RE: Do you wish there's a god?
April 4, 2019 at 8:42 am
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2019 at 8:55 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Laying aside passive cultural christians, fundie evangelists are the predominant type of contemporary christian in most of the boards life, so it's pretty much a given that the majority of comments are going to swirl around them. I guess it might take a decoder ring, but for the most part..the folks here aren't bothered by christians..so when they launch into some complaint they're thinking specifically of the sorts of dirtbag christians that everyone recognizes for a dirtbag, including other christians.
Here's an interesting question, though. What is it that makes people see them as low hanging fruit relative to the likes of..say, Aquinas? Aquinas was no more or less a nut than the common contemporary. Thomist christianity is no more or less compelling than fundie evangelism. OFC theology gives insight into people..it's a story about people, not gods. Those insights aren't always flattering, at best they describe something better described elsewhere and elsewise..at worst, they serve to buttress absurd doctrinal commitments and present no insight beyond this whatsoever.
What makes people imagine that some faiths luminaries are any more credible than the common joe on the street? Is this anything more than an attempt to transfer the assumed reputation of an individual human being to the contents of their faith? How well deserved are those reputations, if that's the case?
Here's an interesting question, though. What is it that makes people see them as low hanging fruit relative to the likes of..say, Aquinas? Aquinas was no more or less a nut than the common contemporary. Thomist christianity is no more or less compelling than fundie evangelism. OFC theology gives insight into people..it's a story about people, not gods. Those insights aren't always flattering, at best they describe something better described elsewhere and elsewise..at worst, they serve to buttress absurd doctrinal commitments and present no insight beyond this whatsoever.
What makes people imagine that some faiths luminaries are any more credible than the common joe on the street? Is this anything more than an attempt to transfer the assumed reputation of an individual human being to the contents of their faith? How well deserved are those reputations, if that's the case?
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