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The funny thing about these protestants, especially the boomers, is they 1) accuse Catholics and E. Orthodox (if they even know the Orthodox exist) of superstitions while being flagrantly superstitious themselves and 2) despise all early christian writings while adoring the contemporary trite that daytime television evangelists shit out. They literally treat it like scripture. (But they'll sneer at the idea of reading the homilies of John Chrysostom, if they even knew who he was!) Oh, and they do have their ersatz "saints" as well, only it's retards like Jimmy Swaggart, Billy Graham, Benny Hin and John Hagee.

I was raised in the "nondenominational christian" crowd, and most of my family is still very much in that vein. My grandfather for instance was recently ecstatic because some rabbi that wrote a facile Joel Osteen-tier commentary about contemporary christianity was coming to visit their "church". Think about that, a rabbi. That's who these people are getting their Christianity from. People who aren't even Christians. And yet when I brought up the early Church Fathers, my grandfather's response was "well what gives them authority" etc. etc. He was also convinced that the early church (the first, second and third century church) was hell bent on "prosecuting the jews"! He also thinks modern ashkenazis are exactly the same as the Judeans who followed Christ and that the modern state of Israel is the same Israel that's in the bible.

The stupidity of these people is almost paralyzing, and I strongly urge you to not bother engaging with them at all. You have to understand, they have no concept whatsoever about anything divine. Their terminology is beyond impoverished. American protestantism is nothing but materialistic capitalism but after you die you get to wear white robes and pluck a harp in McHeaven with Ronald McDonald.

Please don't let them make you question your faith. You have something infinitely more valuable than they do.