WAKE UP

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Anonymous wrote:I am an atheist but without my judgement being clouded by god can see that OP is a naive idiot.

Christians are not required to allow themselves to be massacred by Islamic terrorists without fighting back.

First of all, Christian are not being massacred. And even if they were, why would it be Americas problem to solve?

Is America a Christian theocracy, that cares about people just because they’re Christian’s, what about others?

If you don’t know about the attacks on Christians in Nigeria, why should anyone listen to you?

https://www.ncronline.org/news/nigerian-christians-afraid-gather-attacks-islamist-herders-mount

https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/middle-east/catholic-priest-burned-to-death-in-nigeria?redirectedfrom=cna

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an atheist but without my judgement being clouded by god can see that OP is a naive idiot.

Christians are not required to allow themselves to be massacred by Islamic terrorists without fighting back.

NOT ON CHRISTMAS DAY. We fight back by showing them why Christianity is the best religion in the world. We exemplify the word of God. I said for anyone who knows Christ -- not you in other words.

Atheists often know Christ - many even believed in him once.

How can you be an atheist and know Christ? Sincere question.

Easily, as a pp said, many atheists were once Christians. So we know all about Christ. We were taught it, like any other Christian.

Plus, you don't even need to be a Christian to know Christ. He's famous. He has a religion named after him. People learn about him in school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an atheist but without my judgement being clouded by god can see that OP is a naive idiot.

Christians are not required to allow themselves to be massacred by Islamic terrorists without fighting back.

First of all, Christian are not being massacred. And even if they were, why would it be Americas problem to solve?

Is America a Christian theocracy, that cares about people just because they’re Christian’s, what about others?

If you don’t know about the attacks on Christians in Nigeria, why should anyone listen to you?

https://www.ncronline.org/news/nigerian-christians-afraid-gather-attacks-islamist-herders-mount

https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/middle-east/catholic-priest-burned-to-death-in-nigeria?redirectedfrom=cna

ALso, it was in Today's Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/02/05/nigeria-militants-islamic-state-trump/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am an atheist but without my judgement being clouded by god can see that OP is a naive idiot.

Christians are not required to allow themselves to be massacred by Islamic terrorists without fighting back.

NOT ON CHRISTMAS DAY. We fight back by showing them why Christianity is the best religion in the world. We exemplify the word of God. I said for anyone who knows Christ -- not you in other words.

If you know Christ, then every day is Christmas Day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an atheist but without my judgement being clouded by god can see that OP is a naive idiot.

Christians are not required to allow themselves to be massacred by Islamic terrorists without fighting back.

NOT ON CHRISTMAS DAY. We fight back by showing them why Christianity is the best religion in the world. We exemplify the word of God. I said for anyone who knows Christ -- not you in other words.

Atheists often know Christ - many even believed in him once.

How can you be an atheist and know Christ? Sincere question.

Easily, as a pp said, many atheists were once Christians. So we know all about Christ. We were taught it, like any other Christian.

Plus, you don't even need to be a Christian to know Christ. He's famous. He has a religion named after him. People learn about him in school.

LOL not trying to be mean but "knowing Christ" is knowing Christ in reality, like, in your heart. Not knowing **about** Christ. LOL sorry again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am an atheist but without my judgement being clouded by god can see that OP is a naive idiot.

Christians are not required to allow themselves to be massacred by Islamic terrorists without fighting back.

+1000000

What an idiotic post.

OP you should be embarrassed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an atheist but without my judgement being clouded by god can see that OP is a naive idiot.

Christians are not required to allow themselves to be massacred by Islamic terrorists without fighting back.

NOT ON CHRISTMAS DAY. We fight back by showing them why Christianity is the best religion in the world. We exemplify the word of God. I said for anyone who knows Christ -- not you in other words.

Atheists often know Christ - many even believed in him once.

How can you be an atheist and know Christ? Sincere question.

Easily, as a pp said, many atheists were once Christians. So we know all about Christ. We were taught it, like any other Christian.

Plus, you don't even need to be a Christian to know Christ. He's famous. He has a religion named after him. People learn about him in school.

LOL not trying to be mean but "knowing Christ" is knowing Christ in reality, like, in your heart. Not knowing **about** Christ. LOL sorry again.

LOL -- you modern Christians have your own language -- haha -- in which "Know" means something else. LOL

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an atheist but without my judgement being clouded by god can see that OP is a naive idiot.

Christians are not required to allow themselves to be massacred by Islamic terrorists without fighting back.

NOT ON CHRISTMAS DAY. We fight back by showing them why Christianity is the best religion in the world. We exemplify the word of God. I said for anyone who knows Christ -- not you in other words.

Atheists often know Christ - many even believed in him once.

How can you be an atheist and know Christ? Sincere question.

Easily, as a pp said, many atheists were once Christians. So we know all about Christ. We were taught it, like any other Christian.

Plus, you don't even need to be a Christian to know Christ. He's famous. He has a religion named after him. People learn about him in school.

Actually, I’m not sure this is true. There is a major difference between hearing about Jesus in a church where your parents dragged you there and truly understanding the Gospel of Jesus Christ in both your mind and heart in a way that changes you.

I know first-hand.

I grew up in a Catholic Church — 18 years, mass every week, all the other “Catholic” stuff. None of it made any impression on me. I heard the readings from the Bible but didn’t understand what any of it meant. My only take away was “do good, be good” and that type of religion became a major burden after awhile. I very much thought that the premise of Christianity was — basically be a good person - go to church etc — and maybe one day when you die, your cosmic positives outweigh your cosmic negatives and you make it to heaven. Or at least purgatory. After awhile, in my early 20s, I gave up on it all, became an atheist, and lived a life for the world — focused on career, work, money, travel, having fun, and getting laid, not always in that order.

In my early 40s, after a personal crisis, I very unexpectedly started to give religion a second look. I found the sermons of Tim Keller and they completely changed my life. The Jesus that Tim Keller talks about is NOT the same Jesus I heard about growing up. The fundamental message is different. Christianity is not trying to follow a bunch of strict rules so you can go to heaven. Rather, it is about our innate inability to follow the rules — and the need for a savior who followed the rules for us and us receiving a gift of righteousness from him purely on the basis of our faith in him. That’s a radically different motivation structure. I stopped doing a lot of crappy things in my life not because I was white knuckling it, but because I actively wanted to reflect back the love of Christ after seeing and believing what he had done for me and realizing how beautiful it was.

Also, there are many Christian hypocrites don’t get me wrong, but God truly blessed me by putting into my life a bunch of serious Christians who are living out their faith and are truly different from the other people I see in my life, mainly at work, but also in my Catholic family too. Those years of Catholic masses never rubbed off very much on my parents who constantly fought and my some of my grandparents who harbored a lot of racial animosity. My church is beautiful and diverse and seeing a group of people like this come together in the body of Christ every week truly is wonderful.

Maybe I am an outlier, but I feel like most Christians who leave the faith never truly understand the Gospel, nor are they around other Christians really living out their faith. I certainly didn’t and wasn’t. But the real Gospel and a true faith community changed my life.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an atheist but without my judgement being clouded by god can see that OP is a naive idiot.

Christians are not required to allow themselves to be massacred by Islamic terrorists without fighting back.

NOT ON CHRISTMAS DAY. We fight back by showing them why Christianity is the best religion in the world. We exemplify the word of God. I said for anyone who knows Christ -- not you in other words.

Atheists often know Christ - many even believed in him once.

How can you be an atheist and know Christ? Sincere question.

Easily, as a pp said, many atheists were once Christians. So we know all about Christ. We were taught it, like any other Christian.

Plus, you don't even need to be a Christian to know Christ. He's famous. He has a religion named after him. People learn about him in school.

Actually, I’m not sure this is true. There is a major difference between hearing about Jesus in a church where your parents dragged you there and truly understanding the Gospel of Jesus Christ in both your mind and heart in a way that changes you.

I know first-hand.

I grew up in a Catholic Church — 18 years, mass every week, all the other “Catholic” stuff. None of it made any impression on me. I heard the readings from the Bible but didn’t understand what any of it meant. My only take away was “do good, be good” and that type of religion became a major burden after awhile. I very much thought that the premise of Christianity was — basically be a good person - go to church etc — and maybe one day when you die, your cosmic positives outweigh your cosmic negatives and you make it to heaven. Or at least purgatory. After awhile, in my early 20s, I gave up on it all, became an atheist, and lived a life for the world — focused on career, work, money, travel, having fun, and getting laid, not always in that order.

In my early 40s, after a personal crisis, I very unexpectedly started to give religion a second look. I found the sermons of Tim Keller and they completely changed my life. The Jesus that Tim Keller talks about is NOT the same Jesus I heard about growing up. The fundamental message is different. Christianity is not trying to follow a bunch of strict rules so you can go to heaven. Rather, it is about our innate inability to follow the rules — and the need for a savior who followed the rules for us and us receiving a gift of righteousness from him purely on the basis of our faith in him. That’s a radically different motivation structure. I stopped doing a lot of crappy things in my life not because I was white knuckling it, but because I actively wanted to reflect back the love of Christ after seeing and believing what he had done for me and realizing how beautiful it was.

Also, there are many Christian hypocrites don’t get me wrong, but God truly blessed me by putting into my life a bunch of serious Christians who are living out their faith and are truly different from the other people I see in my life, mainly at work, but also in my Catholic family too. Those years of Catholic masses never rubbed off very much on my parents who constantly fought and my some of my grandparents who harbored a lot of racial animosity. My church is beautiful and diverse and seeing a group of people like this come together in the body of Christ every week truly is wonderful.

Maybe I am an outlier, but I feel like most Christians who leave the faith never truly understand the Gospel, nor are they around other Christians really living out their faith. I certainly didn’t and wasn’t. But the real Gospel and a true faith community changed my life.

Blah, blah, blah... at the end of the day, you are following a fictional story. Its like dedicating yourself to Harry Potter or Percy Jackson. 🙃🫠☺️

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an atheist but without my judgement being clouded by god can see that OP is a naive idiot.

Christians are not required to allow themselves to be massacred by Islamic terrorists without fighting back.

NOT ON CHRISTMAS DAY. We fight back by showing them why Christianity is the best religion in the world. We exemplify the word of God. I said for anyone who knows Christ -- not you in other words.

Atheists often know Christ - many even believed in him once.

How can you be an atheist and know Christ? Sincere question.

Easily, as a pp said, many atheists were once Christians. So we know all about Christ. We were taught it, like any other Christian.

Plus, you don't even need to be a Christian to know Christ. He's famous. He has a religion named after him. People learn about him in school.

Actually, I’m not sure this is true. There is a major difference between hearing about Jesus in a church where your parents dragged you there and truly understanding the Gospel of Jesus Christ in both your mind and heart in a way that changes you.

I know first-hand.

I grew up in a Catholic Church — 18 years, mass every week, all the other “Catholic” stuff. None of it made any impression on me. I heard the readings from the Bible but didn’t understand what any of it meant. My only take away was “do good, be good” and that type of religion became a major burden after awhile. I very much thought that the premise of Christianity was — basically be a good person - go to church etc — and maybe one day when you die, your cosmic positives outweigh your cosmic negatives and you make it to heaven. Or at least purgatory. After awhile, in my early 20s, I gave up on it all, became an atheist, and lived a life for the world — focused on career, work, money, travel, having fun, and getting laid, not always in that order.

In my early 40s, after a personal crisis, I very unexpectedly started to give religion a second look. I found the sermons of Tim Keller and they completely changed my life. The Jesus that Tim Keller talks about is NOT the same Jesus I heard about growing up. The fundamental message is different. Christianity is not trying to follow a bunch of strict rules so you can go to heaven. Rather, it is about our innate inability to follow the rules — and the need for a savior who followed the rules for us and us receiving a gift of righteousness from him purely on the basis of our faith in him. That’s a radically different motivation structure. I stopped doing a lot of crappy things in my life not because I was white knuckling it, but because I actively wanted to reflect back the love of Christ after seeing and believing what he had done for me and realizing how beautiful it was.

Also, there are many Christian hypocrites don’t get me wrong, but God truly blessed me by putting into my life a bunch of serious Christians who are living out their faith and are truly different from the other people I see in my life, mainly at work, but also in my Catholic family too. Those years of Catholic masses never rubbed off very much on my parents who constantly fought and my some of my grandparents who harbored a lot of racial animosity. My church is beautiful and diverse and seeing a group of people like this come together in the body of Christ every week truly is wonderful.

Maybe I am an outlier, but I feel like most Christians who leave the faith never truly understand the Gospel, nor are they around other Christians really living out their faith. I certainly didn’t and wasn’t. But the real Gospel and a true faith community changed my life.

Blah, blah, blah... at the end of the day, you are following a fictional story. Its like dedicating yourself to Harry Potter or Percy Jackson. 🙃🫠☺️

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How long are we going to let MAGAs pretend to be Christians???? Today Trump said he ordered strikes on militants in Nigeria on Christmas day -- "Not the day before" (otherwise known as Christmas eve you dolt) "and not the day after, but Christmas day, so they would know what it was about." Yes, let's let them know what the Prince of Peace is all about by bombing them on Christmas day. JFC -- no pun intended -- how long can we swallow this?? SPEAK UP TRUMPERS. If you know Christ, you should be vomiting in your mouth every time you hear him speak like that. This is a test and you are failing.

They're all such a bunch of quislings.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an atheist but without my judgement being clouded by god can see that OP is a naive idiot.

Christians are not required to allow themselves to be massacred by Islamic terrorists without fighting back.

NOT ON CHRISTMAS DAY. We fight back by showing them why Christianity is the best religion in the world. We exemplify the word of God. I said for anyone who knows Christ -- not you in other words.

Atheists often know Christ - many even believed in him once.

How can you be an atheist and know Christ? Sincere question.

Easily, as a pp said, many atheists were once Christians. So we know all about Christ. We were taught it, like any other Christian.

Plus, you don't even need to be a Christian to know Christ. He's famous. He has a religion named after him. People learn about him in school.

Actually, I’m not sure this is true. There is a major difference between hearing about Jesus in a church where your parents dragged you there and truly understanding the Gospel of Jesus Christ in both your mind and heart in a way that changes you.

I know first-hand.

I grew up in a Catholic Church — 18 years, mass every week, all the other “Catholic” stuff. None of it made any impression on me. I heard the readings from the Bible but didn’t understand what any of it meant. My only take away was “do good, be good” and that type of religion became a major burden after awhile. I very much thought that the premise of Christianity was — basically be a good person - go to church etc — and maybe one day when you die, your cosmic positives outweigh your cosmic negatives and you make it to heaven. Or at least purgatory. After awhile, in my early 20s, I gave up on it all, became an atheist, and lived a life for the world — focused on career, work, money, travel, having fun, and getting laid, not always in that order.

In my early 40s, after a personal crisis, I very unexpectedly started to give religion a second look. I found the sermons of Tim Keller and they completely changed my life. The Jesus that Tim Keller talks about is NOT the same Jesus I heard about growing up. The fundamental message is different. Christianity is not trying to follow a bunch of strict rules so you can go to heaven. Rather, it is about our innate inability to follow the rules — and the need for a savior who followed the rules for us and us receiving a gift of righteousness from him purely on the basis of our faith in him. That’s a radically different motivation structure. I stopped doing a lot of crappy things in my life not because I was white knuckling it, but because I actively wanted to reflect back the love of Christ after seeing and believing what he had done for me and realizing how beautiful it was.

Also, there are many Christian hypocrites don’t get me wrong, but God truly blessed me by putting into my life a bunch of serious Christians who are living out their faith and are truly different from the other people I see in my life, mainly at work, but also in my Catholic family too. Those years of Catholic masses never rubbed off very much on my parents who constantly fought and my some of my grandparents who harbored a lot of racial animosity. My church is beautiful and diverse and seeing a group of people like this come together in the body of Christ every week truly is wonderful.

Maybe I am an outlier, but I feel like most Christians who leave the faith never truly understand the Gospel, nor are they around other Christians really living out their faith. I certainly didn’t and wasn’t. But the real Gospel and a true faith community changed my life.

Yes - you are an outlier. We understand the gospel and reject it as make believe. Nice that you found something to "change your life" presumably for the better. Many of us found that by rejecting religion.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an atheist but without my judgement being clouded by god can see that OP is a naive idiot.

Christians are not required to allow themselves to be massacred by Islamic terrorists without fighting back.

NOT ON CHRISTMAS DAY. We fight back by showing them why Christianity is the best religion in the world. We exemplify the word of God. I said for anyone who knows Christ -- not you in other words.

Atheists often know Christ - many even believed in him once.

How can you be an atheist and know Christ? Sincere question.

Easily, as a pp said, many atheists were once Christians. So we know all about Christ. We were taught it, like any other Christian.

Plus, you don't even need to be a Christian to know Christ. He's famous. He has a religion named after him. People learn about him in school.

Actually, I’m not sure this is true. There is a major difference between hearing about Jesus in a church where your parents dragged you there and truly understanding the Gospel of Jesus Christ in both your mind and heart in a way that changes you.

I know first-hand.

I grew up in a Catholic Church — 18 years, mass every week, all the other “Catholic” stuff. None of it made any impression on me. I heard the readings from the Bible but didn’t understand what any of it meant. My only take away was “do good, be good” and that type of religion became a major burden after awhile. I very much thought that the premise of Christianity was — basically be a good person - go to church etc — and maybe one day when you die, your cosmic positives outweigh your cosmic negatives and you make it to heaven. Or at least purgatory. After awhile, in my early 20s, I gave up on it all, became an atheist, and lived a life for the world — focused on career, work, money, travel, having fun, and getting laid, not always in that order.

In my early 40s, after a personal crisis, I very unexpectedly started to give religion a second look. I found the sermons of Tim Keller and they completely changed my life. The Jesus that Tim Keller talks about is NOT the same Jesus I heard about growing up. The fundamental message is different. Christianity is not trying to follow a bunch of strict rules so you can go to heaven. Rather, it is about our innate inability to follow the rules — and the need for a savior who followed the rules for us and us receiving a gift of righteousness from him purely on the basis of our faith in him. That’s a radically different motivation structure. I stopped doing a lot of crappy things in my life not because I was white knuckling it, but because I actively wanted to reflect back the love of Christ after seeing and believing what he had done for me and realizing how beautiful it was.

Also, there are many Christian hypocrites don’t get me wrong, but God truly blessed me by putting into my life a bunch of serious Christians who are living out their faith and are truly different from the other people I see in my life, mainly at work, but also in my Catholic family too. Those years of Catholic masses never rubbed off very much on my parents who constantly fought and my some of my grandparents who harbored a lot of racial animosity. My church is beautiful and diverse and seeing a group of people like this come together in the body of Christ every week truly is wonderful.

Maybe I am an outlier, but I feel like most Christians who leave the faith never truly understand the Gospel, nor are they around other Christians really living out their faith. I certainly didn’t and wasn’t. But the real Gospel and a true faith community changed my life.

I don't think you were every truly an atheist. You were disgruntled with religion. As many people do in our younger days, you were searching for your place in the world. It appears you were still searching for meaning in your life when you came across Keller. You found someone that you agree with their interpretation. There are many other interpretations. Nearly every christian I have known thinks their interpretation is the "right" one.

[Anonymous]

People will say anything to get followers, attention, money, prestige, power. They may even offer government money in exchange for having airports and train stations named after them, as well as seeking religious cred by bombing people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am an atheist but without my judgement being clouded by god can see that OP is a naive idiot.

Christians are not required to allow themselves to be massacred by Islamic terrorists without fighting back.

NOT ON CHRISTMAS DAY. We fight back by showing them why Christianity is the best religion in the world. We exemplify the word of God. I said for anyone who knows Christ -- not you in other words.

Atheists often know Christ - many even believed in him once.

How can you be an atheist and know Christ? Sincere question.

Easily, as a pp said, many atheists were once Christians. So we know all about Christ. We were taught it, like any other Christian.

Plus, you don't even need to be a Christian to know Christ. He's famous. He has a religion named after him. People learn about him in school.

Actually, I’m not sure this is true. There is a major difference between hearing about Jesus in a church where your parents dragged you there and truly understanding the Gospel of Jesus Christ in both your mind and heart in a way that changes you.

I know first-hand.

I grew up in a Catholic Church — 18 years, mass every week, all the other “Catholic” stuff. None of it made any impression on me. I heard the readings from the Bible but didn’t understand what any of it meant. My only take away was “do good, be good” and that type of religion became a major burden after awhile. I very much thought that the premise of Christianity was — basically be a good person - go to church etc — and maybe one day when you die, your cosmic positives outweigh your cosmic negatives and you make it to heaven. Or at least purgatory. After awhile, in my early 20s, I gave up on it all, became an atheist, and lived a life for the world — focused on career, work, money, travel, having fun, and getting laid, not always in that order.

In my early 40s, after a personal crisis, I very unexpectedly started to give religion a second look. I found the sermons of Tim Keller and they completely changed my life. The Jesus that Tim Keller talks about is NOT the same Jesus I heard about growing up. The fundamental message is different. Christianity is not trying to follow a bunch of strict rules so you can go to heaven. Rather, it is about our innate inability to follow the rules — and the need for a savior who followed the rules for us and us receiving a gift of righteousness from him purely on the basis of our faith in him. That’s a radically different motivation structure. I stopped doing a lot of crappy things in my life not because I was white knuckling it, but because I actively wanted to reflect back the love of Christ after seeing and believing what he had done for me and realizing how beautiful it was.

Also, there are many Christian hypocrites don’t get me wrong, but God truly blessed me by putting into my life a bunch of serious Christians who are living out their faith and are truly different from the other people I see in my life, mainly at work, but also in my Catholic family too. Those years of Catholic masses never rubbed off very much on my parents who constantly fought and my some of my grandparents who harbored a lot of racial animosity. My church is beautiful and diverse and seeing a group of people like this come together in the body of Christ every week truly is wonderful.

Maybe I am an outlier, but I feel like most Christians who leave the faith never truly understand the Gospel, nor are they around other Christians really living out their faith. I certainly didn’t and wasn’t. But the real Gospel and a true faith community changed my life.

Unfortunately you are an outlier because you are trying to live the faith. Most Christians in America are not. It's a lot of lip service. They LIVE their life in a way that is antithetical to the teachings of Christ while crowing loud and long about what faithful Christians they are and how much the looooooooove Jesus. Honestly they make me sick to my stomach. They use Jesus' name to justify hatred and cruelty. It's outright evil. They do not understand the first thing about grace or forgiveness. They are all talk. And they are part of why so many people turn away from Christianity in this country. Let's face it, we, people, are the Church. If the flock behaves like a bunch of nasty hypocrites, what decent person isn't going to say this is BS and go elsewhere for community?

I am genuinely glad for you that you have found a community where people try to follow the teachings of Jesus. But yes, you are an exception.

And I would add, I found a lot of meaning in going to the Catholic Church as a child and teen. The service and the readings were not hollow to me, I felt them deeply, maybe because of my mother, who is a very kind, accepting, and spiritual person who lives Christ's teachings. But as I got older and looked around me, reconciling what has been done by clergy and what some supposed Catholics do has been hard to deal with for me. The dissonance between the teachings and the behavior of people is, frankly, infuriating.