(July 18, 2019 at 1:31 pm)Aegon Wrote:(July 18, 2019 at 11:53 am)BryanS Wrote: It doesn't have to be only because people choose to believe what they believe a la carte as Hitchens liked to describe it. A set of faith beliefs that is anything close to the Christianity of the Bible is a deplorable thing.
This seems contradictory to me. Even "a la carte" beliefs stem from Biblical teachings or philosophy. Obviously they're all going to be close to the Christianity of the Bible.
The point about a la carte Christianity is that it is simply the individual's own morality substituted for Biblical morality. The further from "fundamentalist" a Christian faith is, the more one has to question why they bothered with the faith claim to begin with when in reality they are using their own morality (which is to be applauded) over the immoral preachings of the Bible. Theists like to say that any good moral beliefs have a basis in their faith, as if it impossible to be good for goodness sake.
