(April 22, 2016 at 8:36 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Where do you get "christian" out of that list?
Just because their list of values falls in line with Christian values doesn't necessarily make them religious.
I know of at least one Atheist that would agree with all but 2 from that list.
The point is, disagreeing with gay marriage or abortion, doesn't make one a christian.
No, you're right. It doesn't.
What does is the use of specific "code-wording", in other words using shibboleths from Christian culture to be able to run under the radar, yet be detectable by people in the know. It's similar to the reason the ichthus fish was used by early Christians, supposedly, to identify one another secretly-- one drawing one arc, the other drawing the second part.
Several of the phrases in that list are right out of something Focus on the Family would write. Most people can easily be fooled by such rhetoric, but you forget that many of us belonged to fundamentalist Christian faiths before rejecting it as mythology, and we know the memes of that social group.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
