RE: Religious people have you ever tried praying?
March 7, 2013 at 2:39 pm
(This post was last modified: March 7, 2013 at 2:48 pm by jstrodel.)
(March 7, 2013 at 1:29 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote:(March 5, 2013 at 10:45 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Huh. These guys are Christians...
The Children of God, a.k.a. The Family
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I see this went ignored. jstrodel, thoughts?
Not sure what you are trying to see. The vast majority of the world adheres to some form of religious belief, and Christianity is the most popular religion. Of course you are going to have cults and nutcases. What is the point?
My point is that, as a group, Christians tend to be nice people that have families and invite each other over for dinners and their kids play together while their dads talk about the Bible or something like that. As a group, atheists tend to be under 25 and tend to be have some sort of very serious issue that they are angry about, which, when you analyze it closely, tends to turn out to be something that is more akin to an rebellious opinion than an authoritative expression of the state of man's nature. When you see who the people are who are very angry about serious moral issues, when you look at what they spend their time doing, a lot of the time it seems like they spend more time having fun than being angry. Just an observation. A lot of times the Christians who are serious spend a lot more time building up charities and soup kitchens then talking about whether it is immoral to smoke marijuana. Of course this is not always true, but it seems like it is a lot of the time.
Christianity only really works if people are committed to a specific orthodoxy belief system. Atheism, understood as either the absence of belief (in which case it offers no direction for living) or culture of competing ideas about how to live (in which case it offers a conflicting and non-authoritative approach to understanding life, making it highly valuable to those who do not want constraints put upon them) cannot possibly work or produce spiritual fruit, because the nature of the contradictions and number of atheist approaches to philosophy leaves the atheist with essentially a blank check to write whatever amount to himself.
The existence of cults does not disprove Christianity, and it is not contradictory to condemn atheism for its negative affects on behavior which arise out of lack of a single system of ethics that emerges out of the atheist worldview and praise Christianity for its positive effects, which exist in the midst of cults and uncommitted Christians.
