I’m glad you're back. Hopefully you’ve been practicing the last lesson on being judgmental. If you need to access it you can find it here: https://www.jeffbrownsclassroom.com/jeff-browns-sunday-school-classroom/how-to-be-a-religious-jerk

You’ll find that this lesson is really easy if you have gotten good at being judgmental and remembering the major lesson from the last lesson:

Judging is love and love is enabling

With this you’ll go from pitying other groups (a great start) to hating them in no time.

You are likely already on the way to mastering this. 

Here are a few signs that you are already progressing:

When you see anybody from another group you see them as either a lost soul who obviously has no idea how to find happiness or someone who is leading others away from God

Any negative thing you have heard about that group you remember and exaggerate. Anything positive you will quickly dismiss as an aberration of what that group is really like. (this is called confirmation bias: check out the video on it here: https://youtu.be/GBi5Cj21b1I

You quickly believe any stereotype about other groups but say that stereotypes about your own group are unfair and mean: https://youtu.be/nFasoSdAqq8 

At first this may be a little difficult as yet again there are sooo many scriptures that warn against this yet with my simple method you can completely ignore all of those scriptures and misinterpret others to make you feel like you are better than everyone. 

Just remember the following formula and you will find this easier than ever:

Your religion is true so that makes you the best.

If your religion is true and helps people. This by default means everyone else is not true and leading people to hell. 

Sure you may say that aren't supposed to hate people so don't forget the first lesson on re-labeling. Also we can hate people who are leading people to hell if we remember this adjustment:

Hate is love and actual love is enabling. 

Here is an example of how this works in real time. Let’s say you see people in your group, you already know they are awesome so you can show them love and approval. However if the person is in a different group it’s important to show them your disdain or hate so they will try to win your approval by joining your group. Any acceptance will just aid them on their path to hell. If you have a hard time showing outright disdain you can always show them fake love while throwing out passive aggressive remarks and retaining that hate deep inside. This is the more common approach. 

You will find that brain psychology will aid you along as there are tons of studies to show that humans already have a bias that allows them to see their group as superior to all other groups. You can check out my video on it here: https://youtu.be/OVRV2csdhF8 

In some ways it may be best to forget this research because it’s a reminder that your desire to feel superior makes you the same as everyone else which makes you feel like you and your group aren’t superior. We want to avoid that.

The following scriptures are ones you are going to either ignore entirely or just reinterpret to help you in this lesson (easier to just ignore)

1. Matthew 3:8-9- Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance. And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

While it may seem that John the Baptist was telling them that belonging to the “correct group” doesn’t mean anything and you actually need to act like a disciple we can obviously ignore this because Jesus was talking about other groups not yours.

2. Luke 10:25-37 The Good Samaritan- I know that it may seem that Jesus’ choice of using a Samaritan in this story is a lesson that a member of a group that you hate most (whether it be democrats, a different religion, atheist, etc.) Might be more righteous than the higher ups in your own religion but… ya know, Actually it’s exactly a lesson in that so it’s best to not think about him being a Samaritan at all and just see it is a lesson in helping people who are beat up. 

3. John  9:52-56 This one comes so close to helping religious jerks everywhere when James and John want to firebomb their most hated group the Samaritans but then Jesus has to go and ruin it by saying that’s not what he is about.

4. Whatever you do, don't think too deeply about the book of Jonah. Sure the member of the “right group” was a totally jerk who didn’t get it at all while the “evil” people repented quickly and received god’s blessings but that doesn’t mean that people in our own group are often jerks while people in the “evil” groups are actually more righteous than us. I’m sure the story isn’t a lesson on the dangers of seeing your group as superior at all. It’s really just about not running away from god. Ignore all those other things.

5. Matthew 7:22-23 21- “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity”

Best to ignore this one entirely, it’s pretty clear that just belonging to the “right” group does not mean you are going to heaven. If you want to be a religious jerk then you can’t remember that the most important thing isn’t belonging to the right group but is to follow the two greatest commandments

There are more scriptures that come from my own religion (The church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) but I will save those for a future post. 

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