Tell me why MY VIEW of Christianity is wrong (page 4)

BurnTheShips

To be honest, Einstein was a bit all over the place with his statements on god. It seemed he, like most of us here, was continuing to grow in his own understanding of god.

My thoughts exactly.

BTS

Terry

:Tell me why MY VIEW of Christianity is wrong

Because it steals away from people something they think they need more than life itself: an imaginary friend.

A vast amount of human misery, wars and suffering is due to people who believe their imaginary friend is superior to their foe's imaginary friend.

Why take all that fun away from them and try to help them make the world a better and safer place, Terry?

Farkel

Farkel raises an important point. (Accidentally!)

It is an act of intentional cruelty to take something extremely important away from a person trying to survive in a hostile world and REPLACE IT with nothing but empty cynicism. The hole will implode. The person will be impelled to "fill" the emptyness.

It is seldom a good fill.

You can't take away Hope (even false hope) and replace it with nothing...

I'm reminded of "...whom shall we go away to, Lord?"

The pivotal moment is when a person realizes they DON'T HAVE TO REPLACE hope with anything other than personal responsibility.

You become your own Master.

PSacramento

very transparent proto ad hominem - why do born-agains have so much angst over another mans rational choice.

You took my post the wrong way Betsy.

It just seems to me that Terry and so many others, have suffered so much because of the WT.

It was NOT an attack on Terry or on what he has decided to believe in ( or not).

And I am NOT a born again, not sure where you got that idea.

PSacramento

It would be VERY nice to hear more of PSac's sentiments, which if I understand him correctly, says. "I believe in god. I can't prove what I believe. My faith is strong and important to me, and that's good enough for me. At the same time, I understand why others don't believe, and I can't give them answers to their questions, although it is my hope that they will be at peace however they choose to answer the god question for themselves."

I might be high on that one, but it'd be nice.

Thanks Alltimejeff,

It is that in a nutshell, I believe in God and that believe is based on Jesus Christ and on Love, to me Love IS My faith and as such I love my fellow man, regardless of WHO that fellow man is or what they believe.

You can't love and condem others, I don't work that way.

Sure I think many people are assholes and I am sure many think I am one too, :)

I still love them as best as I can.

I can't prove God exists to anyone, nor will I try and I con only specualte on the nature of God, and if he doesn't exist, that's OK too.

I don't think that every one has or can be on the same path to God and that, sometimes, the path to God is away from God.

I know one person who was an atheist for all his life, untill the day he wasn't, not saying that is what will happen to everyone, but that worked for him and I think we need to remember and accept that, we are all individuals and should find our own way in this world and while we may think that ourpath is THE path or is better than another, you need to understand that while we may THINK it, we don't KNOW it.

Acceptance, tolerance and Love, these are ALL GOOD things and whatever way pushes us to do them, is a GOOD WAY.

SixofNine

snowbird

The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

Yeah, christianity makes sense.

... an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity ... Imo, this is the only part that rings true. Sylvia

thetrueone

The theology of Christianity is varied throughout the world, some faiths really produce some positive good from this belief.

The charities and money from these religious organizations put into hospitals, schools and the needy have helped many in a humanitarian sense.

So there have been much good created from these organizations in recent years.

This maybe the only viewpoint of Christianity worthy of importance in are modern era.

The commercialization of Christianity by the WTS. and the JWS organization should be set apart

of these other organizations for their apathetic progressive self centered theocracy.

villabolo

SixofNine,

villabolo

Terry

Kindness is simply kindness.

Charity is simply charity.

Benevolence is simply benevolence.

IF YOU PUT A TAG on it calling it "Christian" it doesn't change the humanity.

Good people are often people who do good. It isn't their do-gooding which comes first.

Good people are attracted to good causes.

Christianity is certainly promoted as just that.

I don't think belief or faith makes you any better than you already are.

I think it allows you to exert your goodness in a particular venue.

Terry

I was thinking yesterday at work.....

There are certain customers who are christian who are intelligent, grounded and not pushy or excessively opinionated. They don't even invite me to their church! They are nice and friendly. I like them. They seem to accept me for who I am.

I view these people as Good Christians.

What I don't/can't know is if they were just as nice BEFORE they were Christian.

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