Drich Wrote:That said I know i am a little harder on some of you. Brakeman, and xpastor come to mind Why? because I have caught brakeman lying several times and I am pretty sure xpastor is. (Because how could an real/paid pastor be so clueless about the basics of christianity?) Either the good 'pastor' is intentionally misrepersenting Christianity, Is a complete fraud, or was just outright a bad pastor. I see the effort he puts into some of his posts and i believe if he put in 1/2 the effort into his duties as a pastor as he does here he wouldn't have been as incomentant as he is showing himself to be. Which brings us back to he is either intentionally misrepersenting Christianity or he is lying about being a pastor.
What basic truth of Christianity am I ignorant of? Name one thing I said that showed ignorance of fundamental Christian doctrines. I know very well what they are, I just don't believe in them anymore.
I once believed in Christian doctrine including the inerrancy of the Bible. I came to see that it was not true. I speak and write what I now believe to be true. How is that a lie? Again I repeat you know bugger-all about me. I put in work weeks of 80 - hours when I was the pastor of a little church. I wasn`t making a fortune like these assholes in the megachurches and the televangelists whom you probably admire. I.Changed.My.Mind. For good logical reasons. I'm not the only one. I am a member of a group which includes over 500 former pastors who have rejected belief in the supernatural. They all have more education about religion than you do. Try reading about 5 books by Bart Ehrman so you will have a faint clue about what the majority of of New Testament scholars are thinking.
You're just sour because you can`t answer the criticisms which I make of Christian belief. In fact, 90% of the time it seems to go right over your head and you don`t even know what I was talking about although everyone else does.
You are in fact an asshole. I don't know why you think being an asshole helps your cause. Aractus, for instance, is a conservative Christian. I disagree with almost everything he believes about the bible, but I respect him because he is honest and intelligent, even if I think he is mistaken about many things.
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people — House
