RE: What deism has done for the world
March 3, 2014 at 9:06 pm
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2014 at 9:10 pm by discipulus.)
(March 3, 2014 at 9:03 pm)Cinjin Wrote:(March 3, 2014 at 11:21 am)discipulus Wrote: Then let us debate the issue. I have asked one already and he refuses.
If you are convinced then let us debate the issue, just you and I.
Debate what issue? Why would anyone debate something as stupid and pointless as whether or not Christians do more for children?? It's going to be a futile tongue-wagging exercise full of unprovable assertions and endless rabbit trails into your religious bias.
Now if you want to discuss something far more tangible and not subject to hearsay and a myriad of internet links, I will consider that.
Are you an atheist?
(March 3, 2014 at 9:00 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: I'm confused as to why I should care what Napoleon, a man whose historical reputation is that of an ambitious and arrogant dictator, thinks about Jesus?
When he and his army were done slaughtering people, did they all gather round the campfire afterward "thanking God" for their "victories?"
The reason Christianity takes such a beating is because it is often preached by those who are hypocrites.
I did not direct that quote to you so I am not sure why you would think I did.
Christianity and Christ's church has taken and does take many beatings from many different people for many different reasons. But as one has said:
"It is the peculiarity of the Church of God‥to endure blows, not to give them; but yet you will be pleased to remember, that it is an anvil on which many a hammer has been broken."
[1853 G. De felice Hist. Protestants of France I. II. v. 156 (tr. Beza to King of Navarre, 1562)]
