(February 23, 2017 at 9:45 am)SteveII Wrote:(February 23, 2017 at 9:37 am)HairyCyclist Wrote: Well viewing your fellow humans as worthless sinners is extremely disrespectful if you ask me, and I am well within my rights saying so.
Me being disrespectful about your God, and Christians viewing everyone (including themselves) in this way are not the same thing, you are right, but which of the two causes more harm?
Except you are grossly mischaracterizing Christianity's doctrine on humans to make your point (straw man). The correct view is that God sees humans of infinite worth and so warranted the ultimate sacrifice of death on a cross to redeem them. Not exactly teaching that we are "worthless sinners" is it? So the disrespect you are feeling is of your own making and of course is not causing "harm".
I think we both know that's bullshit Steve, Christianity's doctrine relies on people viewing themselves and others as being in someway sinful or unworthy, otherwise we wouldn't have needed the scapegoat sacrifice to save our souls.
