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[–] 17 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Christian liberalism teaches people the important truth, that when you fail at something and are forced to stop, that's actually a good thing because now you can't be judged for doing the thing on an ongoing basis. Doing things will make you impure and risk losing heaven, so it's best to just do nothing as much as possible. As your reward, in the afterlife, you get to happily do nothing forever in heaven; if you were to do things in heaven, that might ruin your mood and mess with eternal happiness, so it's best to just do nothing as much as possible.

Just in case I didn't layer it on thick enough: I do not actually believe this. Tis a joke. Though I do believe that Christian thought in the west acts something like this some of the time.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

    Ironically both:

    James 1:22: "Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves."

    James 2:17–18: Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

    Exist as passages in the bible.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (5 children)

    I remember there was some conflict between James and some random letter from Paul over which is more important, faith or works. Apparently, Martin Luther almost took James out the Bible over that or something else.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    The churches took a bunch of books out.

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