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Trying to see the "positive" of Christianity.
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RE: Trying to see the "positive" of Christianity.



I love that graphic. I think a lot of good could be achieved in the world just by handing out fliers with that graphic on it as people file into church.

Despite what GC or Drich will tell you, for any specific theological question, if you pick six Christians at random, you will get seven different opinions. On this specific question, you're going to get a radically different answer if you're talking to a Calvinist than talking to a Catholic. So the answer, as always, is that "it depends". Christians nominally use the same bible to justify their faith, but there is no such thing as an uninterpreted text, and a lot of what determines interpretation of the text comes from outside the text. (With all deference to Derrida, whom I believe was right in saying, "Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.")

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RE: Trying to see the "positive" of Christianity. - by Angrboda - July 7, 2012 at 8:53 pm

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