(February 27, 2012 at 11:31 am)Abracadabra Wrote:I didn’t say acts would be impressive. You still haven’t established that Jesus in scripture spat in the face of God as you claimed earlier. You’re theories are fine and dandy, if you’re ok with picking and choosing which scriptures fit in with your belief and ignoring others. I find it surprising though that you can so blatantly hate on Christianity (you’ve obviously had some bad experiences and for that I’m truly sorry) yet skew it to fit your newest flavor. You don’t find it odd, that when you were a Christian Jesus was Christ, and now that you’re a Buddhist, Jesus is a Buddhist. I may not agree with everything considered by the majority to be standard Christian belief, but I don’t go around tearing off the stickers of rubics cubes, and solving things that way either. I'll get to reading the study when I have a free moment.
Do you think it odd to go ahead and throw in a falsifiable to those of the time genealogy of Jesus’ lineage if there wasn’t a point to them proving He was born of the line of David?
(February 27, 2012 at 10:35 pm)Abracadabra Wrote:If Jesus was a Buddhist, he was a jewish practicing Buddhist. I don’t dfind it odd either that there wa someone to speak out against the immoral practices taught about the Torah. I think where you’re argument fails though is that He wasn’t replacing the Torah, He was giving a better understanding of it. blasphemers and idolaters were toned not hung on a Cross, btw. Jesus never taught that “Ye are also Gods”
(February 27, 2012 at 10:35 pm)Abracadabra Wrote:
It might be able to be done from a secular archetype, but I must confess that seems as odd to me as I think it does to Rhythm. It can however also be done from a Christian perspective as well though. As far as your big glass of haterade

1- Christianity nor does the Bible use Jesus or God to exclude people from Spirituality. Spirituality is a fundamental cornerstone in the belief. The fact you deny this speaks more to your exclusion from Christianity, than Christianities exclusion of you.
2- Calling a spade a spade is not destructive. Rhythm doesn’t believe in God.. know what that makes him.. and unbeliever.. we call them atheists. I don’t think he or I are offended by that label in the slightest. Now I know that some Christians have a lot of fear and hatred for things they don’t understand, like atheism. There’s a difference between bigotry and identification though. Identification with segregation is bigotry, identification for clarification is constructive.
3- Christianity is a positive for all the unbelievers getting outreach from the Christian community. Some are also getting preached to, but not all. Even if they are though, it doesn’t detract from fixing someone’s car for free or paying some of their bills, or feeding/clothing them.
4- It is an extremely divisive religion, not because of the nature of the religion, but because of the nature of herding cats.
5- The Bible has lots of stories of people who never knew Jesus that received “divine love”, some people only choose to see the bad things though.
If you’d like to PM or email me all your traumatic experiences with religion I’d be glad to listen if you’re up for it. Your hatred though is only harming yourself and doing nothing to further your hateful cause or heal any wounds you have.
"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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