Watch for people who use religion to feel superior or bully others rather than live it out. The speaker, who grew up with religious abuse, warns that consistency between what someone says and does matters more than how often they attend church.
one of the most important red flags any Christian can be aware of. You ready for this one? Red flag number 5 is that she uses religion as a vanity tool rather than a way to build a better connection and relationship with God. Have you ever heard of a religious bully? There are many people who use religion as a way to just feel better than other people or act better than other people or make other people feel like, well, I'm better than you because I go to church more often. For those who maybe don't know my personal story, I had a very abusive father. And one of the things he did was this religious abuse. This is something that I'm very grateful I became aware of early on. Some people do not use religion for the right purposes. Now they act pious and they can sing all the hymns and they can cry at all the right times, but religion is not about their relationship with God, it's about how they look. So this kind of goes back to our first flag, red flag, which is do her actions align with her words? Pay attention. Is her religion about her relationship with God or just a tool she uses?
