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Christian Double Standards

I don’t take any religion seriously. Y’all don’t take yourselves seriously when it come to the concept. Picking and choosing which rules to follow but wanna tell someone else what is and isn’t good lmao — Sexy Flexy Ass Nigga (@exc_t_) August 18, 2023 I always see a variant of this argument, which goes like this:  I don't follow Christianity because Christians don't follow the rules. These people never apply the same logic to anything else, let alone themselves.  To them, its ok when rappers are allowed to say one thing in a song but act a completely different way in real life. It's ok when *insert favorite politician or cultural leader/icon* acts in a completely different way than what they say, but let a Christian act unchristian like and they go crazy. Imagine an entire community, lets say 150 people, are 500 pounds. Lets say someone wants to get to 180.  Lets say, for the sake of argument, it takes 5 years to lose 320 pounds. During this time, during 5 whole years, th...

Perfection, the Art, and the Artist

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In this video, Marcus is failing to distinguish between the art and the artist, and before I go any further I want to say he's absolutely correct. As Christians, we should be apart from the world and we should not be engaging in fornication, drunkenness' (you can drink) and drugs. You can't have your cake and eat it too. He is 100% correct. However, that is a critique of the artist, but the art and the artist are two different things. I don't know if he's implicitly or directly saying Christians shouldn't listen to Maverick City and Dante Bowe because they don't live perfect lives, but it sure seems that way. Maverick City and Dante Brown, Lecrae, and all the other Christian artists might seem "lukewarm" and "worldly" as people, but is their music is most certainly not. Their music is anything but lukewarm and worldly, which to me, is important. There is a severe lack of good, quality, non corny, non cliche Christian entertainment out the...