A mother being willing to sacrifice her legs for her child is not love that goes beyond understanding. It is not uncommon for people to be willing to sacrifice great things for those people that they love. I am not saying she did not sacrifice but it is not so great as to escape understanding. It is also a generally natural instinct, some people don't have it I suppose, to protect ones child even at the cost of your own life. I have not studied Neurobiology enough but I am willing to toss the dice here and say that its been studied out.
- As far as for how Christians can still believe I had an interesting run in with someone who is essentially a Christian Universalist a few weeks back. He said to me that you can't prove that God exists or that scripture is inspired. He went through his own journey with it and in the end came to the conclusion that he was going to toss his lot in with faith. I appreciated his honesty in the matter and he doesn't believe in Hell so he wasn't concerned about me. So there are ways people can maintain their belief simply through deciding to toss their lot in faith.
I don't think that this is the most rational thing to do especially if you don't believe you are going to get the stick for not believing but I guess your mileage will vary. I think people may get to the point of non-belief knowing the same issues we do and just decide that it is far more comfortable to not leave religion behind. Overall, in my perspective, if their beliefs don't harm themselves, others, or scientific progress then it is relatively harmless.
The extremely liberal/universalist mindset may be the natural evolution of Christianity before it really begins dying out. I think the death bells of Christianity have begun to sound. I know that people talk about it gaining grounds in foreign countries but illiterate and controlled or literate and controlled getting convinced of religion doesn't impress me. I doubt it will happen in my life time but I perceive that some day Christianity will takes its place among the myths of Zeus, Thor, etc. I personally welcome the slide into universalism etc because this form of Christianity is non-abrasive and still is interested in making the world a better place.
- As far as for how Christians can still believe I had an interesting run in with someone who is essentially a Christian Universalist a few weeks back. He said to me that you can't prove that God exists or that scripture is inspired. He went through his own journey with it and in the end came to the conclusion that he was going to toss his lot in with faith. I appreciated his honesty in the matter and he doesn't believe in Hell so he wasn't concerned about me. So there are ways people can maintain their belief simply through deciding to toss their lot in faith.
I don't think that this is the most rational thing to do especially if you don't believe you are going to get the stick for not believing but I guess your mileage will vary. I think people may get to the point of non-belief knowing the same issues we do and just decide that it is far more comfortable to not leave religion behind. Overall, in my perspective, if their beliefs don't harm themselves, others, or scientific progress then it is relatively harmless.
The extremely liberal/universalist mindset may be the natural evolution of Christianity before it really begins dying out. I think the death bells of Christianity have begun to sound. I know that people talk about it gaining grounds in foreign countries but illiterate and controlled or literate and controlled getting convinced of religion doesn't impress me. I doubt it will happen in my life time but I perceive that some day Christianity will takes its place among the myths of Zeus, Thor, etc. I personally welcome the slide into universalism etc because this form of Christianity is non-abrasive and still is interested in making the world a better place.
