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... wafer thin veneer of civilization will be found a wild man of the woods. The Christian church from its outset has been anxious to ban all traces of a beautifully illustrated book written by my late friend,

Are Christians who preach in public motivated by selfish desires?

They claim they are trying to help people and by this it means they think manipulating people into believing a bunch of rubbish about some long dead Jew and a book of absolute bloody nonsense is helping them. But this is the veneer they use to cover the truth; this is the spin they put on it to hide their true motive, right? When a Christian preaches in public, they are trying to improve their own personal situation, right? They think preaching in public will ensure their place in the mythical afterlife scenario they believe, right? See, selfish desires…

Plus, there's so much social pressure in their circles TO go out preaching. I always noticed the people who reeled in the most potential recruits were treated best by the rest of the group. They tend to keep the more quiet ones on the bottom rung of the ladder ...it's survival-mode.

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Personality is often a veneer that has developed in order to protect the real person.. She is certified through the Sarasota Academy of Christian her second book "Holy Matrimony: Now That You're Married".

What is your take on this statement?

This is part of an email I received from my own spiritual leader. I get daily emails. Anyway, please read and give me your take on this. Thanks to all "The Anglican Bishop of Manchester, Nigel McCullough, wrote, “We will, unless there is a turn in the tide, be a church that gradually disappears from the land.� Those prophetic words are becoming a reality in Europe and especially England. There are in fact more practicing Muslims in England than Anglicans. And it’s getting worse for the Anglicans by the month. Christianity in Europe is no longer the glue of society; but rather, Christianity has become the veneer and the varnish that’s quickly wearing off. Catholicism is no longer the biggest religion of Europe- Islam is. Callum Brown wrote in 2006, “It took several centuries to convert Britain to Christianity, but it has taken less than forty years for the country to forsake it.� Don’t look now, but American Christianity is looking like those big red and or yellow stars that cave inward on themselves and explode. Amazingly the star gets brighter just before it becomes a black hole. Many say that the American mega-churches are an indication of that brightness principle before the implosion happens. Why is this happening? My answer is because of the incestuous nature of the church which has pulled WITHIN, told the world and all others that they’re going to hell if they don’t accept Jesus, fallen into bibliolatry, and staked out indefensible territory that makes one look like a heretic- while calling all those who don’t believe as they do- heretics! How’s that work? There is GOOD NEWS though. Christianity may be departing from Europe and the West; however, it is finding a home in the South (America) and in the East where Jesus is seen as a mystic and the Bible is seen as more metaphorical. As Leonard Sweet wrote, “The language of Christianity today is Spanish; the color of Christianity is not white but brown. There are more Christian churches in India today than in the United States. The West is deconstructing, and Christianity is dying in the West.� Sad! As I’ve said before, we need to “Go EAST, young man, go EAST� and that’s not a geographical statement but a metaphysical-philosophical one. The library of sixty six books, known as the Bible, is of Eastern, oriental origins, not occidental! We’ve rationalized that which can’t be, we’ve denied the contradictions which are glaring, and we’ve stumbled over the spiritual truths, in hopes of maintaining our false beliefs. It’s not working! We must get back to LIVING the LOVE and being the LIGHT! No one is transformed by religious intellectualism, nor threats of eternal hell; but, by loving and compassionate GOOD NEWS." 2 fantastic answers. not one person is incorrect. i can not pick a best answer, as both are equally best. i will leave this one up to the community.

I think that Christianity has gotten off the rails a long, long, time ago ... let's say as far back when it became the established religion of the Emperor Constantine in the 300s - 400s. It began as a movement that turned the world upside down and then became a religion that has gotten immersed in the same rule based gatekeeping that often happens when God's intent is ignored. God's intent was that all humanity be involved in doing peace and justice. God's intent was that all be included with no outsiders. The Book of Acts says that the beginning Christian community lived together and shared everything in common.