This is why Christians often end up as door-mats in the present also, I guess. Realizing a "belief" which is really an Absolute Truth about Death More Abundantly which is always Just a Day Away will turn you into a Codependent Doormat, today
And the symptoms are apparent, the hypocrisies pile on top of each other; right after assuring some audience that things will be so much awesomely better tomorrow you will hear complaints about how things used to be so much better yesterday, and similar, even more obvious slip-ups, that I hate to even reveal lest the marks just get wiser.
If you consider yourself a good institutional "Christian" or you are even tagging along to a "Christian" "church" nowadays, imo you are in a lot of trouble, and that should even be obvious the second you walk in the door and start hearing "it's like this and like that" from some blind idiot with a self-satisfied grin on his face, collecting your money.
Now, if that seems a bit harsh, then let me invite you to Quote those two vv to one of them and see if you get blown off with the same air of smugness etc. All pastors are not equal of course, but what that means practically speaking for this scenario is that you will even be able to witness the Good Ones struggling with the Accepted Hypocrisy that you have just asked them to remark upon; and the Really Good Ones are on the way out the door, or have already left the ministry imo.
To put that another way, in case someone actually tries it, you will be very hard-pressed to find an Ordained Christian Pastor who is willing to explore we do not yet know what we will become, or the many supporting vv, that mark Eternity as "an age, a space of time," or illustrate that there is only One Immortal, or any other passages that threaten the concept of death, more abundantly.
But what you can easily find is One who can assure you that "to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord," see, just spout that one and watch His face light up! Now what I'm giving away here is the keys to the kingdom, bc the point is not to go and challenge these blind wolves on their Leadership or their Theology or their Hypocrisy for sure, all those are pointless; the point is to understand how to interact with them in daily life in such a way that there is no loser in the transaction, which requires a little trick usually, bc they are bent upon winning at any cost.
So, if you like ask them for their autograph or whatever you have maybe gone too far--maybe not tho--but the path to achieving an objective through them is along those lines, iow do the opposite of what I do here, don't be challenging their Lead, etc, if you hear "no" at any time you are already on dangerous ground, be prepped to say "ah, ty" after whatever dreck comes after the "no," and don't expect it to be addressing the actual point at all, stuff like that.
Of course it is much pref to just be anywhere else if possible, but sometimes this is not possible, we have to interact with ppl, this is part of the baptism process imo, and I don't know why or even quite how but the progression in "conversations" seemed to go like at the beginning I was upset and they were upset, then just they were upset, then just I was upset, and now if we aren't both happy at the end of a real-life interaction I will be doing some pausing and reflecting on the matter later to make sure it wasn't me.
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