(May 31, 2013 at 3:25 pm)Consilius Wrote: Second, if God went around turning people into salt and leveled a finger at you then said, "Pray," would you be a Christian out of love or fear?
You are right. Because it would certainly be "love" that made me a christian if I "feared" eternal damnation.
What you are failing to see here is that xtianity is a religion of fear regardless of the methodology. I suspect that most people become xtians out of fear and grow to "love" their captor as is common is kidnapping cases. I believe it is called the Stockholm Syndrome.
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." -Einstein