RE: Christians what would change your mind?
August 10, 2020 at 11:51 am
(This post was last modified: August 10, 2020 at 12:02 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 10, 2020 at 11:45 am)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: I'm not in the business of restricting thoughts and ideas. A major theme of the Protestant Reformation was the elimination of human dictatorship over beliefs. A person's religion is between them and God alone.
If a man believes water can cure his baldness, he is free to do so. My disagreement with him does not warrant exclusion of him. But any attempt to make his belief representative of everyone else's is dishonest.
That's probably good advice, and if christians were capable of following it, then atheists wouldn't have a list of uncharitable, illogical, and unpersuasive whatsits to choose from.
I assume that all christians believe in christ, it seems fair.
Can't say I agree with you about disagreements not being cause for exclusion. I would exclude a christian for this or that for the same reasons a person might exclude a pyromaniac from being in the fire dept. We've been asking people who don't believe in justice to mete it out for some time, and the best they seem to be able to muster is spite and revenge, for example. So much so that we had to separate governance from religion. So much so that you'd want to remove a True Believer from the jury if your client ran afoul of their superstitions.
That's a pretty serious failure. Some disagreements, I'm sure, are cause for exclusion - and here again I can only suggest much the same as my last post. Maybe you should have been excluding these people. My noticing them, like noticing the uncharitable, illogical, and unpersuasive, is not the problem.
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