Hello, i am a real Christian

[The_Flying_Skeptic]

It also has to be said that the reason that there are so few organisations and institutions that are around today that were also around at the time of the early years of the Catholic Church is because the very same went around the world destroying everything it touched and replacing it with bloody Catholicism.

Who knows what sort of ancient organisations there would be today if they had just minded their own business and stayed put in Rome.

That's what I was getting at on an earlier post on this thread that you didn't give me kudos for.

"It's not as if Christianity became so popular as a pacifist in the first place: how is the Catholic's history with violent methods of spreading their 'word' supposed to make sense in a religion that now proposes that you turn the other cheek when in conflict?"

[Darwinian]

Must have missed it.

[True Christian]

Beliefs in Osiris, Buddhism and Judaism are not organizations. They are religions/philosophies. There is a difference: there has been a Pope for 2000 years without interruptions. The "headquarters" (Vatican) have stayed the same.
Organizations =/= Religions

However Darwinian i admit that that school you talked about has existed for longer than the Church. That's ONE

But the Church has existed and flourished for 2000 years, and doesnt seem to be losing too many adepts. To me this shows that there is some kind of divinity to the Church.

To "The Flying Sceptic" : Islam is way younger than Christianity.

[Darwinian]

Yay, what's my prize

[Minimalist]

Does anyone think the name of this thread should be changed to 'Hello, i am a really bad, cherry picking, in denial theist'?

Vote no to name change but TC may just be " having a laugh " at our expense, possibly.

I considered that but every time I say that "no one could be that stupid" some theist comes along and proves me wrong.

So I'll withhold judgment... even though my True Christian friend thinks that TC is just a troll trying to start a flame war.

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Beliefs in Osiris, Buddhism and Judaism are not organizations.

You've just convinced me that you don't know wtf you're talking about.

Not an odd occurence among xtians, mind you...but still.

[bozo]

TC, on my profile details I reveal that I am male and reside in the UK.
Would you care to reveal the same about yourself?
Just being nosey.

[The_Flying_Skeptic]

Beliefs in Osiris, Buddhism and Judaism are not organizations. They are religions/philosophies. There is a difference: there has been a Pope for 2000 years without interruptions. The "headquarters" (Vatican) have stayed the same.
Organizations =/= Religions

However Darwinian i admit that that school you talked about has existed for longer than the Church. That's ONE

But the Church has existed and flourished for 2000 years, and doesnt seem to be losing too many adepts. To me this shows that there is some kind of divinity to the Church.

To "The Flying Sceptic" : Islam is way younger than Christianity.

you've got to be kidding me with 'Judaism' not being an organization. Judaism must be a group of people that work together even if it doesn't have a hierarchy the way that Catholics do that historically parallels a celibate isolated democracy.

[Darwinian]

We'll have to ask TC (can't help but think of Top Cat when I see that) how he is defining the word Organisation.

[True Christian]

TC, on my profile details I reveal that I am male and reside in the UK.
Would you care to reveal the same about yourself?
Just being nosey.

heh, i guess people think im a troll now ?

I am a male, and i also reside in the UK, in East Anglia to be more precise. This is the Internet so you can understand, i hope, that i cannot reveal all my personal information just to satiate curiosity

Also about the Church, i guess i apprehend the word "organization" : "the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something". The Church is the only major religion that has this "administering" part, and the only religion in the whole world who has kept a constant administration for two millenia.

[Paul the Human]

The fact that the church itself is over 2000 years old is not evidence that the mythology it endorses is true, only that it is good at convincing people that it is. This is a stupid argument, in my honest opinion.