As a Christian who doesn’t follow much of the super religious “rules”, I think it’s kind of a red flag but sometimes it’s not. Red flag because my girlfriend’s ex-friend was super devout and put it all over her bio and was very ableist and homophobic. My friend, for example, is agnostic, so he’s not sure if spirituality exists. He has a friend who’s super devout and constantly talks about Christianity. She has a Discord server about Christianity and most of her friends are Christian who just talk about Jesus and God all the time. She puts the crosses and bible verses in her bio too. She’s very nice and tries to be accepting but seems kinda judgmental or like “Oh, your non-traditional ways are… nice I guess.”
She constantly asks my friend how his relationship with God is and if he reads the Bible and what his favorite verses are, even when he says he’s not super religious.
My mom as of recent has become super religious, and while she is pretty left-leaning, thinks the only way to believe is to be Christian and you HAVE to believe in Jesus or you’ll die instead of live forever in Heaven.
The more a person “peacocks” their religion the worse of a person I assume they are.
Especially Christians. Some of the best people I have known are devout Christians who simply try to act and live as Jesus instructed. They rarely bring up their beliefs, instead just trying to be kind and helpful people as an example.
On the flip side, some of the worst people I have known are “devout Christians” who will do absolutely wretched things to everyone around them while loudly quoting bible verses and “showing off” their entire wall covered in crosses.
One of the top well known examples is Mr. Rogers. Very deeply Christian on a personal level but, to the best I’m aware, he never brought it up on his show.
Absolutely. I’m a lifelong atheist, who generally hates all religion. But if all Christians acted like Mr. Rogers, then I would generally have no issue with them.