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Re:Why Men Are Hard to Help by _gabe_ on Saturday October 01, 2022 @02:51PM (#33048967)
> It's not new, it's influenced from American Christian culture where the social perception of individuals is more important than the truth.

This isn't a uniquely Christian thing, and it's definitely not something that suddenly popped up in the last century. Here's Jesus rebuking the 1st century jews for this exact behavior:

β€œAnd when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward." Matthew 6:5 ESV

I think this is more of a "human" problem than a uniquely Christian problem.

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Re:Why Men Are Hard to Help by yjftsjthsd-h on Saturday October 01, 2022 @09:19PM (#33051798)
The only way I can read that that makes sense is to say that "American Christian" is used to distinguish from actual Christianity. Because indeed, the Bible is extremely explicit, repeatedly and at considerable length, that appearances are either irrelevant or inversely correlated with things that actually matter.
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