An observation on the strange behavior of establishment Christians

When self-identified Christians don't believe what they profess to believe what you get is a sort of practical Deist. That is, a 'Christian' who really doesn't believe in the supernatural. That is how Deism is expressed in our day among establishment Christian types.

When Christian leaders or teachers (of whatever type) finds themselves in this situation you can see that it manifests psychologically in similar ways.

1. When such Christians are in the presence of real Christians (something they try to avoid at all costs) their conflicted psychology manifests as brusqueness and even nastiness towards the real Christian. Mocking as well.

2. When such Christians are in the presence of 'their own kind' their conflicted psychology (not believing what they profess) manifests in a strange immature, giggling behavior. They simply giggle a lot.

Go to pretty much any Christian internet forum (PuritanBoard being a longstanding example) to witness the nastiness and mocking towards real Christians who naively show up in their environment.

Listen to pretty much any Christian podcast to witness the incessant giggling that goes on. (They, if cornered, which they never allow themselves to be, would probably defend this strange behavior as 'Christian joy' or some such thing, but the mocking attitudes embedded in it all give them away.)

Christianity cannot be an establishment phenomenon. Establishments, as a phenomenon, are too stupid to contain real Christianity.