"Christianity has done the most damage in our world", said my teacher when someone asked for her opinion on religions and their cultural impact on society. Taken aback by her statement, I challenged my teacher on her use of colonization and the crusades as examples of Christianity's destructiveness . This prompted her to rephrase his words, saying that, "people in the name of Christianity have done the most damage to this world".
My teachers' words still ring in my ears not only because they were offensive to me, but because her words are also simply not true. Therefore, it has got me thinking about how distorted Biblical Christianity is in the eyes of our society. Even the simple question of what a Christian is can garner different answers. Is the Christian the slave master who owns imported Africans, and uses the Bible to justify their actions? Is the nun who teaches her young First Nation students that they're inferior and contributes to their cultural genocide a Christian? Is it even possible to know what a true "Christian" is? These are fair questions, so I want you to journey with me as I address these questions through this blog series: The ABC''s of Christianity.
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