God's warriors
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Blue - I completely agree with that last bit. It's comical.
One of the biggest struggles with Christianity today - in my opinion - is cultural. The Bible was written in a different culture, and modern Christians attempt to pull that culture out along with their doctrine rather than read in context. This is where many of the most ridiculous fundamentalist beliefs come from.
If you were to forget for a moment everything you knew about Christianity and sat down to read the New Testament, you would find it is not about rules. Christ came to fulfill the rules because no one is perfect. No one could live and never break one of the hundreds of Jewish laws. Rules are not enough - you must admit imperfection in humility. It is understood that everyone fails.
Christianity is the end all be all for human imperfection, which is why, in my belief, it is so often and easily perverted.