(November 30, 2011 at 10:52 pm)Hoptoad Wrote: Let me give an example, Christ said love your fellow man, he didn't say except for, or only if.
That's a lot of people, all of them. It's a big concept I am sure you can see the problems with it. But when you start limiting that care that respect to only the groups and individuals you approve of, then you open the door to hating the ones you don't.
So that's what I do, I try to think like that, to live like that.
Christ said a lot of things (according to your book, of course). Will you be brave/foolish enough to say that all his teachings were virtuous and wise? Will you say you try to live by every one of those words?
I'd say it's pretty easy for a decent, moral, thinking person to say 'I'm going to love my fellow man'. Will the same person say 'Christ said 'I do not come to bring peace, but a sword' and I try to live like that'?
We have an 'Evidence for the existence of God' thread kicking around if you'd like to have a shot. 150ish pages, nothing so far. Best of luck.
