I got permission from one of the best bloggers that I know to share one of his recent blog post. All credit for this post goes to http://thewayitcouldbe.com and Chad Missildine. Post found at 25 Ways to Become a Christian Atheist.
The Christian Atheist: Someone who believes in God, but lives as though He doesn’t exist. Someone who has gone to church for years but realizes their relationship with God has done nothing to change how they lived. Here is a link to Craig Groeschel’s blog with info on the book and how you can pre-order his new book The Christian Atheist.
I was a Christian Atheist for many years and had a blast (for awhile)! I picked up the below tips from personal experience and by watching others. Live your life incorporating as much of the below as possible and you can become a Christian Atheist:
1. Don’t submit yourself to any form of accountability in a local church. Just set your own rules and whenever you don’t like something, just change churches….again.
2. Don’t ever open your life up to others. Instead live in a bubble and make sure all your relationships are surface level.
3. Go to church every time the doors are open. Listen really closely to the message, and then don’t think about it once you leave.
4. Blame the “church” for your lack of spiritual growth and don’t take personal responsibility for you or your family.
5. Make your kids go to church all the time, but don’t ever show them any evidence of your faith at home. This is a great way to create other Christian Atheists.
6. Don’t ever talk to anyone about your faith. Make it all an intellectual pursuit in your own brain, in your own world.
7. Be as divisive as possible with other Christians. Make unchurched people thankful that they have nothing to do with you and your arguements.
8. Be rude to waiters, kids, and poor people. Kick dogs too while you’re at it.
9. Be hateful all the time to certain groups of people.
10. Wear a cross around your neck while you defile God publicly with your body in public.
11. Make your kids your god and don’t ever serve any one outside your family.
12. Don’t serve anyone ever. Instead fill your schedules every night of the week with as many activities as you can.
13. Don’t ever pray. Hearing what God would have you do is way over-rated!
14. Don’t ever seek out truthful feedback from others about what they see in you.
15. Worship your money and your success. It’s all about you.
16. Judge people frequently and be thankful you are better than they are.
17. Say Christian things all the time like “brother” or “praying for you,” then never do what you say you are doing.
18. Have an emotional affair with your spouse and don’t ever tell anyone about it.
19. Blame the church for your kids’ lack of spiritual growth. Don’t ever take personal responsibility.
20. Put “Christian” on your Facebook or Twitter profile, then blend in with the rest of the world with what you post.
21. Don’t ever forgive your self or seek forgiveness. Instead, just try to be a good, moral person without God in your life.
22. Don’t ever listen to other people. Talk about yourself during the whole conversation. This will give them hints that you don’t care about anyone but yourself.
23. Don’t ever engage with the Scriptures. Allow your mind to become numb to the things of God.
24. Place your popularly above your desire to be obedient.
25. Read about becoming a Christian Atheist from TheWayItCouldBe.com, then continuing to live out many of the above items.
What other ways can one become a Christian Atheist? Please share!
Chad, Thank you for this thought provoking, gut wrenching, heart transforming, insight, into “the cultural church.”
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