RE: What do non-fundamentalist Christians actually believe?
June 29, 2016 at 11:45 pm
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2016 at 12:03 pm by vorlon13.)
If our hypothetical 'Christianity lite' candidate feels free to look at the entirety of the Bible and to pick and choose like a picky eater at an Andrew Zimern inspired buffet which scriptures to comport to and which to ignore (scoff at?) how can I conclude anything except they are in charge, not God ??
And if they are in charge, while they may be sincere unto themselves and their own judgment, they are not evidencing any more or any greater fealty or deference to God than they do to their (hypothetical) homeowners association covenants and restrictions when their board hasn't convened a meeting or enforced a single term or condition in 10 years.
I don't want to put words in your mouth, but I feel I'd be having to take their 'religious' views more seriously than they do with your interpretation. I viscerally do not want to do that. I don't know why any court could/would or should do so either.
I want to (figuratively) hold their feet to the fire, ask those questions about Leviticus, embarrass them with their manifest slacker attitude, make them understand the consequences of funding corrupt hierarchies promulgating primitive morality they do not subscribe to and insist they make a choice; pony up to their shitty book of fraudulent myths, warts and all, or get honest with themselves and drop out of the game.
And if they are in charge, while they may be sincere unto themselves and their own judgment, they are not evidencing any more or any greater fealty or deference to God than they do to their (hypothetical) homeowners association covenants and restrictions when their board hasn't convened a meeting or enforced a single term or condition in 10 years.
I don't want to put words in your mouth, but I feel I'd be having to take their 'religious' views more seriously than they do with your interpretation. I viscerally do not want to do that. I don't know why any court could/would or should do so either.
I want to (figuratively) hold their feet to the fire, ask those questions about Leviticus, embarrass them with their manifest slacker attitude, make them understand the consequences of funding corrupt hierarchies promulgating primitive morality they do not subscribe to and insist they make a choice; pony up to their shitty book of fraudulent myths, warts and all, or get honest with themselves and drop out of the game.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
