> "My personal belief is it's just fine to live a Christ-like life, but so few people do it, and the judgement and hatred is just awful."
OP² is not fundie, unlike OP.
> So would Christ sanction the keeping of pagan holidays like Christmas and Easter?
He most likely wouldn't care. If he did, though, he would be concerned with teaching people why celebrating these holidays is misguided, not on whether they are "sanctioned" or not.
> Would Christ lead the way in allowing two men to marry?
I don't know. He never said one thing about it one way or the other. Given the rest of his words and actions, though, it seems safe to assume he probably wouldn't care if people of the same sex were getting married, even if he disapproved of homosexuality. In the latter case, he would most likely try to help those individuals understand their mistakes rather than ban SSM.
> Would he give the OK to the murder of innocent babies?
Fetuses aren't babies. And Jesus doesn't mention fetuses or abortion. It's at best unclear what he would have thought of it.
> Would He say "sure, go ahead" to the multitude of prescription sorceries that are available at your local pharmacy?
Given that Jesus was said to heal the sickthrough supernatural means or otherwisehe clearly had an understanding of the distinction between "sorcery" and "earthly medicine." Meanwhile, you clearly don't. That's all that needs to be said here.
> Rome, the self professed church of God, lays claim to all of these..
So, basically, the Roman Catholic Church succeeds at the whole "understanding Jesus" thing better than you. And their track record on this has been pretty shaky at best (for example, justifying opposition to female clergy with the fact that none of Jesus' disciples were femalesomething that was very possibly a pure coincidence or a later revision).
> yet none are found to be approved by God at all.
God didn't explicitly approve of the "sorcery" that is the Internet, either. So why are you on it?
Methinks if you want to practice what you preach, you instead need to be reading or rereading the New Testament and brushing up on your Koiné Greek, so you can compare the various English translations of the NT to their source and have a decent understanding of the closest thing we have to the original Gospels.
Like OP², living a "Christ-like" life is also what I generally aspire to do, despite not really being a Christian in any conventional sense of the word. I still at least mostly subscribe to Jesus' teachings alongside Gautama Buddha's concept of the Madhyamâpratipad. But I will be the first to admit I'm not perfect and fall very short of Jesus and Buddha.
