RE: New game: your ideal Christian
December 17, 2011 at 11:54 pm
(This post was last modified: December 17, 2011 at 11:56 pm by Whateverist.)
Aleialoura, I appreciate your balanced embrace of your own position with empathy and respect for those who disagree with you. You'll never find it out there if you never put it out there.
I like the short format Aleialoura and Welsh Cake adopted. I'm going to try trimming down my list:
1.) One who looks to the bible, but not the bible exclusively, for allegorical truth and recognizes science, not the bible, as the best source for empirical truth. (Should be completely down with evolution, the big bang, and an eons old earth.)
One who is agnostic, meaning they don't exalt their own personal perspective above that of others and so do not proselytize.
Extra points for rejecting the concept of an after life and for recognizing heaven and hell as metaphors for subjective states realizable here on earth, not places we go to when we no longer exist. Jesus is either understood allegorically or as an especially insightful historical person whose actual message is to be found in Rex Weylor's book.
2.) No but I may be developing a bro-crush on Bill Moyers whose mind, work and attitude I greatly admire but whose precise Christian positions are not known to me.
3.) Open, fair minded people who are curious, respectful and empathic toward others while being honest and true to themselves are hard to find. I'd welcome a chimp that met my description. Why not a Christian?
I like the short format Aleialoura and Welsh Cake adopted. I'm going to try trimming down my list:
1.) One who looks to the bible, but not the bible exclusively, for allegorical truth and recognizes science, not the bible, as the best source for empirical truth. (Should be completely down with evolution, the big bang, and an eons old earth.)
One who is agnostic, meaning they don't exalt their own personal perspective above that of others and so do not proselytize.
Extra points for rejecting the concept of an after life and for recognizing heaven and hell as metaphors for subjective states realizable here on earth, not places we go to when we no longer exist. Jesus is either understood allegorically or as an especially insightful historical person whose actual message is to be found in Rex Weylor's book.
2.) No but I may be developing a bro-crush on Bill Moyers whose mind, work and attitude I greatly admire but whose precise Christian positions are not known to me.
3.) Open, fair minded people who are curious, respectful and empathic toward others while being honest and true to themselves are hard to find. I'd welcome a chimp that met my description. Why not a Christian?
