RE: Whats even attractive about Christianity anyway that people want to stay in ignorance
March 4, 2012 at 8:24 pm
(This post was last modified: March 4, 2012 at 8:25 pm by chi pan.)
(March 4, 2012 at 5:49 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: The premise of the OP is that Christians by definition want to stay in ignorance, presumably to hold beliefs above inquiry. I do not see that, because clearly not all do. Evidenced by the fact that some become atheists, Bhuddists, etc. Also some people who once were atheist in their quest for knowledge became Christian. The quest for knowledge does not always have to proceed from a materialist position.
Just because someone is Christian and does not convert doesn't mean that they are not truth seekers. Isaac Newton was a Christian scientist and the father of physics and calculus. If he was not interested in seeking the truth he would not have founded these things. The church supported scientists like these and in their schools required science to be taken. It is true we believe the origin of the earth has been revealed to us by God but we still seek truth in how it happened hence the existence of creation cosmological models.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
-4th verse of the american national anthem
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
-4th verse of the american national anthem
