Cafeteria Christianity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

?CAFETERIA?

Does Even a

CHRISTIAN

Exist

Who Isn't One?

?CHRISTIAN?

Cafeteria Christianity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Cafeteria Christianity" is a derogatory term used by some Christians, and others, to accuse other Christian individuals or denominations of selecting which Christian doctrines they will follow, and which they will not.

Cafeteria-style means picking and choosing, as if "sliding our food tray along a cafeteria's counter", referring to some Christians' making a personal selection of Christian teaching, "picking and choosing the stuff you want and discarding the rest". The term implies that an individual's professed religious belief is actually a proxy for their personal opinions rather than an acceptance of Christian doctrine. The selectivity implied may relate to the acceptance of Christian doctrines (such as the resurrection or the virgin birth of Jesus), or attitudes to moral and ethical issues (for example abortion, homosexuality, or idolatry) and is sometimes associated with discussions concerning the applicability of Old Testament laws to Christians and interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount. "The idea is the moderates pick and choose the parts of the Bible they want to follow."

Cafeteria Christianity is somewhat related to latitudinarianism, the position that differences of opinion on church organization and doctrine are acceptable within a church.

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 The word
"anathema"
in 1 Corinthians 16:22 might suggest that they who love not the Lord are objects of loathing and execration to all holy beings; they are unrepentant of a crime that merits the severest condemnation; they are exposed to the sentence of "everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord" for they do not embrace saving beliefs, as was the sentence of all mankind before the atonement, justification and sanctification of the blood of Christ that allowed for the redemption of sins.

No doubt in my mind...

if Jesus were to unexpectedly crawled out from under a rock after a long nap...

he'd immediately slap a patent infringement lawsuit against today's Christians over the misuse of his name;
appalled at the way they go around saying,
"Jesus died for OUR sins so WE may live,
and whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life."

As Christians sects didn't come into being,
 in any way, shape, or form,
recognizable
 to
Christians of today
until
long after Jesus cruxificion;
they obviously have a serious misunderstanding as to how
OUR
pronouns work.

If Jesus EVER died for OUR sins so WE may live...
that pretty much ended the moment Jesus lost complete control of his life story to the Christians.

Once one realizes how circular in meaning this verse;
one then should be able realizing,
second half of verse can be made obsolete/redundant with the use of one word.

Starting this verse off with the word
"CHRISTIANS"
  instead,
it then becomes:

"CHRISTIANS believe JESUS died for THEIR sins 
so 
THEY may LIVE."

This one belief  probably the only common thread coming anywhere close
when
wanting to define Christians of today
 as
one unit.

It's that same common thread
making
it easy for anyone being a Christian;
even
if only keeping up appearances, not wanting to be isolated.

As nothing morally implicit is implied other than accepting Jesus died for their sins so they may live, 

it's
not even their faith in
Jesus,
 any way, shape, or form,
inhibiting
today's Christians from sinning.
 

It's this belief exactly,
Jesus having died preemptively for sins yet to commit,
practically guaranteeing these Christians continuing to be the sinner they're claiming
God
already expects them to be.

How they go around claiming we're all sinners;
while fully aware all the same,
 of
America's
overcrowded prisons and jails.

Just sounding nothing more than another justification
for
them changing absolutely nothing
about
these sins of theirs they know to be wrong.

And why would they?

Where's the incentive for them to change?

Within a given church,
it's pretty much nothing more than all of them confessing to sharing the same sins.

When combining this
with
the concept,
"DIFFUSION OF RESPONSIBILITY,"
churches
can now be viewed as nothing more
than
"SUPPORT GROUPS." 

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As there so many Christian denomination...

one either stay with the denomination they were born into as long as contented

or

pretty much able these days finding/switching to one better satisfying their needs
with
minimal if any conforming needed before being accepted.

Far as I'm concerned,
all churches are nothing more than buildings built with the commonality of an expecting congregation
being
it's first priority.

Then,
and only then,
does GOD move
into
HIS (?) CHURCH
once
doors open for it's first congregation.


Can't help but be reminded of a scene from this movie,
MASS APPEAL,
where an elderly widow, also apparently wealthy, tells the priest of her church,
"I don't come to church to be preached to." 

Also,
reminded of an incident which happened at one
of
last three clinics
working
regularly as a relief veterinarian
before
deciding to retire from the practice of veterinary clinical medicine all together.

"Did you have a good Easter weekend, Dr. Avery?"
~(Terrell)~

"Far as I concerned,
that was
a 
BOTCHED CRUCIFIXION!"
~(JAMES E. AVERY, DVM)~


What a fucking joke,
how
I made to sit alone watching a video
about
workplace harrassment. 

Supposedly
they had all already been made to watch the video
before
(?)
I was scheduled to work there again.

The People's Pet
was the name of this clinic.


Pretty much sounds
a lot like
what
 Jesus 
got turned into.

THE PEOPLE'S PET

Next time someone asks me,
 "Did you have a good Easter Weekend, Dr. Avery?"

Got my answer already ready.

"Better than HE did!"
~(Simply Jim:  One Pearl, Total Pig, Anti-Christ)~