(April 7, 2017 at 10:23 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Yep.
For my own part, I had never seen nor heard of those Chick tract things until an Atheist brought them up on this thread. To say they are an accurate representation of Christians, is just silly. It is true that I have heard from multiple protestants that Catholics are not real Christians and aren't "saved", but no protestant has ever treated me badly in any way because of it.
As for the Westboro Baptists, they are a group of like, 30 people, who exist no where else in the world. To judge all the billions of Christians world wide by them makes absolutely no sense. I sure hope no one here is doing that...
Nobody here is lumping all Christians in together beyond saying you all got it wrong, but again, we have ditched every religion, not just yours.
Of course Christians are diverse, of course you have kind Christians as you can have kind Muslims and kind Jews and kind Hindus and kind Buddhists, then you have the fearful and deluded bigots on the far right, and?
Again, you fall for the same mental trap most humans do, confuse your club/holy writing for being the magical source as to why you are good. Our species ability to show empathy is in evolution, not old myths. We can see that in other species too. If you raise a cat and dog up from a puppy and kitten, they are more likely to get along. We know elephants mourn their dead too.
Yes the Westboro Bapfucks are nutcase bigots, but that doesn't make empathetic liberal theists claims true by proxy.
The logic is still not there, even if I like you, even when we agree on thing like economics and equality for minorities. Neither the left or the right OF ANY RELIGION has any evidence that they are right. I will say however, the ones who read their holy books more literally are on the right and the ones who end up being bigots or more violent.
Your empathy is why you don't do what the bible says, not the bible itself. Our species behaviors, good and bad are in our evolution, not myths.
