RE: Which denominations have you spotted on this forum?
August 11, 2017 at 1:38 am
(This post was last modified: August 11, 2017 at 1:39 am by Fake Messiah.)
(August 10, 2017 at 8:18 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I don't understand the black-and-white thinking of either fundamentalist/cults that think theirs is the only true religion and non-believers that think every slight doctrinal difference represents an completely different religion
Well there you go, you answer yourself in one contradicting sentence: first you say ask why religious people think theirs is only one religion and then you wonder why Nones think the same way - Nones think that doctrinal differences are different religions because religious people see it that way. You know there are centuries of really bloody conflicts between christian fractions.
I mean from the beginning Catholics and protestants have been calling each other's religion "Whore of Babylon". But in honesty Nones don't think there is much difference, they just observe the behavior of Christians, because other denominations do let Christians look at ("other") Christianity from outside and they usually hate it, they can't stand it but they don't realize they're also looking at themselves.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
