(March 3, 2013 at 6:08 pm)Gabriel Syme Wrote: it is the original and largest Christian Church, as founded by Jesus Christ, 2000 years ago. It is the oldest institution on earth - others come and go, like the dust.
To me it would seem pretty erroneous to discuss anything else, if you wanted to talk about Christianity.
Other Christian groups are individuals perspectives of Christianity, be it King Henry VIII, John Knox, Ted Haggard or whoever. They are only ever raised when someone wants to make a cheap shot about Christians, using one of their crazier, er, 'ideas'! lol
What a ridiculous thing to say. You need to understand something very important about the atheist perspective: we think that all churches are full of shit. To us, the message is never truthful, and thus what matters is not the age of the institution, but the real world effects that it's having. Oh, and incidentally, of the percentage of christians in the world, only just over half of those are catholics (according to the CIA's world factbook. ). So, there's roughly half the christian population who aren't; that's not exactly a tiny little divergence.
And by the way, each and every one of those non-catholic christians would say that you're just as wrongheaded in your beliefs as you say they are. How is any of this a cheap shot?
What it is, though, is a great way of avoiding talking about the real issue of this thread, isn't it?
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