believe that the core principle of the gospels is so inherently violent, which is to forcibly convert people, that a good Christian is the one who has converted the most people and that non-Christians *deserve* the ill that befalls on them... it's horrifying
