(January 21, 2013 at 12:43 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote: Jesus whole message of compassion, brotherhood, charity and general kindness, yeah, those all sound good.
The message has not survived contact with modern xtians....and ancient xtians pretty much sucked at it too.
They are a tribe with a dogma they think makes them special. There actually is nothing special about that.
True. Part of the problem is that a good message props itself up on its own merrits. Bad messages are the ones that don't get very far without supernatural backing.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama