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(May 2, 2019 at 3:42 pm)tackattack Wrote: If you want to argue why it was trashed it's because, as I think we can all agree on, he was deluding himself. That's exactly what it means when you profess to "fake it till you make it". And yes True Christians do call that not being a Christian,
And it never occurred to you that being a Christian means "faking it"?
I mean all you're doing here is ad hominem and no true scotsman fallacies and in that way avoiding what he said, and he said many interesting and obvious things, like:
Quote:We had impossible standards that we could not meet so we turned the attention on others so the spotlight wasn’t on our own inadequacies.
Indeed, Christians are constantly blaming and obsessing about other, non Christian, people. I mean just look at "God's Not Dead" movie.
Or not to mention other everyday stuff that's been happening for years, like Rick Perry’s campaign promise to “end Obama’s war on religion". Or Rick Santorum’s statement during a speech in 2008 that “Satan is attacking the great institutions of America”.
Or Daniel R. Jenky, the bishop of Peoria, Illinois, who made comparison between President Obama, Adolf Hitler, and Joseph Stalin during church sermon. Singling out Nazi and Stalinist regimes as antecedents to Obama’s health-care reforms. This bishop also said "And in the power of the resurrection, the Church will survive the hatred of hollywood, the malice of the media, and the mendacious wickedness of the abortion industry."
Or take a book by David Limbaugh "Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity".
Masses of people are being fed with lies, they build their lives on lies. So you can't say that people who believe in these obvious lies told by Christian leaders are not faking it.
And that's just one part of a paragraph that this guy wrote.
And if I had time or desire to dissect it at work, I would. As to this particular point, as Boru succinctly put it,"A belief based on fakes and ponied-up 'miracles' is still a real belief."
I'm not the one making the universal generalization that Christians are fakers. I most assuredly am sitting around in my kilt because your definition of Christian is fake belief. If you'd like to discuss definitions then I'd be happy to. Christianity is defined by whatever you connote it to mean, but by implicit definition it's Christianity is believing Christianity. When the OP says they fake that belief they're calling themselves out.
To your point addressed:
A. Yes Christianity sets an impossible standard
B. People find all types of ways to not view their own inadequacies. A common one is to turn the attention on others. So yes, Christians can be judgemental. In his case they seemed to have been. It is not a doctrine of Christian faith to judge others though.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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