Bible-less Christians

[Bad Writer]

2. people who use the Bible to send everyone to hell except themselves have their counterparts in every religion, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism (well there you get to keep trying for several lifetimes until you get it right). They are just finding the parts that suit their in-human tendencies. And they all find each other and form churches and such and go out and loudly send everyone to hell using their bibles as bludgeons. Fortunately they are in the minority. Unfortunately they can make life very distasteful if you have to be around them.

I sat through a retirement ceremony today that felt more like a Church service than something that was meant to send a man off. He stood up there and said to everyone present more than once, "If you didn't know by now that I'm a Christian, then I haven't been doing my job." Well, and Air Force Major who is talking about religion to his co-workers is not only doing something he SHOULDN'T be doing at his job, but the level of discomfort in the audience was palpable.

3. there are far more people who use their sacred scriptures as a foundation to build kindness, tolerance, insight, and mutual respect. They just usually go around making the world a better place and not getting into loud arguments!

At least these people are being honest about where they get their foundation, instead of trying to convince people that it's the only place to get it. I use many of the tenets put forth in Star Trek as platitudes to live by. Does this make me wrong for doing so?

This is the first time I've seen you post at the forum, and already I like you

4. there are also many christians, muslims, jews, hindus, buddhists who see all religions as different means to help our shared humanity achieve mutual benefits - and they find in their respective scriptures and use their respective scriptures to build these bridges - even with atheists.

I would call that a good thing since it's working towards a brighter future. Kudos!