Faux christianity

I've encountered different approaches to Christianity. Having been brought up in a conservative christian environment, I saw my fair share of versions of Christianity, from the hip, no consequence to the absolutist approach to law and practices.This approach (absolutist approach) I like calling faux Christianity. Faux Christianity is Christianity that unlike Jesus’ approach (which was experiential and focused on people) is by far performative and focused on acts, plays and gestures of supposed devotion.

The primary source at least in my opinion of this phenomena is the idea of a misunderstanding of the law of love. I believe that love and the acts that are done in its name should be a consequence and not a prerequisite. For example, I would send a loved one money because I love them,not so that they love me. This fundamental difference is what draws a clear line between faux and true Christians.

This concepts’ rise and popularity would be attributed to many factors over the African culture(which is my primary focus ) but the biggest in my opinion is the error of transitioning between the traditional African gods of whichever culture - whose main source of happiness was appeasement and main source of correction was shame and public embarrassment. This dynamic creates a situation where the approach is directly lifted and dropped to Christianity as is.

So when we make a mistake, instead of correction, we push people to shame and embarrassment. So the louder a sin is, the more it generally is avoided, so therefore stealing from God through tithe isn't a loud sin, but it is equally egregious, but people would treat it lightly since you can't see it, but elder baba juniors’ beautiful daughter  becomes pregnant and all of a sudden the entire youth group needs counseling, and all activities resembling fun are banned, and elder baba juniors mom and dad start going to separate churches because of shame and the daughter stop coming to church because mama nanii feels like touching that beautiful baby boy is sin.

You see where I'm going with this?

I could write in more depth and detail, scouring every corner and turning every stone, but that's sincerely not my plan. I sought out to explain loudly what the two approaches to Christianity in my experience have been,  and encourage you to always seek to practice a Christianity that primarily focuses on true Christianity regardless of how hard and try to always avoid its faux antithesis.

Note: I wrote this in a bit of a hurry, excuse the lack of conciseness and elaborate examples