Materialism, Etc. In Christian Culture
This essay is based off a quote from an article about a young man who was off-put from Christian culture because of the “Ugly way students at his high school treated one another. He didn't like the fighting, the way people took advantage of each other, the materialism, the competition to be ‘cool.’” http://www.wardheernews.com/News_07/september/10_Americans_converting_to_islam.html
The quote from this young man portrays his view of Christian society as immoral. He was strongly put off by the “fighting, the way people took advantage of one another, the materialism, the competition to be cool” in his high school, which reflects on Christianity as it was a Christian community. These people don’t reflect Jesus’ teachings, or they would have been more compassionate, so I think we have lost a sense of Christian purpose that we do need to not just learn Jesus’ teachings but reflect them every day when we communicate with others.
Christians take the teachings of Jesus......
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