RE: What's not to love?
April 25, 2012 at 12:04 am
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2012 at 12:14 am by radorth.)
(April 24, 2012 at 3:33 pm)jess_essential Wrote: Honestly, It is not Jesus Christ that I have a problem with, even though I feel that he holds no value in my personal life. It is the people who follow him that I have a problem with. The majority of "christians" try to be "christ like", which is a big no no. For the simple reason that nobody can even tell you what the guy was REALLY like!
That is true in most cases, not all. I claim (with Chesterton) that we haven't actually tried Christianity except in 3 or 4 short-lived Great Awakenings, one of which made Ben Franklin marvel at "the change soon made in our citizens."
Quote:If he really wanted people to be like him, he would want them to do what?
He said precisely what in the Sermon on the Mount. What exactly is unclear about it? I don't see anything, which is why even the atheist H.G. Wells said he blinded us with the light he shed on our hearts.
Quote: I do believe that he was probably a real person, However, i also believe that people have raped the idea of him,
Well yes, and they've raped a lot of ideas, but that doesn't leave us off the hook. Am I a patriot because I say I am? Should I not be a patriot because there are evil people saying they are patriots? That approach makes no sense.
Quote: I think that if christ were still alive, he would've gone out like Cobain-- shotgun to the face.
If you say so.
(April 24, 2012 at 12:16 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Just go here and click at random[/url]. His teachings at best made no sense and at worst were obnoxious.
Greater men than you disagree no doubt.
Quote:The sermon on the mount is highly overrated. Love your enemies? Do good to those who harm you? Who are we kidding? If Christians actually followed his advice the religion would have been wiped out long ago. And don't get me started on the whole self-mutilation parts of the sermon.
Which shows you haven't got a clue what he is talking about. How ironic that you are more legalistic, and think more in black or white than the Christians do! I love it. Really.
Quote:How does a bloody sadistic sacrifice make anything better? How is this an act of love?
I dunno. Ask Gandhi.
What you are telling us is that you are much wiser and more rational than Jefferson or Gandhi.
Not
