In my experience, many just want to feel self righteous & avoid seeing their own failings. Most Christians & their church communities are their own biggest enemy. They are often very superficial & very hard to stomach. What's worse is that most of them have little awareness of it & work very hard to avoid improving said awareness.

The way I see things most Christians are more hostile to any healthy form of Christian culture than any outside force ever could be. Actually standing up for what is right is uncomfortable. How many church communities showed their cowardice & shut their doors during covid? How many actually stood up for what was right?

Most of the church normies I know, even when shown quite explicitly, refuse to see any familiarity in the pattern of today's persecution of Julian Assange for telling the truth & the man they supposedly worship. "...but is Assange even a Christian?" Most are so disconnected from reality that rather than seeing this life as a gift from God they pray for the afterlife. I could go on, but I won't.

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All valid criticisms here, and I agree with most. Based on what your saying I’m guessing your talking about the Protestants.

Look into the early church same Catholic/Orthodox church for a thousand years.

Good place to start:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4qSE7UMQlus7XbMNTqVO2p?si=jYkXuqgiQiWM6cKpqbucGA

There are some better people there, still lots of issues. Huge sexual hangups, lots of denial, lots of authoritarianism supposedly justified with scripture.

Realize everything man does fails to comparison to the ideal, we live in a fallen world full of sin (the Church included), and especially in our retarded age. The attitudes and actions of the average man should not be your main focus but the truth and your relation to it which is independent. If you want examples of lives well lived read the lives of the saints. Like you said earlier should can only focus on what we can control, which in this context, is your own repentance, and relationship with the divine.