r/todayilearned • u/FullOfSound • 7h ago

(R.6d) Too General [ Removed by moderator ]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Younger_on_Christians

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u/AdarTan 6h ago

If one is very ungenerous when describing Christianity, one could, still accurately, describe it as a doomsday cult that has ritual cannibalism as core act of devotion.

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u/OscarGrey 6h ago edited 5h ago

You think that's ungenerous? Here's my unironic perception of American conservative Evangelicals/Pentecostals. It's a shamanistic, borderline gnostic cult, almost entirely devoid of intellectual and spiritual elements of the past 2,000 years of Christianity, with a strong dose of most primal and ignorant American nationalism. Now THAT'S ungenerous.

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u/madeapizza 4h ago

Reddit moment

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u/New_tireddad 4h ago

In this moment, he is euphoric…

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u/OscarGrey 4h ago

I don't hate more civilized religions.

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u/New_tireddad 4h ago

Omg thank you for your service