(July 20, 2013 at 7:33 pm)Undeceived Wrote: Isn't the point of religion to go beyond physical needs and satisfy spiritual needs?
First you need to prove that there is such a thing as a spiritual need. What you're suggesting is like telling me that I need an aspirin to ease the phantom pains of my amputated leg.
(July 20, 2013 at 7:33 pm)Undeceived Wrote: Of course Christianity is different from many cultural ideologies, but isn't that what you'd expect from a true religion? If a religion coheres to any one culture, doesn't that indicate it is a product of that culture? Given the choice, would you rather have truth "toned down" to fit a culture, or preserved?
You're presupposing that Christianity is a "true religion". You're also presupposing that what it preaches is truth. I'd rather just get rid of it all instead of doing any toning down or preservation. You can't demonstrably prove that the ideals are from a god, so you can't tell me that they are true.